IN.SITE is a project that focuses a creative and critical eye upon the conventional logic of meanings and experience contained within a physical film and video archive. It involved artists investigating the LUX collection of artists' film and video and the concepts and ideas that surround it. The archive includes international experimental film from the 1920's onwards, video art from the early 1970's onwards and installation works in film or video from the 1960's onwards.

DISTRIBUTED LIBRARY PROJECT UK: HTTP://DLP.THEPS.NET
SAUL ALBERT
The Distributed Library Project is an experiment in resource sharing and librarianship, an alternative distribution network for works that have no distribution infrastructure. It is a shared catalogue of videos and books (and soon other items) in which anyone can nominate their home, video shop, or social centre as a library 'node', and make their resources available for lending or reference use. The Distributed Library Project presents a grassroots alternative to more 'institutional' distributors such as LUX.

How does it work? Create an account, then list the videos that you own. You will then have access to the multitude of videos available in other people's collections. You can search for specific authors or titles, browse individual collections, find nearby users, or find people who like videos in common with yours. You will have access to user-written reviews and have the opportunity to write your own. If the owner of a video you're interested in has time for you to pick it up, you can check out items for a 2, 7, 14, or 30 day period (at the owner's discretion). Returning videos late will get you negative feedback, while returning videos promptly will get you positive feedback. You are never under any obligation to lend an item if you don't feel comfortable doing so.

While this is a non-commercial site based on good will, we have an ebay-style feedback system for managing trust. Lenders have the opportunity to leave positive or negative feedback for borrowers when an item is returned. These positive or negative points contribute to an overall "score" which lenders can use to gauge the trustworthiness or responsibility of a borrower. Lenders can also leave comments along with the points to be more specific.

Saul Albert personal website http://twenteenthcentury.com/saulcv

RESEMBLAGE
PEOPLE LIKE US (AKA VICKI BENNETT)
People Like Us (AKA Vicki Bennett) is a sound and video collage artist who creates new work and new narratives from found sounds and images. For this project Vicki was invited to explore and work within the LUX archive to find images and sounds that resonated with her interests and practice and was especially drawn to other 'collagists' such as Lawrence Jordan and Stan Vanderbeek. Vicki then collaged, rearranged and altered the material she found to create a new work, 'Resemblage'. As well as being a new work by People Like Us 'Resemblage' also provides an access point for new audiences into the richness and diversity contained within the LUX collection. In effect this is a piece containing work made as art, recontextualised by an artist, hence the title. The permission of the holders of the original films have been sought before using their work. Resemblage was created with thanks, using film by the following artists: Alan Berliner, Lawrence Jordan, People Like Us, Semiconductor and the Estate of Stan Vanderbeek.
Reassemblage is hosted by www.archive.org where it is available to stream and download in various formats.

People Like Us Resemblage project pages www.peoplelikeus.org/lux.html

More information on all of the filmmakers' works used in Resemblage can be found in the LUX online catalogue

IN.SITE is supported by the Arts Council of England New Media Fund