By Nellie Killian & Jon Dieringer dec 22, 2020 All images: Masao Adachi smokes a cigarette, screenshot on Zoom, from an evening copresented by Collaborative Cataloging Japan. As 2020 comes to a close, and we mark nearly one year of navigating the effects of COVID-19, we've invited a group of curators and programmers to reflect on how they've evolved their work to meet their mission during these "uncertain times." Previously, we published Paolo Pedercini on LIKELIKE Online and Nimrod Vardi and Curator Rebecca Edwards on arebyte Gallery. Today, Nellie Killian and Jon Dieringer on Screen Slate's year outside the screening room. The year 2019 was clarifying for Screen Slate. For nearly a decade we had been an all-volunteer effort dedicated to listings and coverage of New York City’s repertory/independent film and media art scene—essentially any screen outside a multiplex, including galleries and DIY spaces. After declining an unexpected buyout offer from a venture capitalist who finances a local arthouse—not an awful situation, but one that was really taxing for a microscopic organization that technically had no staff members to suddenly face—we had set a course for 2020 with a renewed dedication to doing things on our own terms.