The Database

01—Pre-Workshop

A—Art Crawl

01—Beuys, Joseph: “Plight”
02—Cao Fei: “Haze and Fog”
03—Dunietz, Maya: “Thicket”
04—Halsey, Lauren: “Open Space #5”
05—Nous les Arbres
06—Nous les Arbres
07—Penne, Giuseppe: “Respirare l'ombra”
08—Sattar, Reetu: “Lost Tune” (website link)
09—Vanz, Thomas: “Verse” (website link)
Note 001—Notes from The Life of a Dead Tree. (covered)
Note 002—Notes from The Life of a Dead Tree. (uncovered)
Note 003—Exploitation and visiting Centre Pompidou and Fondation Louis Vuitton.
Note 004—Capturing a moment with the senses. (1/2)
Note 005—Capturing a moment with the senses. (2/2)
Note 006—Collective sound and protest. (covered)
Note 007—Collective sound and protest. (uncovered)
Note 008—Visiting Nous les Arbres. (covered)
Note 009—Visiting Nous les Arbres. (uncovered)
Note 010—The universe and the universal truth. (1/2)
Note 011—The universe and the universal truth. (2/2)
Note 012—Thoughts from Brian Jungen’s Friendship Center. (1/2)
Note 013—Thoughts from Brian Jungen’s Friendship Center. (2/2)

Hanger 01—Cvetkovich, Ann: "In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings: Documentary and Popular Culture"

B: Texts

01—Cardinal, Douglas: "Architecture as a Living Process"
02—Dunne, John: "No Man is an Island"
03—Hauser, CJ: "The Crane Wife"
04—Mehrotra, Rahul: “Simultaneous Modernity: Negotiations and Resistances in Urban India”
Note 014—Reflecting on some of my summer course content. (1/2)
Note 015—Reflecting on some of my summer course content. (2/2)
Note 016—Placemaking and doing what feels right.
Note 017—Reflecting on the ‘archive of feelings’. (1/3)
Note 018—Reflecting on the ‘archive of feelings’. (2/3)
Note 019—Reflecting on the ‘archive of feelings’. (3/3)

C—Before I Even Knew It

01—“A hundred flowers bloom”
02—“Thank you for reminding me”
03—“Vernacular Beauty”
Note 020—Reviewing my experiences with taxidermy.

D—Other Thoughts and Extras

01—PEANUTBUSTER PARFAIT + Annex Animal Hospital
02—Proof of presentation
03—First-day presentation
Note 021—Naivety and machine learning.
Note 022—Doing what feels right, who are we designing things for?
Note 023—Taxidermy and the archive of feelings.
Note 024—An excuse to just make things.
Note 025—Fact vs. Fiction, Objective vs. Subjective, Exclusivity + Naiveté.
Note 026—Reconstruction of history and our biases. (1/3)
Note 027—Reconstruction of history and our biases. (2/3)
Note 028—Reconstruction of history and our biases. (3/3)

Hanger 02—Workshop 1: Ideas & Stuff

02—Databases

A—Or Best Offer

01—Kijiji, listing descriptions
02—Kijiji, listing images
03—Kijiji, select listing images
Note 029—Kijiji as an ‘archive of feelings’. (1/2)
Note 030—Kijiji as an ‘archive of feelings’. (2/2)
Note 031—Kijiji as a democratic and honest archive.

B—Trophies

01—Taxidermy business websites
02—Taxidermy quotes
03—Bringing an archive back to life
Note 032—Bringing Your Trophy Back to Life. (1/3)
Note 033—Bringing Your Trophy Back to Life. (2/3)
Note 034—Bringing Your Trophy Back to Life. (3/3)

C—Human Artifacts

01—“Human Artifacts”, draft
02—“Human Artifacts”, colour test prints
03—“Human Artifacts”, all collected images
04—KesselsKramer: “In Almost Every Picture” series
05—Paglen, Trevor: “The Monsters of Capitalism”
Note 035—Machine learning and KesselsKramer.

D—Grave Eternity

01—Crawford, Kate and Trevor Paglen: “Excavating AI”
02—The eternal life of Henrietta Lacks
03—Human Terrain System
04—Paglen, Trevor: “It began as a military experiment”
05—Japanese Female Facial Expression (JAFFE) dataset
06—Paglen, Trevor: “Machine Visions”
07—InterAccess: “Scaffolds I can no longer see”
08—Vesna, Victoria: “Database Aesthetics”
09—“Grave Eternity”, performance and installation documentation
10—“Grave Eternity”, participant contributions (notes and illustrations)
11—“Grave Eternity”, installation (printed images)
Note 036—Machine visions. (1/2)
Note 037—Machine visions. (2/2)
Note 038—Excavating the human terrain. (1/5)
Note 039—Excavating the human terrain. (2/5)
Note 040—Excavating the human terrain. (3/5)
Note 041—Excavating the human terrain. (4/5)
Note 042—Excavating the human terrain. (5/5)
Note 043—Possession and self-documentation.

