- Everything Needs to Change, So Everything Can Stay the Same: Challenges to Keeping Online Video Accessible Keeping a website online and continuously accessible to the public, whether its a human rights archive or a piece of art, is not merely a question of keeping the power switch on. Our senior archivist discusses some ways to prepare for the inevitable challenge of tech obsolescence.
- Street Art, Video and Social Change: Kenya Street Artist WiseTwo Visits WITNESS WiseTwo is a Kenyan street artist based in Nairobi. WiseTwo recently stopped by WITNESS with fellow street artist Joel Artista to discuss the intersection of social action, street art and video advocacy.
- Street Art, Video and Social Change: Joel Bergner Visits WITNESS Joel Bergner is a nomadic street artist, educator and advocate for social action. He recently stopped by WITNESS to discuss street art and video advocacy as tools for social change.
- A Canadian Model for Human Rights Awareness The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) and the global online youth-led social network TakingITGlobal (TIG) have joined forces to create EVOKE—a national online art contest that calls on Canadian youth to share their perspectives on human rights issues through visual art.
- Digital Asset Management and Institutional Repositories It’s been a week packed with info sessions, as last week not only brought together moving image archivists from all over North America at the AMIA conference, but also featured a smaller scale workshop in the Metropolitan New York Area. 55 archivists from various domains gathered at NYU for the NY Archivist’s Round Table on […]
- Event: Archive Fever at NYPL This coming Monday April 14 at the New York Public Library: “One of the most compelling issues explored by artists in recent years centers on the nature and meaning of the archive, that is, how we create, store, and circulate pictures and information. Against the standard view of the archive which evokes a dim, musty […]
