my personal archive: when the film camera became a phone, and the film became a file: a hundred...
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My personal archive:
When the film camera became a phone, and the film became a file: a hundred years of saving our visual memories
Susan Aasman
Live Forever!
Keep Me, Protect Me, Share Me and I will live forever
Keep Me, Protect Me, Share Me and I will live forever
Keep Me, Protect Me, Share Me and I will live forever
Keep Me, Protect Me, Share Me and I will live forever
Bye Bye Super 8, Johan Kramer
Technologies of memory/memory of technologies
Changing Platforms of Ritualized Memory Practices
The cultural dynamics of saving our memories
• Rethink technological, social and cultural dimension of traditional and ritualized forms of mediated memory practices.
• How changing technologies of memory production (film, video or digital camera) have shaped new practices and rituals of memory staging
• Historicise both the changing means and meanings of home movies
my personal digital archiveResearch question:
• How do users archive their personal audiovisual memories in the digital age?
• Or: how do computer related technologies influence the way people, used to variety of tools, archive their personal audiovisual memories?
• Or: how do computer related technologies influence the way people, used to variety of tools, think about personal archiving?
practices users
User generations
technologies
User generations
technologies
From film to digital
users
User generations
technologies
College-aged
(2-25y)
parents
grandparents
practices users
User generations
technologies
Types of visual record keeping: Local digital storage, sharing on social media, uploading to cloud service, printing, photo-album, shoebox etc
From film to digital
motivations:
Memory,history, identity, hobby, communication
parents
grandparents
College-aged
(20-25y)
Are we witnessing the emergence of a “Everything I produce will be saved
automatically” user generation?
Clip : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOJ5zqtITM4
When was the last time that you put something on your external hard drive?Jorritsma: I think it’s been about four years ago. Jilt: Why haven’t you used it in the last few years?Jorritsma: I think that I don’t really care for my photos and that I assume that I won’t lose them.Jilt: So you have a lot of trust in your technological devices? Jorritsma: Yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8_POcTefio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-iG-NfNc1U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N86TbT2KLo
“Everything I produce will be saved automatically”?
➢ Storage location: Local versus online,➢ Selection: active versus automatic
➢ Selection criteria: keeping versus delete ➢ Classification: date, event, theme? Add
Metadata?➢ Curating: private versus public
➢ Sustainability: print versus digital➢ sharing: offline versus online
➢ Taking chances, counting costs, obsolenscence
my personal archive
Patterns of photo flow through “digital photo ecosystems”(Neustadter &
Federovskaya, Kodak Research Labs):
Family members adopt different roles (capture, edit, store, distribute and display) in family photography, according to their age, expertise, and gender -> knowledge distributed between individuals
Continual process of shuffling and evaluation, occasional downloading, deleting and archiving, combining old and new media traditions
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‘Technologies of the hearth