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Title: Memorizing screen (short: MemScreen)

Sub-title: Strategies of memory and narration at the axis Israel and Austria

Authors: Friedemann Derschmidt, Karin Schneider, Attila Kosa

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Abstract

MemScreen understands itself as artistic action research, which is settled at the interfaces of  interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences.  It touches upon the fields of emigration and age research, autobiographical and media research and strives to interlace them meaningfully. The project thus pursues a ¢learning¢ approximation to individually specialized contexts of literature and documentary film, as well as to historiography and information science in line with a narratological approach.

As far as the method is concerned, the research framework aims at a development of strategies to visualize narrating and mnemonic architectures, following the question of how biographic narrations (re)construct themselves on the virtual axis Austria-Israel. It draws heavily on preceding projects of cinematic memory portraits, as well as curatorial cooperative projects focusing on Israel and Austria and takes them further in the sense of a concise compression of the procedures developed so far.

Keywords:

Narration and documentary film, Posthistoire and Holocaust, Jewish migration and artistic autobiography, imaginary places of the memory and identity construction, field of investigation Israel and Europe, Memorial projects and media archaeology / virtual archives.