Welcome to a K3 seminar with Temi Odumosu, Senior Lecturer in Art History, K3. The title of the talk is:<\/p>\n
The Crying Baby: On Colonial Archives, Digitisation, and Ethics of Care in the Cultural Commons<\/em><\/p>\n It will take place on Wednesday, November 14 at 10.15-12.00 in The K3 Open Studio, NIC 0541, Niagara<\/p>\n Here is an abstract for the talk:<\/p>\n This seminar sketches key concerns I am engaged with in a new speculative paper I am writing for Current Anthropology on representational ethics and care. In essence I am concerned about attending to the dead in the digital commons. I argue that as museums, archives and other cultural heritage institutions make their colonial collections digitally available online – providing direct public access to troubling and contested materials – unresolved representational issues are magnified and new dangers emerge. If digitised artefacts represent a form of remembrance, ensuring that artefacts are not forgotten in storage (a solution to decay), then what shifts in institutional practices could take place, if we asked questions such as:<\/p>\n Exploring what an ethics of care and\/or custodianship might look like when engaging with such questions, this seminar seeks to provoke critical dialogue about the delicacies of caretaking colonial histories both on and offline – histories rife with carelessness. At the same time, I explore reparatory artistic engagements with such digitised images, and further describe how metadata might be rethought as a cataloguing space with the potential to alter the imbalances of historical power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to a K3 seminar with Temi Odumosu, Senior Lecturer in Art History, K3. The title of the talk is: The Crying Baby: On Colonial Archives, Digitisation, and Ethics of Care in the Cultural Commons It will take place on … Continue reading \n