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Julie Covello Papers

Call Number

MSS.479

Dates

1999-2016, inclusive
; 2008-2022, bulk

Creator

Covello, Julie

Extent

73.72 Gigabytes in 508 computer files and 1 archived website.
1 websites in 1 archived website.
2.88 Gigabytes in 430 graphic files.
2.34 Gigabytes in 42 audio files.
67.5 Gigabytes in 24 video files.
10.9 Megabytes in 9 documents.
175 kilobytes in 3 spreadsheets.

Language of Materials

Materials in English.

Abstract

Julie Covello is an American DJ, electronic music producer, and webcast host. She lives and works in New York, New York. The Julie Covello Papers contain born-digital and digitized material documenting Covello's career from 1985 to 2016. The collection contains photographs, videos, audio files, spreadsheets, clippings about Covello and projects in which she participated, and an archived version of her website, campjulie.com. The website was first captured in May 2017. The collection documents her solo work as DJ Shakey, as the host of The Near Death Experience Show on pseudo.com, and as a collaborator in Asstronauts, Daughter of Darrr, FreeBassBK, The Funky Beatbots, and Opal Crocus.

Biographical Note

Julie Covello is an American DJ, electronic music producer, and webcast host. She lives and works in New York, New York. She performs as DJ Shakey and has collaborated with Banginclude in Asstronauts; with Terry Dame and Dawn Drake in Daughter of Darrr; with Aaron Goldsmith in FreeBassBK; in The Funky Beatbots; and with Kathleen Cholewka in Opal Crocus. Between 1998 and 2000, she was the host of The Near Death Experience Show, an extreme metal video and interview webcast on pseudo.com. She founded the Warper Party, an electronic music and art showcase in New York, in 2006. She was an artist in residency at the Clocktower Gallery in Manhattan in 2011-2012.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in alphabetical order by title of project or publication, or format of material.

Scope and Contents

The Julie Covello Papers contain born-digital and digitized material documenting Julie Covello's career as a DJ, electronic music producer, and webcast host, spanning from 1985 to 2016. The collection contains photographs, video recordings, audio recordings, spreadsheets, clippings about Covello and projects in which she participated, and an archived version of her website, campjulie.com. The bulk of the material dates between 2008 and 2014 and documents Covello's work as a solo artist (as DJ Shakey), member of various musical groups, host of an early webcast video series (The Near Death Experience Show on pseudo.com), and as a founder and director of the Warper Party, an electronic music and art showcase in New York, New York. The collection includes photographs and video recordings of events at which Covello performed with Asstronauts, Daughter of Darrr, FreeBassBK, The Funky Beatbots, and Opal Crocus. Material related to The Near Death Experience Show includes a behind-the-scenes video recording by Covello and her brother of the pseudo.com studio in New York and at the 1999 Burning Man festival in Nevada, and two episodes of the show from 1999. Material related to the Warper Party includes 2014 compilation of songs produced by participants and photographs and a poster from Warper Party events in 2013 and 2014. Covello's 2011-2012 artist in residency at the Clocktower Gallery in Manhattan is documented through photographs, clippings of online articles, video recordings of her work and events at the gallery, and a spreadsheet with information on DJs who performed at the party held at the end of her residency.

Covello's website, campjulie.com, contains information about her work as DJ Shakey, including reviews, contact information, and sample track lists. The website was first captured in May 2017. Other material includes photographs of an event in Nyack, New York in 1985; photographs of Covello at events hosted by Sweet Action magazine in 2004; and video recording of events at the 2002 Burning Man festival in Nevada.

Conditions Governing Access

Audio and video recordings are available for streaming with password authentication from NYU Libraries for researchers with prior approval based on the 2016 agreement with the donor. All other material in the collection is open to researchers.

Archived websites are open to researchers without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

NYU's Fales Library & Special Collections is not the copyright owner for this collection. Collection use is subject to all copyright laws. Researchers wishing to reproduce collection material should contact rights holders for permission.

Preferred Citation

For electronic records: Identification of item, date; Julie Covello Papers; MSS 479; electronic record identifier; Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University.

To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; ulie Covello Papers; MSS 479; Wayback URL; Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Julie Covello, October 2016. The accession number associated with this gift is 2017.020.

https://campjulie.com/ was selected by curators and captured through the use of Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. The accession number associated with this website is 2017.177.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Advance notice is required for the use of computer records. Original physical digital media is restricted.

Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.

Take-down Policy

Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.

If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.

If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the special.collections@nyu.edu.

Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.

Collection processed by

Megan O'Shea, Bess Pittman, and Donald Mennerich

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-20 17:02:42 -0400.
Using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language: Finding aid written in English

Processing Information

One hard drive was forensically imaged, analyzed, and arranged in Forensic Toolkit.

New York University Libraries follows professional standards and best practices when imaging, ingesting, and processing born-digital material in order to maintain the integrity of the content.

https://campjulie.com/ was initially collected as part of the New York University Collection of Contemporary Composers' Websites Web Archive in 2017. https://campjulie.com/ was also added as part of two collections assessing the capabilities of the Brozzler and Standard crawlers in 2018. In 2022, these seeds were transferred into the Julie Covello Web Archive.

Repository

Fales Library and Special Collections
Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012