Publications
Mark Williams and Bret Vukoder. “The Great War at Scale: New Opportunities for Provenance in World War I Collections at the National Archives (NARA)” in Provenance and Early Cinema: Preservation, Circulation, and Repurposing. Paolo Cherchi Usai, Joanne Bernardi, Tami Williams, and Joshua Yumibe eds. (Indiana University Press, forthcoming)
Mark Williams and Bret Vukoder. “Local Insights, Global Networked Scholarship: The Media Ecology Project USIA Pilot” in Nuevas aproximaciones al cine documental. Un estado de la cuestión contemporáneo. Javier Campo, Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli, Clara Garavelli, Pablo Piedras y Kristi Wilson, eds. (Prometeo Press, 2020).
Mark Williams. “From ‘Live’ to Real Time: On Future Television Studies” in The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and the Digital Humanities, Jentery Sayers, ed. (Routledge, 2018).
Mark Williams. “Archives of Liveness: Television Newsfilm Reconsidered” in Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema, Television, Archive, Mark Garrett Cooper, Sara Beth Levavy, Ross Melnick, Mark Williams eds. (Routledge [AFI Film Readers], 2018)
Jenny Oyallon-Koloski and Mark Williams. “Annotating FloLo: Utilizing Laban Movement Analysis in The Media Ecology Project” in Histories, Her-stories, and Methods: Proceedings of the 2017 International Film Conference, Wan Chuanfa, ed. (China Film Press, 2018).
Mark Williams. “The Media Ecology Project: Library of Congress Paper Print Pilot” The Moving Image: The Journal of The Association of Moving Image Archivists, 16:1 (Spring, 2016), 148-151.
Mark Williams. “Networking Moving Image History: Archives, Scholars, and the Media Ecology Project” in The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities, Charles R. Acland and Eric Hoyt, eds. (Falmer: REFRAME Books, 2016)
Presentations
2019
“The Media Ecology Project: New Digital Resources for Media Art/History,” NYU Tisch School, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation class (November)
“Building Comparative Intersectional Historiography: USIA and Civil Rights Newsfilm Studies via The Media Ecology Project” American Studies Association Conference, Honolulu (November)
“Media Ecology Project” poster session CLARIN Annual Conference 2019, Leipzig (October)
“Semantic Annotation Tool Overview,” Machine Learning and Libraries Summit, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.(September, with John Bell)
“The Media Ecology Project’s Semantic Annotation Tool (SAT): Collaborative Synergies to Train Computer Vision Analysis,” New England Digital Humanities (NEHC) Retreat Conference, Appledore, Maine (August, with John Bell)
Panel on Exploring Audiovisual Corpora in the Humanities “The Media Ecology Project’s Semantic Annotation Tool (SAT): Collaborative Synergies to Train Computer Vision Analysis” (with John Bell) DH 2019 Digital Humanities Conference, Utrecht (July)
Workshop on AV in DH, DH 2019 Digital Humanities Conference, Utrecht (July)
“The Media Ecology Project: New Digital Resources for Media Art/History,” Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, Shanghai (June)
“The Media Ecology Project: New Digital Resources for Media Art/History,” Shanghai University, Shanghai (June)
“The Media Ecology Project: New Digital Resources for Media Art/History,” Korean Film Archive, Seoul (June)
“Understanding Visual Culture through Silent Film Collections (Level III),” NEH Project Directors Meeting, Washington D.C. (March)
2018
“International Cooperation to Study and Preserve Media History: The Media Ecology Project,” Shanghai Film Academy, Shanghai University (October)
“W3C Web Annotation and the Semantic Annotation Tool,” CLARIAH Experts Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands (July)
“International Cooperation to Study and Preserve Media History: The Media Ecology Project” 6th International Forum of Shanghai University, Shanghai (June)
“Unlocking Film Libraries for Discovery and Search” (with John Bell) DH 2018 Digital Humanities Conference, Mexico City (June)
Panel Chair, “Innovative Provenance Case Studies via The Media Ecology Project” Paper: “The Great War at Scale: New Opportunities for Provenance in WWI Collections at The National Archives (NARA)” with Bret Vukoder, Carnegie Mellon University DOMITOR Conference, 2018, Eastman Museum in Rochester (June)
“The Media Ecology Project: Developing New Research, Technology, Networked Capacities for the Study and Preservation of Time-Based Media History,” University of Amsterdam, Applied Sciences Campus (May)
“The ACTION Toolbox: Machine Learning and Expressive Aesthetics,” Workshop: Computer-Based Approaches for the Analysis of Film Style, Brandenburg Center for Media Studies (ZeM), Potsdam (May)
“The Media Ecology Project: Archival Access Online, Born-Networked Scholarship”, Association for Information Science and Technology Virtual Symposium (April, with John Bell)
