(RE)READING INDEX CARDS: THE ARCHIVIST AS INTERPRETER IN SUSAN PUI SAN LOK'S 'NEWS'

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archivist, digital archive, susan pui san lok, Google image, bias

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Looking at susan pui san lok's projects News (2005) and RoCH (2013), this paper contemplates the notions put forward by Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Jacques Derrida on the power of archivists, not solely as guardians of documents but also as their interpreters. Taking into consideration that photographic and moving image archives present unique difficulties in their cataloguing processes, I examine silences that might be generated by a thematic classification that is not impervious to archivists' biases. Moreover, I consider if the silences created by manual processes of classification and retrieval might be surpassed through digital technologies, or if it is possible that new technologies simply create different types of silencing.

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Sandra Camacho is a student in the International PhD Programme in Comparative Studies (PhDComp) and a recipient of a PhD Scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal). She holds a MFA in Art and Multimedia from the Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Universidade de Lisboa (2011) and a MA in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, University of Manchester (2013). Her main areas of interest are the archive as contemporary art practice, the digital archive and media archaeology, interarts studies and memory studies.

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2018-01-31