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Sheffield is leading a project to create the UK's first national video game archive, aiming to preserve games and player experiences as cultural heritage, supported by the British Film Institute, with plans to survey existing game materials, maintain playable arcade machines, and document the cultural impact of gaming.
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A note from David Bowie revealing his favourite songs has been discovered in the V&A archive, alongside other personal artefacts, shedding light on his musical influences and final projects, including an unrevealed '18th century musical' called The Spectator.
The David Bowie archive at London's Victoria and Albert Museum opens to the public, showcasing five decades of his creative work, including unfinished projects, costumes, personal items, and notes, highlighting his influence on music, fashion, and culture.
A new V&A exhibition reveals that David Bowie's final project was an 18th-century musical called The Spectator, based on a historical newspaper, with notes indicating his interest in societal satire and theatre, which will be accessible to the public at the upcoming David Bowie Centre in London.
Newcastle University's Chinese Independent Film Archive (Cifa) houses nearly 800 indie films and oral interviews with over 100 filmmakers, making it the world's largest publicly accessible archive of independent Chinese films. The archive, located in the UK, was created by Sabrina Qiong Yu and funded by a £1m grant, preserving films that have been censored or banned in China. The films cover a wide range of topics, including historical events and personal stories, shedding light on aspects of Chinese society that are often silenced. The archive provides a platform for filmmakers to share their work and engage in conversations that are otherwise restricted in China.
Israeli forces have destroyed the central archive of Gaza City, which housed thousands of historical documents, including some over a hundred years old. The bombing of the archive, along with other cultural spaces such as cultural centers, public parks, and the main public library, has been widely condemned as an attempt to erase Palestinian history and heritage. The intentional targeting of important buildings and civilian infrastructure in Gaza has long-term impacts on the besieged enclave's historical heritage and identity.
Sofia Coppola is releasing "Archive," an anthology of rare behind-the-scenes images and ephemera collected during the making of her movies. The book features sketches, letters, magazine clippings, and diaristic polaroids of her muses, including Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning. Coppola's nostalgic coming-of-age narratives and deep dives into the psyches of young women have become iconic in the film industry, despite some of her movies not being box-office hits. "Archive" serves as a time capsule of her career and offers previously-unseen insight into her films.
The Louis Armstrong Center, a new $26 million facility, has opened across the street from the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, New York. The center will house the world's largest archive for any single jazz musician, containing 60,000 items related to Louis Armstrong. The facility aims to expand access to the museum and showcase Armstrong's extensive collection, including homemade tape recordings, scrapbook photo collages, and personal artifacts. The inaugural exhibition, titled "Here to Stay," was curated by pianist Jason Moran and celebrates Armstrong's enduring legacy.
Documentary makers NoClip have rescued boxes of archive video game footage that were heading to a landfill, potentially saving valuable gaming history. The footage, originally sent to press on video tapes, includes interviews and reveals that were not previously available online or were of lower quality. The footage is being converted into digital format and archived on a new channel. Supporters can contribute to the project on Patreon.
A digital archive has been created to preserve the work of murdered journalists in Mexico, many of whom ran self-funded blogs, websites, and Facebook pages. The archive, which contains over 12,000 clips from 43 journalists, aims to shed light on unsolved cases and patterns of violence, and to serve as a tool to study the dangers faced by local reporters and citizen journalists. The work of these journalists was often daily, opinionated hyperlocal news and citizen reporting that called out abuses of power and demanded better public services and accountability. The archive is an invaluable tool for qualitative analysis that can help design better public policy to prevent violence against local reporters and citizen journalists.
Guerlain, the iconic French cosmetic company, has opened its first archive, a warehouse of wonders shrouded in secrecy and hidden from public view by Paris’ Seine River. The archive contains treasures such as the world’s first lipstick, the first modern perfume, and the original Nivea cream and serum. The collection spans three centuries and includes documents and mysterious objects, each with a unique history of its own. The archive is a gem of artifacts that brings stories from the company’s sensational past to life.
Microsoft is adding built-in support for RAR, 7-zip, .tar, and other archive types to Windows, beyond the current support for .zip files. The feature will be especially useful for developers and users of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. The support will be handled by the open source libarchive project, and will likely match the list of file types on libarchive's GitHub page. The feature will be added to a "work-in-progress" build later this week, and may be exclusive to Windows Insider preview builds before rolling out to the general public.
The Steve Jobs Archive has released a new free ebook called "Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words," featuring a collection of photographs, emails, speeches, and interviews from the Apple co-founder. The book covers Jobs' history with Apple, as well as his perspectives on other events throughout his life, including his childhood and his time with Pixar and NeXT. The ebook is available to read on the Archive's website and Apple Books, and includes an introduction from Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs.
The Steve Jobs Archive is releasing a free ebook titled "Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words" featuring speeches, interviews, and correspondence from the Apple co-founder. The book will include an introduction by Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, and will cover his childhood, time at Apple, Pixar, and NeXT, and his return to the company. The book will be released on digital platforms on April 11th, with future digital exhibits, programs, and fellowships promised by the archive.