how-to-avoid-losing-your-memory-in-the-digital-age
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/13/how-to-avoid-losing-your-memory-in-the-digital-age?fbclid=IwAR0vDeaQz9psZqbQljBX2WGBO8eO0kA6N1awd8pjEKwAPA-MC-lkseQMt4I
DIGITAL MEMORY
TIME CAPSULE
Artist Trevor Paglen suggests that the communication satellites in Earth’s orbit will become the ultimate ruins of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, outlasting everything else on our planet. His latest project, Last Pictures, imagines this geostationary space junk as the singular evidence of our civilization. Last Pictures is a time capsule that will be launched into space on the Soyuz this fall. Once in orbit, the collection of 100 images tasked with «representing modern history» in the universe will join thousands of other satellites in geosynchronous orbit. The images have been micro-etched onto a silicon disk inside a gold-plated case that will be placed, barnacle-like, on the outside of the communications satellite EchoStar XVI.
According to the Library of Congress, there are already four time capsules in space: «A pair of gold anodized aluminum plaques on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring a pictorial message—and the two Voyager Golden Records, containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, have been attached to spacecraft for the possible benefit of space travelers in the distant future.» Adding to these, and the Last Pictures project, the proposed KEO satellite is set for launch sometime in 2013-2014 and is currently accepting messages that will be embarked onboard KEO via their website.
Research for the project, which includes a book of the same name, began in the Visiting Artists Program at MIT and continued as Paglen consulted with philosophers, scientists, engineers, artists and historians about what to include. The images included here are a selection from the disc. A display of the orbit-bound, gold-plated disc is planned at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City for fall 2012, and a partnership with The New York Public Library’s LIVE from the NYPL program will debut
http://discovermagazine.com/galleries/zen-photo/t/trevor-paglen
http://www.keo.org/uk/pages/message.php
VISIBLE ARCHIVE. Mitchell Whitelaw
Mitchell Whitelaw, an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra. This blog began in 2009 as documentation of a research project on the visualisation of archival datasets, supported by the National Archives of Australia under the Ian Maclean Award. Now it documents his ongoing research into the exploratory display and visualisation of large cultural collections.
DOCUMENTARY TIME. MALIN WAHLBERG
An innovative theoretical reassessment of temporality in documentary films
Finding the theoretical space where cinema and philosophy meet, Malin Wahlberg’s sophisticated approach to the experience of documentary film aligns with attempts to reconsider the premises of existential phenomenology. Wahlberg discusses a corpus of classical and recent experiments in film and video in which creative approaches to the time of the image and the potential archive memory of filmic representation illuminates meanings of temporality and time experience.
CREATING THE WITNESS
Creating the Witness examines the role of film and the Internet in creating virtual witnesses to genocide over the past one hundred years. Leshu Torchin’s broad survey of media and the social practices around it investigates the development of popular understandings of genocide to achieve recognition and response, ultimately calling on viewers to act on behalf of human rights.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/creating-the-witness
http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/activistmedia/2012/12/creating-the-witness/
FIRST CHAPTER
DEJA VU. PETER KRAP
The pitfalls of cultural memory and forgetting, understood through the genealogy of the phenomenon called déjà vu
This provocative book examines the history of déjà vu, offers a counterpoint to clichéd celebrations of cultural memory and forces us do a double take on the warnings against forgetting common in our time. Reaching from the early texts of Sigmund Freud to the plays of Heiner Müller, this exploration of the effects of déjà vu pivots around the work of Walter Benjamin.
OFF THE NETWORK. ULISES ALÍ MEJÍAS
Off the Network is a fresh and authoritative examination of how the hidden logic of the Internet, social media, and the digital network is changing users’ understanding of the world—and why that should worry us. Ulises Ali Mejias suggests how we might begin to rethink the logic of the network and question its ascendancy.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/pdf/off-the-network