Erik Piil
Director Of Technology at DCTV
West New York, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Piil is a Director of Technology with 12 years of experience specializing in media preservation, restoration, and audiovisual systems for cultural institutions and venues. He designs cost-effective architectures and open-source workflows for digitizing and exhibiting early analog video and video art, and has consulted for institutions like The New Museum and the Guggenheim. At DCTV he maintains a 67-seat cinema, Avid NEXIS storage, and post-production suites while integrating digital asset management and digitization workflows. His background blends hands-on AV installation and systems troubleshooting with archival conservation work—including project leadership at DuArt and digital initiatives at Anthology Film Archives—giving him rare cross-disciplinary expertise from gallery to cinema. Notably, he also taught Video Preservation at NYU, signaling a commitment to training the next generation of archivists and technologists.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, Masters, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation at New York UniversityBA, Fine Arts, BA, Fine Arts at City University of New York-Hunter College
Github Skills (31)
video-processing10
media-library10
media10
transcoding10
screeps10
audio-files9
in-progress9
filtering9
ogg8
id3v28
audio8
metadata8
mediainfo8
id38
foundation8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MediaArea/MediaConch
Nov 2014 - Nov 2015
MediaConch (funded by PREFORMA)
Contributions:188 commits, 79 pushes, 12 comments in 11 months
transcodingvideo-processingscreepsmedia-library
epiil/open-cleaner
Oct 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:284 commits, 3 PRs, 206 pushes in 2 years 10 months
cleaningin-progressaudiovideoffmpeg
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