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Life on the Outskirts: Making Sense and use of a Creative Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Robert Knifton
Robert Knifton*
Affiliation:
Kingston University, Knights Park Campus, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2QJ, United Kingdom
*
r.knifton@kingston.ac.uk
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Abstract

Life on the Outskirts is a digital archiving project being undertaken in collaboration between the Helen Storey Foundation and Kingston University. Helen Storey studied Foundation and Fashion at Kingston Polytechnic before her varied career as a fashion designer in Italy and London and as a social artist collaborating with scientists on projects including Primitive Streak, Catalytic Clothing and Wonderland. Robert Knifton uses his work with the Helen Storey Foundation to discuss key issues around digital archiving such as ‘born digital’ artefacts, digital barriers to materiality and ritualized material encounters in the archive, multivocality of digital archival artefacts, and the educational uses of the digital archive, and the great potential of the performative digital archive space.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , 2015 , pp. 5 - 10
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2015

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