This free online seminar series (“Serie 112”), hosted by the National Library of Norway, examines how climate and environmental change sheds new light on our understanding of cultural heritage and history. In this seminar, the environmental aspects of the preservation of audiovisual media will explored. What is the carbon footprint of the digital film and music industries? To what extent can digitization be understood as a material practice? What can audiovisual archives do to limit the carbon footprint of digital and analogue preservation? These questions, as well as others, will be addressed.
Program:
• Introduction (Eirik Frisvold Hanssen, National Library of Norway)
• Kyle Devine, University of Oslo: Recorded Music: Supply Chains, Waste Streams, and the Human Condition
• Nina Lager Vestberg, NTNU: The Labour of Digitization
• Linda Tadic, Digital Bedrock/UCLA: Mitigating the Environmental Impact of Digital Preservation
• Q&A and discussion with the speakers and Siv Frøydis Berg, National Library of Norway
Date: Tuesday December 1 at 9:00-11:00AM Pacific. Presentations will be in English.
Livestreamed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/791240028086492/
More information: https://www.nb.no/hva-skjer/renewable-heritage-footprints-of-the-future/ (click on “For more information in English, click here”)