The 4th Women 100 movement newsletter is out. Since 2013, the movement Women 100 (Hundred Years of Immigrant Women’s Life and Work in Malmö) has tried to make visible and recognize immigrant women’s life and work in Malmö. The fourth newsletter has come out (No. 2, 2015). A collection that… Continue reading
“Re-enactments – Archival Performances” transposes the familiar poetic conundrum of how to separate the dancer from the dance: what if we choose not to separate the archive from its re-enactment? In collaboration with the AHA festival (Chalmers University, 2–4 November, 2015), the Living Archives group invites you to join the 24… Continue reading
The Data Thieves are landing! On October 20 at 16:00, Gaylene Gould and Gary Stewart will give a Medea Talk about the ideas and technologies behind the installation “Mission: Misplaced Memory”. The installation can be interacted with during lunch time on the same day, on the ground floor of Niagara,… Continue reading
The 100 Years of Immigrant Women’s Life and Work in Malmö bilingual newsletter No. 1 (2015) – made by the Women 100 project, Living Archives and ABF – is now out. It can be downloaded below and at the Women Making History website. Text: Erling Björgvinsson The newsletter reports on the inauguration of… Continue reading
Nikita Mazurov is since August post-doc with the Living Archives project. His interest lies in looking at practices of archival protection. For a brief introduction to his work and approach, see the video embedded below (or here on YouTube). Scroll down for a longer introduction. Video production: Jacek Smolicki Text: Nikita Mazurov… Continue reading
In August, PhD student Jacek Smolicki presented the paper “De-totalizing Capture: On Personal Recording and Archiving Practices” at the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art. Here’s the abstract. ABSTRACT – Today’s media-scape presents recording and archiving as one of the major media practices performed by an increasingly growing number of people. Practically… Continue reading
On February 25–26, Living Archives research project hosted a symposium on Somatic Archiving. The event consisted of a series of performances and talks related to subjects such as body, somatics and archiving. Invited guests, artists, scholars and performers shared their thoughts on how the body can be understood as an… Continue reading
Elisabet M. Nilsson and Veronica Wiman’s paper “Gardening communities as urban archives and social resource in urban planning”, presented at the Nordes conference, is now available online. Continue reading
Living Archives post-doc Temi Odumosu recently contributed an article to the Danish Agency for Culture publication Museums – Citizens and Sustainable Solutions. Here’s an excerpt. EXCERPT – When I moved to Copenhagen from London for a postdoc in the summer of 2012, the first thing I did after absorbing the initial… Continue reading
In the end of May, Susan Kozel presented the paper “Somatic Archiving” at Transvaluation: Making the World Matter – International symposium searching for alternative making of values through and in research, Gothenburg, Sweden. Continue reading
4 June 2015 @Inter Arts Center, Malmö, 12:00 – 16:00. The Living Archives project celebrates Nordic Open Data Week by inviting you to generate a digital encryption key using your own gestures and movements. Continue reading
NB! Postponed until September, 2015! Interdisciplinary workshop with artist/researcher Alessandro Carboni, 9–11 June 2015 (2–6 PM at K3). Participants should preferably be able to take part all three days. The aim of the workshop is to explore the city of Malmö with alternative performative practices of urban mapping. The performative character of the… Continue reading
Alessandro Carboni is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects explore the relationships between body and space. From May to September, Carboni will explore the city of Malmö through performative practices of urban mapping. Always Becoming #Malmo – Tools for urban mapping and performance practice Text: Alessandro Carboni, artist-in-residence in the Living… Continue reading
A Call for Submissions – We seek to gather reflections and provocations from a diverse range of voices, inviting artists, computer programmers, activists, researchers, archivists, urban foragers or performers of all sorts, to join us in thinking critically about how openness is changing social values and influencing how information is shared. Continue reading
Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice is a new book about how we use stories of the past to shape the future. Governments, NGOs, major archives and monument builders – they are all constantly engaged in activities of retrospection, imagination and reinterpretation. They try to mediate and give authority to particular stories, while others are suppressed. Continue reading
