Active Archives

Update from 2021: This website is presented in a more or less archival state. Updates are occasionally made, but much of the content, including this starting page reflect the last period of active usage around 2016. Elements of the project continue in the work of the Insititute for Computational Vandalism and with Constant Michael Murtaugh (talk) 09:45, 30 July 2021 (CEST)

Archiving starts now! Read a Manifesto for an Active Archive (FR). Active Archives was initiated by Constant vzw in 2006.

Erkki Kurenniemi: In 2048

Toneelstof

Guttorm Guttormsgaard: Eleven Orderings

Who's who

Oralsite

Video wiki

Data diary

Recent & Ongoing Projects

Recent Events & Presentations

See the Timeline for a complete listing of presentations (and other events)

SIGNAL September 2016 Brussels
Archive has left the building. Gutenberg-galaksen ligger på Blaker, del 3
Algorithmic agents in sound, image and video, at Cqrrelations, January 22, 2015, Brussels
Contemporary Comparative Vandalism Symposium, Silkeborg, Denmark, September 2014
Dataradio Presentation (WORM), Rotterdam, Holland, April 2014
Taking care of things (Participation), Lüneburg, Germany, January 2014
Wiels presentation, Fiction et droit, 28 october 2013
Phd Week Doch, 26 Sept 2013, Stockholm
Why Metadata in relation to the Digital Publishing Toolkit, 24 Sept 2013, Rotterdam
Flutgraben presentation, 27 July 2013, Berlin
Archive in motion presentation, 7 June 2013, Oslo
Archive in motion workshop, June 2013, Oslo
Dataradio Presentation, 12 March 2013, Kunsthal Aarhus

Publications

Archiving the Data-body: human and nonhuman agency in the documents of Kurenniemi Draft of forthcoming publication
Data diary

Other Resources

Resources are available in a variety of forms which reflect the different ways that we work:

As a Timeline including traces of past and future workshops
As Software and related Documentation,
As a Cookbook of "how-to" tutorials,
As Essays and notes from presentations, including presentation files
Additional projects using Active Archives

There is also a list of Related projects.

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Participating organisations

SARMA vzw

"Cut-ups are for everyone. Anybody can make cut ups. It is experimental in the sense of being something to do. Right here write now. Not something to talk and argue about. Greek philosophers assumed logically that an object twice as heavy as another object would fall twice as fast. It did not occur to them to push the two objects off the table and see how they fall. Cut the words and see how they fall." William Burroughs on Brion Gysin and cut-ups

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