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Archives of the Present

Description

"Archives of the Present" is a documentation project by the Zinsou Foundation that, according to its director, aims to empower Africans to reclaim their history. Before discussing this, Marie-Cécile Zinsou shared her perspective on the local contingencies affecting the development of an institution like hers and on the importance of women in the continent's cultural structures.

Author

  • Yvan Tina

    Lecturer in Digital Media Arts

    Yvan Tina is a researcher and cultural activist with expertise on transdisciplinary collaborations, cultural mediation, and performance arts. As artistic director of Virtual Africa, he develops publishing and curation strategies to foster art-science-technology initiatives on the African continent and throughout the diasporas. He holds a PhD in Performing Arts from Aix-Marseille University and a PhD in Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication from the University of Texas at Dallas.

  • Roger Malina

    Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology and Professor of Physics

    Roger F. Malina is a space scientist and astronomer, with a specialty in extreme and ultraviolet astronomy, space instrumentation and optics. He is publisher, writer and editor in the new emerging research fields that hybridise the sciences and engineering to the arts, design and humanities. Since 1982, he has served as Executive Editor of the Leonardo Publications at MIT Press. He founded, and serves on the board of two nonprofits, Leonardo ISAST in San Francisco and Leonardo OLATS in Paris. He is an advisor to Join Lifeguard and the Paris School of Art and Design ENSAD. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology and Professor of Physics, at the University of Texas at Dallas. He cofounded the ArtSciLab in the UTD Arts Humanities and Technologies program fall 2013.