the archive as an operational strati-graph. A conversation with Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke publication 2025
Interview and concept: Giulia Rispoli in conversation with Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke.
The Archive as an Operational Strati-Graph is a conversation with Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke exploring the archive as a living system where images, data and knowledge sediment, transform and re-emerge.
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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.
Holotipus is 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 with Giulia Bruno, Armin Linke
Photography: Armin Linke, Giulia Bruno Editing: Holotipus Editorial Team Publisher: Holotipus (Biotaxa)
Holotipus is 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.it Designed, published and printed in Italy by Holotipus publisher & 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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Stratigrafie Operative is an art installation by Giulia Bruno, Armin Linke and Lorenzo Mason developed for the AquaGranda project in Venice, reflecting on memory, infrastructure and the exceptional tide that submerged the city.
Giulia Bruno, Armin Linke, and Lorenzo Mason for the AquaGranda project and archive. Stratigrafie Operative is an art installation with monumental and sculptural traits that flows through the city, reappropriating the very element that has become iconic of that night: a ferryboat. It was born from the joint research action of Giulia Bruno, Armin Linke and Lorenzo Mason, who have been working for the last two years on the collection and reworking of some materials kept by the Venetian institutions that actively participated in the management of the emergency caused by the exceptional tide that submerged the city, the aqua granda.
The whole process was coordinated and managed with the support of the AquaGranda project team, an archive in continuous evolution that aims to keep the memory of that event alive in order to reflect on the future of the city of Venice. Appropriating the spaces usually used for advertising, Stratigrafie Operative retraces the tale of the aqua granda from an unprecedented point of view, layering its memory through technical narratives related to the memory of that night.
Earth Indices: Processing the Anthropocene is a digital publication by Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke exploring geological evidence, scientific images and the processes through which the Anthropocene becomes visible and measurable.
Who is writing the chronicles of the planet? What are the tools and practices that allow us to read Earth’s changes? For many years, artists Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke have closely followed the Anthropocene Working Group’s (AWG) research on the geological evidence for the new Earth epoch of the Anthropocene. Earth Indices portrays both the natural landscapes from which anthropogenic sediments are extracted as well as the complexities of laboratory processes and the inscription devices they employ to transform the sediment into data that can be interpreted. For the exhibition, a multilayered archive was created that relates the anthropogenic traces in the Earth system to the emerging body of knowledge of a new geological epoch.
The navigable image map and PDF that appear here constitute an in progress digital publication resulting from the artistic installation presented at HKW Berlin 19.05-17.10.2022 and are part of the artwork developed and activated through commenting sessions with the scientists of the AWG hosted by Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke. Taking the installation as a starting point, this artistic archiving initiates a conversation with the process being undertaken by the AWG, as they work towards concluding their research and voting on a reference point in order to have the Anthropocene officially recognized as a new subdivision of the geologic time scale.
Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke Interview about process description of Earth Indices. Processing the Anthropocene exhibition with Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt.
This interview with Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke reflects on the process behind Earth Indices: Processing the Anthropocene, presented at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.
Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke The exhibition by artists Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke explores the scientific and social conditions producing the new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.
Earth Indices: Processing the Anthropocene is an exhibition by Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, exploring the scientific and social conditions through which the Anthropocene is produced and understood.
