Dan Finn has been the media conservator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum since 2015. He is also chair of the Smithsonian’s Time-based Media and Digital Art Working Group. He graduated with an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University in 2014. He has previously worked with the Smithsonian Institution as a contractor for media preservation and digitization services for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. He has also worked with Democracy Now!, CUNY-TV, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Third World Newsreel.