The trouble with recordings of the standard repertory is that interpreters must now compete with a seemingly infinite archive of historical performances.
Back then, and there is a reason I'm telling you all this, it felt like there was an entire world at my disposal, an almost infinite archive of the previously unexplored.
We are living through an explosion of images, and what can an artist offer in the face of 24-hour news, ubiquitous cameraphones, infinite digital archives, and instant worldwide circulation?
Unless you've diligently been tagging or starring this older content over the years, it will essentially disappear into the ether without a search feature like Google's, which once dug into seemingly infinite RSS archives.
While the web is effectively infinite, an archive of web pages is now seven petabytes, or 7,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.
On November 14 and 15, MIT will host Infinite Record: Archive, Memory, Performance, an international artistic research project led by Østfold University College/Norwegian Theatre Academy.
IN this era of blogosphere gossip, viral e-mail and infinite YouTube video archives, the open secret — unacknowledged by its keeper, theoretically hush-hush but widely suspected or known — arguably should be a thing of the past in public life.
She presented at the International Symposium "Infinite Memory – Performance and Archive" in Kiel, Germany, and she and Prof. Jay Scheib are bringing this symposium this fall to MIT.
She presented at the International Symposium "Infinite Memory – Performance and Archive" in Kiel, Germany, and brought this symposium to MIT in 2014, incorporating a new collaborative piece with ACT Faculty Emerita Joan Jonas.
In journalism, for example, as it struggles to redefine itself in the digital age, oral history archiving techniques make sense of infinite sources of information and connect readers to subjects.
The site uses apparently infinite storage space and bandwidth provided by the Internet Archive, a charity that stores donated audiovisual material.
