Michael Connor

This mixed studio/seminar will focus on ethics, aesthetics, and strategies for creating and reperforming narrative digital archives.

In this mixed studio/seminar, we will create and critique digital archives. We will consider the role of web archives as a site for the elaboration of social memory, and as a tool of state control. We will explore case studies such as UbuWeb, Documenting the Now, Wikileaks, and the GeoCities archive, as well as projects by artists who compile, narrate, and/or interrogate the archive, including Guadalupe Rosales, Dragan Espenschied and Olia Lialina, and Walid Raad.