The co/lab’s objective is to promote and support cutting-edge information and archival studies research that critically engages with archival contexts -- across community & institutional archives, materials, and practices, including the critical curation of collections and artifacts in digital and analog formats. The co/lab is co-directed by Professors Jamie A. Lee and Zack Lischer-Katz and is both a physical space and virtual community that provides social and technical resources for the transdisciplinary study of digital curation, archiving and archival contexts, and emerging preservation practices across the University of Arizona Campus, US-Mexico Borderlands, and throughout Southern Arizona.. The co/lab provides resources for digital storytelling, analyses of embodied archival practices and other memory and knowledge production, and engagement with the materiality of archival artifacts through analog and digital media technologies. A focus on power and the technical and epistemic labor of archival work and digital curation ground the work in the lab. The lab supports collaborations between researchers in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, enabling cross-disciplinary inquiry, seminars, and produces publications on topics related to the curation and preservation of visual and other formats of multi-sensory archival materials. By maintaining obsolete media formats and computer equipment, as well as digital forensic tools, the co/lab provides resources for conducting cutting edge digital curation research that critically engages with archival formats from the past and the present
