This collection of archival materials gives more context on Kate’s digital projects and the development of each work. You can access past blogs, websites, development journals etc., many of them reconstructed and accessible again after many years of being unavailable.
Blogs, development journals and other archival materials
trAce Transition Journal (2002 – 2003)
Kate kept this online journal, created using her own basic FTP and HTML skills, during her year-long Research Fellowship at trAce. After the fellowship, the journal was changed to Kate Pullinger’s TrAce Studio website and later on was included in Kate’s first personal website.
The Breathing Wall: an online journal (2003 – 2004)
Kate kept this online journal while working on “The Breathing Wall”. The journal, created using Kate’s own basic FTP and HTML skills, was accessible on Kate’s first website and linked with trAce Transition Journal. It also includes Chris Joseph’s fragment on his experience of working on the project.
Flight Paths blog (2009)
This WordPress blog (archived on 28th April 2009) was the first platform used by the “Flight Paths” community. Note that not all audio and visuals are accessible now and some links are broken. However, the overall functionality of the website was preserved in this reconstruction.
Flight Paths Netvibes Universe (2009)
Netvibes Universe, an early web aggregator, was the second platform used by the “Flight Paths” community, as Pullinger and Joseph worked to find a more suitable online space for collaboration than the project’s WordPress blog. Here you can see screenshots from this Universe.
Duel blog (2012)
“Duel. A Digital Fiction Thriller Project Blog” was kept by Pullinger between January and October 2012. It was accompanied by the “Duel Development Journal” kept by Pullinger and Campbell, which you can access via the reconstructed version of the project.
Memory Makes Us gallery (2013)
In this gallery you will find a selection of memories Kate used as her inspiration when working on her text for the “Memory Makes Us” project. During the event on 9th July 2013 people delivered their memories typed or handwritten on papers with the project logo or written on simple sticky notes. Participants also could submit memories by email, YouTube or Twitter.
Kate’s previous websites
Kate’s first website (2003 – 2008)
Here you can find Kate’s first official website, designed by Simon Mills who was part of the team at the trAce Online Writing Centre. trAce was an online community for writers, led by Prof Sue Thomas, based at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Kate was a Research Fellow at trAce in 2002 – 2003, looking at forms of online narratives as part of the project “From Page to Screen”. She also taught online for the trAce Writing School.
Kate’s second website (2008 – 2015)
This was a previous version of Kate’s website, designed by John Biggins of Aerta Creative. Note that some of its links are no longer working. It also contains a “Secret blog”, the blog Kate wrote till 2015. A new website was created in 2015 by Chris Joseph; this is the site you are looking at now.
Information about the creation of this archive
The construction of this archive as well as the reconstructions of many previously inaccessible works which you can now read on Kate’s website, were supported by the Excellence Initiative – Research University (IDUB) project led by Dr Agnieszka Przybyszewska at the University of Łódź (2022-2024) and funded as part of the increased by 2% subsidy for the universities participating in “The Excellence Initiative – Research University” competition.
Chris Joseph’s work on designing and implementing the archive structure was invaluable. Both Chris and Andy Campbell helped reconstruct the materials that are now accessible through this website.
While reconstructing blogs, development journals, and Kate’s websites, we focused on leaving them as ‘untouched’ as possible while preserving at the same time whatever we could of their functionalities. For example, we have added comments in pop-up windows to provide information about links that don’t work today. Where missing websites were archived in the Internet Archive, we linked directly to Wayback Machine entries in order to show what pages not accessible today looked like. When we could, we updated the websites by linking to the reconstructed works, new websites etc.
Any minor differences between the original digital artifacts and their versions collected on this website were dictated by our efforts to make the viewing experience useful and comfortable as well as the funding limits. For example, we added years to the “Transition Journal” navigation menu to make the structure of the blog clearer in the context of modern design. In addition, with the agreement of Kate, Andy Campbell altered the “Duel Blog” background when it was too complicated and costly to reconstruct the original.