Ann Adachi-Tasch is Executive Director, Collaborative Cataloging Japan, a nonprofit organization supporting the preservation and archiving of Japanese historical and experimental moving image works. Adachi-Tasch has worked at The Museum of Modern Art, where she managed projects for the Museum’s global research initiative Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), and contributed to the launch of its digital platform, post (post.at.moma.org). In 2009, she organized a touring screening program and publication of Japanese experimental video and film, Vital Signals, at Electronic Arts Intermix, a video art archive and distributor where she was the distribution coordinator. She has given presentations and written about the status of media archiving in Japan at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Tate Modern, London; Keio University Art Center, Tokyo; Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C; and others.
Since the 1950s, there has been an active production of experimental film, animation, and video art in Asia. Yet, much of this work has not been consistently conserved or shared with the public due to the lack of accessible archives or organized collections dedicated to its preservation and dissemination. The conference “The Archival Impulse: Collecting…
