Pedagogies of digital archives
Víctor Fancelli Capdevila
Digital Archivist at Open Resource Center
Karlsruhe
University of Arts and Design
Workshop on New Media Art Archiving: Connecting People
Karlsruhe, February, 7, 2025
Digital archives are not isolated
- Digital archives are part of or connected to
institution, group, activity, etc.
- This institution is doing (many other) things, and an
integrated workflow plays a crucial role.
- Often archives or institutions work through or with (time-limited)
projects, not always having in mind to be
archived.
- Projects and institutions are often part of a particular
context, network, a system
The work of digital archives can’t be
isolated,
because it’s
interdisciplinary
- Hardware + Software (development)
- Formats, standards, schemes
- Rights, licenses & co
- Discipline-based knowledge
- Rights
- Organisation / Administration
- Institutional politics
- Funding
Digital Archives are…
… in the middle
We’re relating to countless different people, processes,
institutions, knowledges, practices, which has not necessarily to do
with archives.
We need to share a common language, an education, an
(archival) literacy or similar to be able to interact with or learn from
others.
A pedagogy of digital archives
- How do you transmit your knowledge, experience, enthusiasm to
others?
- Appraisal of teaching-related experiences (and see how far we
get)
Open Resource Center
- Building an archive/ media platform of university projects
- Creating (and watering) a culture of archiving and documenting
- (…and understanding the digital)
Open Resource Center
- Conferences
- Courses:
- A convivial technology
- On archive(s) and documentation
- Specific on how to use the platform
- Technical documentation of artworks