E—Other Thoughts and Extras

01—Seu, Mindy: “The Poetry of Tools”
02—Flusser, Vilém: “Into the Universe of Technical Images”
03—Ideas for making a humanized database (“ACT 3 IDEAS 'N' STUFF!!!”)
Note 044—Giving life back to an archive.
Note 045—Noting problems and possible routes to resolutions.
Note 046—Demons, social media, and taxidermy.

03—Re-enchantment/Disenchantment

A—Essentially Anonymous

01—Carter, T. Donald: “The Mammals of the Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition, Northern Burma”
02—Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1934–1935)
03—Portraits from Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition of the AMNH (1934–1935)
04—Colorized expedition portraits
05—Museum and displays from the American Museum of Natural History
06—“Outsiders”
07—“Essentially Anonymous”, draft
08—Breasted’s 1919-1920 Expedition to the Near East
09—Alcoff, Linda Martín: “The Problem of Speaking for Others”
10—KesselsKramer: “Small Change”
11—Photographers and documentation
12—Text generation AI
13—“Essentially Anonymous”, craft and process (digital images)
14—“Essentially Anonymous”, final books (printed images)
15—“Essentially Anonymous”, book two preview (video)
Note 047—Model-making and spectatorship. (1/3)
Note 048—Model-making and spectatorship. (2/3)
Note 049—Model-making and spectatorship. (3/3)
Note 050—Finding patterns and metadata.
Note 051—New paths to follow and some small thoughts on ‘ruins’.
Note 052—Essentially anonymous and looking back to the ‘archive of feelings’.
Note 053—Group discussion and more on Essentially Anonymous.
Note 054—Technology and catalogues.
Note 055—The power of (in)visibility. (1/5)
Note 056—The power of (in)visibility. (2/5)
Note 057—The power of (in)visibility. (3/5)
Note 058—The power of (in)visibility. (4/5)
Note 059—The power of (in)visibility. (5/5) + Who am I to speak for them? (1/6)
Note 060—Who am I to speak for them? (2/6)
Note 061—Who am I to speak for them? (3/6)
Note 062—Who am I to speak for them? (4/6)
Note 063—Who am I to speak for them? (5/6)
Note 064—Who am I to speak for them? (6/6)
Note 065—Making a website about (in)visibility. (1/3)
Note 066—Making a website about (in)visibility. (2/3)
Note 067—Making a website about (in)visibility. (3/3)

Hanger 01—Catalogue outtakes

B—Saving Grace

01—Songs from the Amazing Grace collection from the Library of Congress
02—“Saving Grace”, draft
03—“Saving Grace”
04—The Three Perfections
Note 068—Archives and the web. (1/2)
Note 069—Archives and the web. (2/2)
Note 070—Keysmashing on the web and the purpose of a catalogue.
Note 071—Reviving a web experience and being against mockups.
Note 072—Saving Grace and technical images.
Note 073—Embodied documentation and having a conversation about history. (1/2)
Note 074—Embodied documentation and having a conversation about history. (2/2)

“The Metadata of the Archives” manifesto

C—American Memory

01—Documentations of American folk life from the Library of Congress
02—“Shall We Gather at the River?”
03—“American Memory”, selected images
04—NASA’s space expeditions from Archive.org
05—Memory Palace podcast
Note 075—Memory palace.
Note 076—Reconstructing an American memory.

D—Other Thoughts and Extras

01—Bradford, Mark: “Tomorrow is Another Day”
02—Gallagher, Ellen: “Nu-Nile”
03—hooks, bell: “Representations of Whiteness in the Black Imagination”
04—Peebles, Melvin Van: “Watermelon Man”

04—Taking Power

Hanger 01—Sontag, Susan: “Regarding the Pain of Others”

Hanger 02—Notes of Regarding the Pain of Others

A—Exhibition

01—“Exhibition”, sketched drafts
02—“Exhibition”, films
03—“Exhibition”, printing process (digital images)
04—“Exhibition”, final print (printed images)
05—Lightbox, craft and process (digital images)
06—Lightbox, final product (printed image)
Note 095—Public photography and new year goals.
Note 096—Proximity/Familiarity.
Note 097—Planning my first screenprint project. (1/3)
Note 098—Planning my first screenprint project. (2/3)
Note 099—Planning my first screenprint project. (3/3)
Note 100—Planning my first screenprint project (cont'd). (1/4)
Note 101—Planning my first screenprint project (cont'd). (2/4)
Note 102—Planning my first screenprint project (cont'd). (3/4)
Note 103—Planning my first screenprint project (cont'd). (4/4)

B—They beg to be touched

01—“They beg to be touched”, craft and process (digital images)
02—“They beg to be touched”, selected images of craft and process (printed images)
03—Toronto Archives access card
04—Visiting the Toronto Archives (printed images)
05—Displays at the Toronto Archives (digital images)
06—Archive request (PDF file)
Note 104—Writing workshop. (1/2)
Note 105—Writing workshop. (2/2)
Note 106—About my gloves.

