Preserving Practices: The Archive and the Audience Preserving Practices: The Archive and the Audience

The Archive and the Audience is the second session of How to Archive Better: Preserving Practices, a four-part workshop series on digital archiving that gives makers and designers the tools to preserve their own work.

During this second session, The Hmm, together with Netwerk Archieven Design en Digitale Cultuur (NADD), will explore how an audience can be archived. One of our guests is Avery Dame-Griff, author of the book The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet and the founder of the Queer Digital History Project. Avery will share his experiences with archiving what people do on the internet and why this is important to preserve. At the same time, he will explain how to take the privacy of the public into account when archiving often personal experiences.

We archive and report on Avery's presentation using Etherport, an open source and free online publishing tool. Etherport is a tool for experimental, polyphonic and non-linear reports of cultural events, developed by Open Source Publishing and the Institute of Network Cultures as part of the Going Hybrid research project . Gijs de Heij from Open Source Publishing and Tommaso Campagna from the Institute of Network Cultures will introduce you to Etherport and show you how you can use it to create hybrid publications that are created through a collective process with room for public participation.

With a passe-partout ticket, you can participate in all four sessions, both in person and online. Please send an email in advance to The Hmm at info@thehmm.nl to let them know which workshops you would like to participate in and whether you will be attending in person or online.

More information about How to Archive Better: Preserving Practices and all workshops can be found on the NADD website.