<span>Lecture:</span><i><span> Lost Landscapes and Found Collections. </span><i>An encounter with Rick Prelinger</i></i><br>
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Monday, July 16th at 7.30 pm. MACBA Auditorium<br>
This event will be in English. <br>
Limited seating.<br>
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<a href="http://www.macba.cat/en/rick-prelinger-lost-landscapes" target="_blank">http://www.macba.cat/en/rick-prelinger-lost-landscapes</a><br>
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</span>Archives and libraries are currently overcome with anxiety about
protocols, rules and regulations, but it might be better to focus on
linking to what people (not institutions) need to celebrate and
remember, and understand archival and library work as performative.
Drawing on the experience gathered over eight years of work at the
Prelinger Library and in participatory media archives Rick Prelinger
will raise some questions that are central to anyone working with or
around archives and libraries today. How can past media transitions help us make more informed decisions in
the future? Are we moving toward greater archival centralization, or are
we entering a landscape where an unlimited number of collections
flourish? How will personal and corporate or institutional collections
influence and change one another? Are archives gearing their services
and offerings toward classes of users that don’t really exist, while
users seek archives that haven’t yet been created? What’s really new,
and what just looks new?<br>
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Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer and filmmaker. He has been an
active player in the stock footage field since 1985, and his collection
is now represented worldwide by Getty Images. Beginning in 2000, he
partnered with Internet Archive to make 2,100 (soon to be 5,000) films
available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. His archival
feature <i>Panorama Ephemera</i> (2004) played in venues around the world, and his new feature project <i>No More Road Trips?</i> received a Creative Capital grant in 2012. His <i>Lost Landscapes</i>
projects have played to many thousands of viewers in San Francisco,
Detroit and elsewhere. Prelinger is a board member of Internet Archive
and frequently writes and speaks on the future of archives and issues
relating to archival access and regeneration. With Megan Prelinger, he
co-founded the Prelinger Library, an appropriation-friendly private
research library open to the public in downtown San Francisco.<br>
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More info on Rick Prelinger:<br>
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Conversation with Rick Prelinger (PDF):<br>
<a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/memorabilia_rick_prelinger/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/memorabilia_rick_prelinger/capsula</a><br>
Podcast: interview with Rick Prelinger<br>
<a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/rick_prelinger/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/rick_prelinger/capsula</a><br>