Nanna Bonde Thylstrup - Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data

Edited by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Daniela Agostinho, Annie Ring, Catherine DIgnazio, and Kristin Veel

The MIT Press

Cambridge, Massachusetts

London, England

2021 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Names: Thylstrup, Nanna Bonde, editor.

Title: Uncertain archives : critical keywords for big data / edited by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Daniela Agostinho, Annie Ring, Catherine DIgnazio, and Kristin Veel.

Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020004704 | ISBN 9780262539883 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Big dataSocial aspects. | Archival resourcesManagement. | Uncertainty (Information theory)

Classification: LCC CD931 .U53 2020 | DDC 027dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020004704

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Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Daniela Agostinho, Annie Ring, Catherine DIgnazio, and Kristin Veel

Sarah T. Roberts

Marika Cifor

Sune Lehmann

Alana Lentin

Aristea Fotopoulou and Tanya Kant

Daniela Agostinho

Annie Ring

Ulrik Ekman

Nicole Starosielski

Minh-Ha T. Pham

Tahani Nadim

Orit Halpern

Pepita Hesselberth

Miriam E. Sweeney

Roopika Risam

Ml Hogan

Lila Lee-Morrison

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup

Louise Amoore

Critical Software Thing: David Gauthier, Audrey Samson, Eric Snodgrass, Winnie Soon, and Magdalena Tylik-Carver

Caroline Bassett

Shannon Mattern

Frederik Tygstrup

Craig Robertson

Romi Ron Morrison

Rebecca Schneider

Tara L. Conley

Lisa Blackman

Luciana Parisi

Christian Ulrik Andersen and Sren Bro Pold

Brooklyne Gipson, Frances Corry, and Safiya Umoja Noble

Kristin Veel

Amelia Acker

Sumita S. Chakravarty

Os Keyes

Lisa Gitelman

Mimi Onuoha

Mushon Zer-Aviv

Timon Beyes

Catherine DIgnazio

Kate Elswit

Patrick Keilty

Manu Luksch

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Boaz Levin, and Vera Tollmann

Jacqueline Wernimont

Tonia Sutherland

Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld

Natasha Dow Schll

Celia Lury

David Lyon

Olga Goriunova

Miriam Posner

Nora Al-Badri

Kristoffer rum

Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund

Elena Esposito

N. Katherine Hayles

John S. Seberger and Geoffrey C. Bowker

Johanna Drucker

Birkan Ta

Daniel Rosenberg

The effort of many more institutions and people than can be mentioned here is required to produce a book such as this, and we are grateful for the support we have received throughout. Our deepest appreciation goes to the contributors to this book for trusting us with their inspiring work. We would like to thank the Independent Research Fund Denmark and the Carlsberg Foundation for supporting our work. We express our gratitude to Ece Elbeyi, Naja le Fevre Grundtmann, and Johan Lau Munkholm for their comments and suggestions on the introduction and some of the chapters. We thank Charlotte Johanne Fabricius and Sayuri Nakata Alsman for organizing our many events throughout the years. We thank the former research fellows of the Uncertain Archives collective for expanding the reach of the initial project and for cobuilding the supportive and lively environment that Uncertain Archives has become: Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Pepita Hesselberth, and Ekaterina Kalinina. We would also like to express gratitude to the scholars who participated in our events and helped us advance our thinking: Ramon Amaro, La Vaughn Belle, Mons Bissenbakker, Nisrine Boukhari, Mathias Danbolt, Anthony Downey, Keller Easterling, Knut Ove Eliassen, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Anat Fanti, Maria Finn, Rune Gade, Mariam Ghani, Adam Harvey, Ben Kafka, Kara Keeling, Laura Kurgan, Lee Mackinnon, Kevin McSorley, Rabih Mrou, Lene Myong, Emily Rosamond, Antoinette Rouvroy, Evelyn Ruppert, Susan Schuppli, Hito Steyerl, Sarah Tuck, Louise Wolthers, Brian Kuan Wood, and David Murakami Wood. We thank the artists who have collaborated with us for critically expanding our imaginative horizons: Honey Biba Beckerlee, La Vaughn Belle, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Stense Andrea Lind-Valdn, and Kristoffer rum. For hosting, supporting, and cobuilding the manifold Uncertain Archives events, we thank Timon Beyes, Simon Enni, Christopher Gad, Solveig Gade, Anne Klbk Iverson, Natalie Koerner, Lee MacKinnon, Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer, Mace Ojala, Rene Ridgway, Devika Sharma, Henriette Steiner, and Rens van Munster.

