User:Alexander Roidl/workshopannetdekker
https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/p/annetdekker-13-11-2017
Reading Lost and Living in Archives
Lost and living in archives
introduction
What is archive?
– multiple answers (building, location, concept)
– archives are defined in relation to their context
– a archive emerges in fragments, regions and levels
– fragmentation of the archive
→ document changes location / destroyed
– digital documents have increased the fragmentation
(in paper archive administration and docs are septerated)
– digital documents and archival system are created with same »material«
– technology changes the content of what is archived
– relation between time and space changed too
– searching is faster → changes archiving
– notion of archive has expanded
– everything and one is archiving
– new definition of archive
– new digital archives are flexible systems in which content is constantly recontextualised
– Forgetting vs. archiving
– Nietsche Forgetting is also something positive
– Who makes the selection
– For whom is the archive…
– An archive is not simply a recording…, but can also shape the event