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Decolonising Public Cultural Platforms through Digital Tools
Colonialism in public cultural space BEFORE and AFTER digitalization advancement
The Decolonisation of the Public Space in late 20th century and early 21st century
Time: A social movement that happened at the end of 20th century and start of 21st century
The Problem it attacked: the inferior cultural identity that former colonies have in public space like streets and museums
Example: Museums started as private collection of the wealthy, hence condemned by history to be influenced by colonialism heritage
Minority groups and former colonies have less cultural space to tell their stories
Reference:
https://nhcje.org/blog/the-world-of-public-art-institutions-and-its-relationship-to-colonialism
Example #2: Public statues/monuments/street names in former colonizer countries remain its colonialism
Victims of Colonialism in public cultural space
Minority Groups
Cultures that have been left behind: Artworks, heritage that deserve better platform than they have now
The endangered Intangible Cultural Heritage belonging to indigenous people, tribes
New Colonialism in digital Platforms with the advancement of digitalization
The trend of "Cultural Appropriation" and influencers who profit through it
An insult to the original culture
Type of Fraud commerce
Algorithmic homogenization of taste
Our daily feed largely determined by algorithm
Establishing new cultural hierarchy in an invisible way
Example: Indie/Local music gets much less promotion space on music platforms, very hard for individual artists to gain popularity
How can digital tools be used as a method of mitigation
The Use of Online Archives
The ability to build easily specific archives for indigenous cultures, provide more space to them that traditional museums fail to
Example: Mukurtu CMS- an open-source content management system built with Indigenous communities to manage and share digital cultural heritage, letting communities determine fine-grained access levels and add Traditional Knowledge Labels for IP and copyright needs.
Digital Benin:museum-side co-curation projects reuniting dispersed collections online, built in partnership with the origin communities rather than about them
Create more space for cultural archives without too much financial cost
A tool to envision a "utopia"
Digital tools allow us to forget about practicality and focus simply on what we want as an ideal society
Can be used as an artistic way of demonstrating a more equalized society
Inspired by VR glasses
The Use of social media trends and Platforms for good
Example: Chinese Youtube influencer Li Ziqi: She used aesthetic video shooting skills to attract yound people to endangered Chinese folk art and traditions
The Pecularities of Digital tools/platforms
We are so engaged in digital lives that we often forget the fact that we ARE entangled with the influences of digitalization all the time
This type of invisible influence may be a great approach to deal with cultural issues as they also tend to be more subtle influences
Digital Tools also allow us to "Gamify" things to attract more attention
Inspiration: Cambridge Digital Humanities School Research project:
https://www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/gaming-the-industrial-revolution/
Limitations of current mitigation methods
The Problem of copyrights and other legal issues
Digital archives can become the excuse of former colonizers to keep the cultural heritage of colonies
Reference:
https://itsartlaw.org/art-law/against-the-illusion-the-limits-of-digital-repatriation-in-restitution-debates/
Digital divide
Developing countries/cultures can suffer from a less advanced level of digital infrasturcture, thus still gaining less space on digital archives