Abstract
This chapter explores the possibility for creative re-use of digitised archive materials. Sedgwick argues that removing barriers to access the treasures held in our audio-visual archives is an urgent task. Enabling practitioners and the public to mine these collections and remake them anew, so that they are living and contributing to creativity today, seems magical but entirely possible. Sedgwick asserts that in our age it is something we need to tackle with excitement and focus.
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Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, CBE, The Creative Archive, p. 7.
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Rick Prelinger, ‘Sharing as Activism’.
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ACMI, ‘Our History’.
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ACMI Collection, YouTube.
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Lev Manovich, ‘New Media: A User’s Guide’.
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Aeden Ratcliffe, ‘Remixing ACMI: Design-based Research Strikes a Chord’.
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Seb Chan, ‘Seeing the Collection in New Ways—Infographics from RMIT’s Students’.
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ACMI, ‘Collection Development Strategy’.
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ACMI, ‘Collection Development Strategy’.
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‘About the Bophana Center’.
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Candice Cranmer, Julia Murphy and Nick Richardson, ‘ACMI and Bophana: Preserving Cambodia’s Fragile Stories’.
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ACMI, ‘The Koorie Oral History Program and the Bill Onus Family Archive’.
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Candice Cranmer, Julia Murphy and Nick Richardson, ‘ACMI and Bophana: Preserving Cambodia’s Fragile Stories’.
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‘ACMI Set to Open the World’s Most Digitally Transformed Museum’.
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Sedgwick, K. (2021). Preservation/Access/Reuse—Audio Visual Collections in the Digital Age. In: Potts, J. (eds) Use and Reuse of the Digital Archive. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79523-8_10
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