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The Archive and the Audience

Many artists and makers, especially those working with digital technologies, have interactive aspects to their work where the audience also becomes an important part of the work itself. When working on an interactive project, how do you archive the audience and their experiences? And what are ways to experiment with forms of collective archiving?

The Archive and the Audience is the second session of How to Archive Better: Preserving Practices, a four part workshop series on digital archiving that gives creators and makers the tools they need to archive their own practice.

During this second session, we’ll explore how to archive an audience, discussing and immediately experimenting hands-on with ways to do this collectively. One of our guests is Avery Dame-Griff, author of the book The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet and founder of the Queer Digital History Project. Avery will share his experience with archiving what people do on the internet and why this is important. At the same time, he’ll also be sharing how to take people’s privacy into account when archiving often personal experiences.

We will collectively archive and report Avery’s presentation, by using the open-source and free-to-use publishing tool Etherport. Etherport is a tool for experimental, multi-voiced, and non-linear cultural event reports, developed by Open Source Publishing and the Institute of Network Cultures in the context of the research project Going Hybrid. Gijs de Heij from Open Source Publishing and Tommaso Campagna from the Institute of Network Cultures will join us to introduce us to Etherport and share how it allows for the creation of hybrid publications developed through a collective process with space for audience participation.

After this session, you’ll not only learn about how to bring together the archive and the audience, but also take home a practical tool for quickly and collectively publishing hybrid publications.

📅 Date: 11 December 2025

🕗 Time: 15.00 – 18.00 CET

📍 Location: Studio at Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25, 3015 CB Rotterdam and online