Collective Memory and Technological Reappropriation #
May 16, 2025, 6:00 PM @ Fondo Comini, Via Fioravanti, 68
An event leading up to the Bologna Anarchist Bookfair and Hackmeeting 2025, where three key projects that have contributed to preserving and spreading the memory of social movements through the conscious use of technology will be presented and explored: ecn.org/antifa, ngvision, and grafton9.
ecn.org/antifa was founded in 2005 within Isolenellarete-ECN as an observatory on neo-fascist and anti-fascist activities in Italy.
The project aims to highlight and track neo-fascist attacks often downplayed by traditional media, collect and catalog historical and multimedia materials, and connect and give visibility to various anti-fascist archives.
ngvision.org, launched in the early 2000s, proposed a system for distributing videos online using low-cost web spaces.
Using public domain technologies and software, ngvision offered an alternative to the mainstream information system, allowing movements and critical voices to express themselves freely through video. Although it is no longer active, its video archive can still be accessed and downloaded.
grafton9 takes its name from the historic Bologna-based structure for underground editorial production and distribution but is not a continuation of that experience.
Today, this digital archive collects and makes out-of-print and copyright-free publications accessible on the web through a digitization process that preserves the memory of independent publishing experiences and shares them again.
We will discuss the importance of these archives as tools of resistance and collective memory, exploring their role in countering the dominant narrative and preserving those stories—marginalized, antagonistic, resistant—that would otherwise be lost.
Following the event, convivial moments of fundraising for the Bologna Anarchist Bookfair and resistance songs.