We thank the members of the Living Archives research project at Malm University, Susan Kozel and Temi Odumosu, for fruitful collaboration and exchange. We thank the students whom we had the pleasure to teach and supervise throughout the duration of our project for engaging with our ideas and enriching them with questions. Moreover, we would like to thank the many friends and colleagues who have contributed to the supportive environment where Uncertain Archives has had the privilege to flourish, including Lene Asp, Taina Bucher, Marisa Cohn, Rachel Douglas-Jones, Ulrik Ekman, Mikkel Flyverbom, Rasmus Helles, Marianne Ping Huang, Jacob Lund, Ulrik Schmidt, Jens-Erik Mai, Annette Markham, Kathrin Maurer, Torin Monahan, Helle Porsdam, Brit Ross Winthereik, Mette Sandbye, Laura Skouvig, Sille Obelitz Se, Karen Louise Grova Silen, Mette Marie Zacher Srensen, Stina Teilmann-Lock, Frederik Tygstrup, Bjarki Valtysson, Katarzyna Wac, Tanja Wiehn, and the Digital Culture research group in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen. We would also like to thank Merl Storr for language editing and ensuring consistency throughout the book and Julitta Clancy for creating an extremely comprehensive index. Working with the MIT Press has been a pleasure. We are grateful to our editor Doug Sery, who recognized the potential of this book early on and helped us to develop it, and the anonymous reviewers whose helpful comments and constructive suggestions helped us shape this multivocal endeavor. And we owe many thanks to the wonderful team of professionals at the MIT Press, including Noah Springer, and Wendy Lawrence and Helen Wheeler at Westchester Publishing Services, who provided invaluable guidance on the project.

Finally, we owe infinite gratitude for the love and support of our friends, families, and communities. Nanna would like to thank Liv Bonde Graae, Georg Gammeltoft Thylstrup, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Karen Lise Bonde Thylstrup, Asger Thylstrup, her extended family, and all of her wonderful friends. Daniela would like to thank Amr Hatem, Ana Teresa Maltez, Andr Alves, Danilo scar Fernandes, Pepita Hesselberth, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Lucian Leahu, Sbastien Lorion, Pedro Montoya Navarro, Sara Magno, and the Sorte Firkant community. Annies thanks go to Anna Bull, Ellen Pilsworth, Gzde Naiboglu, Marie Kolkenbrock, Ina Linge, Kristin Veel, Jens Elze, Stefanie Orphal, Fiona Wright, Adam Jacobs Dean, Philippe Marie, Victoria Camblin, Joey Whitfield, Sarah Mercier, and Leila Mukhida; to Catherine, Tess, Anne, Brendan, Louise, Barbara, and Patrick Ring, with a special mention for Emilia Jasmine Ring; and to her Pink Singers family. Catherine would like to thank David Raymond, Maria Lopez Rodas, and Mimi and Bup Raymond for the time to write and reflect amidst the chaos of children, as well as her dear friend Mushon Zer-Aviv, for brainstorming during early iterations of this project. Kristin would like to thank Rasmus Veel Haahr and Margrethe Veel Haahr for participating in building the archives of the future, as well as her forebears, who live on in archival memory and to whom she owes so muchnot least a love of archives.