Archive Lucida
digital catalog and journal of time-based media
The technological revolution, a by-product of late-stage capitalism, ultimately led art to a Marxist destination — the cinema. Unique in its technological reproducibility and inherent ability to escape the bounds of singularity, early cinema achieved an unprecedented populistic appeal amongst its urban proletariat audiences. Film is a democratizing medium, accessible to the masses through the reorientation of dominant institutional hierarchies and cultural exclusivities. Archive Lucida adopts this same objective as a universalizing platform for digital humanities research, preservation, and publication. Our collections are curated and made public for mass consumption, free from traditional barriers to entry. Our platform draws inspiration from the Early Surrealists, French photographer Eugène Atget, Filmmaker László Moholy-Nagy, and the writings of Walter Benjamin, Anton Kaes, and Gernot Böhme. As a freeform, digital archive, we aim to make underrepresented art, time-based media, and academic materials decentralized and publicly accessible.
Landen Fulton
Editor in Chief
Landen is a student of Philosophy and English and Comparative Literature with a concentration in Film Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a research assistant within UNC's Department of Film and Media Studies, studying early educational cinema exhibition practices. He also works as the Communications Manager for Chapel Hill's freeform radio station—WXYC 89.3 FM. Landen's research interests include early surrealism, American avant-garde cinema, media philosophy, and archival studies. In his free time, he enjoys coffee, biking, and geography games.
Broden Fulton
Chief Developer
Broden is a junior Software Engineer and incoming freshman at the University of Oklahoma, majoring in Computer Science and Art History. He is the founder of Edmond Film Society and a partner of the historic Rodeo Cinema. Through curated programming, he seeks to bring underrepresented film to Oklahoma. Broden is interested in researching digital humanities by developing computational systems to analyze media, specifically film. He aims to introduce computation to the humanities to aid education, art preservation, and media studies.
Other Contributors
Eduardo Castaneda, Madyson Long
Archive Lucida
The technological revolution, a by-product of late-stage capitalism, ultimately led art to a Marxist destination — the cinema. Unique in its technological reproducibility and inherent ability to escape the bounds of singularity, early cinema achieved an unprecedented populistic appeal amongst its urban proletariat audiences. Film is a democratizing medium, accessible to the masses through the reorientation of dominant institutional hierarchies and cultural exclusivities. Archive Lucida adopts this same objective as a universalizing platform for digital humanities research, preservation, and publication. Our collections are curated and made public for mass consumption, free from traditional barriers to entry. Our platform draws inspiration from the Early Surrealists, French photographer Eugène Atget, Filmmaker László Moholy-Nagy, and the writings of Walter Benjamin, Anton Kaes, and Gernot Böhme. As a freeform, digital archive, we aim to make underrepresented art, time-based media, and academic materials decentralized and publicly accessible.
