23rd Sep 2016
Room M2, Grand Parade, University of Brighton
A symposium organised by the Committee for Art and Design Archives, part of ARLIS/UK & Ireland (Art Libraries Society) in collaboration with the University of Brighton Design Archives.
On the one hand… material is discussed today in the light of an idea that it has been dissolved by the so-called immaterialities of new technologies, while on the other – from the margins – we can observe the consolidation of material as a category of its own.
(Monika Wagner)
Within the expanding digital environment that encompasses our professional and personal experience, ideas of materiality have received extensive recent attention, across a range of disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, art history, literary studies and material culture. As yet, archival theory and practice have given limited consideration to materiality as an approach to the archive. Conservation practices, while focussing on material qualities of archives, may not attend to more philosophical implications beyond technical research. This symposium seeks to reach across and between these various bodies of knowledge, considering materiality as a framework for analysing, interpreting and engaging with archives of art and design.
To book a place, go to http://arlis.net/events, and scroll down to 'Matter and Meaning'.
Matter-and-Meaning-Programme_updated.pdf at University of Brighton [pdf 69.6 KB]
