Category Archives: Archive conversations (Ongoing)

A conversation with Marika

12:00, between morning and afternoon, April 21. The pier in Andernos-les-bains, France. While walking Marika and I have a conversation about digital archives and the problems they engender. The conversation lasts 24 mins. Topics : software, access, speed, the press, obsolescence of information, disappearing http://constant.all2all.org/%7Edigitales/sound.php#10 http://www.constantvzw.com/cyberf/book/articles.php?pg=art26

A conversation with Kavita

12:30 in the afternoon, January 6. Kavita’s kitchen, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic. Kavita and I have a conversation about accessing online archives (equipment, site design). We click through the online Digitales archives while we talk. The conversation lasts 21 mins. Topics: access, technical knowledge, equipment, compatibility, design, language, time http://www.constantvzw.com/cyberf/reload-en.html, http://www.constantvzw.com/digitales/2004.html, http://constant.all2all.org/%7Edigitales/video.php#11

English Step one: Duration: approximately 1 hour. You will need a computer with an internet connection. Find something that interests you in the online archives of Digitales. Your interest could mean that the item (text, image, audio file or video file) reminds you of an event you experienced, or it could relate to your day-to-day […]

Digitales is several days of conferences, workshops, forums, and art presentations where people come together to talk about women and technology. As this is a broad topic, the areas of interest vary. To give some examples, the programming for Digitales can include: a lecture about the relationship between gender and desire as it relates to […]

English In January 2004 Anja Westerfroelke and I held an open workshop at the Digitales meeting days in Brussels, Belgium. We were experimenting with a way of archiving by using a MOO (an online text-based virtual environment, originally used for networked gaming). Our aim was to take the contents of several cardboard boxes full of […]