Digital museum objects and memory : postdigital materiality, aura and value

In the cultural sector we use digital museum objects every day; in exhibitions, websites, collections management systems, and on our social channels. But, what actually are these objects? Do we understand them as objects in their own right? With their own nature and essence?Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Introduction: Audiovisual Memory and the (Re)Making of Europe

This introduction outlines the importance of transnational and transcultural perspectives for memory studies today. It discusses how the audiovisual media in particular challenge, transgress, but also reintroduce borders into Europe’s mnemonic landscape. It shows how the individual contributions to this special issue address the question of audiovisual memory and the (re)making of Europe

Roundtable: Moving Memory

This roundtable brings together a group of academics and artists working throughout Europe to discuss the question of memory in theoretical and artistic contexts at a historical moment highly preoccupied with acts of commemoration and moving memory. As the convenors of this roundtable, we are working and writing within an Irish context. Hence, we ourselves are in the middle of the Irish State’s ‘Decade of Centenaries’, which marks events from 1912–1922 and the founding of the Irish Free State. At the time of coordinating this roundtable, we have been engaged in the yearlong celebration of the Easter Rising centenary in particular, celebrations that have raised anew debates about scales of commemorative practice in relationship to the representation of militarisation as a primary commemorative mode at state level and the need to animate and centralise marginalised voices, particularly those of women and children. The artists participating in this roundtable from both the Republic and Northern Ireland have engaged centrally with questions of national narratives, minority histories, and scales of remembrance as communal (or performative) acts; the academic participants are, likewise, informed by their work in diverse areas of memory studies, and particularly by their membership of the COST Action Network In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe (2012–16)

Roundtable: Moving Memory

This roundtable brings together a group of academics and artists working throughout Europe to discuss the question of memory in theoretical and artistic contexts at a historical moment highly preoccupied with acts of commemoration and moving memory. As the convenors of this roundtable, we are working and writing within an Irish context. Hence, we ourselves are in the middle of the Irish State’s ‘Decade of Centenaries’, which marks events from 1912–1922 and the founding of the Irish Free State. At the time of coordinating this roundtable, we have been engaged in the yearlong celebration of the Easter Rising centenary in particular, celebrations that have raised anew debates about scales of commemorative practice in relationship to the representation of militarisation as a primary commemorative mode at state level and the need to animate and centralise marginalised voices, particularly those of women and children. The artists participating in this roundtable from both the Republic and Northern Ireland have engaged centrally with questions of national narratives, minority histories, and scales of remembrance as communal (or performative) acts; the academic participants are, likewise, informed by their work in diverse areas of memory studies, and particularly by their membership of the COST Action Network In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe (2012–16)

"Cultural Memory and Screen Culture. How Television and Cross-Media Productions Contribute to Cultural Memory''

In the modern, overabundant information landscape, information is accessible on and across multiple media platforms and screens, making television and audiovisual memory ever more available. How do the creative practices of media professionals contribute to cultural memory formation today? What is the role of using audiovisual archives to inform and educate viewers about the past? And how can researchers study these dynamic, contemporary representations of past events, and the contribution of audiovisual sources to cultural memory? In this chapter, I consider how new forms of television and cross-media productions, collected in and distributed by audiovisual archives, affect the medium television as a practice of cultural memory in the multi-platform landscape. I zoom in on the role of creative production practices (so-called screen practices) and their social aspects in the construction of memory, in relation to the increasingly dynamic and multi-platform medium that television has become today, and present a dynamic model for studying contemporary television and screen culture as cultural memory