From its first days the photographic medium opened up a new world for technology and art, offering a new way to think (and see) time. In this presentation I will overview the connection between art, technology, entertainment and power starting from Eadward Muybridge's experiments in motion, contemplating about W. G. Sebald's employment of archival material, visiting Ridley Scott's Blade Runner's voice interface, glancing at glitches and artistic reactions to Google's attempts to photograph and map the world. We shall conclude with ZZZ Base archive of digital media and their trial and error methodologies.

1. Ha’Midrasha College of the Arts
May 2013
Romi Mikulinsky (Ph.D)
RE-THINKING PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES
IN THE INFOGRAPHIC AGE

2. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES IN THE ANALOGUE WORLD
“The word archive derives from archeion - initially
the residence of the superior magistrates, the
archons. The term refers to the Greek word arhkē,
which means commencement.”
“The archive is considered as the absolute gathering
of information where data is meticulously and
methodically stored and preserved. “
Nayia Yiakoumaki - “In an Archive Fever”

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“… every archive is institutive and conservative…An
eco-nomic archive in this double sense: It keeps, it
puts in reserve, it saves, but in an unnatural fashion,
that is to say making the law (nomos) or making the
people respect the law”.
Jacques Derrida - Archive Fever : A Freudian
Impression

4. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES IN THE ANALOGUE WORLD - INTRO

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7. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES IN THE ANALOGUE WORLD - INTRO

8. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES IN THE ANALOGUE WORLD - INTRO

9. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES IN THE ANALOGUE WORLD - INTRO

10. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES IN THE ANALOGUE WORLD - INTRO

11. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES IN THE ANALOGUE WORLD - INTRO

12. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES IN THE ANALOGUE WORLD - INTRO

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SUSPENSION
Rebecca Solnit – River of Shadows
“Photography may have been its most paradoxical
invention: a technological breakthrough for holding
onto the past, a technology always rushing forward,
always looking backward.”

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SUSPENSION

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SUSPENSION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAy8g2kYyxw

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SUSPENSION
Rebecca Solnit – River of Shadows
"The railroad, the photograph, the telegraph, were
technologies for being elsewhere in time and space,
for pushing away the here and now. They made the
vat expanses not so vast, the passage of time not
quite so unrelenting ”

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SUSPENSION
Jacques Derrida - Archive Fever : A Freudian Impression
"The archivist produces more archive, and that is
why the archive is never closed. It opens out to the
future."

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CONTEXT
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CONTEXT
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From Austerlitz

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WORLD - CONTEXT
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Videos from The SIP Re-View #2
https://vimeo.com/38664876

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GESTURE
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Tacita Dean and Sebald
http://sebald.wordpress.com/category/tacita-dean/

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GESTURE
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Patience (After Sebald) Directed by Grant Gee
http://www.artevents.info/projects/current/the-re-enchantment/patience-after-sebald

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GESTURE
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Memoryscapes - My Sebald inspired micro-blog
memoryscapes.tumblr.com

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GESTURE
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Lit-Map by Barbara Hui –
barbarahui.net/litmap/#

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GESTURE
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29. RE-THINKING PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES
– ELASTICITY

30. RE-THINKING PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES
– ELASTICITY

31. RE-THINKING PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES
– ELASTICITY

32. RE-THINKING PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES
– ELASTICITY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-7iJPwrsw0

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CONNECTIVITY
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-7iJPwrsw0
A year of photos around the world – visualization
http://www.visualnews.com/2012/01/04/a-flashy-year-of-snapshots-around-the-world/

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CONNECTIVITY
Microsoft’s PhotoSynth
photosynth.net/

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SURVEILLANCE

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STREET VIEW IN SOUTH AFRICA & BOTSWANA
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Botswana Rhino Sanctuary
http://maps.google.com/intl/ALL_bw/help/maps/streetview/gallery/botswana-landmarks/khama-rhino-
sanctuary.html

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STREET VIEW IN SOUTH AFRICA & BOTSWANA
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STREET VIEW IN JAPAN
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STREET VIEW IN SOUTH AFRICA & BOTSWANA
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Donkey Gate - Google claims no donkey was harmed

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STREET VIEW AND THE HALF CAT
Glitches Found in Google ‘s Street View
new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/post/49919838946/the-halfcat-attracting-newly-revived-interest-on

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STREET VIEW AND THE HALF CAT
Glitches Found in Google Books
http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/

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RUGDEVEIEN 39 BERGEN, NORWAY
The frogman from Norway

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STREET VIEW IN STONEHENGE

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STREET VIEW IN BRAZIL

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STREET VIEW IN CANADA

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JULIENLE VESQUE
Julien Levesque: Street Views Patchwork
www.julienlevesque.net/new-html.htm

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JON RAFMAN – 9-EYES

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RAFMAN – 9-EYES

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RAFMAN – 9-EYES

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MICHAEL WOLFF
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RAFMAN VS. WOLFF

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RAFMAN VS. WOLFF

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RAFMAN VS. WOLFF

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DOUG RICKARD
www.dougrickard.com/

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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/11/doug-rickards-street-
view.html#slide_ss_0=1

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ZZZ BASE
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57. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES IN THE INFOGRAPHIC AGE –
ZZZ BASE

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ZZZ BASE
The End

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The End