Vanishing Culture Book Launch!
by The Editors
The Internet Archive’s Vanishing Culture project brought together dozens of voices dedicated to the preservation of digital media: librarians, archivists, journalists, curators, and scholars and historians in the fields of software, video games, film, broadcasting, digital humanities, book arts and much more—a fascinating interdisciplinary group, all sharing ideas, experiences, and writing on the vital importance of preserving our fragile digital history.
The effort expanded into a PDF book of essays including one by Hydra Maria Bustillos, alongside many luminaries including Digital Librarian Brewster Kahle, media scholar Claire Wardle, archivist and filmmaker Rick Prelinger, and video game designer Jordan Mechner. The collection was edited by humanities scholar Luca Messarra, the Archive’s Director of Library Services, Chris Freeland, and policy attorney Juliya Ziskina. And tomorrow will see the publication of a real live paper book, published by the Archive, and designed by Freya Morgan and our very own Joe MacLeod.
“I’m jazzed about it,” Chris Freeland tells us. “We’re committed to the work, we’re committed to this message. We’re trying to find all of the ways that we can let people know, to raise the alarm, to ring the bell of this challenge.”
If you are in San Francisco tomorrow, April 23, please head over to the book launch! Tickets are $10, and the event will take place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Internet Archive headquarters on Funston Avenue.
Congratulations to all who collaborated, and who are joining forces to build a brave new world of publishing.
There will be a livestream of the event here:
