This is a link to the lecture designed to accompany our first session on February 4. The file is a Keynote file.
WEEK 3 Feb. 18
Slides:
Schomburg saw the need for the documentation of Black history and created the archive that is today the Schomburg Collection:
https://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg/research
Much more recently Thomas Allan Harris (IMA instructor) realized that there are still huge gaps in the visual history of African-Americans, this led him to crowd-source the problem by creating the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Roadshow, a project that ended up serving not just African-Americans in creating a shared digital record:
WEEK 6 – Collective Media in the Post-War Period
WEEK 7 – Collage, Appropriation and the Spiral Group
WEEK 8 – Collective Production — The ’80’s and ’90’s
WEEK 10 – Black + British: The Black Audio Film Collective
Collective Production 