Cinema, akin to life, is a constant act of archiving
Conferences and Presentations
11th-13th November 2024
"History of Colorization"
Speaker and Co-organisor of the Conference
Eighth International Colour in Film Conference 2024, Bristol (UK)
TV, Video and Film
Elza Tantcheva-Burdge (Colour Group Britain); Ulrich Ruedel, Sreya Chatterjee (HTW Berlin); in collaboration with South West Silents
21st September 2024
"Lebende Farben – Lügende Farben: Von Azofarben zu AI"
Co-speaker
„Objekte, die lügen“ Conference
Conservation and Restoration Department
HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin in collaboration with KoReGt e.V.
19th September 2024
Introduction to the film restoration of BADNAM BASTI (1971)
Co-speaker
Archival Assembly #3
Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin
26th-29th May 2024
"Engaging with AI Imaginary of Archival Moving Images:
Dialectics between Material Reality, Participatory Online Media Spheres and Apparatus Cultures"
Co-Panelist of Roundtable Discussion
Eye International Conference 2024
Presenting Audiovisual Collections: Experiments and Explorations
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) within the context of the project Narratives from the Long Tail: Transforming Access to Audiovisual Archives - a collaboration between Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+), EPFL; Visual Intelligence for Transportation Laboratory (VITA), EPFL; Visualization and MultiMedia Laboratory (VMML), University of Zürich; and Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam (UvA)
16th-22nd March 2024
"Film Digitization: Present Status, Challenges and Potential"
Moderator of Panel Discussion
International Colloquium
ARCUREA 2024 - Archive, Curate, Restore
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata, in collaboration with NFDC - NFAI National Film Archive of India, Pune and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India
11th-13th December 2023
"The Underwater Worlds of Ufacolor"
Co-speaker and Co-organisor of the Conference
Seventh International Colour in Film Conference 2023, Vienna
Colour and Underwater Film
Elza Tantcheva-Burdge (Colour Group Britain); Nikolaus Wostry, Florian Wrobel, Oliver Bruck (Filmarchiv Austria); Ulrich Ruedel,
Sreya Chatterjee (HTW Berlin)
4th-7th June 2023
"Reinventing the Archive: Perspectives on the Changing Tides of Audiovisual Preservation in India"
Moderator and Co-Panelist of Roundtable Discussion
Eye International Conference 2023
Activating the Archive: Audiovisual Collections and Civic Engagement, Global Collaboration and Societal Change
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, in collaboration with Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), University of Amsterdam (UvA) &
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
7th-9th December 2022
"Envisioning the Future of Audio-visual Preservation in India"
Speaker
AMIA Conference 2022, Pittsburgh
The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)
8th-9th December 2022
"Microscopic Investigations of Historical Film Colours"
Speaker
YOCOCU Conference 2022, Frankfurt am Main
Youth in Conservation of Cultural Heritage (YOCOCU)
29th November 2022
"Agfacolor Chemistry and Restoration: Panorama Nr. 4"
Speaker
"Ringvorlesung" (lecture series)
Masters Programme, Conservation and Restoration Department
Faculty 5: Design and Culture
HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
25th-28th September 2022
"Agfacolor Negative-Positive Process in late 1930s and the Digital Restoration of “Panorama Nr. 4"
Speaker
Sixth International Conference Colour in Film, Bern, Switzerland
University of Zurich, Colour Group (GB), HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
21st-25th September 2022
"Natur und Mensch im deutschsprachigen Kulturfilm"
Co-panelist
Film Restored – Das Filmerbe-Festival
Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin
15th-16th September 2022
“A spectral approach to digitally restore a faded Agfacolor print from 1945”
Co-speaker
Second Edition of Colour Photography and Films, Florence, Italy
Sharing Knowledge of Analysis, Preservation, Conservation, Migration of Analogue and Digital Materials
Gruppo del Colore - Associazione Italiana Colore
7th-10th June 2022
“A spectral approach to digitally restore a faded Agfacolor print from 1945”
Co-speaker
Archiving 2022
State-of-the-art Imaging, Digitization, Preservation, and Access
Society for Imaging Sciences and Technology (IS&T), Imaging.org
29th-31st May 2022
“The Disappearing Act of India Cinema”
Speaker
Eye International Conference 2022
Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, in collaboration with Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), University of Amsterdam (UvA) &
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
2nd November 2021
"Microscopic Investigations of Historical Colour Processes"
Speaker
"Ringvorlesung" (lecture series)
Masters Programme, Conservation and Restoration Department
Faculty 5: Design and Culture
HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
30th August-3rd September 2021
“A Material Investigation of Color Film Technology through the Koshofer Collection”
Co-speaker
Fourteenth AIC Congress 2012, Milan
Association Internationale de la Couleur
Gruppo del Colore - Associazione Italiana Colore
15th January 2021
"Restaurierung und Digitalisierung der Filmnegative Sammlung von
Palästinawissenschaftler Gustav Dalman"
Co-speaker
University of Greifswald and HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
11th-13th March 2020
“Mordants, Microscopy, Spectroscopy: Studying and Identifying Early Color Systems”
Co-speaker
Fifth International Conference “Colour in Film”, BFI Southbank, London
Colour Group (Great Britain), HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin and the University of Zürich