the archive as an operational strati-graph.
A conversation with Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke

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2025
Holotipusis an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to Zoology, Systematics and Taxonomy. Special issues are dedicated to editorials and scientific papers focused on Art and Biology
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The conversation The Archive as an Operational Strati-Graph explores the archive as a living system — a dynamic and layered structure where data, images, and knowledge sediment and re-emerge through processes of observation, documentation, and translation.
Through the dialogue between Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke, the text investigates how archives operate as tools of knowledge production and as infrastructures that shape our understanding of the environment, technology, and society. The “operational strati-graph” becomes a conceptual framework to think about how visual and informational strata interact, overlap, and transform over time.
The conversation was published in Holotipus, a journal dedicated to interdisciplinary reflections on archives, documentation, and visual culture.


Holotipusis an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to Zoology, Systematics and Taxonomy. Special issues are dedicated to editorials and scientific papers focused on Art and Biology
Interview and Concept: Giulia Rispoli in conversation ersation with Giulia Bruno, Armin Linke

Photography: Armin Linke, Giulia Bruno
Editing: Holotipus Editorial Team
Publisher: Holotipus (Biotaxa)

Holotipusis an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to Zoology, Systematics and Taxonomy. Special issues are dedicated to editorials and scientific papers focused on Art and Biology.Submitting papers should be addressed toPublisher, Chief Editor or Managing Editor.holotipus@holotipus.itDesigned, published and printed in Italy by Holotipus pu-blisher & ActionKlavier studio,Corso Peschiera 315/A, 10141 Torino.Holotipus rivista di zoologia sistematica e tassonomia ISSN 2704-7547PublisherMatteo GrassoNABA Department of Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, Via C. Darwin 20, Milano (Italy), ActionKlavier studio, Corso Pe-schiera 315/A, 10141 Torino (Italy).Edited by Cristina Baldacci & Emiliano GuaraldoUniversità Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali e THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environ-mental Humanities (NICHE), Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Dorsoduro 3484/D e Ca’ Bottacin, Dorsoduro 3911, Calle Crosera, 30123 Venezia.Co-Editors-in-ChiefFrancesco VitaliMusée national d’histoire naturelle de Luxembourg (Luxem-bourg).Marco ScotiniHead of the Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies Department at NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Via C. Darwin 20, Milano (Italy)
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