The documentation and archiving of mixed media experiences: the case of Rider Spoke

Abstract

This paper introduces the early stages of the research conducted by an interdisciplinary team in Horizon, comprising staff from Computer Science and Performance Studies, who, in collaboration with artist company Blast Theory, Stanford Libraries, British Libraries, the San Francisco Art Institute, the Ludwig Boltzman Institute Media.Art.Research, and Sheffield University, have devised a new form of interactive archive, the CloudPad, for the documentation and archiving of mixed media experiences.