Working with Private Media Materials in the Public Realm

这些研讨会关注的是，当我们试图将私人媒体材料带入公共领域时，我们如何使用它们。人们越来越认识到，我们的博物馆和美术馆需要扩大收藏范围。然而，行李箱、阁楼和车库经常继续存放电影胶片、照片、文件和其他文物。拟举办的三个工作坊的基础如下：(1)电影；(2)视觉和文字文物；(3)旅行物品的痕迹。在所有三次会议上，学者、新的研究人员、艺术家、馆长和档案管理员的技能将汇集在一起，以考虑(1)伦理和理论问题，(2)现有的创造性实践，以及如何通过未来的项目进一步创新。研讨会的风格将把高度理论性融入以实践为基础的会议，包括进行中的工作。记忆、时间和损失的问题使公开谈论过去的记录变得困难。这些讲习班将反映来自自传和集体过去的材料所固有的一些困难。他们还将采用创造性的方法来应对困难。将探讨收集和展示的伦理方面，以及记忆和记录的不同责任。通过收集、策划和展示之间的联系来使用新媒体进行思维的创新方法将是先期的基础。除了更可预测的听和讲故事和记述的方式外，还将有机会在画廊领域内的私人媒体收藏的公共对话中产生新的集体。所有的研讨会都将由赫伯特媒体、金史密斯学院和考文垂大学的合作团队组织。会议将在考文垂的赫伯特美术馆举行。重要的背景读物将在活动之前发送给参与者。由于参与者将利用正在进行的工作，研究的一个“活的”方面将与理论化一起运作。理论家将在所有三个研讨会上发言，实践者、艺术家和不同社区的活跃成员也将发言，他们希望探索创新的方式，将电影、照片、视频、日记、信件和旅行物品以一种敏感和引人入胜的方式带入公共领域。三个工作坊将分别为：1.电影电影理论干预将在这里介绍影响所有工作坊的理论干预，并关注电影电影的具体案例。这一会议将包括一名翻译非专业制作的电影的学术专家，以及来自美术馆和博物馆的工作人员，他们将当地场景和事件(如工作场所和政治会议)的业余电影存档。一小部分电影胶片将被转移到DVD上，以便可以安全地进行正在进行的工作的放映。视觉和文字文物本会议将说明如何使用过去的照片、视频、信件和胶片来(重新)构建“看不见的”叙事和历史，以创造新的参与叙事。研讨会将有学者和从业者以及参与制作各自历史路线的文物的学生参加。一小部分学生专题将成为工作坊的重点。将帮助学生为演讲做准备。旅游物品的实物痕迹本课程将探讨那些从英国旅行过的人带到英国的珍贵个人物品的意义。它将使人们能够在关于记忆、身份和归属的叙述中探索私人遗迹和纪念品的意义。通过实例介绍旅行物的多种路径及其所承载的痕迹

These workshops are concerned with how we work with private media materials when we seek to bring them in to the public realm. It has increasingly been acknowledged that our museums and galleries need to widen their collections. Often though, trunks, attics and garages continue to store cine film, photographs, documents and other artefacts. The three proposed workshops are organised on the following basis: (1) cine film (2) visual and written artefacts and (3) traces of travelled objects. In all three sessions the skills of academics, new researchers, artists, curators and archivists will be pooled together to consider (1) ethical and theoretical issues and (2) creative practices that currently exist and how they can be innovated futher through future projects. The style of the workshops will infuse high theory with practice-based sessions, including work in progress.Questions of memory, time and loss make it difficult to have public conversations of records of the past. These workshops will reflect on some of the difficulties inherent to materials from autobiographical and collective pasts. They will also engage with creative methodologies that work with the difficulties. Ethical aspects of collecting and representing will be explored with the contrasting responsibility to remember and document. Innovative methods for using new media in thinking through the connection between collecting, curating and exhibiting will be fore-grounded. As will be the opportunity for generating new collectives in public conversations of private media collections within the domain of galleries beyond the more predictable ways of hearing and telling stories and accounts.All of the workshops will be organised by a collaborative team from Herbert Media, Goldsmiths College and Coventry University. The sessions will be held at Herbert Art Gallery in Coventry. Essential background readings will be sent to participants in advance of the events. As participants will draw on work in progress, a 'live' aspect to research will operate alongside theorisation. Theorists will speak at all three of the sessions, as will practitioners, artists and active members of different 'community' groups who want to explore innovative ways in which cine film, photographs, videos, diaries, letters and travelled objects can be brought into the public realm in a sensitive and engaging way.The three workshops will be on:1. Cine FilmTheoretical interventions that impact on all the workshops will be presented here, with attention to the specific case of cine film. This session will include an academic specialist who has interpreted non-professionally produced cine film, as well as staff from galleries and museums who archive amateur cine film of local scenes and events such as the workplace and political meetings. A small selection of cine films will be transferred to DVD so that screening of work in progress can be safely conducted.2. Visual & Written Artefacts This session will illustrate how 'invisible' narratives and histories can be (re)constructed using photographs, video, letters and film from the past to create new narratives of engagement. The workshop will involve both academics and practitioners and students involved in producing artefacts of their own historical routes. A small selection of student projects will become the focal point of the workshop. The students will be assisted in their preparations for the presentations.3. Material Traces of Travelled ObjectsThe session will examine the meanings of treasured personal possessions brought to the UK by those who have journeyed here. It will enable an exploration of the significance of private relics and mementos within narratives of remembrance, identity and belonging. The multiple pathways of travelled objects and the traces they bear will be introduced through examp