MITH Digital Dialogues: The Black Lunch Table - Archive A Radical Reimagining of Digital Authorship
MITH Digital Dialogues: The Black Lunch Table - Archive A Radical Reimagining of Digital Authorship
Co-founders Jina Valentine and Heather Hart will discuss Black Lunch Table (BLT), an oral history project that mobilizes a democratic writing of cultural history through a radical reimagining of strategies for digital authorship and archiving. BLT engages in the production of discursive spaces wherein artists and community members engage in dialogue on a variety of critical issues. BLT roundtable events provide physical and digital infrastructure for community discourse, which is recorded and archived on the BLT website. Parallel to its creation of physical spaces that foster community and generate critical dialogue, BLT is creating a digital space for an LOD approach to Black studies and social justice issues. BLT’s use of network analysis, as an organizing principle for its archive, is an innovative application of DH methods that disrupts traditional archiving practices.
Co-sponsored by African American History, Culture and Digital Humanties (AADHum).
About the Speakers:
Jina Valentine is a visual artist and associate professor of Printmedia at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (previously UNC Chapel Hill). Her independent practice is informed by the intuitive strategies of folk artists and traditional craft techniques, and interweaves histories latent within found texts, objects, narratives, and spaces.
Heather Hart is a visual artist and visiting lecturer at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of Art. Her art practice is invested in creating site-specific liminal spaces for personal reclamation, in questioning dominant narratives and proposing alternatives to them.