[Crosstalk] HyperStudio Talk - ACT's Future Archive Project **This Thursday**

[madeleine clare elish]

<http://hyperstudio.mit.edu>

HyperStudio Talk

Re-imagining the Archive: ACT's Future Archive Project
Alise Upitis (MIT-ACT) and Madeleine Clare Elish (MIT-CMS and HyperStudio)

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Thursday, April 22, 12:30 - 2 pm
Lecture, lunch and discussion.
Room E15-238 <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E15> (de Rothschild Room)
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*/What is the best way to create a living archive? How can we make 
archiving part of the creative process? /**/How are the processes of 
artists and scholars similar? And how can digital tools facilitate 
creative and research processes?

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In 2009, the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) began work 
on its Future Archive Project, an unprecedented archival project 
encompassing material from the archive of the Center for Advanced Visual 
Studies--a site for artist fellowships at MIT from 1967 until 
2009--together with material from current and future ACT artist-fellows, 
professors and students. Now in the first stages of a multi-year 
endeavor, the Future Archive Project seeks to digitize much of this 
material for access through an online platform that can enable 
connections between materials from these artists past, present and 
future and support the active production, preservation, and 
investigation of artists’ process-related documentation.

This lecture will focus on the institutional and conceptual context of 
the Future Archive Project. At the beginning of this project, 
HyperStudio conducted a case study of the Future Archive Project. 
Madeleine Clare Elish will discuss the research conducted by HyperStudio 
and its implications for other Digital Humanities projects. Drawing on 
materials from the archive of CAVS, the context of MIT and the broader 
framework of arts teaching and production in US higher education since 
1960, Alise will offer a historical point of entry to current 
discussions concerning artistic practice as a mode of research and 
knowledge production.

During the discussion period following the presentations, members of the 
MIT community will be encouraged to give feedback on the future 
development of the project.

About the speakers:

Alise Upitis is currently a visiting scholar in ACT. With the invaluable 
support and expertise of the MIT Libraries, she is involved in the first 
stages of the Future Archive Project--which has included great progress 
in inventorying, preserving and increasing access to materials in the 
CAVS archive. Alise is also working with ACT courses to introduce 
materials from the CAVS archive as a means for understanding artists’ 
varied approaches to creative productions. Alise received her PhD from 
MIT’s department of architecture in 2008, where her dissertation 
concerned how an emerging practice of and imagination surrounding 
computers altered architecture and design theory and pedagogy at MIT and 
in the context of higher education in the UK and Germany following the 
Second World War. She has worked as assistant curator at the Las Vegas 
Art Museum, and recently organized the screening of Cyprien Gaillard’s 
/Pruitt Igoe-Falls /for the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Her most recent 
publication is included in the edited volume /Computational Constructs: 
Architectural Design, Logic and Theory/.

Madeleine Clare Elish <http://madeleineclare.com> is currently a 
research assitant for HyperStudio as well as a second year Master's 
student in MIT's Comparative Media Studies department, completing her 
thesis about the construction of personal computers as evocative objects 
during 1980s.  Within the emerging field of Digital Humanities, she is 
interested in the role of design and visual epistemology in online 
digital environments. Madeleine graduated with a degree in Art History 
from Columbia University, and has worked for Whitney Museum of American 
Art, the contemporary art gallery Gavin Brown's enterprise and interned 
at NPR's On the Media. Next year, she will return to Columbia University 
as a doctoral candidate in their Anthropology department.

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SAVE THE DATE

*Ann Whiteside on SAHARA <http://www.saharaonline.org/>*
Wednesday, May 5, 5 - 7 pm
Lecture and discussion.
Room 2-135 <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=2>
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For more information:
http://hyperstudio.mit.edu
617-253-4312

 






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