Activating the Archive student projects collection, 2015
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Summary
- Creator:
- Lisa McCarty and Archive of Documentary Arts (Duke University)
- Abstract:
- Creative projects produced by students in Activating the Archive: Archival Research as Documentary Practice, DOCST 316-01 / 716-01 / ARTVIS 316-01 / VMS 314S-01, taught by Lisa McCarty in the Rubenstein Library in the Fall of 2015. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Art (Duke University).
- Extent:
- 0.5 Linear Feet (1 box; 7 computer files; 10.6 Gigabytes)
- Language:
- Materials in English
- Collection ID:
- RL.11215
Background
- Scope and content:
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Creative projects produced by students in Activating the Archive: Archival Research as Documentary Practice, DOCST 316-01 / 716-01 / ARTVIS 316-01 / VMS 314S-01, taught by Lisa McCarty in the Rubenstein Library in the Fall of 2015. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Art (Duke University).
Materials have been arranged by student name.
- Biographical / historical:
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The course introduces students to methods of archival research and investigates the archive as a tool for creative and scholarly use within documentary practice. Using Duke’s Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript library students gained practical experience to effectively locate, retrieve, handle, document and analyze primary source materials. This knowledge was then applied to produce original written and multimedia documentary projects that rethink notions of history, identity, memory, and loss. The class also explored individual and open source archives, as well as works by contemporary artists and documentarians who mediate archival materials and structures. The course emphasis is to encounter the archive as a site of discovery and construction.
- Acquisition information:
- The Activating the Archive Student Projects Collection was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a transfer in 2016.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Meghan Lyon and Matthew Farrell, June 2016
Accessions described in this collection guide: 2016-0042
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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[Identification of item], Activating the Archive Student Projects Collection, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.