Wed 12th March, 18:00-19:30 GMT
Temporary Archive is an online participatory workshop style session exploring alternative digital archiving strategies led by artist Sammie Veeler
Taking place in February and March 2025, the PROTO Masterclasses are a series of expert-led online sessions designed to provide UK artists based in the North with a unique opportunity to engage with and learn from a diverse range of international artists, cultural leaders, and creative professionals.
Join artist, organiser and co-steward of New Art City virtual art space, Sammie Veeler for Temporary Archive: an online participatory workshop style session exploring alternative digital archiving strategies for media artists, from technical and theoretical perspectives. How can we steward our data outside of precarious platforms, and give care not just to the files themselves, but to the embodied memories inscribed on them?
Bring a few files from your personal computer based on these prompts: favorite meme of all time, first file in your computer, fondest file, something you will delete after contributing, a gift, your art. Sammie will facilitate a collaborative exercise where every contribution becomes part of a sneakernet archive distributed to every participant after the session.
Event details
Date: Wednesday, March 12th
Time: 18:00 – 19:30
Cost: FREE
Duration: 1.5 hours
Registration is essential, click the below link to go through to the booking page.
Sammie Veeler is a Los Angeles-based artist and organiser examining the political nature of technological infrastructure and the embodied connections between people which are foundations of collective action. Through installation, poetry, performance, hardware, and software, Veeler exposes technologically mediated processes of individual and collective becoming. Veeler is also a co-steward of New Art City virtual art space, an online art gallery founded in 2020, which hosts a collection of thousands of artist-created virtual spaces.
PROTO is a groundbreaking new programme designed to nurture and encourage the growth of artists looking to enhance their digital creativity through skill development, digital learning and networking, brought to you by FutureEverything.
Our ambition is to establish an end-to-end opportunity pathway for artists to progress through the PROTO programme. By providing access to high-quality resources, expert advice, and a vibrant community of peers, PROTO seeks to empower artists to achieve their full creative potential and make a meaningful impact within their arts community.
Follow the link to learn more about the PROTO programme, the activities and opportunities on offer.
PROTO is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and is part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
