Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Preserving the future?

Cam, I am wondering how I, as the current archivist of the objects that you collected during the live event, should deal with the issue of proliferating mold?
I suppose that means that I havent done my job very well. Most respected experts in the field would never let bacterial gowth occur on any preserved objects. That would defeat the purpose, wouldnt it? Or is this the way the objects should migrate "naturally"? Perhpas this is in line with my thoughts on the virus as a kind of archive that could work with cellular processes to migrate memory?

Please send instructions asap so that I know how to conserve your artifacts and memories according to your intentions!





3 comments:

Joshua said...

I'm sorry,
everytime I look at these photos I totally crack up and laugh out loud.
what a mess!
it's really too funny.

Tom said...

How were they being archived? I think you could describe that process, and print those instructions in the manual with a big line or X drawn through all or relevant portions of the text.

Anonymous said...

That's a good idea Tom. I'll aks Cam what she thinks.