ON-GOING PROJECT (2008-) Ar#s#c techniques for archiving life Jacek Smolicki ar-st/researcher/curator Malmö University Sweden
SOUNDTRACKING
From technologies to techniques and prac0ces
SELF-TRACKING
SELF-TRACKING
MISQUOTING
MISQUOTING
FACING
FACING
TRAVERSING
TRAVERSING
MINUTING
MINUTING
STREET-SAMPLING
STREET-SAMPLING
PASSING
CommenEng Journaling Characterizing QuoEng A guy ho goes through a terrible Train of thoughts, an experiment. A - got up late aHer doing some accident completely deforming his face In 1892 a ver-cal file was invented and linear trip providing condi-ons for a composing work in maxmsp, which (might be a war vic-m) decides to filing cabinet displayed first at the non linear thinking. Or? Is travelling on pulled me in completely create an awfully loud and noisy music. Chicago World's Fair in the following the train, on the bus, or by any other -went to the library to unlock the movie His performances are extreme and his year. (H.D Gower, L.Stanley, Jast and transporta-on means really linear? We Into the wild I had rented the day lyrics are just screams of a tortured WW.Topley, The camera as historian), barely liH our eyes to accept the before man... They put more effort on the ordering of landscape in effect missing decent I did not know that it cost money A short woman</b>, wearing en-rely archival content then its produc-on or ranges of the surrounding, causing gaps When I sat down to work Soon I felt black ouLit consis-ng of black boots, accumula-on, being first ones to in the fabric of linearity which in the surrounded by a bunch of kids very black -ghts and a long thick bloose actually problema-ze the fact of future will be hard to be precisely filled. loudly commen-ng on their life events, with a hood covering her head. She growing amount of data and Wandering in thoughts, bouncing how hangover they were aHer last commutes between her house and the informa-on./ Interes-ng observa-on of reflec-ons against the windows of the nights party and so on underground sta-on but never seems how the poli-cal shiH changes wagon which turn themselves into First, a girl who sat at my table decided to take any trains. understanding and percep-on of the mirrors reflec-ng facial expressions of to leave not being able to focus on her Always kind of late. She is quite content of the archive. Archives of those caught on thoughLul or empty reading invisible in the dark. Her clothes merge interroga-ons tortures and sensi-ve wandering... Looking at people siNng A minute later I was on my way out but do not obscure the volume of her informa-on collected during those on the train. They are even. Sharing The only thing that I accomplished was body.. procedures aHer the defect of their more or less the same level of watching a talk about open data and its She lid up her face with an Iphone. The organizers speak different language, horizontality. Is the siNng one more implica-on for digital heritahe given at pale blue light of the screen especially speak of guilt of their organizers, privileged than the standing one? The Medea by a woman from a research in the darker environment make her opressors, and act against their laPer seems to have a bePer overall ins-tute in hong kong look like a walking death or ghostly inten-on, revealing the truth which p e r s p e c - v e o n t h i s m o b i l e - I biked to school, so I could focus phantom, with her frozen sight they had collected with an inten-on to microcosmos of constantly changing more enchanted by the screen... seir there incomplete, fragmentary constella-ons of stages, postures, All restaurants were dead closed, so I Two eye impaired young guys</b> purposes / reflec-on on Susan Sontag, expressions and suspensions. For a had to go to a supermarket to get my sarcas-cally joking about reality. On Regarding the pain of the others/ moment I am wondering if there is food their way back home, which is near the Perhaps we value memory too much anyone here who killed a man. It is easy -at 18 I skyped alberto to talk about a graveyard, they joke that they reach a n d t h i n k i n g n o t e n o u g h . to hide on the train, between other poten-al paper we will work their home which is an open grave.they Remembrance is an ethical deed, as people' s goals and des-na-on. They collabora-vely in next weels have a -red dog that out of them all such it has a moral value. In order to do not have any other interests than to We boyh complained about academia seems to be the only one taking things reconcile, memory has to be just get to the point of their des-ny, a - in the evening I finally watched into seriously. The dog is very -red. One of incomplete, constrained (Sontag). promised land, their home in most the wild the guys has a big plas-c container, While the archive may have once cases, as it is 6 pm... What meaning, - con-nuously have problems with probably with a food for his dog. The seemed des-ned for invisibility in the what significance does the choice of focusing illuatra-on on the bucket depicts anonymity of its func-oning, the forces the wagon entail? Does it have any M o m e n t s : l e a r n i n g , p a s s i o n , however a couole of kiPens joyfully o f t h e s e l f d e t e r m i n a - o n , meaning at all. Do not we choose a frustra-on, restlessness, inspira-on playing together. The blind guys decoloniza-on and their counter sec-on of the train because it presents 16 explains movements have made it a highly itself to us as rela-vely empty? We 12 A young woman who emigrated abroad poli-cized space, as communi-es have avoid crowds, fric-on and physical 13 to be able to earn and save money, so come to be seen as being made and contact never again being able to - In the morning I went to medea to she could build a house for her family remade through the sharing of the realize what we are actually missing. meet other members and discuss the back in her homeland. She works as a ethical obliga-on of remembrance and The choice of the wagon is very oHen a project progress: AHer that I met my house keeper at the Castle that belongs through the claim to 'collec-ve random decision. We do not calculate supervisor for a brief catch up on to an extremely rich owner of one of memory' of which the archive is seen when the train arrives. Why do not we things, readings and wri-ngs the biggest European transporta-on now as the repository. (p.33)/ Susan search for the most interes-ng At Medea I bumped into Mar-n Avilla, companies. The owner regularly invites Meiselas - Kurdistan, In the shadow of constella-on of beings? Why do we my former teacher from KonsLack, his rich collaborators to par-cipate in history, www.akakurdistan.com. The avoid contact assuming that every with whom, me and Åsa grabbed a beer hun-ng sessions in forests surrounding content of medium is always another stranger and this very being strange later in the evening the castle. Last -me they shot 150 wild medium. The content of wri-ng i makes him or her similar to other boars. SCRIBBLING
ON-GOING.NET
ON-GOING.NET
’to mindfully organize my digital footprint; a form of an applied, personal data ecology’ As a ciEzen
’to mindfully organize my digital footprint; a form of an applied, personal data ecology’ As a ciEzen
’to devlop aestheEcs and poeEcs of my personal archive; to take control over my data and experiment with it as an arEsEc medium’ As an arEst
’to devlop aestheEcs and poeEcs of my personal archive; to take control over my data and experiment with it as an arEsEc medium’ As an arEst
’to address current debates on personal recording, tracking and archiving pracEces in the context of ever more automated, standardized formats for life logging, increasing data surveillance and big data (exhaust)’ As a researcher
’to address current debates on personal recording, tracking and archiving pracEces in the context of ever more automated, standardized formats for life logging, increasing data surveillance and big data (exhaust)’ As a researcher
ON-GOING PROJECT (2008-) Thank you! www.on-going.net Jacek Smolicki twiPer:@jaceksmolicki ar-st/researcher/curator more works:www.smolicki.com jacek@smolicki.com
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