Moving history, moving goalposts

Symposium:

• ISEA2009: 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• Interactive storytelling and memory building

• Moving history, moving goalposts

• Verity Peet

Venue(s):

• Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Ireland

• Abstract

  Digital film archives are experiencing unprecedented growth around the world. They provide easy-to-use access to our historical moving images as never before. But what are the critical factors in their formation? Funding, technology, content, rights, consumers and producers all play a part, but how do these issues and influences interact? Who or what is creating – and controlling – our memories of the past?

  This paper discusses these issues with reference to my work as Producer of the Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive and Consultant to a number of UK publicly funded digital film archive projects, and in particular the recent innovative proposal developed for the East Anglian Film Archive.

Category:

• Paper