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Emily Davis portrait

Emily Davis

Emily Davis is an archivist and media conservator with a passion for artist-made films and home movies. Between 2014–2017 she was the senior research associate for Carnegie Museum of Art's Time-Based Media Project. In this position she was responsible for preserving the museum’s historic collection of film and video artworks, and worked to make CMOA’s Department of Film and Video Archive accessible online. Emily graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a MLIS in 2011 and has previously worked at the Walker Art Center, The Andy Warhol Museum, Anthology Film Archives, and Women Make Movies.

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Three photos of a beamed, wooden structure with ladders and video equipment.

Reconstructing Buky Schwartz’s ‘The Big Video Chair’

Emily Davis, an expert in time-based media, takes us behind the scenes as she reconstructs Buky Schwartz's seminal artwork.

By Emily Davis Feb 06, 2018

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