People

Paige Laino

Founder

Paige Laino (she/they) completed their MLIS at Queens College in 2024 with a certificate in Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials. Starting in 2024, she is the Archivist for Robert Wilson and the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Center, after working as the Archive and Alumni Manager at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture for over a decade. She specializes in time-based media preservation projects and has worked with artists such as Daniel Bozhkov, and the estates of John Giorno and Chris Marker. Their writing has been featured in The Paris Review and they co-founded The Tomorrow Archive, a periodic zine of art and writing.

Rohan Subramaniam

Fellow

Rohan Subramaniam is an audio-visual specialist, arts administrator, information technologist, and archivist-in-training, originally from New Delhi, India. Rohan has a BFA in Film & Video from Pratt Institute and is currently pursuing the MLS degree from Queens College with the Advanced Certificated in Archives. They currently work at Franklin Furnace Archives and has formerly worked at Pratt Institute Libraries, CUNY TV and Queens College Library. Rohan's professional and research interests include avant-garde arts preservation, audio-visual preservation, film production, digital information infrastructure and information privacy

Sarah Workneh

Advisor

James Lowry

Advisor

Practice Index is grateful to the Archival Technology Lab at Queens College, GSLIS department for supporting this initiative for Summer 2025.

Rebecca Shippee

Advisor