Our global pandemic experience has shown us the great substance and value that accessible and discoverable online archives can be for artists and researchers, as well as for anyone with curiosity and a desire to virtually explore the world, both geographically and temporally.

Can an archive be a Place? Somewhere between the virtual and the actual, a place we can visit, interpret, shape with our perception and art. Somewhere we can find connection, and be connected, be changed by an experience, and leave something in return.

Can a context-specific artist residency in the rural mountains of the Viseu Dão Lafões region in Portugal, make an experimental and experiential shift from the Actual Place to the Virtual Place for a special residency within its Digital Archives; to make this virtual place sensible to the actual? Throughout the year 2022, the Binaural Nodar Digital Archive (https://www.archive.binauralmedia.org) was that destination, that place outside to access and discover virtually, while remaining in one’s home.