09:15 Coffee and registration

09:30 Vigdis Moe Skarstein (National Librarian): Introduction

09:45- 10:30 Dr. Eivind Røssaak (Nasjonalbiblioteket): The Archive in Motion

10:30- 12.00 Session 1: New Conceptions

Prof. Knut Ove Eliassen (Litteraturvitenskap, NTNU): Foucault’s Archives

Prof. Wolfgang Ernst (Medienwissenschaft, Humboldt Universität): Cultural Archive versus Technomathematical Storage

Discussion

12:00- 13:00 Lunch

13:00- 14:30 Session 2: New Archival Practices

Susanne Østby Sæther (Curator, Preus Museum): The Archive in Art

Prof. Terje Rasmussen (Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon, Universitetet i Oslo): Archival Practices in New Media

 Discussion

14:30-14:45 Break

14:45-16:15 Session 3: The Challenges of New Media

Dr. Kjetil Jakobsen (Infomedia, Universitetet i Bergen): Analog and Digital Memory

Prof. Alexander Galloway (Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University): From Archive to Network

Discussion

16:15 Kristin Bakken (Director of the Department of Scholarship and Collections, Nasjonalbiblioteket): Concluding Remarks 

Organizer: Department of Scholarship and Collections, The National Library of Norway.

For registration (eivind.rossaak@nb.no), or see below.

The speakers

Knut Ove Eliassen, Professor, Comparative Literature, NTNU. He is the author of several articles and books, among others Ledeord (co-author Knut Stene-Johansen 2007), Fabrikken (ed. with Håkon W. Andersen et al. 2004) and Livssansen. En studie i Baltasar Graciáns forfatterskap med særlig henblikk på 'Smaken', and the translator of books by Jean Baudrillard and Michel Foucaults Les Mots et les choses (Tingenes orden, 1996).

Wolfgang Ernst, Professor, Medienwissenschaft, Humboldt Universität, Berlin. He is part of Friedrich Kittler’s Berlin-school in media archaeology, co-curator of the library-exhibition Der Giftschrank (on erotic and illegal books) at the Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek and the author of several articles and books, among others Das Rumoren der Archive: Ordnung aus Unordnung, (2002, in Swedish as Sorlet från arkiven, 2008), M.edium F.oucault. Weimarer Vorlesungen über Archive, Archäologie, Monumente und Medien, (2000) and Im Namen von Geschichte: Sammeln - Speichern – Er/Zählen. Infrastrukturelle Konfigurationen des deutschen Gedächtnisses (2003).

Alexander Galloway, Associate Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University. He is founding member of RSG (The Radical Software Group) and the author of several articles and the influential books Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (2004), Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (2006) and The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (co-author, Eugene Thacker, 2007). His last computer game, Kriegspiel (2008), reworks Guy Debord’s Game of War. 

Kjetil Jakobsen, Senior rearcher, Infomedia, Universitetet i Bergen. He is currently visiting scholar at the Freie Universität, Berlin. His doctoral thesis compared N. Luhmann’s theory of the arts and the media with that of P. Bourdieu. He has published several essays and articles on problems of the history and theory of visual cultural, currently editing a reader in the history of cosmopolitanism, from Cicero to Agamben: Verdensborgerskapets idehistorie: Bind 1 (forthcomming 2009).

Terje Rasmussen, Professor,  Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon, University of Oslo. He is the author of several articles and books, among others Moderne maskiner. Teknologi og samfunnsteori (1995),  Social Theory and Communication Technology (2000), Kampen om Internett (2007), Digitale medier. En innføring. and co-edited Digital Media Revisited: Theoretical and Conceptual Innovation in Digital Domains (2003) and Personlige Medier. Livet mellom skjermene (2007).

Eivind Røssaak, Research librarian, Film, Philosophy and Media, National Library, Oslo. The author of several articles and books, among others Det postmoderne og de intellektuelle (1998), Sic: Fra litteraturens randsoner (2001), Kyssing og slåssing: fire kapitler om film (co-author Chr. Refsum, 2004), Selviakttakelse: En tendens i kunst og litteratur (2005), Negotiation Immobility: The Moving Image and the Arts (2008), ed. Visual Culture: Between Still and Moving Images (forthcoming 2010) and the paper "The Performative Archive" at The Chinese University, Hong Kong (2008).

Susanne Østby Sæther, Researcher and curator based in Oslo. She has co-curated the exhibitions Comme au cinema: The Cinematic as Method and Metaphor (2008) at Fotogalleriet and Ghost in the Machine at Kunstnernes Hus (2008) and has published several articles, among others “Arkivets estetikk” in 80 millioner bilder (ed. Ekeberg/ Lund, 2008) and "Between the Hyperrepresentational and the Hyperreal. A sampling sensibility?" in Sutton, Brind and McKenzie (eds),The State of the Real. Aesthetics in the Digital Age (2007). Her phd-dissertation The Aesthetics of Sampling: Engaging the media in recent video art (2009) discusses the repurposing of different media and archival material in contemporary cinema and art.

Practical information:
The conference will take place at the National Library, Henrik Ibsens gate 110, Oslo, Norway.
Conference fee: NOK 150 (includes lunch).
Registration and questions: eivind.rossaak@nb.no   by 12 Feb 2009.
Please remember to give your name and billing address. You will be invoiced.
Recommended hotel: Scandic KNA hotel, Parkveien 68, NO-0202 Oslo, Norway. Booking phone: +47 23155700 / +47 23155780
or by email to kna@scandichotels.no 
Reference no: NAS 120309
Web: http://www.scandichotels.no/kna/