TY - JOUR
T1 - Introducing the Archive of Nothingness (AON) - A co-curated digital archive and live research project
AU - Powell, Anna
AU - Heys, Paul
PY - 2014/9/1
Y1 - 2014/9/1
N2 - The Archive of Nothingness (AON) addresses the connections between art and graphic design; their present-day functions and manifestations and their simultaneously disparate yet interlinked histories, as well as discussions around the role, influence and 'authority' of archives, archivists, exhibitions and curators. Designed to resemble the adjacent pages of an open book and to act as a 'mirror' which presents images and ideas in (questionable, uncertain) parallel(s), it is based around a Tumblr weblog site. With the dual function of contributing to a mass of online visual information; participating in an existing worldwide dialogue, while also functioning self-reflexively and critically, it provides a vehicle for data collection which simultaneously acts as an ongoing and potentially infinite piece of 'living' research. Encompassing a set of binaries, the site is at once regulated and organic, static and kinetic, planned and spontaneous, concrete and indeterminate - and intentionally open to interpretation.
AB - The Archive of Nothingness (AON) addresses the connections between art and graphic design; their present-day functions and manifestations and their simultaneously disparate yet interlinked histories, as well as discussions around the role, influence and 'authority' of archives, archivists, exhibitions and curators. Designed to resemble the adjacent pages of an open book and to act as a 'mirror' which presents images and ideas in (questionable, uncertain) parallel(s), it is based around a Tumblr weblog site. With the dual function of contributing to a mass of online visual information; participating in an existing worldwide dialogue, while also functioning self-reflexively and critically, it provides a vehicle for data collection which simultaneously acts as an ongoing and potentially infinite piece of 'living' research. Encompassing a set of binaries, the site is at once regulated and organic, static and kinetic, planned and spontaneous, concrete and indeterminate - and intentionally open to interpretation.
KW - Archive
KW - Digital
KW - Platform
KW - Taxonomy
KW - Tumblr
KW - Visual
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937889815&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1386/jwcp.7.3.505_1
DO - 10.1386/jwcp.7.3.505_1
M3 - Short survey
AN - SCOPUS:84937889815
VL - 7
SP - 505
EP - 510
JO - Journal of Writing in Creative Practice
JF - Journal of Writing in Creative Practice
SN - 1753-5190
IS - 3
ER -