Reading Knowledge


25.05.2024


Speaker:

Archival Conciousness

Mariana Lanari, Remco van Bladel

Juliane Pranke &
Judith Galka



Archival Consciousness

This project was initiated by artist Mariana Lanari and graphic designer Remco van Bladel to collaborate with libraries and archives in cultural institutions. They work in close collaboration with archivists to implement methods and infrastructure to turn their collections more accessible.

Mariana Lanari

Mariana Lanari is an artist with a background in Political Sciences, she is a Ph.D. candidate at the Amsterdam School of Heritage and Memory at the University of Amsterdam. Lanari’s work combines performance art and site-specific installation with computation ontology, data science and data literacy to investigate the mediation between physical and digital collections of libraries and archives.


Remco van Bladel

Remco van Bladel runs a multidisciplinary design studio in Amsterdam where he focuses on editorial book design, web platforms, typefaces, and interactive applications. He is a typography teacher at Graphie Design Arnhem, ArtEZ. He was the co-founder of publishing house Onomatopee and online platform WdW Review.


Juliana Pranke


Juliana Pranke is Head of the Public Service Division at Germanys largest Public Library, the Central and Regional Library Berlin (ZLB). Among other things, Juliana Pranke is in charge of user-oriented and customer services and oversees projects related to the promotion of digital and media literacy. She is an experienced event manager and holds a Magistra Artium in North American Studies, Teaching German as a Second Language and Modern History (Dresden University of Technology).

Judith Galka

Judith Galka is an agile, hands-on cultural manager, librarian, and leader with a strong focus on organizational development and participatory formats for knowledge exchange. She holds Master degrees in Media Culture (Bauhaus University Weimar) and Library and Information Science (Humboldt University Berlin) and worked in the Central and Regional Library Berlin (ZLB) for 10 years, in her last role as Head of the Program Department.

Judith Galka & Juliana Pranke