Title & Author:

Lost and living (in) archives : collectively shaping new memories / Annet Dekker (ed.).

Publication:

Amsterdam : Valiz, 2017.

Description:

285 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

Making public

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: what it means to be lost and living (in) archives / Annet Dekker -- Accumulate, aggregate, destroy : database fever and the archival web / Katrina Sluis -- Not dissimilar / Femke Snelting -- Giving the finger (back) to the digital: considering 'visual vocabularies' in relation to the photographic archive of Asger Jorn's SICV / Scandinavian Institute for Computational Vandalism (Nicolas Malevé, Michael Murtaugh, Ellef Prestsæter) -- How deep is your source? / Aymeric Mansoux -- From the cellar to the cloud: the network-archive as locus of power / Manu Luksch -- The hidden value of oral history in an 'open' society: a discussion / Annet Dekker, Josien Pieterse & Stef Scagliola -- What the archive can't contain / Nanna Bonde Thylstrup -- Expunction: deleting www.intima.org net art work: a conversation / Robert Sakrowski & Igor Štromajer -- Copying as a way to start something new: a conversation with Dušan Barok about Monoskop / Annet Dekker -- Still there: ruins and templates of geocities / Olia Lialina -- Permeable archive: a conversation with Babak Afrassaibi & Nasrin Tabatabi from Pages / Annet Dekker -- Autonomous archiving / Özge C̦elikaslan -- An invitation: speculations on appraisal and a meandering cache / Tina Bastajian.

Summary:

An archive is a collection of documents and records that is preserved for historical purposes. As such, an archive is considered a site of the past, a place that contains traces of a collective memory of a nation, a people or a group. Digital archives have changed from stable entities into flexible systems, referred to with the term 'Living Archives'. But in which ways has this change affected our relationship to the past, present and future? Will the erased, forgotten and neglected be redeemed, and new memories be allowed? Will the fictional versus factual mode of archiving offer the democracy that the public domain implies, or is it another way for public instruments of power to operate? 'Lost and Living (in) Archives' shows that an archive is not simply a recording, a reflection, or an image of an event, but that it shapes the event itself and thus influences both present and past.

ISBN:

9789492095268 (paperback)
9492095262 (paperback)

Subject:

Archiv.
Archives Social aspects.
Digital media Social aspects.
Documentation.
Memory Social aspects.
Archives Aspect social.
Médias numériques Aspect social.
documentation (activity)
Libraries and Museums.
Digitale Revolution
Dokumentation
Kollektives Gedächtnis

Added entries:

Dekker, Annet, editor, author.
Making public (Valiz)

Lost and living in archives
Lost and living archives

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298807
Call No.: BIB 244940
Status: Available