open archive

" As an institutional practice, archival practices often tend to serve the colonized, surveillance and discipline society of the modern world. However, during the last ten years, with [an upswing in] digital technology and the detection of social movements, the recording and accumulation of images has become a civil activity. Thus, actions of archiving videos and other types of visual images bring about non-institutional practices as well contemporary discussions surrounding the production of images, open source databases, collectivity, and forensics. "