Internship CLOSER

Today we focused more about the archive. We tried to think of why someone would want to access the archive.

We made list of possible options.

1. Research (targeted)
- Assignment
- Personal Interest
- Authority of Source Material: The authoritative version is somehow the curated and saved knowledge and can help in the search for confirmation or validation
- The archive can help us understand/interpret the present through our search of the past

2. Curiosity (exploratory)

3. Learning (exploratory/targeted)
- Status
- Identity building

4. Entertainment (exploratory/targeted)
- Nostalgia
- Kill time

5. Content Sourcing (targeted/exploratory)
- For the creation of new media

6. External Memory/Knowledge (targeted)
- Collection impulse

7. New Ways/Reasons
How does technology change the nature of the archive?
- Alternative classification, i.e. infographics, information aesthetics. Infographics help us understand a large amount of information at one time.
- Novel experience of search
- more fulfilling (?)

Personal Note
I am having a hard time get grips with the project. The never endless freedom creates a bit of an unfocused research process. It feels a bit like I am a fish out of water. I just keep in mind a teacher once told me. Keep busy, don't stand still. Even it is only finding inspiration.