There’s an article in the latest New Yorker about the conflict over the right to be forgotten. Recently in Europe there have been some successful claims made to have links removed from Google. One of the points discussed is that the information doesn’t originate with Google, so technically the data is still out there, but it’s more… Read More »
This week I will be discussing Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I (2000), in light of this week’s theme: Archival Aesthetics. The film explores the concept of “gleaning” and “gleaners.” The film focuses on people who glean for food in the traditional sense after a harvest; or in a more contemporary sense, gleaners who glean… Read More »
I want to process an idea that isn’t completely formed yet – it’s somewhere at the intersection of Joselit’s aggregates, the curiosity cabinets in Stewart’s article, and the notion of the ‘flaneur,’ which we discussed with Kate Eichenhorn a few weeks ago. Kate mentioned that the flaneur wandering through the archive, discovering lost knowledge among old… Read More »
These reflections are from the previous couple of weeks. The ‘will to archive’ or ‘reason to archive’ creates a fast moving flow that caught my attention in couple of readings: “The archive fever is the attempt to return to the lived origin, to the everyday experience which are the sources of our distorted and refracted… Read More »
During our readings for this week I kept being reminded of our discussion from our last class, specifically the idea of understanding the archive by reading with and against its grain. This concept seems important to me in understanding the context of an archive or collection, its place within a culture, society or… Read More »
I will be discussing film as archival art for my application presentation. Agnès Varda’s film The Gleaners and I will be the focus of the presentation. “Gleaning” in the film takes many forms, each example Varda reveals is related to “collecting” or as Varda puts it “gleaning.” The film exemplifies “an archival impulse” by not… Read More »
As I was reading the articles on archival aesthetics, I kept thinking about DJing especially when “sample” is mentioned in Foster’s An Archival Impulse. DJs go to record stores and go through stacks of vinyls to find rare vinyls. DJs sample music of the past to create something new. They are also referred as music… Read More »
In this video, Brewster Kahle, fonder of the Internet Archive, “and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of content, explain the ethos of the organisation, the challenges it faces, and the technical innovations that keep the archive running” [vie Aeon Films]
Last week’s visit to the new york Municipal Archive was an eye opening experience for me. It was an opportunity to actively engage with the process of archiving and see how it is relevant in today’s society. To begin with I had always considered archiving to be akin with the arts and literature, an archive… Read More »
This week’s readings brought up a new concept for me, the repertoire. In Diana Taylor’s “The Archive and the Repertoire” she states that the repertoire is the “ephemeral repertoire of embodied practice/knowledge (i.e. spoken language, dance, sports, ritual” in other words, “embodied memory,” an experience that is not based in the written language but “requires… Read More »