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The Archive Book: 34 pages |
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A project on the archive of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi). The project began in September 2007 with research on virtual and physical archives which later lead to an interest in the personal cognitive archive which dealt with memory and the past. Visitors of the cultural institutions were represented as digital thumb drives and carriers of information dispersed through public space. Research on other institutions like Boijmans Museum (Rotterdam), CASCO (Utrecht), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and Berendsen Gallery (Rotterdam) had also been compiled which lead to an interest in exhibition design and hierarchies within an institution which have influences on the way the visitors stored the information from the exhibitions. The Internet also played an important role as it provided the basis for research on social networks and addressability. After a process of illustrating and mapping various social networks and storing and recalling of information from the exhibitions, focus was brought back to the archive as the physical. |
The research included in this book touches base on how the term 'archive' is a metaphor for what it actually represents and how the void is filled by publishing the archive of the NAi through the public space of Rotterdam through various mediums by using the public space as an Internet network to create narratives which would prevent the archival data from being defaced and trapped in the hierarchies of the institution itself. Addressability and hyperlinking as laid down by the primordial plans of the Internet help to represent the archive as the physical and the virtual in hopes of extending its lifecycle in and outside public space. First published in Rotterdam, the Netherlands June 2007 |
