This archive contains some interesting talks, such as the one above featuring 5 middle-class white men talking about atemporality, which sort of links to lizzies previous post about power-browsing (i think): from the Video Archive | transmediale.
Archive for the 'Archives' Category
GSA’s second most prolific bloggers have launched a great new blog with the distinct theme of the Treasures of GSA Library, to highlight the special and rare book collections.
If, for example, you wanted to search this site by tags, months, or for categories, (i.e. this one relating to the Degree Show), you can now do that via the Search Archive page. (Tab in top menu)
Jim Naughten’s Re-Enactors is a personal project capturing a series of portraits of military re-enactors and their battles. Colour plays a big part in portraying the portraits as echos of the original events in time. It plays off his own childhood re-enactment with plastic toy soldiers.
You can view a series of spreads from the book here.
Vis Commers love maps, it’s a FACT. Whole series on Dad friendly BBC4.
Kieran McCann kindly sent a copy of this transcript of a discussion on the subject of Visual Journalism. Its part of a series of discussions which took place at the RCA as part of their Woodhill Park Critical Forum. He also left a few extra copies of the newspaper he produced on the ‘disappeared’ of argentina – a great project, and if you’d like a copy, just email me.
Glasgow School of Art Library Blog highlights The Het Geheugen van Nederland (The Memory of the Netherlands) — a dutch website that contains an extensive collection of illustrations, photographs, texts, film and audio fragments, all of Dutch making, including an impressive archive of work by Wim Crouwel.
Just putting this, very much under construction, project out there to hopefully get some more invitations to other archives. If you have lots of videos, or suggestions of collections, please let me know.
Synth Pop version coming soon…
Following the discussion last week in the ‘creative research’ review, about ways of using the web for smarter searches (beyond google and google images), I came across this Daguerreobase database of Daguerreotypes. Its a good example of some of the things we were talking about, such as searching out archives and collections. I imagine this type of digital archiving will only increase over time, and with the development of ideas around the Semantic web (”…an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.” Tim Berners-Lee), the depth and richness of resources we can locate online will expand.
On the subject of good grids, Vince Khoi’s new grid for Wordpress is a breathe of fresh air in their ‘theme’ library. Vince is the Design Director for the NewYorkTimes.com
Basic Maths employs clear tagging, categories and multi-functional archiving – creating a more intuitive ‘contents page’. The short code function to reveal his base columns is a nice little typographic touch.
Wondering if our blog could pick up this theme??
Central Station, (a community for art, film and design), launches (in beta, but aren’t we all) today. Log-on, look around, sign-up, tune-out. GSA Visual Communication is on there, so you could even become friends with the course.
A couple of things relating to the history of art and design education on the other side of the Atlantic: Firstly, the School of Visual Arts Archives, featuring work from the likes of Milton Glaser, Paula Scher and James Victore, plus its accompanying Container List blog.
Secondly, a thought provoking documentary about Black Mountain College, the pioneering American Art College, which during it’s short life in the mid-20th century, created a melting pot for some of the more interesting characters in progressive arts education in the US and former Bauhaus european refugees like Josef and Anni Albers, to learn, experiment and educate in an open, (kind of) democratic, and largely unregulated environment.
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