(W)archives

Contributions by Daniela Agostinho, Heba Y. Amin, Ariella Azoulay, Svea Braunert, Anthony Downey, Sophie Dyer, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Solveig Gade, Cristián Gomez-Moya, Sofie Lebech, Aimée Zito Lema, Kathrin Maurer, Kevin McSorley, Anders Engberg Pedersen, Dima Saber, Oraib Toukan, Sarah Tuck, Louise Wolthers, Arkadi Zaides

Digital and data technologies are actively transforming the archives of contemporary warfare. Bringing together a range of scholarly perspectives and artistic practices, (W)archives investigates digital archiving as an integral technology of warfare and how artists respond to these changes. Throughout the book, the (w)archive emerges as a term to grasp the extended materiality of war today, wherein digital archiving intersects with images, bodies, senses, infrastructures, environments, memories, and emotions. The essays explore how this new digital materiality of war reconfigures the archival impulses that have shaped artistic practices over the last decades, and how archives can be mobilized to articulate political demands, conjure new forms of evidence, and make palpable the experience of living with war.