Co-Chair and Presenter, Roundtable on “Emerging Research Paradigms via Digital Tools” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Toronto (March)
“Local Insights, Global Networked Scholarship: The Media Ecology Project’s USIA Project” Conference on Cinema of the Arab World, American University in Cairo, Cairo (March)
“Navigating the USIA Film Archive with The Media Ecology Project,” Conference on “Mobilizing the Archive: Archival Experiences From Analog to Digital,” Stockholm University, Stockholm (March)
2017
“The Media Ecology Project: Developing New Research, Technology, Networked Capacities for the Study and Preservation of Time-Based Media History” Issues of Digital Archiving Speaker Series, UCLA Digital Archiving Collective, (December)
“Developing New Research, Technology, Networked Capacities for the Study and Preservation of Time-Based Media History” Panel on “Video Annotation Tools: New Pedagogical Approaches to Film and DH” Association of Moving Image Archivists, New Orleans (December)
“Developing New Research, Technology, Networked Capacities for the Study and Preservation of Time-Based Media History,” Material and Digital Curation Panel Radio Preservation Task Force Conference, Washington D.C.(November)
“Unlocking Film Libraries for Search and Discovery: Combined Machine/Human Annotation Ecosystems,” Knight Prototype Share Day Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (October)
“The Media Ecology Project Semantic Annotation Tool; Unlocking Film Libraries” AV in DH Workshop Digital Humanities 2017 Conference, Montreal (August)
“Teaching Local Newsfilm with The Media Ecology Project” Teaching Texts and Contexts Workshop, Visible Evidence XXIV Conference, Buenos Aires (August)
“Participatory Scholarship about the USIA via The Media Ecology Project” Cartographies of Participatory Media Workshop, Visible Evidence XXIV Conference, Buenos Aires (August)
“The Media Ecology Project: Developing New Research, Technology, Networked Capacities for the Study and Preservation of Moving Image History” China Film Archive, Beijing (June)
Panel chair: “New Research in Gendered Performance Studies via The Media Ecology Project,” Co-presenter with Jenny Oyallon-Koloski of the paper “Annotating FloLo: Utilizing Laban Movement Analysis in The Media Ecology Project”, Women and the Silent Screen IX, Shanghai (June)
“Annotating FloLo: Utilizing Laban Movement Analysis in The Media Ecology Project Women and the Silent Screen IX,” Shanghai, China (with Jenny Oyallon-Koloski) (June)
“Distributed Controlled Vocabularies for Scholarly Annotation,” CLARIAH Annotation Symposium, Amsterdam, Netherlands (May)
“Media Ecology Project: Hands-On Workshop” with Dimitrios Latsis, Tami Williams, Jenny Oyallon-Koloski, Bret Vukoder, Lauren Tilton, Brittany Murphy, Aparna Sharma. Society for Cinema and media Studies 2017 Conference, Chicago (March)
“Developing New Research, Technology, Networked Capacities for the Study and Preservation of Moving Image History,” Audiovisual Essay and The Digital Humanities Mini-Conference, University of Michigan (March)
2016
“Unlocking Film Libraries Through Discovery and Search,” Panel on Understanding and Improving Media Collection Usage and Discoverability Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting, Washington D.C. (December)
“Developing New Research, Technology, Networked Capacities for the Study and Preservation of Moving Image History,” Association of Moving Image Archivists 2016 Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (November)
“The Archive and The Index: Situational Historiography and Early Television,” Peabody Television Archives Conference, University of Georgia (October)
“Developing Tools for Semantic Annotation of Moving Images: New Scholarship and New Value(s) in Media Historiography,” 50th Anniversary Dartmouth Institute and Conference, Hanover (August)
“The Expressive Body as Object of Study,” Lightning Talks, AV in DH Workshop, Digital Humanities 2016 Conference, Krakow, Poland (July)
“Developing New Tools for Semantic Annotation of Moving Images,” AV in DH Workshop, Digital Humanities 2016 Conference, Krakow, Poland (July)
“The Media Ecology Project,” Departement Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Basel, Basel (June)
“The Media Ecology Project: Scholars Add Value to Media Archives,” Asian Film Archive, National Library Board of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (May)
“Online Access for Scholars Adds Value to Media Archives,” Digital Humanities and the Historical Archive Symposium Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (May)
“The Media Ecology Project: Online Access for Scholars Adds Value to Media Archives,” Transformations: Cinema and Media Studies Research Meets Digital Humanities Tools Conference co-sponsored by New York University and Columbia University, New York, New York (April)
