Erreur 404

Writing the history of the Festival d’Avignon through its digital traces

  • Professional meeting

Researchers, archivists, artists and institutions are invited to engage in a dialogue around the challenges of an emerging heritage: how can these traces be preserved, made accessible, and used to write the Festival’s history in the digital age?

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Presentation

Since its creation in 1947, the Festival d’Avignon has produced a multitude of traces: programmes, posters, correspondence, administrative archives and creative documents. Over the past thirty years, these traces have undergone profound changes. Alongside digitised archives, natively digital materials have emerged: emails, websites, social media, video recordings, photographs, databases and the hard drives of artists and institutions. This unprecedented body of material raises new questions about the collection, preservation and analysis of contemporary archives.

Open to all, this symposium will alternate between round tables bringing together researchers, curators and representatives of cultural institutions, conversations with artists, presentations of research projects and plenary lectures.

Distribution

Science direction Clarisse Bardiot et Alexandra Beraldin (Université Rennes 2) dans le cadre du projet ERC From Stage to Data
Scientist comity Marion Denizot (Université Rennes 2), Hortense Archambault (MC93), Joël Huthwohl (Bibliothèque nationale de France), Sophie Gaillard (Avignon Université), Béatrice Picon-Vallin (CNRS), Jean-Baptiste Raze (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Maison Jean Vilar), Alexandre Quentin (Festival d’Avignon)

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