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Space Heroes, an interactive installation to explore an audiovisual archive about Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier, is part of the new Cosmos Archeology exhibition, at EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne (CH), ongoing from September, 16th 2022 until February, 5th 2023¹.

Space Heroes runs on the Linear Navigator, a 4k touch screen mounted on a twelve-meter rail. It proposes an embodied mode of access to the Claude Nicollier Video Archive, a collection of videos about the life and career of Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier. See the corresponding page in the Demonstrators section for a full breakdown of the installation and its theoretical foundation.

Dr Lise Jaillant announced that her edited collection “Archives, Access and AI” has just been published open access: https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-5584-1/archives-access-and-artificial-intelligence/?number=978-3-8376-5584-1

Digital archives are transforming the Humanities and the Sciences. Digitized collections of newspapers and books have pushed scholars to develop new, data-rich methods. Born-digital archives are now better preserved and managed thanks to the development of open-access and commercial software. Digital Humanities have moved from the fringe to the center of academia. Yet, the path from the appraisal of records to their analysis is far from smooth. This book explores crossovers between various disciplines to improve the discoverability, accessibility, and use of born-digital archives and other cultural assets.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lise Jaillant has a background in publishing history and digital humanities. She is an expert on issues of Open Access and privacy with a focus on archives of digital information. She was the first researcher to access the emails of the writer Ian McEwan at the Harry Ransom Center in Texas. Her work has been recognised by a British Academy Rising Star award. She is currently leading two externally-funded international networks on artificial intelligence applied to digital archives: the UK/Irish network AURA and the UK/US network AEOLIAN.

The summer school “Digital Archives. Data Literacy and Presentation Strategies in Audiovisual Archives” is a 5-day, practice-oriented educational offer directed at staff members of audiovisual archives as well as any other interested person who would like to enhance their knowledge about digital environments and processes related to digital archives.

Fint out more at https://www.filmuniversitaet.de/en/studies/study-programs/filmuni-summer-school/digital-archives.

Eye Filmmuseum, the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) will present the 7th Eye International Conference on ‘Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices’.

Find out more at https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme/eye-international-conference-2022/563352.

The website for the Sinergia project Narratives from the long tail: Transforming access to audiovisual archives is finally live!

Feel free to explore the website, in particular the Consortium section where we present the different laboratories and people involved in this project, and the Home section, where we present this research project.