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Oral history is vital for the management and conservation of modern and contemporary art. Almost 25 years ago, SBMK and ICN (now part of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands) started the Artist Interview pilot project as one of the key outcomes of the groundbreaking project and symposium Modern Art: Who Cares? The resulting book, The Artist Interview, is still used for conducting interviews. Yet, making artist interviews accessible has been out of focus for a long time. It lacks appeal, requires more time, precision and expertise than is often available and is therefore often omitted.
Is the interview recorded? Was it quickly recorded with a smartphone or more professional equipment? Are the recordings still viewable or listenable, even years later? Are they reusable for digital research methods? How do you transcribe them, and how does this affect our understanding of the information it contains? Is there a record of secondary communication like the speaker’s tone, speaking speed, body language and pauses? The degree of annoyance, haste, joy, posture, doubt or thinking also provides all kinds of information. And last but not least: can the information also be read, heard or viewed by external parties or later generations? Have arrangements been made to share the interview?
This is the theme of the SBMK day 2024, organised together with the University of Amsterdam in connection with the three-year project Oral History – Stories at the Museum around Artworks (OH-SMArt 2022-2025). This project focuses on the accessibility, sustainability and reusability of interviews in museums at the national level, allowing for the proper care of collection pieces with the correct data attached. This information must be stored a way that allows for a problem-free interchange between different systems that fulfils the UNESCO’s FAIR Data Principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable. Under the leadership of Sanneke Stigter, this OH-SMArt project is carried out by University of Amsterdam in cooperation with Sound & Vision, DANS-KNAW, University of Twente and various museums and SBMK partners. Funding is from The Platform for the Digital Infrastructure of Social Science and Humanities.
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