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The archive, and the act of archiving have become somewhat omnipresent. New archives are built, and new data is submitted constantly, consciously, and unknowingly, by humans, and by algorithms. We aren't living in the past, as one could conclude when looking at all the archival material surrounding us, but we are living a present to be consumed in the future, creating anticipated memories.

In general, I want to take a closer look at different aspects of the archive:

• how the archive, put simply, shapes and makes possible or impossible certain knowledge, and also our collective memory, and psyche
• the archive as an instrument of power
• the archive as fiction, and not as “the truth” - and how we can work with this notion

Literature so far

Foucault, M. (1970) The Order Of Things

Foucault, M. (1969) The Historical a priori and the Archive

Klein, N. (2011) Imaginary Future and the Archive in Pages Magazine

Sekula, A. (??) Reading an Archive in L. Wells 2002 ed. The Photography Reader

Sekula A. (1986) The Body and the Archive

Quaranta, D. (2011) The Artists as Archivist in the Internet Age in: Collect the WWWorld, by Quaranta, D. (ed.)