Notes 18 September

- Archive starts in greece - centre of power, public records etc.

ontological sense - here it began here it takes its power from

- Archive prefer to be seen in the analog, as a voyeuristic pleasure. A sense of 'authenticity'.

- Media Archive as ubiquitous, but more vulnerable due to a weaker institution; stronger due to 

less physical storage, less vulnerable material used.

- The strength of an archive is the identity attached to those who use their information.

- Where does the urge of saving everything come from?

- The web has begun to blur the difference between the database and the archive

What does the archive consist of? What are its parts?

- How do you archive them
- What does it take to archive them?
- Preservation?
- Conservation?
- Who does the archive belong to?

Course question: In what way can we influence the archive?

Archivisation produces as much as it records the event.

- The amount of real-time information of the web archive makes its content dominant to 

interpretation

Zeitgeist as truth being relative

Opensource archives

- The issue of how to search/select specific information among large amounts of similar 

information

Linear phase-list of the media archive -Archive 1.0: buerucracy in the early state -Archive 2.0: mechanization and digitization of archival databases -Archive 3.0: the animated archive (Michael Shanks (2008), Archive and Memory in Virtual Worlds

Movie clip: "A discussion in the convergence of new media and archeology with Metamedia" (Michael Shanks) - Giving evidence deepens the illusion of attention (?), as in describing a room. Giving labels to reality, making evidences of being present. - Rebelliousness, cleverness and politics as the deciders of what will be documented and what will be gone

Reading the texts for monday 22 september, Foucault & Derrida:

- Highlight specific ideas in the text, prepare text to open discussion in class. Readers should work in groups of 3 and agree on the points of the texts.