Thinking about archives, art, criticism

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  • ‘categorisation’ and ‘knowledge’

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    Lucy Parker
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    Are categories for producing knowledge bad? Categories as a means to knowledge, rather than an end in themself, can still be defended. Even as they might be contested. The act of naming and speech is part of what it is to know, to explore, to find out, to learn. Sorting things by shape, size, kind,…

  • Recent work to make code to re-order files for ingest into Preservica

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    Lucy Parker
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    GitHub – parkering42/File-preparation-for-Preservica: This is for preparing files in a .pax folder format for archive and museum objects ingest into Digital Preservation system, Preservica

  • CSM Glass Plates Research

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    Lucy Parker
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    During a digital preservation and access project to make some material from the Central Saint Martins Museum Collection available on the UAL Digital Collections platform, I worked on a small collection of glass plate negatives. I made some research notes at the time, where digitisation had enabled further examination of the slides, and therefore more…

  • Sometimes

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    Lucy Parker
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    As an artist, I feel I crawled into the archives profession as a mode of survival, to sell my labour. But I am not always at home in it and I find it stifling. Sometimes, turning backwards, it feels like a form of pessimism about the future.