Testing the documentation page
Film
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| http://deletedcity.net/ | none | The Deleted City is a digital archaeology of the world wide web as it exploded into the 21st century. At that time the web was often described as an enormous digital library that you could visit or contribute to by building a home-page. The early citizens of the net (or netizens) took their netizenship serious, and built home-pages about themselves and subjects they were experts in. These pioneers found their brave new world at Geocities, a free web-hosting provider that was modelled after a city and where you could get a free "piece of land" to build your digital home in a certain neighbourhood based on the subject of your homepage. (...) Around the turn of the century, Geocities had tens of millions of "homesteaders" as the digital tenants were called and was bought by Yahoo! for three and a half billion dollars. Ten years later in 2009, as other metaphors of the internet (such as the social network) had taken over, and the homesteaders had left their properties vacant after migrating to Facebook, Geocities was shutdown and deleted. In an heroic effort to preserve 10 years of collaborative work by 35 million people, the Archive Team made a backup of the site just before it shut down. The resulting 650 Gigabyte bit-torrent file is the digital Pompeii that is the subject of an interactive excavation that allows you to wander through an episode of recent online history. | |
| http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/ | A 2007 documentary on the state of copyright laws and how they affect remix culture, sample-based music, and so on. Includes interviews with artists like Girl Talk and Danger Mouse, as well as members of the MPAA, the Swedish Pirate Party, Lawrence Lessig, and Nigerian film makers. |
Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees
Is know to be the first film edited in a Digital Non-Linear System. In 1993 the film was broadcasted live thru the interwebs at a frame rate of 2 fps. Later in 1994 David Blair brings Waxweb, a hypermedia version of the film. Breaking 82 minutes in 80.000 parts which can be seen in a desired order.
The edit effect and transitions are quite amazing.
waxweb
Film on Vimeo
Text
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| http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/ | none | Article of James Bridle on wikipedia, historiography and his work that includes a series of volumes documenting the Iraq war entry in wikipedia and how it has been changing. |
Blog
lets get this started!
http://hipstermerkel.tumblr.com/
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/hunting-gathering-digital-wilderness
Second Life Dumpster:
"In Second Life each avatar has a trash folder. Items, that get deleted end up in that folder by default. The trash folder has to get emptied as often as possible, otherwise the avatars performance might diminish. But, where do deleted things end up? What are those things? And, would avatars care to throw their trash into dumpsters instead of just hitting the "delete" button?"
http://www.meineigenheim.org/dumpster_log/doku.php
I'm Google:
""I’m Google" is an ongoing tumblr blog in which batches of images and videos that Kelberman culls from the internet are compiled into a long stream-of-consciousness. The batches move seamlessly from one subject to the next based on similarities in form, composition, color, and theme, resulting visually in a colorful grid that slowly changes as the viewer scrolls."
http://dinakelberman.tumblr.com/
Art
Lincoln3d scans:http://lincoln3dscans.co.uk/
Laric was awarded the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award in 2012, with a project that involves scanning works from the museum collection and publishing the resulting 3D models online. These digital models are available to download and use, free from copyright restriction
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Collect the world: http://collectheworld.tumblr.com/
Collect the world: http://hipstermerkel.tumblr.com
lets get this started!
The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age exhibition blog.
Taped 35 years of tv news: http://www.fastcompany.com/3022022/the-incredible-story-of-marion-stokes-who-single-handedly-taped-35-years-of-tv-news
Blog post about Marion Stokes, an american woman who recorded tv news during 35 years from her tv(s). She gathered 140 thousand tapes, which are going to be digitized and indexed by the [Internet Archive].
The post has no publishing date (easily visible, at least). There are lots of comments, but I haven't read them.
Article on a woman that collected 140.000 vhs and Internet Arhives efforts to create an archive of them.
Rhizome ArtBase:
"Founded in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of digital art containing over 2,500 art works. Encompassing a vast range of projects from artists all over the world, the ArtBase provides an online home for works that employ materials such as software, code, websites, moving images, games and browsers towards aesthetic and critical ends."
http://rhizome.org/artbase/
Digital Memory and the Archive:http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9760 Book of Wolfgang Ernst where he presents his archive oriented media theories.
txt:http://wwwtxt.org/about Blog of Daniel Rehn, that digs deep and resurrects the voices of digital pioneers as unedited, compelling, and insightful 140-character excerpts.
Internet Archeology:http://www.internetarchaeology.org/index.htm Internet Archaeology seeks to explore, recover, archive and showcase the graphic artifacts found within earlier Internet Culture. Established in 2009.
