Worried about losing precious text messages or voicemail from your loved ones? Concerned about privacy, digital security, and surveillance? Or maybe you’ve already lost things to the digital ether?

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Join T.A.P.E. Los Angeles and Postal Service for the Dead for a workshop discussing grief and death, where we will save digital files by building a system of backups and alternatives to get your precious text messages and voicemail into your personal archive. 📲💌 Combating digital alienation and building autonomy for us all!

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Taught by archivists Sydney Kysar & Isabella León-Chambers, the workshop will cover the following skills and tools:

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- Discuss death and grief through the digital ephemera created by loved ones

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- Identify ideal hardware and storage devices for preservation

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- Identify the most common digital preservation risks

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The Workshop’s hands-on portion will be a step-by-step walkthrough of how to download data off of your phone (primarily for iPhone).

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- Introduction to command line tools

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- Script to download text messages as dynamic html

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- How to download and convert voice messages & voicemails

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- Convert 🍎 proprietary files to open source or non-proprietary files‍

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Please bring your computer, your iphone, and, if possible, a harddrive/flashdrive/solid state drive.

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Monday June 16

7 PM - 9 PM

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Tickets: $25
$20 for TAPE or Whammy! Members.
Those unable to display proof of membership will be charged an additional $5 at the door.

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Postal Service for the Dead (PSD) is an ongoing, collective project where people send letters to anyone in their life who has died. Our mission is to create death and grief positive spaces, both digital and physical, through our community archive, resources, and programming.

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Co-presented by T.A.P.E. - a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.

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