RETO KROMER

AV Preservation by reto.ch
Sandrainstrasse 3
3007 Bern
SWITZERLAND
info@reto.ch
reto.ch
T: 41- 77 435 24 90

Having graduated in both mathematics and computer science, Reto became involved in audio-visual conservation and restoration thirty-nine years ago. He has been running his own preservation company, AV Preservation by reto.ch, and also lecturing at the Bern University of Applied Sciences. His courses cover the conservation and restoration not only of audio-visual content but also of audio-visual carriers, usually with a focus on related technical issues to those, and motion picture film. The research projects he currently leads focus primarily on the digital domain and include colour spaces, look-up tables, codecs and emulation, as well as methods for the recovery of actual files and the so-called raw data they contain.

Previously he was head of preservation at the Cinémathèque suisse as well as a lecturer at the University of Lausanne, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia (San Sebastián). Reto served as a board member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) for four years. His work has seen him honoured with both one of the inaugural Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) Awards and a SMPTE James A. Lindner Archival Technology Medal.