AURORA PICTURE SHOW

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Organization: Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: Archive Team: URLs

TIMESTAMPS

The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20240325055052/https://www.aurorapictureshow.org/calendar.asp?pageid=83&calid=977

KITÂB AL-ISFÂR: BOOK OF THE JOURNEY
Saturday, Mar. 23 (7pm) Aurora Picture Show and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston co-present the US premiere screening of Baba Hillman’s lyrical essay film, followed by an in-person conversation and Q&A with the filmmaker. This kaleidoscopic travelog captures Hillman’s seven-year journey through Spain, Norway, and Scotland to explore a near-death and mystical experience. More details…

VOLUNTEER FOR NIGHT LIGHT
Aurora is looking for volunteers for NIGHT LIGHT 2024, our outdoor event along Buffalo Bayou East on Saturday, April 6. See the link at the bottom of this page for more details…

BYOB 2024 - SIGN UP TO PARTICIPATE
Aurora and The Menil Collection co-present this lively, annual evening of outdoor, community-sourced projections covering the museum’s façade. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, May 11 (The rain date is the following Saturday, May 18). If you are interested in contributing your own imagery to the experience, you must register in advance for a space and time slot, Registration is now open, and is first come first served. More details…

REMEMBERING WILLIE VARELA
We are sad to hear of the recent passing of El Paso-based film and video artist Willie Varela at the age of 74. Last March, Aurora presented Varela in person and screened a selection of his films and videos made between the 1970s and ‘90s. In his memory, we’ve posted here a 30-minute “Aurora Archives” audio piece including his 2023 post-screening talk, as well as a selection of his work. More details…