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    Close Encounters: Active Archives

    January 5, 2018 a.pass, Active Archives, Constant

    In the context of the series Close Encounters, Nicolas Malevé and Femke Snelting and a.pass researcher Pierre Rubio will discuss the long history of Active Archives. Active Archives started in 2006 as a Constant project concerned with digital archive practices of cultural institutions. The project is currently activated by Michael Murtaugh and Nicolas Malevé in the context of SICV.

    Close Encounters is the name of a series of presentations and public conversations organized by the a.pass Research Centre. These light and irregular events are designed to take time to meet, listen and evaluate an idea, a project, a research or a specific point in a research trajectory. What to study? What to research? What to practice?

    “Within Active Archives, we aim to set up multi-directional communication channels, and are interested in making information circulate back and forth. We would like to give material away and receive it transformed: enriched by different connections, contexts and contradictions.” Active Archives manifesto, 2006

    ← Monday Readings Call for participants: Ageing companions / Geprogrammeerde veroudering / Les cyborgs vieillissants →
    ← Design practice, Free Software and feminisms. Fed by and feeding into various activities, networks and collaborations ↓ →

    Affiliations

    • a.pass
    • Active Archives
    • Akademie Schloss Solitude
    • Constant
    • De Geuzen
    • Ecologies of dissemination
    • LGRU
    • Libre Graphics Meeting
    • Memory of the world
    • Mondotheque
    • OSP
    • Possible bodies
    • Samedies
    • The Darmstadt Delegation
    • The Underground Division
    • TITiPI
    • Uncategorized
    • Ustensile
    • xpub

    Links

  • Manufactura Independente
  • Ludivine Loiseau
  • Radio Panik 105.4 fm
  • F.A.T.
  • Speculoos Centre de spécialités graphiques
  • BxLUG
  • Olia Lialina
  • +H+
  • LAFKON Publishing
  • Information Observatory
  • Constant Verlag A repository of texts from the depth of the Constant Archives
  • Dragan Espenschied
  • Libre Graphics Meeting
  • Copy Cult
  • <stdin>
  • Waend A platform for subjective and collaborative spatial publication
  • Open Font Library
  • textzi.net
  • 404: School Not Found
  • videomagazijn
  • OSP Open Source Publishing
  • Foam
  • rmozone Robert Ochshorn
  • Jeanne van Heeswijk
  • calligraffiti
  • GRAPA A journey to the promised land of FLOS publishing
  • You are here / Vous êtes ici The online guide to Seda-think
  • Archive Cultures
  • El museo del autor
  • Girls of the internet museum
  • Amateur Archivist
  • Myriam Cea
  • Foomarx Reinventing Lorum Ipsum
  • Fudge The Facts
  • Potential Estate The most public secret society inspiring new folk rhymes
  • Revealing Errors We reveal errors that reveal technologies, learning how they affect our lives.
  • Scumgrrrls
  • Rear Window
  • mathieu-g Mathieu Gabiot: Designer Industriel
  • Sabine Voglaire, Harrisson, Prof Papiko
  • Automatist
  • Yi Liang
  • OSP-BLOG Open Source Publishing – Graphic Design Caravan
  • Martha Rosler Library
  • Permutations
  • Hackerspace Brussels
  • Missdata
  • Artwarez Cornelia Solfrank
  • Consentsus A critical feminist theory of consent
  • Genderchangers
  • Memory of the World The world’s documentary heritage belongs to all
  • Matthew Fuller
  • artlibre.org
  • Trashwiki
  • Constant Association for Art and Media
  • WVW
  • Domainepublic
  • aaaaarg
  • Feral Trade Trading goods along social networks since 2003
  • Medialab Prado Madrid
  • SICV Scandinavian Institute for Computational Vandalism
  • a.pass
  • b-l-u-e-s-c-r-e-e-n
  • Open Source Video
  • Rotor
  • Adashboard
  • http://l-o-c-a-l-h-o-s-t.com/
  • – o r a m a
  • Le Syndicat des Robots
  • De Geuzen: a foundation for multi-visual research
  • Towards
  • Urban(e)(istiques) Anomalie(ën)(s) Bru(x)(ss)el(le)(s) through the eyes of Peter Westenberg
  • Femmes et logiciels libres
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