Long Overdue Semester Recap
We’ve wrapped up another semester of “Archives, Libraries + Databases” graduate seminar. Once again, we visited the NYC Municipal Archives, the Morgan Library, the Reanimation Library, and the New School Archives — and this year we added a tour of…
Report on Ben Fino-Radin and Lori Emerson’s Conversation re: Preserving Obsolete Media
Last Friday Ben Fino-Radin, digital repository manager at the Museum of Modern Art; and Lori Emerson, assistant professor of English and director of the Media Archaeology Lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder, convened at NYU to discuss “New |…
Database Aesthetics
Some of the database art / visualization projects we didn’t get to explore in class: Database Cinema Jon Witney: Catalog, 1961 Created by “manipulating basic mathematical functions” to create “databases of effects” Peter Greenaway, Prospero’s Books Lev Manovich, Soft Cinema,…
Final Presentations
We’ll all be sharing our final projects on December 3 and 10. The schedule of presenters is listed here. We can dedicate 15 minutes to each presenter — including set-up time and Q&A. So, you should probably plan to talk…
Drawing Time, Reading Time Exhibition @ The Drawing Center, 11/15 – 1/12
This exhibition is organized simultaneously with Marking Language at Drawing Room, London (October 10–December 14, 2013) and a joint publication will be produced. This show features an international group of artists spanning the 1960s to today, all of whom are…
Those Videos We Would’ve Watched in Class Last Week If We Had More Time
Holmes Films, The Librarian, 1947 Alain Resnais & Chris Marker, Toute la Mémoire du Monde, 1956
Aesthetics of Filing: I wrote a little essay for the Reanimation Library
Given its relevance to our class themes, I thought y’all might be interested in this little essay I wrote for The Reanimation Library on the aesthetics and play of filing.
New | Media Archives @ NYU Nov. 15
New | Media Archives w/ Lori Emerson + Ben Fino-Radin As part of NYU MCC’s Program Series Friday, November 15th 2013 | 5:00pm | 8th Fl. 239 Greene St | See Map How do we preserve an obsolete technology? How do…
Archival Programming @ The New Museum, Nov. through Jan.
New Museum R&D Season: Archives Spearheaded by the Department of Education and Public Engagement, New Museum R&D (Research and Development) Seasons connect various projects in the galleries, Theater, and Resource Center around a new organizing theme each fall and spring….
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