[Commlist] Digital Memories: Art, Archives and Activism - 17-18 June 2019

*DIGITAL MEMORIES: ART, ARCHIVES AND ACTIVISM*

17 and 18 June 2019

London Campus, University of Liverpool

33 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1AG**

Organisers: Culture, Space, and Memory Research Group (Communication & 
Media, University of Liverpool) and ERC-funded project “We are all 
Ayotzinapa: The role of Digital Media in the Shaping of 
Transnational Memories on Disappearance” (KU Leuven)

The workshop aims to explore the reconfiguration of cultural memory 
under the impact of the digital turn. We are interested in grasping 
memory’s entanglement with artistic, activist and archival forces in 
a digital ecology. Questions that we would like to address in the 
workshop include:

· - How do digital technologies contribute to, or trigger, new forms of 
political and artistic activism?

· - How can we conceptualise the distinction between ‘collective’ and 
‘connective’ memory?

· - How issue-based politics and the personalization of engagement that 
are characteristic of digital activism affect the shaping of collective 
memory?

· - What are the new digital (transnational, interactive, connected) 
communities of memory? What is the role of affect in constituting 
networked communities?

· - How is the notion of the ‘archive’ reconfigured under the impact 
of digital media? What kinds of ‘rogue archives’ are produced and 
socialised by artists and activists after the connective turn?

- What are the political and aesthetic challenges of outsourcing memory 
to digital infrastructures?

· - Do different platforms provide distinct affordances for the 
construction of memory, or should we rather focus on genres of content 
and memory objects that migrate across platforms, making the distinction 
useless?

- What concepts, ideas, debates contribute to make sense of memory 
practices that are distributed between non-human/post-human and human 
agents?

We would like to discuss these and other related questions from both 
theoretical and methodological perspectives, concentrating on the 
challenges posed by digital media to memory studies.

Guest speakers include: Dr. Joanne Garde-Hansen (Warwick), Dr. Red 
Chidgey (King’s College), Prof. Ana Longoni (Museo Reina Sofía/CONICET), 
Prof. Claire Taylor (Liverprool), Prof. Mette Mortensen (Copenhagen), 
Dr. Martin Pogačar (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Art), Prof. Andrew 
Hoskins (Glasgow), Prof. Wulf Kansteiner (Aaharus), Prof. Wolfgang Ernst 
(Humboldt University), Prof. Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary), Dr. Zoe Alker 
(Liverpool), Stefan Laxness (Forensic Architecture, London) and 
Sebastian Winkler (European Research Council Executive Agency).

FREE EVENT, ALL WELCOME!

To register please follow this link: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-memories-art-archives-and-activism-tickets-59814370392?fbclid=IwAR1N9ce_NIARstz04Pe4Pk4GVwESSHy_CP6mVhNVdhL8TYoACNinNbZeeyo

Please send enquiries about the workshop to Dr. Jordana Blejmar 
((jblejmar /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) <mailto:(jblejmar /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>) or Dr. 
Silvana Mandolessi ((silvana.mandolessi /at/ kuleuven.be) 
<mailto:(silvana.mandolessi /at/ kuleuven.be)>)

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