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Dynamic Archiving: Demo Dec 12, 2012

Dec. 13, 2012

We鈥檝e got a working demo of our curatorial project built in Korsakow. For now, we鈥檙e using the default interface and have a few glitches and details to work through but we feel that already Korsakow is proving an efficient curatorial tool 鈥 making the media richer in its connections. Click...

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Alternative Television I: Independent and Valuable

Dec. 10, 2012

Intro: Independent and Valuable Openness of the political process and the ability for free people to govern themselves are necessary requisites in a democratic society (Zassoursky 2002:427). In order for people to govern themselves they must have access to information and the ability to 鈥減articipate in public debate, elections, and...

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Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin: 鈥淧erforming the Archive鈥

Dec. 7, 2012

Dr. Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin (known as 鈥淒r. Amma鈥) practices and studies the intersections of academic history and performance (i.e. theatre, film, and television). Her research interests center on the African Diaspora, particularly the impact of the transatlantic slave trade in her homeland of Ghana, and how performance mediates the...

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Paul Gordon: 鈥淟istening/Hearing in Heidegger, Derrida and Nancy鈥

Dec. 3, 2012

鈥淢y talk will be on a fundamental shift from ontology to 鈥渙tology鈥 a propos the notion of genuine hearing/listening, in Heidegger and his 鈥渇riends,鈥 Kaja Silverman, Derrida and Nancy.鈥 鈥 Paul Gordon Paul Gordan has taught at the University of Colorado since shortly after receiving his Ph.D. from the Department...

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Dynamic Archiving

Dec. 1, 2012

We鈥檙e using Korsakow software to prototype a dynamic archiving model for a Brakhage Center sponsored Film and Poetry Conference from 2011. The process is documented and blogged by Dr. Mel Hogan , who is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Curation at CU 麻豆影院.

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Reece Auguiste: 鈥淢emory and Archive鈥

Nov. 5, 2012

During his lecture, Auguiste outlined numerous ways of thinking about the archive: an as object of critical inquiry; as the embodiment of historical events; as the formation of discourses; as epistemological foundation of the archive as repository for memory; and, as a negotiation between institutional power and agency. His particular...

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Dynamic Archiving: Splicing Audio

Nov. 1, 2012

Having now completed the inventory of the 2011 Poetry and Film Symposium put on by Tom Gunning and the Brakhage Center for the Media Arts, Eric Coombs and I now combing through the various media files associated with the project: images, pdf documents, audio, etc. Most of the symposium was...

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Dynamic Archiving: SNUifying

Nov. 1, 2012

After much time spent organizing our media assets and splicing audio, we鈥檙e ready to perform a few tests in Korsakow. Because of a small glitch, we鈥檙e opting to use the Beta version (and to become Beta testers). Our process today consisted of first creating assets from the audio and stills...

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Dynamic Archiving: Korsakow as a tool for digital curation?

Oct. 13, 2012

I鈥檝e just embarked on a project at the Brakhage (Media Arts) Center (University of Colorado 鈥 麻豆影院), and my job here is to come up with modes and models for digital curation. The idea is to help showcase various collections in the archive and organise them 鈥 so I proposed...

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Kirk Ambrose: 鈥淎uthenticity鈥

Oct. 1, 2012

Kirk Ambrose is associate professor and chair of the department of Art and Art History. In addition to many articles and book chapters, he is author of The Nave Sculpture of V茅zelay: The Art of Monastic Viewing (2006) and co-editor of Current Directions of Romanesque Sculpture Studies (2010). He has...