“MEP Roundtable: The Library of Congress Paper Print Pilot — Corporeality and The Archive,” 14th Annual DOMITOR Conference, Stockholm, Sweden (June)
“Local Television Newsfilm as Historical Resource: The Eula Love Demonstration of June, 1979,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
“Webinar on the Media Ecology Project,” CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, Online (February)
“Annotating Gesture and Performance Style in Early Cinema (Paper Print) Studies,” Embedding Professionalism in Digital Preservation Conference HATII, University of Glasgow, Scotland (January)
2015
“Online Access for Scholars Adds Value to Media Archives,” Workshop on Film Archives and Digital Humanities Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, Portland, Oregon (November)
“The Media Ecology Project,” Panel on Tools and Technologies for Enhancing Access to Audiovisual Collections Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, Portland, Oregon (November)
“The Media Ecology Project,” Conference on Moving Image Analytics: Research Infrastructures for Film Heritage National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden (October)
“Online Access for Scholars Adds Value to Media Archives,” Open Repositories 2015, Indianapolis, Indiana
“U.S. Television Newsfilm in the Archive and Online,” Panel on Exposing Media Collections in the Digital Age, Visible Evidence 22 Conference, Toronto, Ontario (August)
“The Media Ecology Project and Its International Outreach,” Panel on Archives and Media History International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST) Conference, Bloomington, Indiana
“The Media Ecology Project,” Panel on Datasets and Historical Inquiry Project Arclight Symposium, Montreal, Quebec (May)
“The Media Ecology Project: Paper Print Pilot Project,” presented with Prof. Tami Williams MA Seminar in Film and Media Studies, Columbia University, New York (March)
2014
“The Media Ecology Project and Government-Produced Films in India,” Visible Evidence 21 Conference, New Delhi, India (with Peter Sutoris) (December)
“Media Studies and Digital Humanities: 21st Century Directions,” PRELIDA Workshop on Linked Data, Riva del Garda, Italy (October)
“The Media Ecology Project,” EU Screen XL Conference, Rome, Italy (October)
“The Media Ecology Project: Paper Print Pilot Project,” 13th International DOMITOR Conference, Chicago, Illinois (with Tami Williams)(June)
“The Media Ecology Project: Using Linked Data to Support Distributed Analysis of Visual Culture,” International Workshop on Linked Media, Extended Semantic Web Conference, Anissaras, Greece (Proceedings) (May)
“The Media Ecology Project: More and Better Scholarly Access to Historical Media,” Orphans 9 Film Symposium: The Future of Obsolescence, Amsterdam, Netherlands (April)
“Investigating Film Authorship with the ACTION Toolbox,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle, Washington (with Michael Casey)(March)
2013
“The Media Ecology Project: Better Scholarly Access to Historical Media” Panel, Chair and Organizer/Participant. Association for Moving Image Archivists Conference, Richmond, VA (October)
“Digital Humanities: New Opportunities for Funding, Research, and Access” Panel Participant. Association for Moving Image Archivists Conference, Richmond, VA (October)
“Sideloaded Archives: Third-Party Metadata in the Media Ecology Project,” Association of Moving Image Archivists Annual Conference, Association of Moving Image Archivists, Richmond, Virginia
“Media Ecology Project,” Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
2012
“Imperious Surf? Assessing Online Access to Historical Films of Puerto Rico” American Studies Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico (November)
“The History of Now: Genealogies of Liveness in Television News,” Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Paris, France (July)
“Local TV Newsfilm: KTLA outtakes and Poison Grain (NBC News, 1967),” Orphan Films Symposium, New York, New York (May)
“Media Ecology Project”, Alliance for Networked Visual Culture, USC (March)
2011
“Digital Humanities: Time, History, and Visual Culture,” University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
“Real-Time Histories of Visual Culture”, Transforming Scholarly Research in the Digital Age Panel
American Studies Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland
“The History of Now: Genealogies of Liveness in Television News,” University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
“The History of Now: Genealogies of Liveness in Television News” Visible Evidence 18 Conference, New York, New York (August)
“Media Ecology and Online News Archives,” Learning From Recorded Memory: 9/11 Internet Archive Conference, NYU, New York, New York (August)
“Considering KTLA Newsfilm of the 1970s,” Celebrating Orphan Films Conference, Los Angeles, California
“Passing for History: Visuality, Humor, and Early Television Historiography,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana