#Heritage_digitised

Knowledge
Understanding digital restitution

Knowledge
Understanding sustainable digitisation

Knowledge
Understanding inclusive metadata

Interview recording
What does effective digital restitution look like?

Dr. Anne Luther, founder of the Institute for Digital Heritage, is talking about current practices and emerging approaches to digital restitution.

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How can museums use technology to pave the way for a greener future?

Barbara Fischer, Liaison Counsel at the German National Library, is talking about museums, digitisation and climate crisis.

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How can digital technology shape an inclusive narrative?

Adriana Muñoz, curator for the Americas at the National Museums of World Culture in Sweden, is talking about bias and community work in regards to heritage digitisation.

Interview
Opening the archives to other voices

Adriana Muñoz is curator for the Americas at the National Museums of World Culture in Sweden. Over the last decade, she has been involved in questions of restitution, practices of decolonisation and access to collections. For this interview, we spoke to her about decolonising data, the incorrect labelling of objects and working with communities.

Interview
"The sustainability of digitising artwork requires a holistic approach"

Ruth Catlow is the co-director of Furtherfield for art, technology and eco-social change, and co-principal Investigator at Serpentine Galleries' Blockchain Lab. For this article, we spoke to Ruth about “art action research”, the sustainable possibilities of digital exhibitions and the value of friendship.
 

Interview
"Digitisation is a vital step to safeguard cultural heritage"

María Paula Fernández is the co-founder at jpg.space and the Department of Decentralization. For this interview, we spoke to her about the history of NFTs and their potential for reshaping how we think about art and digital restitution.

Interview
Nothing about us without us

The DE-BIAS project aims to promote a more inclusive and respectful approach to the description of digital collections and the telling of stories and histories of minoritised communities. For this interview, we spoke to Kerstin Herlt (Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum) and Marta Franceschini (The European Fashion Heritage Association) about the project. 

Cultural heritage
German Museums Go Virtual

In the past, whenever cultural heritage was destroyed by natural disasters or wars, that destruction was irremediable. But it doesn’t have to be that way anymore: here’s how digital technologies can preserve cultural heritage for posterity.

Competition
Remix your own digital artwork - and win a German course!

GIF IT UP is an annual competition which challenges people to use digitised cultural heritage material - like artworks and photographs - to produce unique gifs and share them online. The competition is run by Europeana with cultural institutions around the world. Throughout October, everyone is invited to create brand new GIFs. This year’s special theme, sponsered by the Goethe-Institut, is "diversity and inclusion", focussing on people and communities that historically haven’t been in the spotlight.

Lives of Objects

Ongoing debates about the restitution of cultural heritage objects that were stolen within various colonial contexts have gained momentum in tandem with a general awareness about the prevalence of various social injustices throughout society. While these discussions have primarily involved academics & museum professionals, artists, activists, and community members have also played an important role in reconfiguring and complicating the discourse.
 

The Right to be Cold

The cross-border interdisciplinary project The Right To Be Cold focuses on the arctic and boreal region. The initiative, which mainly takes the form of a circumpolar chain of residencies and a virtual exchange in 2021, embraces issues relating to indigenous knowledge, ecology, climate justice and culture. The overarching theme is climate change, which is fundamentally challenging and changing living conditions in the northern regions.  

DAOWO Global Initiative

The DAOWO Global Initiative forges a transnational network of arts and blockchain cooperation with leading international arts and technology institutions and communities in cities around the world.

TALKING CULTURE #15: LIVES OF OBJECTS: GALA PORRAS-KIM AND JAMES WEBB

This is the first podcast episode of the Lives of Objects series. For it, we invited eminent artists Gala Porras-Kim and James Webb to discuss the ways in which we think about the lives of objects through an artistic lens. The two have been breaking boundaries within their own disciplines to rethink how we present museological objects and artefacts, particularly those with historical, socio-political and spiritual importance. 

TALKING CULTURE #9: CONTEXTS OF INJUSTICE - DISMANTLING COLONIAL LEGACIES FROM BERLIN TO LONDON

In this episode of the Talking Culture podcast, author and curator Dan Hicks, best known for his book The Brutish Museums (2020), takes stock of the debate around the enduring legacies of empire in our museums, universities and society at large.