Processing Post: Database Aesthetics
Ben Fino-Radin talking about the role of the digital currator in conservation frames the his job as trying to predict and fend off the threats to preservation of certain types of digital art materials. His argument alludes to the…
Processing Post: Database Episteme
Charles & Ray Eames’ educational cartoon, expounding on the wonders of the newly invented electronic calculator, archives a mindset of the digital age that seems more in context after reading Tim Sherratt’s article on EJ Brady. Ideology aside, the inspiration…
Processing Post #3 (Tabula of Relationships, Orders of Things)
“The scientist, however, is not the only person who manipulates data and examines the world about him by the use of logical processes, although he sometimes preserves this appearance by adopting into the fold anyone who becomes logical, much in…
PROCESSING POST 2 – OCT. 15
In another class I had yesterday, We had a guest presentation from a documentary archival researcher. Her first piece of advice, which seems the most obvious and counter intuitive coming from a professional archival researcher, carried through to every other…
Archival Aesthetics — processing post September 24th
Sue Breakell’s introduction to the archival seminar at the Tate Museum jumps off from where we were last week. She address this critique that archives are institutions of state power that dictate how history is create. She encourages the listeners…
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