http://www.archivenotes.net/shift/

This site explores material found on the web about slavery (specifically North- American and West Indian) and re-configures this into a series of fragmented narratives.

My web projects look at the concept of digital archives, authenticity and memory. Each one has an interest in the types of narratives and data that are to be found on the web, and in how this material can be recuperated and/or reconfigured to question notions of history and continuity within the digital archive. There is also the question of voice: how the web is perceived to be a unifying democratic space, with mythologies of globalisation attached to these concepts:ones which define content, author and audience as homogeneous. These sites are mini-narratives that resist this promise of the web, to propose a more modest look at how the web can be a space to interrupt this very idea of consistency.

Deanne Achong is an artist living and working in Vancouver, Canada. She works with photo and video-based installations, and projects on the web. She holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, (NSCAD) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and an MFA from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Deanne has exhibited her work in Canada, the US and Europe. Her interests lie in exploring the concept of the archive, the instability and ephemerality of digital media, and notions of memory, colour, and narrative structure.

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