Creative Engagement with Archival Collections: The Hughes Remix Project

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dc.contributor.authorGraham, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-23T12:31:31Z
dc.date.available2017-06-23T12:31:31Z
dc.date.issued2015-06-05
dc.descriptionThe Hughes Remix project was a collaboration between the Albin O. Kuhn Library Special Collections, the UMBC Department of Visual Arts, and the Society for Photographic Education (SPE). Following in the tradition of using archival images in contemporary photography, Special Collections invited attendees of the 2014 SPE National Conference in Baltimore to use images from the Hughes Company Glass Negatives collection to “remix, reinvent, reinterpret, and reimagine” the historical photographs of Baltimore and environs, street scenes, advertisements, businesses, churches, schools, monuments, factories, machinery, and portraits. The artists involved in this project included SPE members, UMBC students and faculty, and the general public. Each participant selected digital images from the Hughes collection to modify. Through their manipulations and alterations the artists were able to express new ideas, explore aspects of the city’s history, experiment with technology, make connections, play with meanings, and create novel works. The images created for this project were published online at hughes-remix.tumblr.com and displayed at various venues during the 2014 SPE National Conference, "Collaborative Exchanges: Photography in Dialogue.” Special Collections promoted the initial project, ingested the remixed digital works into their long-term digital storage, created metadata, uploaded them to their Digital Collections, and publicized the resulting collection.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Hughes Remix project was a collaboration between UMBC's Special Collections and Visual Arts Department to foster creative engagement with archival materials in conjunction with the 2014 Society for Photographic Education annual conference. Images from the Hughes Company Glass Negatives collection were offered for artists to reinvent, reinterpret, and reimagine.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipCultural Heritage Information Management Forumen_US
dc.format.extent46x44 inchesen_US
dc.genrepostersen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2VM42X1J
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/4175
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collectionen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery Collection
dc.rightsThis item may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. It is made available by UMBC for non-commercial research and education. For permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the author.en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectSpecial Collectionsen_US
dc.subjectPhotographyen_US
dc.subjectArchivesen_US
dc.subjectDigital Collectionsen_US
dc.titleCreative Engagement with Archival Collections: The Hughes Remix Projecten_US
dc.typePhysical Objecten_US

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