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ArchivingLearningas a

Messy, Partial, and

Political ProcessShannon Mattern

The New Schoolwordsinspace.net@shannonmattern


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Otlets Mundaneum


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Via Buffalo State
http://library.buffalostate.edu/creativestudieshttp://library.buffalostate.edu/creativestudies


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http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.htmlhttp://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.htmlhttp://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.htmlhttp://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.html


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Via Experimental Jetset
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ViaThe Hairpin
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Tumblr exploring the chemical bases of media objects, both analog and digital


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Exploring the life, death, and rebirth of the slide projector


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Provocations:

1. What if we sought to archive artifacts of the

learningprocessincluding the drafts and

detritusrather than focusing primarily on

finished works, which provide proof ofhaving learned? What if we archived not

only finished projects, but also student-

generated data, component pieces, drafts, etc.

and what if this material was then madeavailable for reuse and repurposing in other

student and faculty projects?


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2. What if we sought to archive artifacts of the

learningprocessincluding the drafts and

detritusWhat if students could post theirresearch and production material to a

university archive and indicate, Creative

Commons style, ifand if so, howtheyre

allow it to be used by others?

3. What if we linked our archives to fair use

advocacy groups like Critical Commons,

which supports the transformative reuse ofmedia in scholarly and creative contexts

and extended that advocacy to incorporate

other copyrighted cultural forms?


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4. What would it mean to embrace the basic

principles of Alan Lius RoSE (research-

oriented social environment) project and to

treat individual works of media as proto or

micro networks networks of people, of

texts, of learning practices, etc.and then totrace the macro-networks that emerge from

these micro-networks? How might this allow

us to use the archive to map research

communities and collaborations and sharedresources?


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5. What if we allowed students to opt-in to

archive their final course projects, whichwould then obligate them to format their

work according to specified criteria, but

would also ensure that their work would be

preserved by the university? And what if

instructors could then generate a list of all

officially-archived course projects, which they

could then format into a summary documentor exhibition of student work.


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6. [Disingenuously phrased as a what if]What if we also recognized the right of

students to opt out of the archiveto allow

their work to remain private, un-networked;

to destroy their work or to allow it simply tofade away? What if we honored the value of

erasure and forgetting?

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