We are pleased to share that the digital launch of the TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE took place on January 17, 2025.
African Digital Heritage created this Archive Framework and Manifesto in 2023 as a map that will guide us through the process of designing, implementing and succeeding the TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE, which will be launched by the end of 2024. The Manifesto will form the basis on which the technical and…
03.07.2024 - 06.07.2024
The think tank in Frankfurt deals with the cosmologies of objects and focuses on three main topics materiality, spirituality and gendered objects. It takes place from the 3 July to the 6 July in Frankfurt am Main.
21.05.2024 - 22.05.2024
Internal TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE-Workshops with Groupe d'Action et d'Étude Critique Africa/GAEC at GAEC Community Centre, Saint-Louis, Senegal.
The TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE is a digital platform looking at questions of decolonial knowledge production and will be launched in December 2024.
15.04.2024 - 19.04.2024
The TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE team based in Berlin and Nairobi came together for an internal workshop in Nairobi to further evolve the archive, with a particular focus on the challenges of communicating plural and non-hierarchical knowledge digitally.
April - July 2024
We are pleased to announce the latest TALKING OBJECT ARCHIVE residency with Karwitha Kirimi. Karwitha will contribute to the archive with their own artistic practise, which will be linked to objects from the TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE digital collection.
April - July 2024
We are pleased to announce the latest TALKING OBJECTS residency with Adam Yawe. He will contribute to the archive with his own artwork, which will be linked to objects from the TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE digital collection.
17 & 18 Janvier, 2023
What is the potential of technology for African museums? How can a digital collection contribute to the mediation, re-evaluation, dissemination and research of objects? How to digitize, technically? And how to digitize, aesthetically?