Author: Hannah Rothfield
I am just finishing my second-semester as a Dual Degree HAD/LIS student. After working for over a decade in film and television, mainly working in props departments, I've has always had a interest in the information that an object contains.
The exhibition will comprise the students’ final projects—artworks that integrate or draw inspiration from digital or analog materials from the Pratt Institute Archives.
When does a prop become an artifact, when does an artifact become a prop? When is it okay for a person to take an historic object and use…