Bookmarks tagged with Archives
Dictionary of War | At least, when we create concepts, we are doing something
is a collaborative platform for creating concepts on the issue of war, to be invented, arranged and presented by scientists, artists, theorists and activists at public, two-day events. The aim is to create key concepts that either play a significant role in current discussions of war, have so far been neglected, or have yet to be created. The first 100 concepts have been produced in four editions in Frankfurt, Munich, Graz and Berlin over the past two years. All video-recordings, manuscripts, related material are available on this website.
FFFFOUND!
FFFFOUND! is a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user's tastes and interests for an inspirational image-bookmarking experience!!
Thomas Demand
Daarzijn
A summary of the world/ Een samenvatting van de wereld / Un resumen del mundo / Un résumé du monde / Die Welt in der ZusammenfassunG / Resumo de la mondo Book about a journey to the centre of each continent / Een boek over de reis naar het zwaartepunt van elk continent
Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon was born in New York in 1975. She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. An exhibition of her most recent series of photographs, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in March 2007. The exhibition will travel to the Museum für Modern Kunst, Frankfurt in September 2007. For this project, Simon assumes the dual role of shrewd informant and collector of curiosities, compiling an inventory of what lies hidden and out-of-view within the borders of the United States. She examines a culture through careful documentation of diverse subjects from across the realms of science, government, medicine, entertainment, nature, security, and religion. Transforming the unknown into a seductive and intelligible form, Simon confronts the divide between those with and without the privilege of access. Her sometimes ethereal, sometimes foreboding compositions, shot with a large-format view camera whenever conditions allowed, vary as much as her subject matter, which ranges from radioactive capsules at a nuclear waste storage facility to a black bear in hibernation. Offering visions of the unseen, the photographs of An American Index capture the strange magic at the foundation of a national identity.
Arkyves - Welcome
Arkyves is both a unique database of images and texts and a meeting place for everyone who wants to study and publish about imagery. It offers a fascinating collection of visual and textual sources and a bibliography that focusses on the history of visual culture. All are made accessible with the help of the multilingual vocabulary for cultural content of the ICONCLASS system.
MetroPostcard Homepage
The Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York City carrys on the traditions of the old Metropolitan Post Card Collectors, the oldest continuously run postcard club in the United States since 1946. Not only facilitating the exchange of postcards between collectors and dealers, the club is dedicated to the free exchange of information and ideas to further the understanding of Deltiology.
An Atlas of The Universe
This web page is designed to give everyone an idea of what our universe actually looks like. There are nine main maps on this web page, each one approximately ten times the scale of the previous one. The first map shows the nearest stars and then the other maps slowly expand out until we have reached the scale of the entire visible universe.
Constantinos A. Doxiadis
"What human beings need is not utopia ('no place') but entopia ('in place') a real city which they can build, a place which satisfies the dreamer and is acceptable to the scientist, a place where the projections of the artist and the builder merge."
nogozones project
Between May and July, we - Claudia Wegener and Terry Humphrey, two radio obsessed artists in London - have been running a series of weekly workshops, drop-in radio sessions and live broadcasts on Resonance104.4fm under the title ‘NO-GO-ZONES’. We have been working with a young production team of students from Camberwell College of Art and teenagers from the area of South London collecting recordings, conducting interviews with individuals or reports about groups around 'no-go-zone' experiences we encounter in our daily lives. Out with our studio van, we made recordings of individual lives stories and of group debates. The result of this activity is a growing archive of people no-go-zone stories, issues and concerns.
Mapping Memory
Elsebeth Jørgensen. Short Introduction to Artistic Practice: I work in a interdiciplinary, research-orientated and site related way. I am fascinated by montage as both method, form and content. My presentations include photography, computerworks, video, installation, text, sound and artistbooks. I often work with a longterm research involving other people as participators in my projects. I consider my works as ”chapters” or ”scenes” which can be presented either seperately or re-used in new forms and constellations in different situations.
Peter Piller - Archiv, Zeichnungen, Photos, Publikationen
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
An Atlas of Radical Cartography pairs artists, architects, designers, and collectives with writers to explore the map's role as political agent. These 10 mapping projects and critical essays take on social and political issues from globalization to garbage.
Fia Backstrom
The Atlas Group Archives
Prelinger Archives
Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Prelinger Archives remains in existence, holding approximately 4,000 titles on videotape and a smaller collection of film materials acquired subsequent to the Library of Congress transaction. Its goal remains to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven't been collected elsewhere. Included are films produced by and for many hundreds of important US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational institutions. Getty Images represents the collection for stock footage sale, and almost 2,000 key titles are available here. As a whole, the collection currently contains over 10% of the total production of ephemeral films between 1927 and 1987, and it may be the most complete and varied collection in existence of films from these poorly preserved genres.
Union of International Associations (UIA)
Union of International Associations (UIA) is the world’s oldest, biggest and most comprehensive source of information on global civil society. Databases and publications cover many aspects of international organizations – their history, organization and meetings, and the problems and methods with which they work The UIA was founded one hundred years ago, in 1907, by Henri La Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.
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