New Thinking: Archiving, curating and digging for data
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
What stories are being uncovered by people working behind the scenes at museums and institutions? Lisa Mullen finds out talking to Tessa Jackson – Conservator; David Beavan – Senior Research Software Engineer, Turing Institute and Matt Harle – Archivist and curator at the Barbican.
Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life runs at the Hepworth Wakefield from 21 May 2021 to 27 Feb 2022. The gallery also runs a Hepworth Research Network in partnership with the Department of History of Art at the University of York and the School of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Huddersfield. https://hepworthwakefield.org/our-story/hepworth-research-network/people/
Matthew Harle is an archivist working with the Barbican as it prepares for its 40th anniversary so is assembling an archive alongside the Guildhall School of Music and Drama https://www.barbican.org.uk/our-story/our-archive/about-the-archive https://matthewharle.com/Barbican-Archive
The Alan Turing Institute https://www.turing.ac.uk/ is the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence running a host of research projects into topics including AI, Public Policy and Living with Machines - a project that rethinks the impact of technology on the lives of ordinary people during the Industrial Revolution. https://livingwithmachines.ac.uk You can hear more from historian Emma Griffin in this conversation about Understanding the Industrial Revolution https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p081y7h4
This episode was made in partnership with the AHRC, part of UKRI. You can find a playlist exploring New Research on the Free Thinking website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90
Producer: Sofie Vilcins
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| 0:34.6 | I'm Lisa Mullen and welcome to a new thinking episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast, |
| 0:38.8 | which showcases the latest academic research, so keep listening for some surprising insights. |
| 0:43.8 | Archives, libraries, the secret storerooms of museums, these are a staple of fiction, |
| 0:50.3 | where the hero's quest for knowledge can be neatly materialised by a poorly-lit |
| 0:54.9 | labyrinth of dusty old boxes. We love to think that somewhere a vast warehouse of wooden |
| 1:00.8 | crates holds the Ark of the Covenant from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Or maybe inspired by the |
| 1:06.0 | Watergate film All the President's Men, we might fondly imagine a crypt-like newspaper library, where, with |
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