Google has launched a new virtual exhibition called Music, Makers and Machines. The virtual exhibition sees Google and YouTube team up with key labels, foundations, clubs and events like XL Recordings, Kompakt, Bob Moog Foundation, Swiss Museum for Electronic Music Instruments, ADE, Barbican Centre, Black Cultural Archives, Sydney Opera House and many more to offer videos, interactive explainers, demos of synths, photo archives and historical records. There are also Augmented Reality features, showcasing some classic synths and drum machines placed in the real world using your device’s camera.
There’s over 13,000 video and photo assets to explore, 3D scans of 22 synthesizers so you can explore them in more detail, 360º tours of iconic studios, exhibitions including phatmedia: Iconic Flyer Design, A Brief History of Early Dubstep and King Britt’s Blacktronika, which we recently discussed with him.
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LONDON – It was a damning portrait of an institution unwilling or unable to help. There were allegations about personal and collective behavior that reflected racism, mental health and the failure to heed obvious warnings from past tragedy.
Revelations in Oprah Winfrey s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, have raised alarming questions about an institution that has developed over the past 1,200 years. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex claim the British royal family fretted about the skin color of the couple s unborn child; that the stress of monarchical life contributed to Meghan contemplating suicide; and that the couple were not being protected from invasive, hate-filled British tabloid newspapers and websites in danger of causing a repeat of the history that led to the death of Harry s mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.
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In this on-going series of in conversations hear from leading individuals talk about how they use photography as artists, scientists, educators, publishers and curators. All our speakers are recent RPS Award recipients who have been recognised for their contribution to the medium. They are discussing their work with those who know them and their work.
James Barnor is a Ghanaian photographer with a passionate interest in people and cultures with a remarkable career spanning more than six decades. He began his practice in the late 1940s in Accra, Ghana, soon setting up his own portrait studio, “
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Rewriting the past: Decolonising archives of global health London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine s (LSHTM s) Archivist and Records Manager Victoria Cranna will be in conversation with Subhadra Das and Arike Oke, discussing the role of archives, including LSHTM’s own archival collection, in critically engaging with the colonial past and present of global health.
In response to LSHTM’s Decolonising Global Health work, the School’s archivists have begun to re-examine LSHTM’s own Archives. What do these contain? What stories did they recount, about LSHTM and global health? Archives can provide information, insight, and inspiration; they can also reflect and reproduce racism, inequality, and imbalances of power. What is the role and value of LSHTM’s Archives, for critical engagement with LSHTM’s colonial past and present?
Howard University, REFORM Alliance Among Warner Music / Blavatnik Foundation Grant Recipients
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As part of its mission to invest $100 million in organizations focused on achieving social justice, the Warner Music Group / Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund has announced its initial six grant recipients: Black Cultural Archives, Black Futures Lab, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC), Howard University, REFORM Alliance and Rhythm & Blues Foundation.
The WMG/BFF SJF was established in June 2020 in the wake of the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and many other Black people. The Fund is intended to serve as an acknowledgement of the contributions Black culture has made to the profitability of today’s music industry. Over 10 years, the Fund will invest in organizations around the globe that build more equitable communities and create real change in the lives of historically underserved and margi