For anyone in London: as part of the 2015 Bloomsbury Festival data ‘hacked’ from the Mass Observation Archive will be projected onto Senate House. It is presented by the School of Advanced Study. From the Festival event listing: “Senate House is famous the former home of the WWII Ministry of Information, and as inspiration for George […]
Tag Archives: archives
Memory units
posted by mdever
“The memory-units of the past, mostly on paper, are increasingly replaced by dynamic, temporal forms of interim archiving in digital space. The transience of new archives, their ever shorter half-life, is their fate, their curse, and their opportunity.” From Wolfgang Ernst, ART OF THE ARCHIVE. The full text is available here. See also: Wolfgang Ernst, Digital […]
English Literary Heritage: Registration open
posted by mdever
ENGLISH LITERARY HERITAGE CONFERENCE 18 SEPTEMBER 2015 INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES, LONDON Registration is now open for the English Literary Heritage Conference to be held at Senate House, London on 18 September 2015. Keynote speaker: Jeff Cowton (The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere) ‘Beyond Words’ This interdisciplinary conference aims to consider the interpretation of literary heritage objects […]
Archival Liveness: The Paper Archive in the Digital Age
posted by mdever
New article by Joy Palacios in the new journal Performance Matters. From the article: “…in the midst of the laborious photo-taking and PDF creating process, I often wondered: am I killing my archive? If disaster were to strike the Maison provinciale such that future researchers could only access its contexts via the PDF versions I […]
Staging the Archive
posted by mdever
A new book to note: Ernst Van Alphen‘s Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media (Reaktion Books, 2014). From the publisher’s website: “Staging the Archive shows how artists read the concept of the archive against the grain, questioning not only what the archive is and can be but what materials, […]
CFP: Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities
posted by mdever
The National Archives (UK) have issued a call for papers for DCDC15, the third collaborative conference with Research Libraries UK. This year’s conference, ‘Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities: Exploring new digital destinations for heritage and academia’ will explore the innovative ways in which heritage and academic organisations can engage with existing and emerging audiences through digital formats. The […]
The Materiality of Method: The Case of the Mass Observation Archive
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New article in Sociological Review Online by Liz Moor and Emma Uprichard: The Materiality of Method: The Case of the Mass Observation Archive Abstract: The Mass Observation Archive presents numerous methodological issues for social researchers. The data are idiosyncratic, difficult to analyze, and the sample design is nonsystematic. Such issues seriously challenge conventional […]
From Dust to Digital: Open access publication
posted by mdever
Now available from Open Book Publishers: From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme, edited by Maja Kominko. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. The volume can be […]
Library additions
posted by mdever
A new page listing readings on archives and materiality has been added to our Library. There is also another new page with links to videos concerning the conservation and handling of archived paper.
CFP: Radical Archives
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Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Archive Journal on the theme of Radical Archives Deadline: April 15, 2015 “Radical archives” and “radical archiving” are concepts that continue to gain currency among archivists, artists and cultural theorists alike, but to date, discussions of “radical archives” and “radical archiving” often appear to rest on an […]
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