Hi everybody,
I am moderating the session “Seeing Past and Present
Anew: Animating the Archive” with the presenters Michael Mittelman and
Peter Blank, and am looking for a recorder. Your task would be to capture a succinct
summary of the session. Since many of you will likely already taking notes, it
shouldn’t be too much of an extra effort to make those available for the
benefit of the larger ARLIS community. :-)
Please e-mail me directly if you are interested –
details on the session are below.
Much thanks,
Günter
Part of the City Experience @ MIT
1:45pm – 3:15pm
Seeing
Past and Present Anew: Animating the Archive
Traditionally the “archive” is thought of as a
treasure trove of primary source materials, developed via an ongoing cumulation
and classification that, over time, allows researchers to triangulate in their
investigations into past cultural practices. The Future Archive Project at MIT
expands this notion by documenting artists’ methods of creation and
collaboration so other artists, historians, and theorists can view artistic
process as works are created via a Web portal, not years later. At Stanford a
reconceptualization of “collection” from an incrementally
increasing aggregate to an ever reconstituting and redefining mass of cultural
detritus redefines collection development and instructional practices.
Michael
Mittelman, Associate
Director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Founder and Publisher of
ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, Center for Advanced Visual
Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter
Blank, Head
Librarian, Stanford University Art & Architecture Library