Xiaofei Mo is the program coordinator at Asia Art Archive in America (AAAinA), where she drives research on moving image through archiving, digitization, and public programs. She co-organized the screening program My Camera Doesn’t Lie? Documentary Aesthetics in East Asia in 2015 (co-presented by AAAinA and Columbia University). Prior to joining AAAinA, she received a BPhil in Logic from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University. She was a research fellow at Seagull Foundation for the Arts in Calcutta (2008), and is editor of a forthcoming artist book Zhou Tao: Blue and Red (2015).
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…
