This event is in collaboration with T.A.P.E Los Angeles and you can register on their website.

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?‍

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!

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

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

- Identify ideal hardware and storage devices for preservation

- Identify the most common digital preservation risks

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).

- Introduction to command line tools

- Script to download text messages as dynamic html

- How to download and convert voice messages & voicemails

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

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