Musical Materialities in the Digital Age, 27-28 June 2014, University of Sussex Music, while summoning notions of intangibility, transience and loss, is also associated with material objects that serve to ground the musical, make the transient permanent and defer loss. Unearthing music’s association with materiality reveals a fascinating array of artefacts, including instruments, scores, transcribing […]
Category Archives: Actvity
Archives and Libraries Reimagined
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Archives and Libraries Reimagined by creative artists. From the Glasgow School of Art.
Perversions of Paper
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A one day symposium jointly organised by the Birkbeck Material Texts Network and Archive Futures on Saturday 28th June 2014. The call for papers can be found under Events.
CFP: Digital Memories: 5th Global Conference
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24-26 September 2014 Mansfield College, Oxford, UK This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications created by the massive exploitation of digital technologies for inter-human communication and examine how online users form, archive and de-/code their memories in cybermedia environments, and how the systems used for […]
Photo tales lost in the digital wave
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“Digitisation will also inevitably change the way we do research. Many researchers in archives will tell you how they like to touch an old photograph or pore through old newspapers to get the feel, the smell, the weight. They are not saying that because they are sentimentalists but experience has told them how our senses […]
Conference CFP: Archives for the Future
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ARCHIVES FOR THE FUTURE: An Art and Visual Culture Conference Saturday 29 March 2014, University of Westminster (309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2UW). The conference is organised by Mnemoscape (Elisa Adami and Alessandra Ferrini) with the support of the University of Westminster, the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture and The International Association for Visual […]
Emily Dickinson The Gorgeous Nothings
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Previously published as a limited edition artist’s book, Emily Dickinson The Gorgeous Nothings is a colour facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson’s writings on envelopes. Compiled by Marta Werner and Jen Bervin (with a preface by Susan Howe), this striking volume raises all manner of questions about archival scraps, paper and materiality. Published by Christine Burgin/New Directions in […]
Germaine Greer donates her papers
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Germaine Greer has announced that she is donating her papers to the University of Melbourne. The archive extends to 150 filing cabinet drawers and will be transferred from the UK to Melbourne in July 2014. “Archives are the pay dirt of history,” Greer said recently. “Everything else is opinion. At a certain point you actually […]
The Pop-up Workshops
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The Pop-up Workshops We are launching a new network initiative: the archivefutures Pop-up workshops. Read about them and think about offering to convene a pop-up!
CFP: Convergence: Special themed issue – Digital Archives & Open Archival Practices
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Convergence: Special themed issue Vol 21, no 1 (February 2015) Digital Archives & Open Archival Practices Guest Editors: Sarah Atkinson and Sarah Whatley This special issue aims to bring together researchers, artists, professionals and practitioners from the field of digital archives and the archiving of practice with an emphasis upon Art, Design, Media, Film and Performing […]
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