Jan Merell (1904-1986) This thesis serves as the output of an enumerative survey of Jan Merell archive fund in the documentary centre of the Centre for History of the Czech Theology. The opening study provides an overview of basic life facts of Jan Merell, a Czech catholic priest, a Bible scholar, an advisor at the first and third period of the Second Vatican Council and a long-time teacher and dean at the Cyril and Methodius Theological Faculty. The presentation introduces the basic information about the archive fund, its development, history and archive characteristics. Furthermore it presents a brief study of the fund content and an overview of the archive tools assembly. Then the presentation brings in selected interesting archival documents and their contents. Output of the enumerative study is an archive tool that forms the third chapter of this thesis. The archive tool contains the list of the particular archive documents according to their inventory and file numbers.

My dissertation analyzes the Spanish Nobel Laureate poet’s transatlantic path and his relationship to Spain, the United States and Puerto Rico as expressed in his archival practices from 1916 (his first trip to the U.S.) until his death in 1958. Jiménez went into permanent exile in 1936, when he and his wife Zenobia Camprubí fled from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). During the war and subsequent dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Jiménez would live in Cuba, Coral Gables, Baltimore and Washington before settling in Puerto Rico in 1951. In Madrid, supporters of Franco broke into his residence and ransacked his papers, books and personal items ––his carefully-kept life's work–– which would take many years to recover only partially. Jiménez never returned to Spain. He died in Puerto Rico in 1958, not only writing new poems but rewriting, recreating and “reliving” his poems and prose, labors for which he had always depended upon his personal archive. Before his death, Jiménez destined his Nobel Prize earnings to the institutionalization of his archive (Sala Zenobia-Juan Ramón Jiménez, University of Puerto Rico) and to a museum (Casa-Museo Zenobia/Juan Ramón Jiménez) located in his childhood home in the Andalusian town of Moguer. The dissertation presents Jiménez as a steward of memory across borders and studies how the partial recovery of his papers and the establishment of his Sala in the University of Puerto Rico —one of the very first examples of the acquisition of a major writer’s papers in the U.S. or Puerto Rico— coincides with the formation of a national, cultural narrative and with archival practices heavily dependent upon a shifting national conception of Puerto Rican identity. Jiménez was attempting to reconstruct and preserve his work on an island still struggling to establish national, educational, cultural and archival institutions and to recover from the dispersal of its historical documents throughout Europe and in Washington, D.C. My dissertation examines Jiménez’s archive in the context of Puerto Rico's loss and repossession of its colonial archive and modernization of its own archival practices.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The letters Ryan White received over the course of his diagnosis, illness, and eventual death show a spatial distribution that reflected the United States’ response to Ryan’s condition. Ryan was diagnosed with AIDS in December of 1984 at the height of the epidemic, and the panic that surrounded it. In 2000, the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis accessioned a selection of letters sent to Ryan White and his mother, from 1980 to 1993. The expanded incorporation of these letters into the museum’s “Power of Children” gallery will introduce museum visitors to the public view on Ryan and the role he played in developing the public perception and awareness of AIDS in the 1980’s. Originally, it was anticipated that the distribution and number of letters Ryan received directly related to the concentration and spread of AIDS cases around the US. This research assumed that the AIDS community would have been more supportive and empathetic of Ryan’s diagnosis, resulting in those populations sending a higher number of letters. This assumption was also informed by the fact that the highest number of AIDS cases were in areas with large populations such as New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami. Yet findings showed relatively few letters were coming from the populated coasts where AIDS was more prevalent, and many more letters than expected came from areas with lower populations across the US. Ryan was one of the first children to go public with his AIDS diagnosis, which sparked strong reactions among people throughout the United States. Ryan’s correspondence and the outpouring of support he received allows insight into the multifaceted reaction to the AIDS crisis, especially from young people. Before Ryan became associated with the AIDS epidemic, this disease was seen primarily as an urban, gay, and drug-user related issue. The goal of this research is to gain further understanding of society’s shifting response to Ryan and AIDS during the 1980’s, by placing these letters in their social and geographic context.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(情報学) / 甲第20026号 / 情博第621号 / 新制||情||108(附属図書館) / 33122 / 京都大学大学院情報学研究科社会情報学専攻 / (主査)教授 田中 克己, 教授 吉川 正俊, 教授 黒橋 禎夫 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Informatics / Kyoto University / DFAM

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„Training the Archive“ ist ein Kooperationsprojekt zwischen dem Ludwig Forum Aachen, dem Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund sowie dem Visual Computing Institute der RWTH Aachen University. Das Projekt widmet sich visuellen Archiven und der Frage, wie in diesen Sammlungen neue Zusammenhänge mittels ‚Machine Learning‘ hergestellt werden können. Ziel ist die forschungsbasierte Entwicklung einer Software, die Kurator:innen und Künstler:innen neue Zugänge zu digitalisierten Bildsammlungen ermöglicht. Francis Hunger, einer der beteiligten Forscher erläutert im Gespräch einige Bedingungen, Determinanten und Kontextualisierungen dieses Projekts.

Firing the Canon is written in conjunction with is namesake exhibition, prepared as a culmination of work leading to the master of fine arts degree. In an attempt to help viewers better understand my body of work, I discuss herein: events contributing to my personal narrative, major themes and their origins and pertinent sources of artistic and non-artistic inspiration.

Reflection on Kacper Migas's "In 4th Wall" independent degree project from 2022. The text outlines the research that was done for the "in 4th Wall" degree project and what it revealed during the presentation. The topic revolves around the author's personal exploration of the idea of stories and how they apply to physical practices through various lenses, including feelings, music, and various states of body (Spiritual Body, In-between Body, Physical Body).

Die „Archiv-Analysen“ richteten sich auf die Praktiken des Sammelns und die Prozesse des Erschließens und Nutzens verschiedener Akteure und Institutionen im Bereich Performancekunst / Freie Theater- und Tanzszene. Anhand der unterschiedlichen Arbeits- und Organisationsformen sowie Präsentationskontexte in diesem Feld von Aufführungskünsten untersuchten wir exemplarisch mit dem Haus der Kunst (München) ein großes Ausstellungshaus, das in den vergangenen Jahren u. a. Ausstellungen zu Performance und Aspekten künstlerischer Bewegung gezeigt hat.