The Sustainability of Slowness

Our Digital Futures with Permanent

In this episode we are joined by the Flickr Foundation Executive Director, George Oates, and interdisciplinary scholar and curator, Temi Odumosu, who share about their research and thinking behind the 100 year plan, an effort to design for long term sustainability. We explore this idea from the perspective of cultural heritage organizations concerned with digital collections and preservation.

Guest Name: George Oates
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Bio: George Oates is a designer and maker. She's also the Executive Director of the new Flickr Foundation. Our mission is to keep the billions of images on Flickr visible for 100 years.

Guest Name: Temi Odumosu
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Pronouns: She/her
Bio: Temi Odumosu is an interdisciplinary scholar and curator at the University of Washington Information School, with a teaching focus on critical and creative approaches to understanding information technology’s role within society, particularly how unfinished colonial histories and their inequalities haunt data, uses of information and technology design. Her research and curatorial work are engaged with the visual and affective politics of slavery and colonialism, racial coding in popular culture, postmemorial art and performance, image ethics and cultural heritage digitization. Overall, she is focused on the ways art can mediate social transformation and healing. Dr. Odumosu is author of the book Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes White Humour (2017).

Links:
www.Flickr.org
www.temiodumosu.com
“The Crying Child On Colonial Archives, Digitization, and Ethics of Care in the Cultural Commons”
“Thick Description: On the possibilities for vibrant anti-colonial record-keeping”