The Internet Archive Opens Its Historical Software Collection To All:http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-internet-archive-opens-its-historical-software-coll-1453397423 Article on the new software collection of Internet Archive
Archiving The New.:http://gsaarchivesandcollections.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/artists-using-archives-bruce-mclean-is-not-an-archivist/ Short article on All This Stuff: Archiving The Artist", publication by ARLIS
open call=>> In My Computer :http://www.linkartcenter.eu/archives/2604 Open call for " In My Computer” Book Series by The Link Center for the Arts of the Information age
The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age:http://319scholes.org/exhibition/collect-the-wwworld-the-artist-as-archivist-in-the-internet-age/ Article on the exhibition of The Link Center for the Arts of the information age
The wayback machine:http://archive.org/web/web.php Internets Archive Wayback Machine allows one to reveal the history of webpages.
The future me:http://www.futureme.org/
Daniel Rourke. The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age :http://www.furtherfield.org/features/impulse-geocities-archive-one-terabyte-kilobyte-age Article of Daniel Rourke on Olia Lialinas and Dragan Espenschieds work "One Terabyte of Kilobyte age". They have been archiving Yahoo geocities userpages.
Allesandro Ludovico. Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894 [chapter 5!] :http://monoskop.org/images/a/a6/Ludovico,_Alessandro_-_Post-Digital_Print._The_Mutation_of_Publishing_Since_1894.pdf Chapter entitled "Distributed archives: paper content from the past,
paper content for the future. "
Boris Groys.Art Workers: Between Utopia and the Archive :http://www.e-flux.com/journal/art-workers-between-utopia-and-the-archive/ Article exploring utopia and archiving in the internet era.
Series on Archives, Archivists and Society By Litwin Books: http://litwinbooks.com/series-archives.php Litwiin books is a publishing house that works on library and archive related issues and this is a series of publications related to archives and society.
Pirate cinema: http://thepiratecinema.com/ THE PIRATE CINEMA : TPC is based on a data interception software. It reveals, through a simple diversion, different aspects of exchange platforms, such as the global and multi-situated nature of Peer-to-Peer networks (P2P), the potential for viral transmission, and alternative social models. Its purpose is to make available for aesthetic exploration the pre-existing potentials of Peer-to-Peer architectures.
The Amen Break: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac A short history of a single drum beat published in 1969, which was eventually appropriated through sampling, spread far and wide through music movements over the ensuing decades, and effectively entering the public domain by accident.
Preserving a Tree and it's Shape: http://www.christienmeindertsma.com/index.php?/projects/tree-track/ http://www.innovatienetwerk.org/nl/bibliotheek/nieuws/730/022012PresentatiefilmThemakingofTreeTrack.html
Tarnation
A documentary made out of snapshots, video diaries, early short films etc. of the filmmaker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RghLT-o0tLs
The $12 Million stuffed shark by Don Thompson
Has nothing to do with archiving but we had a discussion about how the value of art is established and Don Thompson gives some insight into how the economics of art works nowadays (also nice for Steves class).
http://www.amazon.com/The-Million-Stuffed-Shark-Contemporary/dp/0230620590
Life logging
http://tegenlicht.vpro.nl/nieuws/2013/oktober/gordonbell.html (in Dutch)
Gordon Bell is since 1998 documenting and archiving his entire life - from registering phone calls to saving physiological/biometric data digitally. He also has a tiny camera hanging on his neck, which makes several photos automatically, on a daily basis.
He was one of the characters in the VPRO documentary 'Tech Mens', about 'tech-optimists', presented in Dutch television a few weeks ago. The documentary is mostly English spoken and can be seen here: http://tegenlicht.vpro.nl/afleveringen/2013-2014/TechMens.html
U.K Government deletes archive of speeches from internet
Wield power through the archive. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/13/conservative-party-archive-speeches-internet
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace: https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html Text by John Perry Barlow from 1996 describing this naive utopian idea that technology seems to bring to people over the years. In parallel with now, when we know it just went the way he feared.
T.A.Z. - Temporary Autonomous Zone - Part 3. Pirate Utopias It's good to understand the term PIRACY http://hermetic.com/bey/taz3.html#labelPirateUtopias
Documentary about the Internet Archive:
Geocities Torrent on TPB: https://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/6353395/Geocities_-_The_PATCHED_Torrent
Osiris SPS (Serverless Portal System):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris_%28Serverless_Portal_System%29 A possible soluction for archiving web outsite the web. For exemple the Geocities archive.
Jan Christopher Horack: http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/blogs/archival_spaces/ Jan-Christopher Horak is Director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. In addition to his long career in film archiving and curating, he has taught at universities around the world this is his blog.