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Urban Ice Core – Indoor Air Archive, 2003-2008
It is a map, a proposal, a fantasy archive for the retrieval of future data related to the indoor atmosphere of cities. During the course of my dissertation I spent a great deal of time exploring the...
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Socio-natural Archive, 2008
Snowdon Aviary, London Zoo, Cedric Price, Frank Newby, Tony Armstrong Jones, 1964 The people in the house next to ours own an African Grey Parrot (we will call him “Abraham” to protect his identity)....
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Scary Archives (a very belated Halloween post)
Many of the scary creatures that lurk in horror movies, such as vampires, blobs, and robots, are a type of archive – a horrific archive. For example, I was watching HBO’s new series “True Blood” and...
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Scary Archivists
In a post a few weeks ago, I explored how certain archives appear horrific. I argued that certain archives are scary because their particular form of organization (or disorganization) is scary. This...
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Erasing historical events
{Above, David Copperfield makes the Statue of Liberty disappear] While some of my very favorite texty types are predicting the future, we might reflect on our more traditional role as commentators on...
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Ecosystems of Historical Appearance
Malcolm Gladwell’s discussion of the possible forgery of the Getty Kouros sparked the following post/thought/project. If the Kouros was forged, then those that pulled off this particular forgery...
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History and Theory Experiments in the Swamps of New Jersey
The swamps at the edges of my childhood town in Bergen County, New Jersey were strange zones of muddy flats and reeds that ended in the Manhattan skyline. If you grew up in New Jersey and were not...
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“Historical Practice”
“Historical Practice” was the driving theme of my presentation at Storefront for Art and Architecture’s Postopolis! LA. I spoke on Wednesday, April 1st; stuck around to hear extremely interesting...
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Anvironment: An experimental history project
[To be expanded for a forthcoming article] If a stable, humidity, temperature, dust, and pest controlled environment is the ideal setting for preserving historical material, could we produce the...
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