Questions & Themes
1. How can Intermediae store and share its cultural experience and knowledge?
2. How can the archived data become a public resource for others?
3. How can Intermediae document its experiential activity – exhibitions, events, performances, etc.
4. How to connect physical material and experiential activities with an on-line public archive? Metadata?
5. Intermediae’s archive in relation to the global context, and on the other hand the intimate collective memory of our local context.
We intend to evolve various ‘platforms’ to enable different agents – neighbours, staff, invited professionals, etc- to form an active role in constructing the story of Intermediae,
Algunos de los temas clave/themes
The time of the Archive (the archive as a ‘fold’ in time?)
The archive stores materials to enable us to remember the past
· As memory
· As capital
· Yet makes us conscious of absences, forgetting and discontinuities
The archive always exists in the present
· the practice of the Archive
· the archive as a moment of struggle – agonistic?
who or what is included, who are the gatekeepers, who has access, etc?
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As a resource the archive enables us to dream a (possible) future
· The Future Archive – Timelines and scenarios.
The ethics of the Archive· ?
An Archive is in continuous transformation
· The practice of storage – data, materials documents, speech, gestures, etc
The political economy of the Archive
· for example reciprocity; if you use material you must also contribute – wiki-like structure
· ‘open content’ archival source material
· donated source material must never disappear – de-accessioned
The decentralization of the archive, a distributed archive
The impossible Archive?· The intersection of reality/fiction
· Archive of experiences
· The impossible archive – should include the whole context (like Borges story of the 1;1 map)
· Can you dream/plan/imagine if you cannot remember?
· The missing from the archive
· The limits of the archive
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