About me
Maria Byington is a Brazilian audiovisual researcher, content researcher, and holds a Master's degree from the Postgraduate Program in Memory and Archives at the Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa (PPGMA-FCRB) with the dissertation "The importance of the FIAT/IFTA Timeline Survey as a tool for analyzing audiovisual archives in television broadcasting." She was at the EBU/INA-Fr FRAME.1 professional program (2018.1). And currently works at Rede Globo in Rio de Janeiro, since 2010. Maria volunteered at two FIAT/IFTA Regional Seminars in Brazil (2016 in Rio and 2020 online); colaborated on the translation into portuguese of the Activists´ Guide to Archiving Video by Witness.org (2017) with a team from the Brazilian Association for Audiovisual Preservation (ABPA); volunteer researcher at EPCC-FCRB (2019 to present) and at the ZENcancer Institute (2024 to present). Earlier, Maria was archivist at Jornal do Brasil (1986-1987), researcher and assistant archivist at the CNN-NY Video Library (1990-1991), audiovisual archive manager at TVE-RJ (1996-1997); and produced and curated the migration of open reel 1/2" tapes of selected pioneer portapak videoart in Brazil (1992-1994) a research she has recently reopened. She was associate producer of the series Crisis in Brazil, for the cable TV program Latinos en Acción, produced by Catherine Benamou with Donn Lynn Productions (Manhattan Cable, 1990); coordinating producer for the series Retrospectiva Atlantic do Video Independente - A trajetória da produção brasileira exhibited at Rede Brasil de TVs Educativas (1992) available at MIS-SP; and of The Fight to Save the Amazon, by Geoffrey O'Connor (Retro Report/NYTimes, 2016), the late available online.
