Lecture by Sue Breakell: "The Context of Content: Material and Immaterial Archival Bodies"
Open Set Lab 2017, Opening Symposium, Sept 9, 2017
Under the theme Memories of the Future the Opening symposium addressed the following questions: how can we de-mystify our historical conventions, re-contextualize our previous experience, give it new meaning based on present conditions and transform it for the future? How do we preserve the traces of the past, and how do we make sense of them in the digital age? Whether it be social network platforms, carefully curated collections, or state archives, how we archive and what we archive are unavoidable aspects that determine our memory.
The symposium was part of the programme Open Set Lab 2017, organized by Open Set in collaboration with AKV|StJoost Master Institute and Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid.
Speakers:
Annette Behrens (Artist), Sue Breakell (Archivist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Brighton Design Archives), Dr. Sebastian Groes (Reader in English Literature at the Department of English and Creative Writing, Roehampton University), Robert M Ochshorn (Independent artist and researcher), Johan Oomen (Head of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision R&D Department, researcher at the Web and Media group of the VU University Amsterdam).
Moderator:
Shailoh Phillips (Studio Babel, polymash researcher, artist, mediator).