Jonathan Farbowitz
Conservator Of Time-Based Media
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Farbowitz is a Conservator of Time-Based Media at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a decade of experience preserving and stewarding complex audiovisual and software-based artworks. Trained at NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program and formerly the Guggenheim’s Fellow in Conservation of Computer-Based Art, he combines museum conservation practice with digital preservation expertise, including work on preserving malware and other anomalous digital objects. He has contributed to open-source tools for the audiovisual preservation community and publishes on the ethical and archival challenges of Indigenous footage and activist media. Based in New York, Jonathan brings a rare blend of curatorial sensitivity, technical fluency, and advocacy for open, community-driven preservation practices.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, Master's Degree, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation at New York UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Film (with honors in subject area), minor in Philosophy, Bachelor’s Degree, Film (with honors in subject area), minor in Philosophy at Vassar College
Spanish, Hebrew, English
Github Skills (32)
signal10
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crosswalk8
responsive7
jekyll7
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exchange6
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digitization6
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
amiaopensource/digibase
Apr 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 release, 36 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 8 months
mysqldatabasedigitizationmicroservicestracks
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