From an article on http://www.fastcodesign.com/ “How best to physically archive our digital lives seems an insurmountable task, and previous attempts to do so–like this plan to print out Wikipedia as a 1-million-page book–downright quixotic. But Philip Adrian‘s #oneSecond benefits from a far more limited scope: printing out every message sent on Twitter at a given […]
Category Archives: paper
CFP: Archives on Fire
posted by mdever
Call for Papers RECONSTRUCTION: Studies in Contemporary Culture http://reconstruction.eserver.org/ Volume 16.1 (2016) ARCHIVES ON FIRE: Artifacts & Works, Communities & Fields Archives today are on fire–energized and endangered, mobile and mutable, ubiquitous and unique–as the library’s form and function in society undergo significant changes. Digital tools, open-access platforms, and social networks are transforming the fields […]
CFP: Failure in the Archives
posted by mdever
The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) is pleased to announce Failure in the Archives, a conference celebrating the frustrations of archival research, to be held on 30 October 2014 and featuring a keynote address by Natalie Zemon Davis. Failure in the Archives will provide a forum to examine everything that doesn’t belong […]
Pop-Up Workshop: Document and Contract
posted by mdever
Kent Centre for Law Gender and Sexuality, University of Kent, 3 April 2014. A workshop examining questions of materiality, method, endurance and transformation with respect to the document and/or the contract. Details here. This is an Archive Futures event.
Redundant Catalogue Cards
posted by mdever
Part of a current exhibition on ‘knowledge in motion’ in the Octagon Gallery at the Main Library, University College London. COLLECTING- KNOWLEDGE IN MOTION An exhibition curated by Claire Dwyer (Geography), Margot Finn (History), Stefanie Van Gemert (Dutch), Kate Smith (History) and Ulrich Tiedau (Dutch). Collections, like Universities, are factories of knowledge. Institutionally, they often […]
Perversions of Paper
posted by mdever
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.
“Archive Fever”, ABC Radio National Hindsight on 22 Sept 2013
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Listen in to ABC Radio National’s Hindsight programme, “Archive Fever” at 1pm (Australian Eastern Time) on 22 September 2013 (repeated 26 September at 1pm). The programme features: Linda Morra, Catherine Hobbs, Karina Vernon and Maryanne Dever. The programme can also be listened to and downloaded on the Hindsight website. Features producer: Lyn Gallacher
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