Barbara Miller is deputy director for curatorial affairs at Museum of the Moving Image in New York, where she directs the content of the museum’s permanent collection of material culture related to film, television and digital media, organises exhibitions, and initiates strategic institutional planning.
Before joining Museum of the Moving Image, Barbara Miller applied her academic training in American studies, art and media to several documentary projects, including American Roots Music, a four-part PBS series broadcast nationally in 2001, as well as to public policy research and reform.
Museum of the Moving Image is the only museum in the US that explores the moving image. “Screens are all around us,” the museum says. “We use them to educate, entertain, and communicate. The moving image – encompassing film, television, video games, and other forms of digital media – shapes how we see and feel the world.”
The museum offers exhibitions and screenings on the art, history, technique and science of the moving image. It features groundbreaking educational programmes, digital literacy initiatives and cutting-edge media labs. Its collection comprises 130,000 objects.