{"id":74,"date":"2015-03-13T18:44:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T01:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cerhendriks\/?p=74"},"modified":"2015-03-13T18:46:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T01:46:52","slug":"identity-as-collection-collection-as-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cerhendriks\/2015\/03\/13\/identity-as-collection-collection-as-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity as Collection; Collection as Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A photo I took of a bookshelf in the home where I grew up.<\/p><\/div>\n

About a month ago we discussed Participation and Identity in this course; you might remember that Kathryn<\/a> and I spoke a lot about Jorge Luis Borges, while Megan Brown<\/a> and I spoke about Tumblr a bit. The gist of the conversation was that, for a person who collects a number of things, that collection might become an identity for that person: I\u2019m thinking of a reblog<\/a> tumblr, where a person makes no \u201coriginal\u201d content but still conveys a sense of themselves through the things they chose to add to their collection. For instance, I am one of those people who reblog photographs of snails. Also, mycology tumblrs<\/a> are a bigger thing<\/a> than you might expect. If you prefer something more high-culture, I\u2019ll add the Borges quote again:<\/p>\n

A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that that patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I haven\u2019t been able to put together any concrete thoughts on this, so I\u2019m not going to give this a full-post treatment, but since then I\u2019ve been toying with the observation that GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and other such glamourous institutions) also<\/em> have collections. You could also consider the GLAM\u2019s collection a key component of its identity. I\u2019m wondering if there\u2019s any way to tie these two things together: the identity-as-collection of social media and the identity-as-collection of GLAMs. Can the practices of one be used to promote the practices of the other?\u00a0The Horniman\u2019s tumblr<\/a> might be a place to look: could a library start a similar project (a book-by-book examination of the library?), linked in with the catalogue\/OPAC in some way?<\/p>\n

A related concept: making a portrait of someone by taking a photograph of books selected from their bookshelves was one of the Art Assignment’s art assignments.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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