Active Archives

http://www.activearchives.org

Research and development of free software archive tools in collaboration with cultural institutions.

Constant has a long history in working with and reflecting on memory, forgetting, preserving and disclosure. The current challenge is in connecting digital archives with open standards on one side and working with web 2.0 indexation systems on the other, keeping in mind that privacy is a priority and ’not indexing’ is not an option.

The archives of cultural institutions are rich in material, they manifest different archiving techniques and specific characteristics, they often share features and problems with colleague-institutes, such as for example: How do you categorize? Who is author or collaborator? Are collaborators writers or protagonists with a different role?


Related events

Sniff and sneak through my archives

2013
Une présentation du projet Erkki Kurenniemi (In 2048) dans le cadre de Archives of Software Art, un événement organisé par Jussi Parikka et Burak Arikan. Le point de départ de la présentation (...)

Sniff and sneak through my archives

2013
A presentation of the project Erkki Kurenniemi (In 2048) in the framework of Archives of Software Art, an event organized by Jussi Parikka and Burak Arikan. The presentation will take as a point (...)

Eleven Orderings

2013
Eleven Orderings is a proposal by Michael Murtaugh and Nicolas Malevé to revisit the collection of documents of the Norwegian artist Guttorm Guttormsgaard, some 25 000 items collected throughout (...)

Life Archives (Kurenniemi). Archive in Motion, workshop

2013
The Archive in Motion investigates the ways in which archival concepts and practices have been transformed under the impact of the radical changes in writing and recording technologies. Archive (...)

Programa público Marginalia, Anarchivo sida

2013
Het Marginalia-project van Aimar Arriola is een voorstel om de Pepe Espaliú Library op een kritische manier te reactiveren: http://www.eremuak.net/0303marginalia. Verschillende collectieven (...)

Workshop Kurenniemi Dataradio

2013
Constantleden Michael Murtaugh en Nicolas Malevé delen hun enthousiasme voor Kurenniemi’s praktijk en zijn veelvoudige experimenten met audio-opnames, dagboekactiviteiten en speelse (...)

Seminar Sound + Art: Curating and Interfacing Archives

2013
Als deel van Systemics #1 organiseert Kunsthal Aarhus een seminarie over geluidskunst en geluidsarchieven, hoe ze worden ervaren, herinnerd en gecureerd. Leden van Constant, Michael Murtaugh en (...)

Dataradio @ Variable

2013
In het kader van het Data Radio project organiseren Michael en Nicolas een live luistersessie van het archief van Kurenniemi’s audiocassettes. In gezelschap van Yves Poliart en andere gasten.

Programa público Marginalia, Anarchivo sida

2013
Le projet Marginalia, développé par Aimar Arriola, articule une proposition de réactivation critique de la Bibliothèque Pepe Espaliù: http://www.eremuak.net/0303marginalia. Différents (...)

Programa público Marginalia, Anarchivo sida

2013
The Marginalia project developed by Aimar Arriola articulates a proposal of critical reactivation of the Pepe Espaliú Library: http://www.eremuak.net/0303marginalia. Various collectives are (...)