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Archive and Memory - Notes - 10/01/12

10/01/12

Annette Dekker, working with montevideo. First video and then media in general, for political and economic reason: grants and acceptance.

media art

She is interested in gender media and technology, popular culture.

Bridge the gap between video and media art.

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In "Faith in Exposure", at Netherlands Media Institute co-curated by Annette:

-decorative newsfeed -geuzen, global anxiety monitor

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Role of documentation, (doc. is production.)

Why archive and why memory?:

Annette is attending a PhD at Goldsmith in cultural studies, in particular she is researching strategies for documenting net art.

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word "archive" from greek: origin, authority.

pleasure/intoxication/allure of the archive

Carolyn Steedman, The Space of Memory.

Archive creates meaning

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points of view:

Formation

Use

Implication

library vs archive

archive / database

Micheal Shanks (Archive and Memory in Virtual Worlds):

Archive 1.0: bearurocracy in the early state. Archive 2.0: mechanization and digitization of archival databases Archive 3.0: the animated archive.

detail authenticity

theater and dance

ephemeral and what survives.

appropriation of the found footage and reworking

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1936 Cornell, collide sequences

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1978, dara birnbaum, wonderwoman / vj culture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Ru6hM2ZbM

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vicky bennett, people like us: http://www.peoplelikeus.org/

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