The Living Archives project at Malmö University now looks for its second Post Doc. We invite Post Doctoral applicants to coincide with one or more of the following approaches to archives: Augmented Reality, Media Art, or Open Data. Last date for applications is May 11, 2015. Continue reading
This is an open invitation to attend a performance and discussion event around the body, somatics and archiving – registration details below. Continue reading
For the last five years, Jacek Smolicki has on a daily basis been recording the everyday sounds of the places he has been at. Being interested in so-called life-logging and self-tracking practices, he recently started using a small camera that snaps a photo every 30 seconds. “Looking at these photos”,… Continue reading
Slussen is a multi-faceted architectural structure in central Stockholm that has functioned as a lock controlling the water level between the lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. Slussen is also an important communication hub, hosting an underground station and a bus terminal, and it accomodates local businesses and various forms… Continue reading
This is the abstract of a paper presented at the NODEM 2014 conference “Engaging Spaces – Interpretation, Design and Digital Strategies”, December 1-3, 2014. Affective and Rhythmic Engagement with Archival Material: Experiments with Augmented Reality Authors: Susan Kozel, Jacek Smolicki and Daniel Spikol Digital content in Augmented Reality platforms tends… Continue reading
On Wednesday, Nov 26, people from the Learning Site will talk about their perspectives of farming, historical time, and spatiality. What: Greenhouse Artist Talks When: Wednesday, November 26, at 17-19 Where: Växthuset, Slottsträdgårdens kafé (map) Whom: Everyone, open to the public, but please sign up here! The Learning Site focuses on… Continue reading
On Wednesday, Nov 19, Gunnel Pettersson will talk about an art and design project that is based on the cultivation of buckwheat. Update: This talk is now posted on YouTube, and embedded below. What: Greenhouse Artist Talks When: Wednesday, November 19, at 17-19 Where: Växthuset, Slottsträdgårdens kafé (map) Whom: everyone,… Continue reading
On Wednesday, Nov 12, Apolonija Šušteršič will talk about gardening as a method in the process of production of space. Update: This talk is now posted on YouTube, and embedded below. What: Greenhouse Artist Talks When: Wednesday, November 12, at 17-19 Where: Växthuset, Slottsträdgårdens kafé (map) Whom: everyone, open to the public, but… Continue reading
On Thursday, Nov 13, Anna Maria Orru explores the role of artistic research to ‘unearth’ transformed behavior when it comes to food and growing practices. Update: This talk is now posted on YouTube, and embedded below. What: Greenhouse Artist Talks When: Thursday, Nov 13, at 17-19. Where: Växthuset, Slottsträdgårdens kafé (map) Whom: everyone,… Continue reading
On Wednesday, October 29, Bonnie Fortune presents a Powerless Powerpoint – a visual display system that considers what it means to power down. Bonnie Fortune is an artist and independent researcher living in Copenhagen. Her research focuses on art, ecology, and the everyday. Continue reading
On Wednesday, October 22, Kalle Brolin and Kristina Müntzing from Sunshine Socialist Cinema will screen films and talk about how films can generate discussions on radical topics. The lecture is open to the public and is part of the Greenhouse Artist Talks lecture series, where artists are invited to present work… Continue reading
On Wednesday, October 15, Zeenath Hasan will give a lecture on the theme ‘Picking wild food: an act of resistance’. The lecture is open to the public and is part of the Greenhouse Artist Talks lecture series, where artists are invited to present work related to urban gardening and archives. What: Artist… Continue reading
People of African descent have been represented in the West as an ‘other’ – a foreign presence. The stereotypes that have been created around this foreign presence, and how these stereotypes are replicated and reproduced over time, are at the centre of Dr Temi Odumosu’s research. Dr Temi Odumosu is… Continue reading
On September 23, Ozma and Living Archives organized a seminar for the Living Memories (Levande minnen) project at Medea, Malmö University. Attending were researchers from Living Archives, archivists from three Nordic Folklore archives (Folklivsarkivet i Lund, Norsk Folkemuseum and Dansk Folkemindesamling), representatives from the department of Cultural Sciences at Lund University,… Continue reading
When you move from one apartment to another, you are forced to face all your belongings – from the piano to the smallest pieces of chewing gum. You have to decide what to take to the new location, and what to do with the rest. This “gap in accommodation” is… Continue reading
How may augmentation technologies be used to mediate ‘stories’ based on archival material? And how do you design for it? These are a few of the questions that Maria Engberg, assistant professor in media technology at Malmö University, will explore in the Living Archives research project. For a brief introduction… Continue reading
