JumpinJackFlash no1

The aging of objects exposes the redundancy of technologies. The record no longer is an album of analogue sounds but a digital record. The digital, an archive itself, creates functionality, drawing on the photographic to produce a contemporary image of the collection. The absence of the camera from the process of the archive further validates the ability of new technologies, in this case the scanner; to measure what Plato calls ‘sensible objects’. The capturing of images are therefore representations that draw upon the measurement of objects and draw a comparison to the ‘equality in the abstract’.

The level of personal interaction with the collection is a factor that governs the logic of these catalogs or ‘stacks’. The results are neither unconscious nor deliberate, but more so an illusion of both concept and medium. As Ross Rudesch Harley notes “Artists have always been plugged into archives, whether it be for inspiration, research or raw material. In doing so they have dislocated archival material from its original intent (storage for prosperity), re-animating popular culture in their own personal style.”