How do you make an archive come alive?Almost every museum has an archive: sometimes tucked away in dusty boxes in a storage room, sometimes stored digitally in the cloud. But what do you actually do with an archive? How can you open it up to the public in new ways? And is it possible for an archive to truly burst into life?
That’s what we’ll dive into during the evening program at MU Hybrid Art House.
To explore these questions, we’ve invited Cream on Chrome, who know better than anyone how to transform an archive into an interactive experience. For MU, they developed the MU Hybrid ArcHive: a living archive where you can rediscover everything that has happened in and around MU over the years. You can wander through it freely, or follow suggested routes or “tracks.”
And if anyone knows how to push an archive out of its original form until it’s almost unrecognizable, it’s Arthur Roeloffzen and Alice Wong. They created the MU Magic Mirror, a playful extension of our living archive. It generates a brand-new kind of mirror image of yourself, built entirely from MU’s own archival material.
! This evening program follows the Wiki edit-a-thon earlier in the day. Want to be there for the full experience? Get your full day ticket here.
