A selection of Posters from the Brighton Swimming Club Archives
Cost: Free
Date: Wednesday 7 December
Venue: University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton
Time: 1pm – 4pm
A workshop hosted by the University of Brighton Design Archives in collaboration with the Brighton Swimming Club Archive.
Many organizations are digitising their collections to provide wider access to their holdings. This workshop has been designed to give participants from different backgrounds an insight into the care and digitisation of archival materials.
Note: This event is for students and other volunteers interested in gaining work experience in the field of digitisation through working with the Floating Memories project.
To book a place contact juliette@floatingmemories.co.uk
Speakers
Dr Catherine Moriarty, Design Archives, University of Brighton
Curatorial Director of the University Design Archives, Catherine Moriarty’s work engages with issues that lie at the heart of current research in the humanities – cultural memory, inter-textuality, visual and material culture, particularly sculpture, and the research potential of digital content.
Paul Farrington, Project Director – Floating Memories / Brighton Swimming Club
Daily sea swimmer Project Director for the Floating Memories project and founder of innovative graphic design studio Studio Tonne. Paul works between the spaces of print, interaction and sound design. With over 15 years of conceptualising, planning, delivering and producing large scale projects, printed matter, illustrations, websites and exhibitions for a wide range of cultural organizations such as Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Channel 4, Eyestorm, University of Brighton, IDEO, Imperial College, The Royal College of Art, Mute Records, Sonic Arts Network, Grizedale, New Scientist, Wired and the Association of Computer Machinery – picking up numerous awards (Interactive BAFTA) along the way.
Andrew Bennett, Archivist – East Sussex Records Office (TBC)
East Sussex Record Office, hold an extensive archive of material relating to Sussex, the earliest items being over 900 years old. Andrew Bennett has been working there as the Brighton and Hove Archivist since 2003. He is involved in listing and cataloguing the records that come into the office so that they are accessible to the public. This involves writing a catalogue of each archive and numbering up the items within it so that they can recalled from storage.
Andy Hawkins, Director – ICAM Archive Systems
Sirpa Kutilainen, Design Archives, University of Brighton
Sirpa Kutilainen (BA Photography, PgDip Conservation) has worked as a Digital Imaging and Media Technician at the Design Archives since 2002. She continues her work in developing the digitisation of archival collections alongside the web development of the Faculty of Arts and Design Archives pages. Her passion and research interests lie in paper conservation and museology.
Barbara Taylor, Design Archives, University of Brighton
Barbara Taylor (MA Photography) joined the Design Archives in 2002 as Digitisation Technician for projects such as Designing Britain, Look-Here, Mediahub and the Archives Hub pages. Barbara contributes to both the Design Archives and Faculty of Arts website and Twitter. Barbara’s photographs were featured in the Faculty of Arts 150th Anniversary book. Her work has been exhibited internationally.
Carolyn Thompson, Design Archives, University of Brighton
Carolyn Thompson is Digitisation Assistant at the University of Brighton Design Archives. She is a visual artist, quilt maker and Co-Founder of artists’ collective Catalog with an MA in Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Art, UAL. Working predominantly with found text and images, she exhibits internationally and has completed a number of residencies in archive and museum settings.
Sue Breakell, Design Archives, University of Brighton
Sue Breakell is Archivist and Research Fellow at the Design Archives. Her work engages with questions about the nature, meaning and practice of archives, as well as the history of art and design in the cultural context of the twentieth century.
LesleyWhitworth, Design Archives, University of Brighton
Lesley Whitworth is Deputy Curator and Senior Research Fellow in the University of Brighton Design Archives. Her research focuses on twentieth-century Britain and extends from changes in shopping processes and practices; histories of consumer education; domestic material environments; retail and display design; to the emergence of the industrial design profession.