Dear Annet, Sarah and CRUMB subscribers,
I was thrilled to receive the CRUMB introductory post and Annet's allusion
to our June discussion on -empyre and am happy that we are both are
thinking similarly on this current and evolving topic! Perhaps we may get
some cross-list dialogue going on.
Tim Murray, my co-moderator, and I attended a symposium at the Langois
Foundation a couple of years ago that got me thinking about the subtleties
between the actual work, its documentation and its archivisation. My own
ideas as an artist flow back and forth, growing and expanding through one
generation of a project to the other through the documentation of that
project that I like to take ownership in. The product of archiving which
for me happens when the project is put away for good allows for an
afterlife to the project but also adds a conceptual layer that often
shifts and changes how I feel about it. At the conference I noticed that
artists perceptions of documentation and archivisation were more
generative than curators and in even more contrast to librarians and
archivists.
Looking forward to hearing more about the conference a week ago from Annet
and others.
Renate Ferro
-empyre soft-skinned space moderator
Renate Ferro
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Art
Cornell University, Tjaden Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Website: http://www.renateferro.net
Co-moderator of _empyre soft skinned space
http://www.subtle.net/empyre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyre
Art Editor, diacritics
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dia/
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