"My body as an archive represents my own experience, my own phenomenological encounters and my own histories, from a deeply corporeal space." — Rosy Simas, The body is an archive (2022)

"Pushing the body into the archive, pushing the archive into the body—a mutual metamorphosis conjuring up, creating, secreting, excreting, inflecting critical points where virtuals and actuals exchange place." — André Lepecki, The body as archive (2010)

The next meeting of the Aus/NZ critical archives reading group will be held on 1 August 1pm AEST. We will be joined by @assemblingweb to discuss his article "Representing Biases, Inequalities and Silences in National Web Archives: Social, Material and Technical Dimensions".

Next up for ASA's monthly talks, I'll be hosting Adrian Vickers and Judith Rozeboom to get into their important new project, Opening Multilingual Archives of Australia (OMAA, Opening Multilingual Archives of Australia). Free and online — please share and come along on the 9th.

"I think a lot about that sort of responsibility. What will be taken out of the vaults? What will see the light again and get digitised? And what will lie there forever and decay?" — Gustav Deutsch, in conversation with Claudy Op Den Kamp (p. 136)

RIP king #digipres

‘Our history is rotting away’: the newspaper archivists preserving Nigeria’s past For The Guardian, I documented the incredible work done by archivi.ng, a Lagos non-profit start-up retrieving and archiving old Nigerian newspapers. theguardian.com/global-develop…

"Schaal’s appeal reminds us that personal, often informal, archives fill in the blanks of film history. [...] These clandestine channels of insiders sharing prints, ripped files, and physical media is often how we come to know of the myriad counter-histories of cinema."

Belated congratulations to Amanda Harris, Jakelin Troy and Linda Barwick! As anyone who came to their talk for the ASA knows, this is valuable cross-disciplinary work. It's also open access (via Sydney University Press) so go check it out if you haven't already!

Since this is a government account this tweet will go into the national archives

It's good to see this hit the news after hearing Kath talk about it at the @ausarchivists conference. Sad, unsurprising, and important reading.