Forthcoming events
Alt+Shift+Archive: unpacking the past, present and future of digital archive
A free interactive online symposium running between the 20th and 30th September 2021.
Join the shuffle to explore archival practice, research, and creative work with digital archives at #altshiftarchive2021
Taking the form of an asynchronous discussion culminating with a series of three live online Q&As, the event situates ‘real world’ archiving in the context of academic and creative work.
Based on the digital forensics and data exploration branch of the Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’s personal cinema project our presenters and discussants include members of the project team (Universities of Reading, Glasgow and Sheffield) along with The National Library of Scotland, Jisc, DPC, DCC, Transport for London Archive and a range of scholars and artists.
The online discussion platform will open on 20 September. The live Q&As will be on 28-30 September, from 4.30pm to 6.30pm (UK time).
Further details and a link to book for this free event is at the Collections – Special Collections (reading.ac.uk) Events Page. Follow us on Twitter @ArchiveAlt and/or on Instagram @alt.shift.archive for more details.
CFP: Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin at BFI Southbank
In February 2022 the Dwoskin Project will stage a retrospective at BFI Southbank, which as well as screenings will include a day of talks. The researchers on the project – Professor Rachel Garfield, Dr Jenny Chamarette, and Dr Henry K. Miller at the University of Reading – are calling for papers or artists’ contributions.
The major themes are sexuality, disability, diaspora, technology – but we welcome proposals from any angle so long as they relate to Dwoskin.
The retrospective will cover the whole range of Dwoskin’s career, from the underground films of the 1960s and early ’70s, through the autobiographical works that followed, the arts documentaries of the 1980s and ‘90s, to the neo-underground digital works of the 2000s. It will coincide with the publication of an edited volume, DWOSKINO.
‘The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’s Personal Cinema’ is a three-year AHRC-funded investigation into the life and work of Stephen Dwoskin, arising out of the Dwoskin archive held by the University of Reading. The project includes researchers from the universities of Glasgow and Sheffield as well as Reading, and is in partnership with the BFI and the LUX.
More information about Dwoskin and about the project can be found here: https://research.reading.ac.uk/stephen-dwoskin/
Please send abstracts to: r.s.garfield@reading.ac.uk and h.k.miller@reading.ac.uk