TEACHING AND LEARNING CINEMA

Thursday 27 October 2022 is UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, a celebration and reminder of the importance of archiving and preserving our audiovisual heritage. To mark this event we’ve brought together a panel of experts to tell us about the exciting, creative and challenging field of AV archiving– Louise Curham, (Lecturer and researcher at the School of Information and Communication Studies at Charles Sturt University), Lucas Ihlein (artist, and researcher and teacher for the University of Wollongong), Asti Sherring (Manager of Changeable Collections at the National Museum of Australia and a researcher with the University of Canberra), and Melanie Swalwell (Professor of Digital Media Heritage at Swinburne University of Technology).

Here’s the discussion:
https://2mce.org/podcast/sics-radio-celebrating-world-day-for-audiovisual-heritage/

Three conjectural models for archives

There are three key ideas in my (Louise Curham’s) PhD thesis Tending the Archive that are relevant for the recordkeeping community. That community is broadly conceived as everyone interested in facts and how they get produced.

Conjectural model 1 – authenticity

There are three parts to my conjecture about authenticity.

1) Authenticity extends to the quality of the action that gets documented in the record. A good record of a duplicitous action is not going to support the record user.

2) Authenticity calls for a double-visioned experience. An encounter with a record needs to take into account both the event that the user seeks to reach through to, and the record that enables it. The authorship of that record will shape that access. Emphasising authorship of the record plays a role in authenticity.

3) Authenticity also calls for ethical use of the record that emphasises what remains true to the record and what varies from it in its new circulation.
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