Ari Negovschi Regalado

Ari Negovschi Regalado (CalArts ’14, UIUC MS/LIS ’22) is the Technical Director at Texas Archive of the Moving Image, a nonprofit media archive located in Austin, TX. She leads audiovisual digitization and preservation efforts and has collaborated with archives across the state to safeguard Texas’s moving image heritage through workshops, knowledge sharing, and free digitization via the organization’s Texas Film Round-Up program. Interested in blending community engagement with hands-on archival experience, she has worked with ENTRE Film Center, Project Row Houses, and WeLuvVideo to digitize their collections; allowing volunteers, students, and interns to gain real-world experience through hands-on training in preserving moving image materials. Prior to her work at Texas Archive, she preserved the collection of award-winning documentarian Perry Miller Adato while in graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, worked as an audiovisual technician at a digitization vendor, and served as an Exhibition Media Production Assistant at the Autry Museum. You can find her on Instagram @media_archivista.