The Pararchive Project

This is slight diversion from our usual beat of stories on archives and storytelling, but interesting to our project nonetheless. Games studio Versu have created Prompter, a programming language for narrative. When, say, Aaron Sorkin or J. J. Abrams are writing a screenplay, they’re not typing little essays to specify that REPUBLICAN FLACK #2 or SCIENCE OFFICER…

A travel app that puts storytelling and cultural immersion above all else. More at humanity.tv/about.html…

As Barack Hussein Obama reaches the end of his term as POTUS, plans for his presidential library are beginning to emerge. With most presidential materials from the current being born digital, the Obama Presidential Library could be radically different from its predecessors… …it’s likely that Obama won’t have the voluminous amounts of papers, letters, and other correspondence…

“In the video below, we pay homage to the visual style of five present-day legends using only footage and music found in the Shutterstock library…” We’ve been excited to see what our partners at Bokeh Yeah! might come up with when let loose inside the archives at the BBC and other collections. The video above…

“…many museums have a secret room (or two or ten) well out of the public eye. Here are a few of those, full of books, boobs, and beetles.” I wonder, will our Science Museum and National Media Museum partners have some secret rooms for us to integrate into the Pararchive app? 😉 More at Atlas Obscura…

In this short film, Simon talks about his previous collaborations with the BBC and the AHRC – The Open Archive Project and Strike Stories – and how he met Carbon Imagineering, the Pararchive design and technology team, through a Creative Technology Lab in 2012, run by the Cultural and Creative Industries Exchange at the University of…

Lately I’ve been thinking more and more about the frustrations of working with cultural archives, not only in my role in Pararchive, but also as a trustee of the Impressions Gallery and an upcoming collaboration with Leeds Creative Labs and The Hepworth gallery that is seeking to challenge the notions of what it means to be a gallery. Thinking…

  In an update on her Pararchive research project entitled Back to the Future: When Wearable Technology Meets Archive Content, we learnt how Michelle – a member of the MadLab Manchester Arduino Group and Founder and Director of Made With Glove Ltd – is designing fashionable heated gloves for women who suffer from the Raynaud’s…

It is exactly four months to the Conference and Community Showcase we are organising. As you are probably already aware, Pararchive seeks to build new interactive environments that explore issues of ownership, public and institutional relationships and provide tools for collaborative community research and creative expression using digital heritage resources. It was motivated by the…