The Pararchive Project

Earlier this week, the University hosted its second Values Of Film Heritage workshop, coinciding with UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. The programme included members of the Pararchive team, both behind the scenes in producing the event (Daniel and Fiona), as well as on the programme with a plenary session from Simon. Following another talk from David Walsh of the…

Earlier today Dean came across an old Made By Many project for ITV, Sir Trevor. The app is essentially an editing tool for web content, released as an open source project. It’s actually a curious mix of some of the storyblocks metaphors we’ve been designing Pararchive around. Where Pararchive is a series of blocks with attached metadata and media…

Andy, Fiona and Dean have been discussing the recent launch of the TV as Material series of works at the Tate Modern. The six pieces are the result of a residency giving artists access to BBC’s archives. The films are a great illustration of the potential to unlock archival material to create new perspectives and entirely new works; something that we’re…

Willow Brugh, a research affiliate at MIT’s Center for Civic Media, recently speculated on What Is Death In A Networked Age after the death of a close friend. This prompted Brugh to consider her own mortality and created a guide for “postmortem planning” examining the issues that most services providers and lawyers have overlooked. Longevity and legacy are areas we’ve…

The UN’s High Commission for Refugees recently launched Tracks, a Medium-esque collection of stories on refugees and aid workers. The collection of twenty-four stories documents the impact of UNHCR’s work in distressed communities and conflict zones across the planet; everything from themes of migration, education hope and faith to places as far flung as Angola and Syria. The…

Date: Saturday 8 November, 10.30-15.30 Venue: School of Media and Communication, Clothworkers’ North Building, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT Do you have a story to tell?  Do you enjoy exploring archives?  Are you interested in online research with museums? This event introduces the Pararchive Project, whose main aim is to create a digital toolkit…

  Following on from the First World War Engagement Centres Everyday Lives in War and Hidden Histories we now look at Voices of War and Peace: the Great War and its legacy. Voices of War – or Voices as it will be referred to henceforth in this piece – is based in the Library of…

Wow, Microsoft has also jumped on the storytelling bandwagon with Sway, a typically beige, Redmond-ian attempt to make Microsoft Office relevant to a world in which Powerpoint is a pejorative. Sway allows users to collate images, text and other media from their own devices, the web and social media, orchestrating them into ‘cloud’ presentations. The video below depicts a designer being…

  The Circus Oz Living Archive is a three-year Australian Research Council Linkage Project that aims to create and analyse an experimental prototype for an online participatory ‘living archive’, built upon the Circus Oz collection of performance and rehearsal video documentation, to drive innovations in repertoire development, performance research and audience interaction. The project began…

More than that, she wanted The Memory Machine to work in a ‘rashomon‘ way – with a dual perspective that highlights the impact of the story and characters as you see things from 2 points of view.  As you’re gradually immersed, with intrigue and warmth, into The Memory Machine you discover, through Anna’s living story…