C—In All Her Glory

01—Resusci Manikin Faces (bagged)
02—Resusci Manikin Faces
03—Resusci Manikin Face, painted with one false lash glued on.
04—Resusci Manikin Face, painted with one false lash glued on (second angle).
05—“Shall We Gather at the River?” (audio track and website link)
06—Looking more at l’Inconnue (website links)
Note 107—L’Inconnue de la Seine and other objects. (1/2)
Note 108—L’Inconnue de la Seine and other objects. (2/2)
Note 109—Resusci Anne Gloryhole.
Note 110—“Shall We Gather at the River” revisited and thinking about section names.

D—Save Us All!

01—“Save Us All!”, craft and process (digital images)
02—Royal family paper cut outs
03—Cool tape (printed image)
04—“Save Us All!”, final prints (digital images)
05—“Save Us All!”, final print (printed image)
06—“Save Us All!”, prints on shelf (printed image)
Note 111—Right to be forgotten and the Royal Family. (1/3)
Note 112—Right to be forgotten and the Royal Family. (2/3)
Note 113—Right to be forgotten and the Royal Family. (3/3) + Displaying “Saving Grace” at GradEx

E—Other Thoughts and Extras

01—“Right to be Forgotten”, Radiolab podcast (website link)
02—Reihana, Lisa: “in Pursuit of Venus [infected]” (website link)
03—Setting up my shrine.
Note 114—Removing the china from the cabinet. (1/3)
Note 115—Removing the china from the cabinet. (2/3)
Note 116—Removing the china from the cabinet. (3/3)
Note 117—Shrines and making art in the middle of the night. (1/3)
Note 118—Shrines and making art in the middle of the night. (2/3)
Note 119—Shrines and making art in the middle of the night. (3/3)
Note 120—Planning my shrine. (1/3)
Note 121—Planning my shrine. (2/3)
Note 122—Planning my shrine. (3/3)
Note 123—New year, new-ish stuff.

05—Sorting the System

A—The Records, The Archive, and The Database

01—The making of my file cabinet (digital images)
Note 124—Planning my process ‘book’. (1/5)
Note 125—Planning my process ‘book’. (2/5)
Note 126—Planning my process ‘book’. (3/5)
Note 127—Planning my process ‘book’. (4/5)
Note 128—Planning my process ‘book’. (5/5)

B—Classifying Pain

01—Rebecca’s email (digital image)
02—Perec, Georges: “Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books” (website link)
03—Chart drafts (digital images)
04—Mystical diagrams (website link)
Reading more on l’Inconnue. + Categorizing pain (for Rebecca). (1/2)
Categorizing pain (for Rebecca). (2/2)

C—The Cabinet of Disterment, Pain, and Wonder

01—William and Kate (mug)
02—Harry and Meghan (plastic saucer)
03—Masters (oil bottle)
04—Souvenir from the First Communion (plaque)
05—Crown (paper crown)
06—Erhu player (mechanical doll)
07—Incense sticks
08—Ornate metal box (closed)
09—Ornate metal box (open)
10—Shell-shaped metal box (closed)
11—Shell-shaped box (open)
Note 131—Thinking about materials and screens.
Note 132—Displaying at GradEx. (1/2)
Note 133—Displaying at GradEx. (2/2) + Life masks/death masks
Note 134—Thinking about deliverables yet again. (1/4)
Note 135—Thinking about deliverables yet again. (2/4))
Note 136—Thinking about deliverables yet again. (3/4)
Note 137—Thinking about deliverables yet again. (4/4) + Lisa Reihana. (covered)
Note 138—Thinking about deliverables yet again. (4/4) + Lisa Reihana. (uncovered)
Note 139—Thinking about deliverables yet again (cont'd). (1/2)
Note 140—Thinking about deliverables yet again (cont'd). (2/2)
Note 141—Cabinets of Curiosities and my GradEx set up. (1/3)
Note 142—Cabinets of Curiosities and my GradEx set up. (2/3)
Note 143—Cabinets of Curiosities and my GradEx set up. (3/3)
Note 144—Thinking about my poem and cabinets again. (1/2)
Note 145—Thinking about my poem and cabinets again. (2/2)
Note 146—Thinking about my shelves and my ‘cabinet’.
Note 147—Objects for my cabinet.

D—Other Thoughts and Extras

01—“Do Not Print” (digital images)
02—“Do Not Print” (three flip books)
03—“Do Not Print” (three flip books) (detail)
04—Locket (printed images)
Note 148—Making my flip book and thinking about contemporary documentary practices. (1/2)
Note 149—Making my flip book and thinking about contemporary documentary practices. (2/2)
Note 150—Thoughts... (on religion, I guess).
Note 151—Assorted thoughts during reading week.
Note 152—Charts and brochures.
Note 153—Cole’s cool idea.