A number of researchers, theoreticians and artists will be taking part. The aim is to pool their work on subjects as fundamental as the relation between identity and identification, ethnology and nationalism with archives, the interaction of the human body and its classification in archives, the interrelation between archive, museum and art in the 20th century, the impact of the audiovisual on the world of the archive, the management of history through the classification of data and objects, the creation of scientific truths through an “archive language” and, lastly, the impact of the most recent technical and scientific research on the capacity to accumulate information and produce knowledge.