WEEK
7 --
MEMORY, COUNTER-MEMORY AND THE POLITICS OF THE ARCHIVE
READ:
Dietz, Steve. "Memory_Archive_Database v 3.0."
Switch Journal. January 21 2000.
READ:
Against Data Determinism in a Networked World Brooke Singer, Spring 2002
Lecture:
excerpts from: "The Art of Memory" by Frances A. Yates, 1966
Building a Postcolonial Archive? Gender, Collective Memory and Citizenship in Post-apartheid South Africa by Cheryl McEwan
// Art project of the week:
T U R N S by Margot Lovejoy http://www.myturningpoint.com/
T U R N S is a community-building Web site focused on the idea of collecting
and sharing the story of a turning point in one's life.
The Banner Art Collective design http://bannerart.org
created by Garrett Lynch. The new design brings a vast number of improvements
to the site, which collects and distributes net.art and poetry created according
to the limitations of WWW advertising. The project uses PHP (a hypertext
preprocessing language) and MySQL (an open source unix database) to create
dynamic relationships, structures, and inference rules among the interchangeable
text nodes.
WEDNESDAY:
TEXT STRINGS
- printing text
- concatenation: combining strings
- finding occurences of text in strings
- massaging strings
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