Claim to the country

Claim to the country: the archive of Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek (Pippa Skotnes) 2007 In the 1870s, facing cultural extinction and the death of their language, several men and women from the northern Cape told their stories to two ...

Curiosity CLXXV

This publication was produced to coincide with the exhibition Curiosity CLXXV which in turn was curated to mark the University of Cape Town's 175th anniversary. The publication is intended to be neither a book nor a catalogue, but ...

Refiguring the archive

Ed. col. C.Hamilton, V.Harris, M.Pickover, G.Reid, R.Saleh,.J Taylor 2002
Refiguring the archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on `the archive' in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the boundaries of those debates.

TED talk: Jonathan Harris: the Web's secret stories

Brooklyn-based artist Jonathan Harris' work celebrates the world's diversity even as it illustrates the universal concerns of its occupants. His computer programs scour the Internet for unfiltered content, which his beautiful interfaces ...

UCT OpenContent directory

The UCT OpenContent directory is the web portal for accessing open teaching and learning content from UCT. Produced by the Open Educational Resources project in the Centre for Educational Technology at UCT with the support of ...

Centre for Curating the Archive

The Centre for Curating the Archive began life as LLAREC (The Lucy Lloyd Archive, Resource and Exhibition Centre) in the late 1990s as a space in which material, both original and reproduced, created and found, was collected ...

Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative

The Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative was established to grapple with critical questions about history, memory, identity and the public sphere in South Africa. Funded by the National Research Foundation and based at ...

Archival Platform

The Archival platform is a civil society initiative committed to deepening democracy through the use of memory and archives as dynamic public resources. Established under the auspices of the University of Cape Town and the Nelson ...

Centre for Popular Memory

The Centre for Popular Memory (CPM) is an oral history based, research, advocacy and archival centre located at the University of Cape Town. We record and disseminate people's stories to expand the democratizing possibilities of ...

Subtle thresholds

'Subtle thresholds' was a project specifically concerned with how the epistemological constructions of 'difference' and 'analogy' have been used to mediate the cultural understanding of pathology. In an attempt to communicate bodies of ...

The Joy of Stats by Hans Rosling

Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has ...

TED talk: Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity

Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data - and at times vast numbers of people - and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video ...