Archive 2020: The Living Archive

The Living Archive
The living archive is a practice-lead research trajectory at De Balie, Amsterdam. At the media department of De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, they have over the last few years investigated the question how the notion of the 'archive' can be reinterpreted as a discursive principle, rather than a fixed canon or static repository.

Taking into account the political and cultural sensibility of 'the Archive' they have spent considerable time developing different prototype web-applications that can be viewed as the basic building blocks for a 'living archive'. These prototype applications include the Balie video archive of live events in the main presentation space of De Balie, interfaces for live participation of events streamed live over the internet, discussion tools for live debates and talk-shows in the Balie theatre, and web-archives where editorial responsibilities are shared among contributing editors. The talk will present intermittent results and finding from our on-going research & implementation trajectory.

Biography Eric Kluitenberg
Eric Kluitenberg is an independent media theorist, writer and organiser, and head of the Media Department of De Balie.

The Living Archive is a case study presented at Archive 2020.