Featuring: Kate Morrell
Today we’re very pleased to welcome Kate Morrell to the site. Kate is a London-based book artist whose work frequently makes use of withdrawn or “overlooked” materials in libraries and archives. The work she shares with us today is a commissioned piece titled Alpine Spoilers, a project that engages with and highlights items from the collection...
Featuring: Josephine Decker
I have to say, I love reading emails like the one we got from today’s featured artist, Josephine Decker. I love libraries, writes Josephine — the physical ones, the invisible ones, the ones deep underground, the ones in our brains, the ones in our bedrooms. Josephine is a filmmaker, and one who was kind enough...
Home Movie Day 2012 at Madison Public Library
Home Movie Day! What a fantastic idea–culture isn’t just the stuff that the studios make, it’s what we make of it. Content isn’t king, conversation is– and what better conversation-starters than the significant moments of your neighbors’ lives? ~Cory Doctorow Are you the person in your family who always had a camcorder pressed to your...
The Library as Platypus: On the Dual Nature of the Reanimation Library
by Andrew Beccone In January of this year I was invited to write a piece about the Reanimation Library for Library as Incubator. In the course of events, time got away from me and I wasn’t able to begin working on it until recently. But I encountered a problem as soon as I read the...
Linkubator Sunday Roundup | Week of August 20-26
This week on the site: A profile of Hennepin County Library’s Creative Writing Conference for Writers 50 and Better. A fantastic example of library programming that works outside the library. We love the photography by Irish artist Doreen Kennedy, and we think you will too: Featuring: “Portrait of a Library” Project. Guest blogger Brandon Monokian returns...
Music History: The Chuck Brown /Go-Go Archive at DC Public Library
by Erinn Batykefer As any music buff knows, a light went out this past May when Chuck Brown, the “godfather of Go-go,” died at Johns Hopkins Hospital at the age of 75. Go-go is something of a DC phenomenon; the genre developed in the 70s and has evolved into a hip-shaking blend of funk, R&B,...
Linkubator Sunday Round-up | Week of August 13-19
Happy Sunday, readers! It was another lively week at the Library as Incubator Project, with lots of site updates and great conversations on Twitter and Facebook. In case you missed some of the new stories on the site, here’s a quick list to get you caught up: Pop-Up programming…in the library | Using the example...
Minneapolis Central Library’s picture files, where past & present coexist
by Andy Sturdevant. Originally published on August 1, 2012 in the MinnPost weekly arts column, The Stroll. Up on the third floor of the Minneapolis Central Library, past the racks of CDs and near the drawers of sheet music, there are several rows of file cabinets, each nearly 5 feet high, containing hundreds of thousands...
Linkubator Sunday Round-up | Week of August 6-12
Welcome to our first Linkubator Sunday Round-up! Check out the best #libraryasincubator ideas, links, and conversations from the Library as Incubator Project website and social media suite. Enjoy! ~Erinn This week on the website: Page to Stage: “The Arabian Nights” | Guest blogger Brandon Monokian is back with more on the Page to Stage program at...
British Film Institute National Film and Television Archive
by Erinn Batykefer Preserving film is a notoriously tricky business. The material itself is delicate, degrades easily, and the conditions that best preserve it are difficult to maintain. Now, exciting leaps in technology allow films to be produced digitally–in just ten years, the miles of physical film Peter Jackson used to create The Lord of the...
Historic Pittsburgh’s Interactive Maps | Pittviewer
by Erinn Batykefer National Book award-winning poet Gerald Stern, Pulitzer-prize winning author and essayist Annie Dillard, and Pulitzer prize-winning playwright August Wilson are all native to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The city’s neighborhoods, its streets and houses, its rivers and bridges and industries are the backdrop for some of the most memorable scenes in literature. Pittsburgh Historic Sites’ Pittviewer is...
Awards for Artists from the Association for Manitoba Archives
Did you know you can win an award for creating art, music, and other creative work inspired by what you find in the archives? In Manitoba, you can. The mission of the Association for Manitoba Archives ”is to preserve the heritage of the people and institutions of the Province of Manitoba.” Since 2005, the AMA has given awards to artists...
