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CCI to Host Document Academy 2024 Meeting

MRC member Tim Gorichanaz is organizing this year’s annual meeting of the Document Academy (Docam ’24) taking place from September 18-20. This year’s theme is “Documents from the Future.”

Documents involve technology, meaning they change with the times. The ancient Latin root of “document” referred to an oral teaching, and centuries later the most common form of document was a piece of paper. Now, with computing widespread, perhaps most documents are digital. What will tomorrow’s documents bring, particularly in light of generative AI? What might change, and what might stay the same?

http://documentacademy.org/?2024

Docam ’24 will feature an array of presentations exploring the social, cultural, and technological conceptualizations and effects of documents and their possible future iterations. Among the presenters at this year’s meeting will be the MRC members Chris Rauch, Mat Kelly, and Hyung Wook Choi. The conference agenda, including a full list of presenters and presentations can be found here.

The Document Academy was founded in 2001 by Maribeth Back and Niels Windfeld Lund. The organization is dedicated to exploring documents and documentation through a variety of media and means. For more information about the Document Academy, please visit their website: https://documentacademy.org/