Introductory essay for Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen's artist's book on his picture disc collection

April 2015 Sudanese photographer Elsadig Mohamed and I tried to relate the photographs that Paul Julien made when traveling through the country in 1933 and 1948 to stories and realities alive in present day Sudan. This initial research was pretty successful and we thought a first presentation of the …

Ebifananyi 4, based on the Ham Mukasa Foundation Archive that HIPUganda digitised, has had several exhibition versions. This one puts a strong emphasis on the works produced by Ugandan artists and Dutch and Ugandan art students for the project. In this other exhibition creating an opportunity to explore …

Simuda Nyuma is the title of a trilogy written during the 1930s by Ham Mukasa (1870-1956), who was an important chief of Baganda - a kingdom in south-central Uganda. Being highly educated and one of the first literate in the region, Mukasa wrote about the lives of three kings that ruled Buganda from …

Ebifananyi 4, based on the Ham Mukasa Foundation Archive that HIPUganda digitised, has had several exhibition versions. This one is part of Global Imaginations, an exhibition organised by Museum de Lakenhal in Leiden in an old factory. In this installation the visitor had the opportunity to dive into …

Dit onderzoek verkent de mogelijkheden tot behoud van graffiti door de graffiti-scene. De hoofdvraag luidt: 'Op welke manier kan de Amsterdamse graffiti-scene bijdragen aan het behoud van graffiti in Amsterdam?'. De ultieme vorm van behoud van graffiti is documentatie van de materiële voortbrengselen …

Stel dat we een exabyte wereldwijd bewaren (een miljard gigabytes). Dat is een half promille van de wereldwijd geproduceerde twee zettabytes (tweeduizend exabytes) aan data in 2011. We slaan ongeveer twintig procent (vierhonderd exabytes) daarvan op. Het bewaren van die ene exabyte kost volgens het Internet …

African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over the last twenty years, the result of a growing interest in postcolonial societies and cultures and a turn towards visual evidence across the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, many rich and fascinating …

Ebifananyi II – People Poses Places Andrea Stultiens. People Poses Places is the second part of Ebifananyi, a book series that visualises historical Ugandan photo collections. In People Poses Places we delve into the archive of the photographer Musa Katuramu. In the mid 1930s, teacher and carpenter Musa …

One could write an alternative history of the Western modern arts as a struggle with industrialization. In this history, there would be almost no connection between classical fine art painting to the modern arts, but it would start with medieval craftsmanship, continue with the Arts & Crafts movement …