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