Archive

I was struck by the visual archive in Rhizome's Net Art Anthology, the range of imagined 90s and Y2K net aesthetics were so interesting in how they ran contrary to the visual limitations of the mediums of the time. For my final, I hope to replicate some of the faux-nostalgiac visuals of the geocities / myspace era pages, in creating an archive of material relating to an old science project I once participated in. The project dealt with the construction of levees in New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina, and which was the most structurally functional. I want to approach this now with postcolonial disaster studies in mind. The archive will draw from materials made during the actual project, and others made more recently, in a re-conceptualization of the project. In working with language, I want to employ an archive of retired hurricane names of the past, and perhaps an imagined archive of names to be retired in the future -- knowing there will be many more calamities to face the earth in the coming decades.