Jeffrey Schnapp - "Cold storage"

However much it enables us to ask new questions with an expanded set of tools, the digital is ultimately not about the digital. Rather it is about new ways of engaging and interacting with the world: it’s about extending our cognitive faculties and social existences; new ways to analyze and experience the past in the present; new ways to work, think, share, and enjoy; new ways to make things, even tradition-bound things like scholarly books. With this altered field the question of new genres and knowledge forms looms large and my keynote address will be concerned with an experiment with the interactive www-documentary form entitled Cold Storage. Cold Storage is an extension of a printed book (The Library Beyond the Book), the output of a research seminar built upon three years of work in metaLAB's Library Test Kitchen design studio, and a reworking/remixing of Alain Resnais's 1956 Toute la mémoire du monde (with the BNP swapped for the analog server farm known as the Harvard Depository).

Jeffrey Schnapp

Before moving to Harvard in 2011, Jeffrey T. Schnapp occupied the Pierotti Chair of Italian Studies at Stanford, where he founded and led the Stanford Humanities Lab in 1999. A cultural historian with research interests extending from antiquity to the present, his most recent books are The Electric Information Age Book, Modernitalia, Digital_Humanities, and The Library Beyond the Book. Faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, he is Professor of Romance Languages & Literature and Comparative Literature and also on the teaching faculty in the Department of Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He is the founder and faculty director of metaLAB@Harvard.

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