This morning Photo Grad student Kim Navarre sent a link to the Photo Grad Seminar Class for a pod cast and article called the "The Persistence of Memory". It's an interview with a computer scientist that has strapped a camera on him that he calls a SenseCam, which photographs every 1 minute what every he is doing. His goal is to create digital memory to supplement his own. He is archiving every aspect of his life no matter how small.
By having a digital archive of all things that he comes across, he says that he can physically purge the physical things from his life, but they are still there in digital form if he ever wants to get them back. That sound a bit like what Wahol was talking about, but then not actually having to keep the physical objects of the archive. Only the digital file is kept. This would mean that you don't need the roll up closets, or the storage space in New Jersey.
With regards to digital technologies for storage, what would Freud think of a digital archive with regards to the Mystic Writing Pad. Is it permanent? Possibly, with eternal management and data migration to future technologies. Is it un-limited and non-exhaustible? Possibly, by adding more disk space it might be considered non-exhaustible, but then that is like needing to add a new sheet of paper, as with a regular note pad.
Interesting to ponder.
Kirk
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