Yvonne Ng

YvonneYvonne Ng served as a graduate researcher with the Visible City Project in 2004.  She holds a B.A in Cinema Studies (University of Toronto), and is on a temporary leave from an MA program in Film Studies (York).  She currently resides in New York City where she is pursuing an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (NYU). Her research interests include non-theatrical and orphan films, experimental film culture and institutions, and independent media preservation.   Her professional experience includes positions as the Film Print Maintenance Coordinator for the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, a Managing Editor for the journal Public, and a teaching assistant in film theory at York.

Currently, she works at the New York Public Library's Wilson Processing Project to inventory backlogged collections for the Library for the Performing Arts and with the Media Preservation Unit in the Conservation and Preservation Department of NYU Libraries.  She is also working as a research assistant on a book project on Hollis Frampton's Magellan Cycle with Professor Michael Zryd.  In addition to her academic and professional work, Ms. Ng serves as the treasurer of the Board for Mammalian Diving Reflex theatre group and is a founding member of the artists' collective, UPBAG.  She is also a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, through which she received the 2006-7 Technicolor-CFI Sid Solow Scholarship.