Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
An exploration of the physical and conceptual barriers that prevent cultural institutions from capturing the intangible dimension of food, beyond the mere preservation of objects.
Open storyBeyond the physical shell, video game preservation requires integrating hardware, documentation, and playability. An analysis of the limits and possibilities of contemporary archives.
Open storyFood brings together material, sensory, and social dimensions that cannot fit completely in a display case. Archives and museums document them through objects, images, texts, and context, without fully reconstructing an experience or proving habits for which evidence is lacking.
Open storyDesign archives preserve more than finished objects: they make it possible to study decisions, uses and visual languages within their cultural context.
Open storyA preserved photograph is at once an image, an object, and part of a collection. Documentation can enlarge its history, while defining what cannot responsibly be claimed.
Open storyCER.es lists a sticker album titled *Historia del Circo* and gives details that help identify it and place it institutionally. The record opens avenues for research, but does not by itself document the object’s history, variants or circulation.
Open storyCatalogues can help identify objects and variants, but they cannot by themselves tell us how items were gathered, exchanged, or preserved. CER.es records and museum documentation help distinguish what is known—and what remains to be investigated—about sticker albums.
Open storyPosters, programmes, photographs and production documents help us study how cinema was presented and preserved. They also reveal the limits of what can be said about reception, especially when trying to connect theatrical exhibition with home video.
Open storyAnalyzes how the contemporary preservation of retro objects transcends mere digital custody to become an active documentation process that redefines the relationship between past and present.
Open storyPreserved tins, food-related archives and projects on the history of eating document different aspects of the table. Reading them together helps separate commercial imagery from what we can actually establish about domestic habits.
Open storyPhotographs, plans and archival documents can offer clues about an interior, but they cannot by themselves reconstruct who used it or how it was lived in. The available institutional sources help distinguish what is documented from what remains a question.
Open storyPhotographic archives show why documenting an image means distinguishing what is visible from information about its support, organisation and context. The available sources support that question, but do not identify specific material processes for particular images.
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