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Archive and Memory - 17/01/12

Archival material

Prezi: archive and artists

Artists who have dealt with archives:

Aby Warburg (1866 - 1929) Atlas Project background as librarian and archivist, he rearrenges his book all the time on the basis of different criteria arrangement -> meaning idea of visual knowledge contextualizing images

Jeffrey Shaw, T-visionary (2009) tons of materials about cities connections and new narratives

Stan Vanderbeek, Movie Drome (1963) creating an experience through filming different movies in a drome environments with screens

John Latham, Encyclopaedia Britannica (1971) stack of books burning attacking the panopticon vision of encyclopaedia video (think of all the woks on books nowadays)

Gustav Cramer, Epaminonda, The Infinite Library (2007 - ) http://www.theinfinitelibrary.com/ working with found books and rearranging randomly

Lisa Hoppeneimer, Killed Negatives after Walker Evans (2007 - 2009) she recollected negatives from ??? and tries to refill he holes

Antoni Muntadas, The File Room (1994 - ) expandable artistic database about censorship http://thefileroom.org/ (Yoogle: similar)

Deep Blue, You Are Here (2008) a specific classification of everything in the performance a grid on the ground that gives data on the performance theater and archive

taking the archive as metaphor collecting things reworking found materials

History a Priori

defining the a priori: a priori as a set of rules, as methodology

archive: statements as thing or event

structure of the archive defines meaning (sections)

duration of the archive

limitation of the archive

the rules and the structure of an archive is apparent?

paradox external/internal

new notion of the archive: a pragmatic one, an archive with a a visible structure, in divenir

Wikipedia Art

Internet as just another archive: not archives’ archive

serendipity

1. Bodysong, Simon Plummell

film: linear mythic history of life website: every single clip indexed with big amount of info

film: treetrunk, website: branches

how choose material?

1. visual impact 2. something has to happen in the shot

book, website, dvd

2. Decasia: The State of Decay, Bill Morrison

3. Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy, Martin Arnold (deconstructive approach)

4. Motion Picture, Peter Tscherkassky (one frame reworked)

Gibson: “we’re inventing mirrors to remember”