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Week 6: Memory, Libraries, the Archive

  • Day 1 [Tues Feb 22]:

Reading:

The Bag by Vilem Flusser

Benjamin, W. (1985). Unpacking My Library. (download .pdf) .
In: Arendt, H. Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books. p59-67

Database Logic(s) and Landscape Art
Brett Stalbaum
http://www.c5corp.com/research/databaselogic.shtml

Travelin' Librarian
http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/libcards/

  • Day 2 [Thurs Feb 24]:

Present: Mark Vernik

Pockets Full of Memories by George Legrady

Babel by Simon Biggs
http://www.babel.uk.net/

File Room by Muntadas
http://www.thefileroom.org/

The Internet Archive by Kahle
http://archive.org

References/ Recommended Reading

Hokes Archive
devoted to the fabrication and documentation of rare and unusual cultural artifacts
http://web.utk.edu/~blyons/
(thanks C. Cloninger)

Metametameta
Librarian's Blog
http://www.metametadata.net/mt/

Unpacking My Library

The essay connects back to observations of changes of the nature of the archive, the collection, which we encountered in several texts we read in previous weeks (G. Battchen, A. Sekula). It also links to "Utz," the recommended book for this course that also has the notion of the collector at its core.

Provide a couple of examples with which Benjamin describes his personal passion for collecting books.

In 1968-- which assertion did Nam June Paik make about the recording of electronic music?

How does Manuel Delanda describe datapoesis?

References:
Eduardo Kac, "Time Capsule." http://www.ekac.org/timec.html

Sawad Brooks and Beth Stryker, "DissemiNET."
http://disseminet.walkerart.org/html/gallerycredits.html

Victoria Vesna, "AI & Society Database Aesthetics," http://time.arts.ucla.edu/AI_Society/vesnaintro.html

"WEB SITE FEATURING TWO ONLINE PROJECTS ACCOMPANIES THE MUSEUM AS MUSE: ARTISTS REFLECT AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART" http://www.moma.org/docs/press/1999/fF_PO02,c8161.htm

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