Displaced Archives, edited by James Lowry, addresses the concept of archives that have been removed due to war, conflict, or other international strife.
His devotion to the concept of the archive — including archival footage — is based in a sense of the object's relic-like, totemic power that transcends evocation and memory to achieve a quasi-metaphysical incarnation of the past that restores its force through mythopoetic power, through the fact of its iconic contact with the past.
In fact, perhaps the greatest danger of web archiving today is that the very concept of an "archive" is antithetical to the constant monitoring and spot checking that is required of a dynamic digital repository.
I facilitate and provide support for all aspects of media production from concept to archive.
The thing you have to remember is the concept of film archives and film preservation and film restoration happened after the silent era was over, for the most part.
In these and other early document collections (e.g., those of China produced during the Shang dynasty in the 2nd millennium bc and Buddhist collections in India dating to the 5th century bc), it is difficult to separate the concepts of the archive and the library.
We present here the concept of a virtual archive, spatially referenced over a simplified 3D brain map and accessible over the Internet.
Intro: In this post, current OHMA student Storm Garner muses on Maria Cotera's presentation of the concept of an "embodied archive" using tattoos as an illustration.
Inspired by concepts of collective archiving, memory, and cultural contradiction, Allahyaris 3D printed sculptures and videos challenge social and gender norms.
His devotion to the concept of the archive including archival footage is based in a sense of the object's relic-like, totemic power that transcends evocation and memory to achieve a quasi-metaphysical incarnation of the past that restores its force through mythopoetic power, through the fact of its iconic contact with the past.
Instead, he examines how such metaphors and figurative language more generally construct our very concept of the "psychic apparatus". In Archive Fever Derrida asks in effect what the psyche might have looked like if Freud had had a computer.