Researchers from the Living Archives project will join panels and host workshops at the Design Research Society’s 2014 conference, Umeå, Sweden. On June 15, Erling Björgvinsson co-hosts the workshop Designing Commons – Commons for Design, which aims to explore what professional designers and researchers, who operate in commons-like frameworks and aim to… Continue reading
Urban Gardening is one of the themes that researchers in the Living Archives project are working with. The aim is to explore how cultural-heritage archive material, and open-data sets, can be social resources that support and stimulate urban gardening practices, and contribute to social change and sustainable urban development. This… Continue reading
In early June, researchers from the Living Archives gave presentations at the conference Things to Remember: Materializing Memories in Art and Popular Culture, organized by Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Under the conference theme ‘Archives of Memory’, Susan Kozel gave a presentation entitled Somatic Archiving (see abstract below). Under the theme ‘Materializing the… Continue reading
In May, Living Archives’ researcher Anders Høg Hansen gave a presentation at The Cultural Politics of Memory conference hosted by the University of Cardiff, this for the session Migration and Displacement. Høg Hansen’s presentation, Your Story Belongs to the Story of the City: Mediating Immigration Memories, addresses cases of storytelling related to immigration, and… Continue reading
On February 11, women gathered to share life stories and discuss experiences of being an immigrant woman in Malmö. All part of the project 100 Years of Immigrant Women’s Life and Work in Malmö, run by Malmö museum and the network Feminist Dialog in cooperation with ABF and researchers from… Continue reading
För tredje året i rad arrangerades en träff om länkade data med syfte att skapa en mötesplats för personer från industri, myndigheter och akademi att diskutera och utbyta erfarenheter. Värd i år var Medea, Malmö högskola, och forskningsprojektet Living Archives. Talare var, bland andra, Niklas Lundström från Kungliga biblioteket som… Continue reading
Living Archives affiliate Daniel Spikol presented a paper at Ideas in Mobile Learning 2014, an event that brought together practitioners, industry players, and researchers to exchange visions of how to use mobile technology to change the way we teach and learn. The paper Using Augmented Reality, Artistic Research, and Mobile… Continue reading
The Living Archives performance AffeXity: Passages & Tunnels (2013) was featured in a recent talk by Edward A. Shanken at the Whitney Museum of American Art, along with with other artworks using augmented reality and layering. Shanken’s talk was part of Shared Spaces, a symposium addressing the ways in which… Continue reading
On December 2, more than 60 women gathered to share life stories and discuss experiences of being an immigrant woman in Malmö. All part of the project 100 Years of Immigrant Women’s Life and Work in Malmö, run by Malmö museum and the network Feminist Dialog in cooperation with ABF… Continue reading
On December 3, Waltraut Ritter, research director at Knowledge Dialogues, gave a talk on the topic of Open Public Data in the Cultural Sector at the Medea Talks lecture series. The lecture was co-produced by the Living Archives project and moderated by Erling Björgvinsson. In the lecture, Ritter asks how… Continue reading
On Dec 2 at Garaget in Malmö there is a workshop between 18.30–20.30 specifically on women’s stories related to immigration to Malmö. It is part of the project “One Hundred Years With Immigrant Women In Malmö”. It was initiated by the Iranian activist Parvin Ardalan, but is now running with… Continue reading
On Nov 15, Susan Kozel contributes a paper to the LARM Audio Research Archive Conference on Digital Archives, Audiovisual Media, and Cultural Memory at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Kozel’s paper is entitled Performing Memory. Kozel writes: This paper opens out the Performing Memory research strand of Living Archives. Based around the… Continue reading
On Nov 14, Susan Kozel presents at the “Æstetisk seminar” (Aesthetic Seminar) lecture series at the Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark. The title of the lecture is Somatic Materialism: Affect, Performance and Archiving. Kozel writes: This talk will be an exploration of somatic materialism. Initially a visceral… Continue reading
Living Archives researcher Erling Björgvinsson is at Aalto University, Finland, to take part in a seminar on issues of commons. The title of the seminar is “Infrastructuring the Commons?”. Björgvinsson and Sanna Marttila hosts the session Cultural Commons, described below in more detail. Text: Björgvinsson and Marttila (originally published on co-p2p.mlog.taik.fi)… Continue reading
