Mit:

Annet Dekker
Capaciteitsgroep Media & Cultuur, University of Amsterdam

“Green archiving. Imaginaries of archival futures”

In her presentation, Annet Dekker will examine the sustainability of archiving and particularly digital preservation through the lens of relational governance. Drawing on artistic projects, she will explore how (blockchain) technology may be reimagined beyond extractive logics. Here, ownership becomes relational rather than proprietary, unsettling legal, geopolitical, and economic regimes that treat objects as commodities. Situating technology within broader ecological and colonial histories, Dekker proposes a decolonial shift from hierarchical control toward horizontal, interdependent systems. Within this framework, green archiving emerges as a way to rethink the environmental impact of cultural heritage practices, in particular digital preservation, and to reimagine these within the context of ecological responsibility. By valuing change, decay, and release, green archiving aligns digital preservation with relational governance: sustaining not merely data, but the networks of care that make cultural memory possible.

Gäste sind herzlich willkommen. Im Anschluss findet ein Apéro statt.