ARchipelago workshop: “Hands on the Archives: War Destruction, Collective Documenting and Technologies of War Representations”

Date and time: Sept 2, 2024, 11:00 – 18:00

Location: CZKD and the surrounding

Application to the workshop: Send an expression of interest by August 31, to the e-mail: info@czkd.org

Note: the workshop will be in English.

Requirements: Participants need no prior technical knowledge, only a smartphone to record short videos.

Introducing an alternative approach to engaging with archives and historiography, the digital ARchipelago platform employs Augmented Reality (AR) technology to overlay some of these historical images and videos onto their original locations in the city. Utilising the ARchipelago platform and its resources, the workshop will engage participants in media archaeological practices through presentations, discussions, and hands-on experiments. With Clarissa Thieme and Armina Pilav, we will look into various methods of archiving and archival mediums, technologies, and possibilities of compiling and contextualizing such media to show the diverse and multi-perspective narratives and experiences, offering a more nuanced understanding of the lasting impacts on Belgrade and other cities and societies in the post-Yugoslav context.

The workshop “Hands on the Archives: War Destruction, Collective Documenting and Technologies of War Representations” is part of the ARchipelago, an archival cross-media project in the post-Yugoslav space of the Goethe-Institut Bosnia and Herzegovina developed by Armina Pilav and Clarissa Thieme in collaboration with Kaya Behkalam (The Augmented Archive) and the regional partners Library Hamdija Kreševljaković Sarajevo, Dokufest Prizren, Un-War Space Lab Mostar, and CZKD – Center for Cultural Decontamination Belgrade. For more info archipelagoarchive.com

ARchipelago is funded by the EUNIC European Spaces of Cultures program 2023 and the Goethe-Institut’s Excellence Initiative 2023/24

Workshop program

11:00-11:45

Introduction to the ARchipelago project.

11:45 – 12:45

Discussion about representational politics, practices, and personal perspectives. How could the ARchipelago as a platform contribute or add annotations to representational practices of war?

12:45 – 13:30

Break

13:30 – 14:30

A walk with the ARchipelago app, exploring archival material directly in urban space via Augmented Reality (AR).

14:30 – 15:00

Intro / to produce short videos that could become part of the ARchipelago platform: Testimonies, documentation, and short performative, artistic, or essayistic interventions in public space in reaction to the archival material on the ARchipelago platform.

15:00 – 15:30

Small Groups Drafting an idea for one short video.

15:30 – 17:00

Forming small groups to film short videos.

17:00 – 18:00

Presentation of the videos and closing round.