Vil du delta i et museumsprosjekt?

Kate Goodnow på Infomedia er i gang med et prosjekt om bruk av nett og nye medier i museumsarbeid. Konkret skal det lages webutstilling(er) som omhandler Pinochet-regimet i Chile og de mange som forsvant. Dere er invitert til å ta del ved å gjøre gruppeprosjektet i tilknytning til dette prosjektet. Deltagere vil få mye spennende materiale å arbeide med, de vil kunne knytte interessante kontakter og muligheten til å lage gruppeprosjekter som får betydning utover det å være en øvelse dette semesteret.

Kate vil komme og fortelle om prosjektet mandag 21. februar, før Rolf Beev snakker om CSS. Siden dere skal ha klart prosjektskissen allerede 4. mars, bør dere begynne å tenke på dette allerede nå. De som ønsker å gjøre gruppeprosjektet i forbindelse med dette vil måtte sende prosjektbeskrivelse til Kate, og får adgang til materiale og noe ekstra støtte derfra, men ellers blir omfang og tidsfrister osv likt andre gruppeprosjekter.

Her er en tekst Kate har sendt som gir noe mer informasjon, og dere kan gjerne ta kontakt med henne.

The Chilean web-exhibition project.

This project involves developing prototypes for the Allende Museum in Santiago. They wish to gain ideas for a permanent exhibition on missing people from the Pinochet years. A Norwegian/Chilean Ph.D. student (visual anthropology at UiT) is in Chile now gathering materials – personal stories, photographs, sounds, music, video etc. – that you may use. They will be available from the beginning of March.

The exhibition is divided into five parts and you may make a proposal for any one of the proposed sections. It may be a web-site outlining the story of one individual – to be linked to the exhibition or added to the database – or you might find interesting the issue of how individuals can add stories to the exhibition - through a lettered wall, by sending stories to an administrator or through a link to a blog.

Part One: Division
This part begins with a recognition of differences of opinion and history writing in the early 1970s in Chile. Materials to be used in the interactive exhibition include: Oral testimonies and memories from the period from both sides of the political spectrum; visual aids such as posters and newspaper clippings, music and radio material.

Part Two: Rupture
This section focuses on September 11th, 1972. It includes also oral memories of individuals - where they were and what they were doing as well archive materials such as radio, newspaper clippings and photographs. One structuring element may be the use of maps to show where events took place.

Part Three: Missing
Available for use for this section are documents over missing people. In this sense it is a section that lends itself most easily to the creation of individual web-pages that could be linked later into a multimedia database. Limited to begin with as this is a prototype but covering three or four individuals and the family stories surrounding them. To be obtained are oral testimonies of family members, pictures of the individual and the make-shift memorials created for them.

Part Four: Exile
Stories of exile most often revolve around stories of arriving to a new place. The stories here may include a broader period of time and include: leaving - both leaving the nation of origin and the adopted country to return ‘home’; returning - to the country of origin as well as decisions to return to the adopted country; staying - the decisions of those that did not leave again either the country of origin or the adopted country. These different moments then can pick up oral testimonies again from both sides of the political sphere because these stories are often about families being split or families being reunited and finding a new way forward. In addition to oral testimony, photographs, maps etc. will be made available.

Part Five: Reconciliation
The contemporary situation in Chile is such that many of those exiled have returned and there is a need to build up a new identity that reconciles difference of opinion. This section picks up the concept from the last section regarding families as metaphors for division as well as reconciliation. It also asks questions about the future with short interview material from social and political commentators about their ideas for ways forward - either through a path such as South Africa through Truth and Reconciliation Commissions - or through a less concerted path. In a self-reflective move it asks what role museums can play in this way forward towards reconciliation and a new forged identity?

Whatever you choose your contribution will be appreciated. All new ideas, all prototypes, will give insight into the planning of this new exhibition. Support and guidance will be available from Kate Goodnow at the Dept. of Information Science and Media Studies – kate.goodnow@infomedia.uib.no

If you are interested, the students in Ecuador would like to discuss ideas over the net as they will be developing projects during the same time as you. This, of course, is completely optional. What will happen in any case is a summing up for all participants and a possible publication of results through UNESCO.

Feel free to contact me – på norsk eller engelsk. Kate.

Du kan ta kontakt med Kate på epost katherine.goodnow@infomedia.uib.no for mer informasjon om prosjektet, eller snakk med Jill for generelle spørsmål om gruppeprosjektet.