Patrimônio digital e memória: a patrimonialização mundial da Demoscene pela Unesco

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the relationship between Demoscene, the first digital cultural asset recognized as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) heritage, and the memory. Demoscene is a hybrid community, originally Finnish, but born in the digital medium, through contact platforms and online repositories created by people interested in audiovisual and that has evolved into face-to-face meetings, culminating in the interest in patrimonializing their digital memories. The relationship occurs through the mobilization of memory concepts based on Candau (2018) and Huyssen (2004), seeking to analyze the relationship between heritage and culture of memory, starting from the reflection that one should remember the future instead just worrying about the future of memory. This communication is based on documentary and bibliographic research, as well as on the texts “Memory and identity” and “From mnemogenesis to memogenesis”, by Candau (2018), and “Past present: media, politics and amnesia”, by Huyssen (2004). Documentary research has been carried out in databases created by members of the Demoscene community in Finland and Germany. As preliminary results of this study, the relationship between memory and digital culture is pointed out as a way of patrimonializing (individual and collective) narratives born digitally. Also, the relationship between internet studies and the concept of memory in Huyssen (2004) is discussed, articulating the presentification of the past through the patrimonialization.