Abstract
From the memory on our computers to that of our experiences, saving is an everyday action. Full memory or lost memory are problems many of us are familiar with, some on a more personal level than others. We leave multiple and increasingly ephemeral traces, and sometimes our time seems to have broadened, but shortened.
The idea of saving has to do with staying alive – every form of life is different, just as every archive is different. But so is the framing process – to include a study or object in a specific frame, an archive, a museum, a library – means to modify the nature of what we are to save: deciding who or what to leave behind and changing the context of what we save are powerful actions. Saving can even be a political act when it takes the form of opposing cancellation.