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The Digital Archive
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), Thomas Kuhn proposed the then revolutionary idea that to understand the nature of scientific truth one has to take account of the historically...
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Coming soon: sound, Benjamin… and maybe smell?
Over the past fortnight we’ve been surveying Material Witness participants about their experience of the programme, what they like, and how they think it could be improved. We also asked what they...
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Material Witness continues: Studying the Literary Archive and Stone Sculpture...
Originally posted on Medieval Art Research: C15 King at Westminster Hall ready for inspection As well as the blog, the study days for Material Witness, a CHASE consortium-led initiative to engage...
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Sound as Artefact
The OU’s Dr Helen Coffey guest blogs about a workshop taking place this Friday at the British Library As an intangible art form, music poses a number of challenges for the researcher, especially when...
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Size Matters, University of East Anglia 24-25 May 2014
Size Matters: Programme For those of you coming to the Size Matters workshop in Norwich on 24-25 May, here is the programme. Material Witness participants who would like to come are encouraged to...
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Sourcing Stone: Visit to the Albion Quarries at Portland, 3 June
On 3 June, Material Witness will be visiting the Albion Quarries in Portland, Dorset. Quarried for the best part of a millennium, Portland’s creamy white oolitic limestone is integral to countless...
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The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction, 31 May 2014
This event, the third of four plenary events in the AHRC-sponsored programme Material Witness, will explore the implications of Walter Benjamin’s influential and prescient essay The Work of Art in the...
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Material Witness I: Valedictory Symposium & Party
The concluding event for the Material Witness programme for 2013/14 will take place at the Art Workers’ Guild on 8 July. The event will celebrate a year of material witnessing, organised by and for...
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