AiM Inaugural Conference: Technologies of Memory
We are pleased to announce that “TECHNOLOGIES OF MEMORY”, the
inaugural conference of the research project _The Archive in Motion_
(AiM), will be held at the National Library of Norway on FRIDAY 9
DECEMBER, 9:00–18:00. The conference will include lectures by invited
scholars as well as members of the project group: WENDY HUI KYONG CHUN,
JUSSI PARIKKA, WOLFGANG ERNST, TROND LUNDEMO, YNGVIL BEYER AND INA BLOM.
Full details on program and registration will be posted shortly on our
web site here
Technologies of Memory
Society is memory, Émile Durkheim stated. And in his groundbreaking
work, _Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire_ (1925), Maurice Halbwachs
described social memory as enacted through ritual, language, art,
architecture and institutions. What characterized these instances of
shared memory was persistence over time – a stability and capacity for
storage that was contrasted with the fleeting character of individual
memory. However, today’s new time technologies make us question not
just the classic description of social memory, but the social ontology
that it presupposes. In the age of digital computing, interconnection
through real time flows give unprecedented priority to the present and
the future, and the distinction between internalized and externalized
memory functions have been challenged from a number of different
perspectives. For the inaugural conference of _The Archive in Motion_
project, we take a look at the new technologies of memory and the
questions of social life that they open onto.
The Archive in Motion
The three-year research project (2011-2013) is a collaboration between
the National Library of Norway, IFIKK – Department of Philosophy,
Classics, and History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo, IMK
– Department of Media Studies at the University of Oslo, and
Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University.
Contact
Ellef Prestsæter
Conference coordinator
ellef.prestsater@ifikk.uio.no
+47 99 27 84 11