Update: deadline for these two positions have now passed. Thanks for your interest. Two Post Doctorate positions with the Living Archives project have been announced, one at the Faculty of Technology and Society and one at the Faculty of Culture and Society. A brief description of these positions can be… Continue reading
Part of the Re-New Digital Arts Festival 2013, Oct 29 – Nov 3, 2013. Photo: Jeannette Ginslov. Dance: Wubkje Kuindersma. Dance and Augmented Reality combine to make up the Augmented Choreography of AffeXity: Passages & Tunnels. AffeXity: Passages & Tunnels is a project exploring affect in urban spaces. Dance improvisation… Continue reading
Jacek Smolicki is since September PhD student in Media and Communication Studies at the School of Arts and Communications, Malmö University. He is also a member of the Living Archives project. Here’s an introduction to him and his work! Jacek Smolicki has a background in interdisciplinary art and design. Drawing on conceptual… Continue reading
Update Oct 28 – the official invitation to take part in AffeXity: Passages & Tunnels is published here. AffeXity: Passages and Tunnels is a project on “affect in urban spaces”, which will be performed at the Re-New Digital Arts Festival in Copenhagen, October, 2013. Living Archives project members Susan Kozel and Daniel… Continue reading
Living Archives hosted the Developer’s Breakfast at the Riksarkivet conference Digisam 2013 in Malmö. Here’s a short wrap-up of the seminar that dealt with these topics: (1) how archives can be “lived/performed”, (2) contemporary personal archiving practices, and (3) digital archives, open data and crowdsourcing. The seminar started with a brief introduction… Continue reading
Living Archives project members Erling Björgvinsson and Anders Høg Hansen went to the Popmodernism Circle at the Nordic Summer University in Turku, Finland, to present their paper entitled Archiving Bodies – Bodies, Leisure and (territorial) Politics. The author’s use Malraux’s problematic notion of “the museum without walls” – where disparate items… Continue reading
Living Archives will host the Developer’s Breakfast at the Riksarkivet conference Digisam 2013 in Malmö. Here’s the presentation of the seminar as it was sent out to participants: At the seminar, you will get an insight into the Living Archives world: our points of departure, backgrounds, aims, research approach and questions.… Continue reading
Living Archives researcher Erling Björgvinsson went to the conference Don’t forget the archives: Collecting Non-Archives for the Post-Media Condition, at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany, to discuss a few of the challenges we face with regard to collaborative archiving practices. Erling Björgvinsson presented the paper Living Archives and Archiving Bodies, co-authored by Anders Høg Hansen.… Continue reading
Camilla Ryd, masters student in Interaction Design at the School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, has for several months been working in collaboration with the Living Archives project. Ryd explores how interactive materials can be a part of a circus act, to create poetics and magic, and what methods a… Continue reading
The DansAR workshop series was an Augmented Reality (AR) performance project exploring how digital media content (e.g. videos and still images) can be made accessible and lived by means of augmented reality technologies. This post is an edited version of DansAR 01 & 02 Feb-March 2013 written by project partner Jeannette… Continue reading
Living Archives project leader Susan Kozel gave a presentation at the Malmö City Library on the theme performing and sharing memories. In the presentation, Kozel emphasizes the need for viewing archives not so much as things as they are practices. Continue reading
The Living Archives project group meets in person on a bi-weekly basis for seminars on poignant topics and discussions on what directions we should take. This week’s meeting was on the topic of Augmented Reality (AR), led by Daniel Spikol. The discussion on future directions of AR in this project… Continue reading
The notion of Memory in the digital age is at the core of the Living Archives project. On April 17, the Glasgow Memory Group hosts a symposium called Digital/Social Media and Memory. They write: Continue reading
Come join us at Skånes Dansteater this Friday at 2 PM for a dance and augmented-reality performance: DansAR 02. You are invited to an informal presentation with students from Lunds dans- och musikalgymnasium who, for the past week, have been working with researchers from Medea and faculty and students from… Continue reading
Come join us at Skånes Dansteater this Friday at 2.30 PM for a dance and augmented-reality performance: DansAR 01. You are invited to an informal presentation with dancers from Skånes Dansteater’s community outreach program who, for the past week, have been working with researchers from Medea and faculty and students… Continue reading
