MEDIA AND THE ARCHIVE: Motions and Transformations

Archives of Trauma & Transformation

Building on various discussions on theories of the archive, the everyday archive, the affective archive, and the remixed archive, this unit focuses on archives and historical trauma, as well as the role that digital technology plays in forming and transforming our understandings and experiences with history. We will think about how digital projects cut through archival silences and illuminate the shadows that form the unspoken foundations of these projects. 

Readings

Marianne Hirsch, "The Generation of Postmemory" (in class handout and discussion).

Voices of Vietnam: Hear Their Stories
http://vietnamvoices.org


USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive

New Dimensions in Testimony (USC Shoah Foundation and USC Institute for Creative Technologies:

In-class screenings: video remix projects using testimonies from the Shoah Foundation.

Individual Pages

Echoes of Trauma by Michael O'Krent

Remembering the Past by Kelly Logan

The Destruction of Memory by Heather Duncan

The End Goal by Patrick McDonnell

The Camera Already Makes It Untruthful by Kevin Tian

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