What is Interference Archive?
The mission of Interference Archive is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements.
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Walkout: A Brief History of Student Organizing
Online Only
June 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020
May 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the Kent State and Jackson State massacres, which set off a historically large-scale student strike across the nation. With the anniversary as an entry point and frame of reference, this exhibition uses archival material from the Interference Archive collection to examine the broader scope of student movements that both led up to and followed in the wake of May 1970.
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December Collections Working Group meeting
Thursday, December 2, 2021 @ 6:00 PM
Our collections working group meets in person on the first Thursday of each month to plan out the work needed on our collections; to discuss and improve workflows; and to go over offers of collection donations. If it’s easier for you to join the meeting virtually, email info@interferencearchive.org for details on how to connect with […]
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Education Working Group December meeting
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 @ 6:00 PM
Join our Education Working Group for a hybrid meeting on December 7th at 6pm; some folks will be at Interference Archive, or email classes@interferencearchive.org for a link to join virtually.
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December Admin Working Group meeting
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 @ 7:00 PM
Our monthly admin working group meetings are online, and all are welcome to attend. Send us an email at info@interferencearchive.org for details on how to join virtually.
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Our collection includes tens of thousands of items created as part of social movements around the world, by the participants themselves: posters, flyers, publications, zines, books, T-shirts and buttons, moving images, audio recordings, and other materials. For us, making this material accessible to the public is an act of preservation, not only of the physical materials, but of the collective history of those struggling for social change. Learn more about our collections and set up a time to visit them in-person in the archive.
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Audio Interference 82: Dane Michael on Zines & Mutual Aid
In this episode, we speak with Interference Archive volunteer Dane Michael about his favorite zines in the archive’s collection as well as his interest in collecting radical print materials and mutual aid ephemera, which he regularly donates to the archive. In particular, Dane shares experiences traveling to social centers and radical spaces in Madrid, Barcelona, […]
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New in the collection: TAP: The Hobbyist’s Newsletter for the Communications Revolution
Along with an impressive collection of 2600 that we received at Interference Archive, we found an issue of TAP: The Hobbyist’s Newsletter for the Communications Revolution. Articles include “Dunn and Bradstreet: Do they know something that we don’t,” “Yet More Phun with UNIX,” and a song mourning the end of Bell Systems. Find it in […]
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Americans Before Columbus: collections that help us think about collecting
In preparation for an event we’re helping with this weekend at the Museum of Art and Design, we’ve been digging through our newspaper collections — specifically, our collection of Indigenous newspapers. A special edition of Americans Before Columbus caught our eye because of an article of “Sacred Objects and Secular Laws,” which discusses repatriation of […]
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Exhibition Catalog: Walkout: A Brief History of Student Organizing
May 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of the Kent State and Jackson State massacres, which set off a historically large-scale student strike across the nation. With the anniversary as an entry point and frame of reference, this 96-page full color publication uses posters, buttons, pamphlets, flyers, zines, and more—to examine the broader scope of student movements that both led up to and followed those of May 1970.