TALK "Opening Archives: Digital photographs between India and Europe" by Dr. Katja Müller at Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 17th February 2016

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 17/02/2016 18:30 17/02/2016 20:00 Asia/Kolkata TALK "Opening Archives: Digital photographs between India and Europe" by Dr. Katja Müller Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/02/talk-opening-archives-digital.html Seminar Rooms II to III, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : Seminar Rooms II to III, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : TALK "Opening Archives: Digital photographs between India and Europe" by Dr. Katja Müller

Dr. Katja Müller  researcher and research coordinator at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Specialized in visual anthropology and ethnographic museums, she is currently working on impacts of digital processes concerning archives from India

Chair: Dr. Malavika Karlekar

Museums have entered the digital age. We can inform us online about visiting hours and events, and can view (parts of) the collections and archives that have been digitized. Pertaining to ethnographic museums in Europe, which are often based on collections gathered in colonial times, digitizing implies possibilities of access to a heritage that is a shared one: it is part of the originating culture as well as the storing one. In 2012 Indian curators from the Museum of Voice in Gujarat, in cooperation with a German and a British museum, started a unique project of making use of digitized photograph collections. The photos, that were taken in India between 1920 and 1950 and hidden in the European institutions until recently, became now of a new quality as their digital surrogates could reach out beyond the cabinets. They formed the basis for new perspectives and encounters

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