Unfinished Conversations “Unfinished Conversations” (UC) is a new form of curatorial practice, public engagement, and programming to collect, give voice to, and provide a platform for untold histories, memories, and narratives related to the history of racialized slavery and its afterlives. By sharing experiences, histories and memories from people around the world who have experienced the … Unfinished Conversations
Depicting Glory Depicting Glory is a digital project that presents a group of rare Chinese objects drawn from across the Brown University Library. Most of these items date from the late Qing dynasty in the 19th century, though one item is a set of maps published in Taiwan around 1960. Although the items were created … Depicting Glory
Dunes Photovoice The project seeks to engage residents of “The Dunes” encampment in arts-based methods designed to develop representations of the lived experience of homeless individuals and groups in illegalized encampments in greater Providence. Specifically, the project uses the participatory Photovoice method and discussion circles to engage residents in collecting photos and short audio recordings … Dunes Photovoice
In the Wake of George Floyd Since the May 2020 death of George Floyd, anti-racist social movements and counter-movements have captured the attention of the public in the US and around the world. The In the Wake of George Floyd Project explores and documents the various forms these protests took in Rhode Island and the responses … In the Wake of George Floyd
Experiments in Artificial Intelligence & Digital Scholarship The Center for Digital Scholarship is committed to exploring the use of AI for digital scholarship and digital humanities. Our project on “Experiments in Artificial Intelligence & Digital Scholarship” documents a few of the smaller projects and work our team is developing with researchers at Brown University to … Experiments in Artificial Intelligence & Digital Scholarship
U2 Aerial Photography of Egypt This project aims to digitize a series of recently declassified aerial photographs that document the Nile Delta and Nile Valley. Shot by U2 spy planes, this imagery provides much higher resolution images than any currently available imagery (for instance the CORONA satellite imagery that has revolutionized archaeology in this area … U2 Aerial Photography of Egypt
Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past A digital archive and collection created in Omeka Classic in 2018-19. The purpose of the project is to document, geolocate, describe, and interpret monuments, memorials, and sites of slavery. “Slave past” encompasses a broad range of commemorative works related to the Middle Passage and enslavement, the plantation as site … Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past
In and Out of Place: Resource Extractions from Treaty Lands In and Out of Place: Resource Extractions from Treaty Lands uses a decolonizing, collaborative and Lakotan-centered approach to map scientific and military expeditions that entered the 1868 Treaty Territory in the Black Hills region from the mid-19th century to the turn of the 20th century. … In and Out of Place: Resource Extractions from Treaty Lands
New Frameworks for Born-Digital Art This project will develop new frameworks for the long-term preservation and presentation of born-digital art. Preserving born-digital work can be challenging because platforms, hardware, and software are often updated or replaced, changing and even degrading how the original art is displayed. Through “containerization” — a portable, low-cost method of preserving … New Frameworks for Born-Digital Art
The Rand Lab Data Archive More coming soon!
