Organdi

Le point d'appui du r�el

Jin kook Chung — 2008-03-25T17:49:14Z

Jinkook Chung est critique d'art et traducteur, chercheur au Group for People Without History de l'Universit� Yougnam de Cor�e du Sud (http://www.minjung20.org). Il a publi� de nombreux ouvrages et essais dont La vie populaire en photographie (2007), L'album de famille, 1920-1970 (2007), Image d'amour dans la peinture (2005), ainsi qu'une vingtaine de monographies photographiques. Il a traduit Victor-L. Tapi� (Baroque et classicisme), John Rewald (Histoire de l'impressionnisme, Le (...)

Organdi est de retour

Matthieu Faullimmel — 2008-03-25T09:51:03Z

Dans l'entretien que nous accord� Jinkook Chung, critique d'art et traducteur, il pose ce qui pourrait �tre le pr�ambule � ce neuvi�me num�ro d'organdi : le besoin d'archive. Chercheur au sein du Group for People Without History de l'Universit� de Yougnam en Cor�e du Sud, il souligne pour la Cor�e contemporaine le manque de traces, le peu de restes de la vie du peuple, et du fait d'une modernisation cannibale, l'absence d'archives v�ritables. Il y a, dit-il, urgence � rassembler des mat�riaux bruts, photos, (...)

Organdi is back

Matthieu Faullimmel — 2008-03-25T09:49:48Z

In the interview with art critic and translator Jinkook Chung, Chung provides us with what could be the opening words of this ninth issue of organdi : the need to archive the past. As a researcher for the Group for People Without History at the University of Yougnam in South Korea, Chung stresses how little of the history of people's lives remains due to the effects of a “cannibalistic” modernization that has destroyed the presence of any real archives. Chung describes an (...)

Memorias

Dom�nico Chiappe, Andreas Meier — 2008-03-19T08:56:58Z

La memoria, personal y colectiva, se construye bajo una condici�n primordial : que no pese tanto que impida continuar viviendo. Que la reconstrucci�n de los hechos no genere im�genes que crucen el l�mite de la tolerancia propia. Sucede en los grandes acontecimientos, horrores, guerras : la memoria colectiva se regenera a partir de los h�roes, no de la conducta de la mayor�a de la poblaci�n que colabor� con el invasor, o que aup� leyes que favorec�an econ�micamente al grueso de un pa�s, en detrimento, muchas veces de las (...)

Definition, History, Usage and Future of Computer Data Storage

Lev Lafayette — 2008-02-18T09:35:17Z

Abstract : Any speculation on the practises of computer data storage and archiving in the age of information requires a careful analysis of the operations and history of the technology. After providing such information, this article engages in elaborations for future usage, drawing upon actual practise and technological elaborations. The article proposes that an increasing disparity between software development and technological capacity will result in a positive improvement in media (...)

M�moires (Fr)

Dom�nico Chiappe, Andreas Meier — 2008-02-11T17:15:33Z

La m�moire, personnelle et collective, se construit � partir d'une condition primordiale : que son poids n'emp�che pas de continuer � vivre. Que la reconstitution des faits n'engendre pas des images qui d�passent les limites de la tol�rance.
La m�moire collective se produit lors des grands �v�nements, des horreurs, des guerres : elle se r�g�n�re � partir des h�ros, et non de la conduite de la majorit� de la population qui collabora avec l'envahisseur, ou qui port�rent aux nues les lois qui favorisaient �conomiquement (...)

Entangled in an Archive Fever

Nayia Yiakoumaki — 2008-01-15T21:23:48Z

The archive is considered as the absolute gathering of information where data is meticulously and methodically stored and preserved. This act of archiving reflects the need to preserve something that no longer exists, therefore creating a mausoleum of what has been no longer active ; almost as a duty and homage to it. On other occasions the act of archiving takes place concurrently with the action of the body, which is aiming to archive. Institutional archives have similar functions and (...)

Corpus - Corporeal

Karen Ingham — 2008-01-15T20:33:49Z

If you had recently visited the Reading Room of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine in London, you may have noticed a large, framed image situated directly above the long wooden reading table.
On closer inspection you may have seen that this image, painterly in its pastel shades and soft surfaces, was in fact photographic in nature. Were you intrigued enough to give the image further consideration you would have noted that the scene depicted miniature (...)

La for�t, espace sauvage pour penser l'Occident

Genevi�ve Brisson — 2007-10-30T10:55:36Z

Une approche diachronique des conceptions de la nature en Occident permet de se pencher sur la place attribu�e � la nature dans notre soci�t�. L'analyse de r�cits de voyage se d�roulant � l'�le d'Anticosti entre 1534 et 1980 permet de montrer comment la for�t a �t� consid�r�e comme un espace sauvage : sans histoire humaine, vierge et imp�n�trable. Per�ue comme un danger, mais aussi comme un d�sert et un terrain de jeu, la for�t s'est toujours inscrite comme contraire � la civilisation occidentale. Elle se formule finalement comme un espace r�flexif de l'humanit�.

Four Poems

Khushbu Srivastava — 2007-10-30T10:55:33Z

The Tea Kettle
Shadows fall on red brick, on time and regular. Punching in the time card like regular, she walks home slowly.
Blades of yellow grass touch heads and hands, thankful of wind. Still to eat, still to wash she turns the thought slowly like an odd, new object.
At home, the tea kettle waits. It watches silently as she takes off her coat and puts it on the hanger, puts the keys on the table, and a book against many others.
The tea kettle waits, is pleased silently by the warmth of (...)