Jeff Martin is a time-based media art conservator with nearly two decades of experience in the field. From 2013 through 2023, he was staff Conservator for the Kramlich Collection, a major private collection of contemporary and media art based in San Francisco. In his private practice, clients have included the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Carnegie Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Seattle Art Museum, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Over the years, he has collaborated with artists including Dara Birnbaum, Jane and Louise Wilson, Gary Hill, and Beryl Korot, among others, to restore and conserve their works. He is a 2005 graduate of NYU's Moving Image and Archiving Preservation master’s degree program, and was a 2007 research fellow at the Hirshhorn. He has also worked as a writer, producer, and archival footage researcher for television and feature-length documentary films.

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Emily manages requests regarding the purchasing, licensing, and rental of work in the collection, artist and client services, festival distribution, and programming. Her role coordinates the circulation of artists’ work for educational licensing, screenings, film festivals, exhibitions, footage licensing, and archival acquisitions.

She has been a part of the VDB team serving in various distribution roles since 2018. Emily received a BA in Screen Arts & Cultures and International Studies from the University of Michigan and a Dual MA in Contemporary & Modern Art History and Arts Administration & Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her past experience includes various administrative, programming, and research activities at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Chicago History Museum, The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is also a filmmaker working primarily with analog film formats.

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Kristin organizes and manages the VDB collections. She is responsible for preservation, digitization, and cataloging activities and for maintaining legacy equipment. Prior to this role, Kristin worked as the Assistant Media Conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she collaborated with colleagues to implement guidelines and procedures relating to time-based media artworks. Outside of work, Kristin empowers others to engage with at-risk and under-supported audiovisual collections through mentorship and by organizing workshops and courses on caring for AV media. Kristin holds an MA from the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at New York University and is a co-founder of XFR [pronounced ‘transfer’] Collective, a New York City-based non-profit dedicated to AV education, preservation, and access. She previously worked at VDB as the Digitization Specialist, and has also worked for other organizations including The StandBy Program and Bay Area Video Coalition.

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