Digital, Feminist Methods and Relationality in the Artist Archive - Julia Polyck-O'Neill at THINC Lab
Date and Time
Location
THINC Lab, McLaughlin Library - 2nd floor, University of Guelph main campus
Details
Please join us on Thursday, November 9th at 4:30 pm, in THINC Lab for a talk by Julia Polyck-O'Neill:
Potential Archives: Digital, Feminist Methods and Relationality in the Artist Archive
Abstract: Can a feminist materialist reimagining of digital technology in institutional contexts provide an innovative theoretical and practical framework for transforming interdisciplinary artist archives? Moreover, can such a reimagining dismantle and replace the traditional imperialist systems that structure current knowledge regimes in museums and art history more broadly? Emergent digital strategies in feminist archival studies and feminist materialist informatics respond to the organizational shortcomings of extant archival conventions and practices, observing how the collaborative production of artist archives can contribute meaningfully to the value of the collection for scholars and communities. This presentation explores two main, preliminary ideas: why a transformation of the organization of artist archives is timely and important; and how more equitable and nuanced digital methods and platforms have the potential to benefit artists, scholars of art history, arts archivists, museum educators and curators, and broader publics.
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