Notities voor een presentatie in het kader van het festival What is the archive
http://constantvzw.org/site/What-is-the-archive.html
Constant is a non-profit, artist-run organisation based in Brussels since 1997 and active in the fields of art, media and technology.
Feminisms, re-thinking the author (collaboration, genealogy), Free Software.
http://constantvzw.org/site/-About-Constant-7-.html
‘Part of the promise of crossing video with computation is the potential to combine the computers’ ability to construct models and run simulations with the random access possibilities of digitized media. Instead of a editing a story down into a fixed form or “final cut”, one can program a “storytelling system” that can act as an “editor in software”. Thus the system can maintain a dynamic representation of the context of a particular telling, on which to base (or support a viewer in making) editing decisions “on the fly”.’ Michael Murtaugh, What’s wrong with the YouTube documentary (2008):
http://activearchives.org/wiki/What%27s_wrong_with_the_YouTube_documentary%3F
The promise of ‘No Final Cut’ is anchored in Free Culture licenses:
* run (use) the program/text/video for any purpose.
* study how the program/text/video works, and change it to make it do what you wish.
* redistribute and make copies of the program/text/video so you can help your neighbor.
* improve the program/text/video, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
… but also in feminisms and their re-thinking of the place of the author (collaboration, genealogy)
Collective experiment with archiving, versioning and digitisation. By working through and with tools that operate on data along temporal and social dimensions, DiVersions explored the potential for divergence within technological infrastructures.
http://constantvzw.org/site/-DiVersions-.html
An Mertens: What do objects have to say, when we listen to them through the catalogue? An algorithmicly generated catalogue of “women” present in the museum catalogue. Objects + forms of life.
http://diversions.constantvzw.org/projects/objects_made_to_speak/catalogue_en__carmentis_WOMAN_2016-12-10_11%3A40%3A28.pdf
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?
http://constantvzw.org/site/-Active-Archives,110-.html
Active Archives Galaxy
http://constantvzw.org/site/IMG/pdf/activearchives_galaxy_again.pdf
‘Collaborative online video tools need not stay stuck in the “heavy” and overly precise timeline-based model of tools like “Final Cut”. Software such as the wiki, are suggestive of other approaches to collaborative work online that can have useful application in the realm of comparable tools for working with video as well.’ Michael Murtaugh, Notes for Collage code workshop (2008)
http://activearchives.org/mw/images/7/79/Videogrep_woman.png
http://activearchives.org/mw/images/thumb/f/fc/Screenshot_aa_front.png/798px-Screenshot_aa_front.png
http://activearchives.org/mw/images/thumb/c/cc/Almamatrix.png/798px-Almamatrix.png
“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, quoted on Active Archives