Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.

BAVC provides industry-certified video, digital audio,
web design, and multimedia training to more than 6,000 adult students annually.
Through state and industry partnerships, BAVC offers fee-for-service,
subsidized and free training to a variety of media professionals, returning
workers, community-based organizations, and low-income youth and adults.

From podcasts to video blogs, there is no question that digital media has revolutionized how we view art and performance. Today it is relatively cheap and easy to capture digital media of a performance or
cultural event. But while cultural institutions like dance companies and visual artists are eagerly picking up technology to create, preserve and distribute their work, they are largely experimenting
without a set of standards or technical best practices. BAVC is the nation’s largest non-profit preservation organization, and we are leading the field in developing preservation standards for the future, and providing hands-on expertise to practitioners as they implement these new standards. In 2003, we produced PLAYBACK, an interactive DVD that invites users to view the technical practices of
video preservation and to experience the complex decision-making process engaged in by artists, conservators and video engineers as they reconstruct video artwork.

Independent Media supports, incubates, develops, and mentors the highest quality and most promising public media projects—those that stretch traditional boundaries of creativity and form, as well as those that
have clear potential for deep social impact. Creative Programs currently operates four core programs: Producers Institute for New Media Technologies, Nonprofit Institute for New Media Applications, Fiscal Sponsorship and MediaMaker Awards.