Bio: Bridget Fleming is a 6th year Ph.D. Candidate in the Visual and Cultural Studies program at the University of Rochester. Her research interests include: contemporary art, feminism, experimental film, sound studies, and collaborative art practices. Her dissertation focuses on histories of feminist film and video production, paying particular attention to the treatment of the voice by feminist practitioners. Her digital humanities project builds on this research. In collaboration with the Visual Studies Workshop’s curator Tara Nelson, and preservation specialist Nilson Carroll, Bridget is working on a project to digitally enhance the Portable Channel Collection using Mediate. Portable Channel is a collection of videos made by artists and activists working in Rochester during the 1970s. Bridget will be in conversation with community member to digitally annotate a selection of Portable Channel videos and make it newly accessible to both researchers and the Rochester community. The collaborative project will eventually be housed on a website, created on Omeka S. Fall 2024 cohort. (bflemin6@ur.rochester.edu)