This two-day workshop is where designers, artists, and researchers alike can bring their personal practices/to-do lists/diary entries/ draft work to create an index of subject and category citations.

Index as a Diary aims to look at one's own rough draft, editing, and journaling process as a process into archiving. Subjects discussed in the workshop pertain to but do not limit to modes of diary, draft, categories, indexing, metadata, digital preservation methods, cataloging, collecting, and collaboration. We’ll workshop each collection and give each other written and oral feedback. We will read aloud and collaborate as a team to answer the question:

How Do We Index This [Diary]?

Artists will be encouraged to keep a personal collection of a recent project, diary, or portfolio to share with the group. We will interrogate + collaborate as a team to organize, sort and label each other's collections.

A week before the workshop, I will be sharing reading resources about indexing, catalog theory, and artist archives through Notion and Are.Na (http://are.na/) to discuss with the class during Introductions and Part One of the workshop.

https://www.are.na/jessie-mccarty-puuw4kw0lmm/indexing-ueizl7m8xt4

Pen, Journal, Personal Collection, A Draft, and Reading Materials, Laptop or Computer for Streaming

• Filing Methods
• Oral Feedback
• Catalog Theory
• Indexing Introduction
• List Theory

BERLANT, Lauren. Thinking About Feeling . Chicago: University of Chicago, 2008. Abstract: how to write the history of the present under conditions of crisis within the ordinary: in the first instance, AIDS/IRAQ are the goads, in the second, a more generalized but not apolitical atmosphere where the contemporary is encountered not as trauma but flatness.

BRIDGES, Kent. Automatic Indexes as Personal Bibliographies. BioScience, Volume 20. Abstract: An indexing program is described which uses standard bibliographic entries to produce printed author, source, and keyword indexes, a year-frequency table and potential error indicators.

DAVEY, Moyra .

Index Cards . London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020. With excerpts of her book, i confess.

DRABINSKI, Emily. Queering the Catalog: Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/14swRbxek11cPMDBKVgiduub-Ia8XTlw3). New York: CUNY Graduate Center, 2013. Abstract: Critiques of hegemonic library classification structures and controlled vocabularies have a rich history in information studies.

HOWE, Susan. Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives . New York: New Directions, 2014.

MCCARTY, JESSIE. INDEXING: creating indexes is a diary, actually . Are.Na (http://Are.Na). Online.

ORTON, Joe. Ed. LAHR, John. Pick Up Your Ears. The Annotated Biography of Joe Orton New York: Random House, 1978.

PEREC, Georges. An Attempt at an Exhausting Place in Paris. Cambridge: Wakefield Press, 2010.

SALAZAR, Kim. Diary Studies: Understanding Long-Term User Behavior and Experiences . Nielsen Norman Group: Articles, 2016.

SNOW, Karen. Cataloging Ethics Bibliography . Illinois: Dominican University. 2020-Ongoing.

RODEMEYER, Lanei M (ed). SULLIVAN, Lou.

Lou Sullivan Diaries (1970-1980) and Theories of Sexual Embodiment Making Sense of Sensing Pittsburgh: Duquesne University, 2018. Springer International Press. Abstract: I “met” Lou through his diaries during my early archival work. In fact, I think I fell in love. If one can fall in love with someone she can never meet. Not to mention the fact that, since Sullivan was a gay man, he never really would have been interested in me anyway…. In any case, the project morphed—more than once—and now Lou Sullivan’s writings are a major contributor to this project. His life story is too compelling to be used simply as an occasional reference for theory, too provocative to be set aside.