Notes on the Personal Archive: A Response to Giorgia Piffaretti
Floris Paalman
As a response to Giorgia Piffaretti, Floris Paalman elaborates on her model of the newsstand in relationship to personal archives and archival value.
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A NEW(S) STAND: UNFOLDING LAYERS OF MEANING – archival praxis, between observation, projection and imagination
Giorgia Piffaretti
In this installment of ‘from the archive’, Swiss artist Giorgia Piffaretti focuses on the subject of ‘personal archive’. Starting from her own archive, she recognizes potential in everyday objects and situations, based on the observation of a newsstand at the border between Italy and Switzerland. Persisting in a digital era, Piffaretti has examined its archival features, for the way it provides access to the world through its papers and magazines.
Magical Marinades and Archival Puzzles: An Interview with Jennifer Wild
Jennifer Wild & Matt Hauske
Working in archives requires an archival sensibility. Jennifer Wild talks with Matt Hauske about her experience working in archives, and on the importance of understanding the archive as a space for generating on-the-ground historical perception.
Assembling the Archival City: Collective Curation within the EYE on Art Research Lab
Matthias Nothnagel & Vincent BaptistThis is the second part of the first installment of our new “From the Archive” section. In the first, Floris Paalman introduces the …
The Extended City Symphony
Floris Paalman
Welcome to the first installment of “From the Archive,” a new recurring section highlighting archival-based scholarship and practice in urban media studies. To start things off, Floris Paalman discusses how the ideas of “database cinema” informed the curation of the Extended City Symphony Program at EYE Filmmuseum’s ResarchLab.