Tag Archives: history


Jonathan Minard

‘Archive’ (2013) by Jonathan Minard

A documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale.

Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections. On a mission to create universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive’s staff have built the world’s largest online library, offering 10 petabytes of archived websites, books, movies, music, and television broadcasts.
The video includes a tour of the Internet Archive’s headquarters in San Francisco, the book scanning center, and the book storage facilities in Richmond, California.


Lukas Wassmann

Lukas Wassmann-the hands of roger federer 2001

Lukas Wassmann, ‘The hands of Roger Federer’ (2001)


Charles Van Schaick

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From ‘Wisconsin Death Trip‘, a book by Michael Lesy, featuring a collection of late 19th century photographs by Charles Van Schaick, mostly in the city of Black River Falls, and local news reports from the same period.


Sir Henry Wellcome

Sir Henry Wellcome and Gwendoline Syrie Wellcome.

Portrait of Sir Henry Wellcome and Gwendoline Syrie Wellcome

Courtesy of the Wellcome collection


Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen

‘Salome with the head of John the Baptist’, (1524)  Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen


Ján Mancuška

Ján Mancuška, ’800 Ways to Describe a Chair’ (2004)

Multiple gunshots are taken at a chair sitting against a wall. After the wall has been marked, the chair is removed, leaving its silhouette behind.


Hannes Zebedin

Hannes Zebedin, ‘Present Perfect’ (2004)


Catalin Mitulescu

Catalin Mitulescu, ‘Cum mi-am petrecut sfarsitul lumii’ (The way I spent the end of the world) (2006)

Tragi-comic coming-of-age tale, set in 1989 Romania, which follows 17 year old Eva and her younger brother Lilu. After knocking down a bust of Ceausescu by accident, Eva is sent to a technical school where she meets Andrei, with whom she plans to escape communist Romania by swimming across the Danube into Yugoslavia and relocate to Italy. Meanwhile, Lilu and his friends volunteer for a children’s choir scheduled to sing for Ceausescu, hoping this will give them a chance to assassinate the dictator.


Madalina Zaharia

Madalina Zaharia, ‘We will not play, we will only detonate’ (2011)


Guerrilla Girls

Guerrilla Girls, ‘Advantages of being a woman artist’ (1989)