I submit for a primary premise that an archive is a sample set distillation and organization of objects of perceived long term value into Place. Therefore it is inherently an architectural exercise as much as it is an archeological one. Taking those variables to the extreme, nothing in contemporary culture has more potential archeological value, and is more placeless, then the mass of non-even digital material.
Now the condition is- is that in their native state, these tidbits are white noise in substantive content, even though they are incredibly dense in their ubiquity. (Perhaps because of their ubiquity there is no weight assigned to instance.) Furthermore, all these instances largely circumvent the designed environment.
The necessary explorations to validate a physical archive for the aforementioned content include efforts to 1) extract the digital tidbits and assign a quantitative value, 2) Attach the content to a destination and 3) Make it useful to posterity.
The goal of the synthesis here is beyond just archiving a sample set of the cloud of 1s and 0s as a cultural record. The NYAAOMDT is ideally a forum to discover a more profound significance in our non-event experiences.
This goes on and on, but the point is made for this format.
