Digitized Diasporic Memory
Leveraging User-Generated and Open-Source Tools for Collective Audio StorytellinG
Candide Uyanze
Project Description
"Digitized Diasporic Memory” explores the relationship, intersections, connections, and divergences of experiences between Black diasporic people. With an understanding of diaspora as networked, rhizomatic, and tentacled, the project seeks to create a space for connection, in an environment where connection is not easily accessed or sustained. The present thesis output visualizes audio segments from synchronous and asynchronous conversations between several members of the diaspora residing across Turtle Island. Each audio node represents a response to the previous participant's contribution.
The thesis draws heavily from Le Cunff's idea of personal networked thinking and expands into collective thinking, or what can be described as mind-to-mind networks, wherein several individuals connect their ideas. “Digitized Diasporic Memory” is part database, part conversational archive, part open-access library, part collective memory bank, part digitized memory, and part chain of memories which bring to the fore the possible connections between Black diasporic experiences and narratives. It addresses the need for intra-diasporic validation, belonging, understanding across differences, and knowledge-sharing.
To learn more, visit diasporamemory.com
BIO
Candide Uyanze is a multimedia, multidisciplinary, and multi-hyphenate doer of things based in Tkaronto and Anishinābe Akì territory. She's been described as a producer, digital artist, video editor, photographer, designer, researcher, teacher, daughter, sister, and friend. Her practice explores diasporic storytelling, immersive web experiences, open source tools, accessible media production, African languages, and speech recognition. Candide holds an MDes in Digital Futures from OCAD University and an Honours BA in Communication and Digital Humanities from the University of Ottawa.
You can connect with Candide at www.candide.xyz