Web 2.0 interview with me by Victoria Lynn for Broadsheet

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In October the Australian curator Victoria Lynn came to Amsterdam to work on her PhD research. Her topic is the role of archives in visual arts and new media. We did a tour and visited the new Amsterdam municipal archive, the new facilities of the University of Amsterdam special collections and the International Institute of Social History. Amsterdam is a Walhalla for contemporary archives, in particular related to social movements and the arts. Besides the local King of the Archives, Tjebbe van Tijen, and a few others, she also interviewed me on some latest Web 2.0 developments such as realtime internet and the creation of national webs. This rather extensive interview is published in the Adelaide-based Broadsheet magazine on the occasion of the 2010 Adelaide Festival, whose exhibition and Artists’ Week has been curated by Victoria Lynn. I will be one the speakers there.

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