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My Archives: July 2002

Tuesday, July 30, 2002

Funded by the EUREKA-Program, three Universities in Europe are developing "Cult-Base", a database of the cultural heritage in Europe, in order to "to develop new technology for accessing relevant and personalized information from the multimedia content of public databases." Initially 1.4 Million Euro (~$1.3 Million) are used to build a meta-library, which is drawing its content from the various multi-media information sources across Europe's institutions and museums. Working with German and Italian colleagues, the team is lead by Dr Eveline Riedling at the Technical University of Vienna and currently developing a prototype. If successful, the cult-base will be commercially sold to other institutions and cultural centers.

Posted by WB @ 08:54 AM NY [Link]

Sunday, July 21, 2002

During the 20+ years of (cultural) war in Afghanistan, most of its musicians suffered greatly. Latest under the Taliban regime, where music was forbidden, the only option of artistic survival was exile. Now it is a challenge to revive century old traditions and to prevent musical instruments from being forgotten. John Goddard of The Toronto Star talked with Khaled Arman, leader of the Kabul-Ensemble. The interview took place during the annual Festival of World Sacred Music in Fez, Morocco.

Posted by WB @ 12:50 PM NY [Link]

Tuesday, July 16, 2002

The Caine Prize 2002 from the Africa Centre in London went to Binyanvanga Wainaina for his story "Discovering Home", first published on g21.net. It is an intense description of the author's journey home to Kenya from his current residence in Cape Town, South Africa.

Posted by WB @ 09:12 AM NY [Link]

Friday, July 12, 2002

Already in the end of June, Guinean singer and griot (traditional storyteller) Sayon Camara was named a UNESCO Artist for Peace. As with many international artists, her recordings (including the recent album "Dinguraye") are almost impossible to obtain; her name only known to observers of African culture and even a detailed web-search offers only a few clues on africatime.com and boubah.com . What importance does an UNESCO award have, if id does not generate at least a little more publicity?

Posted by WB @ 02:38 PM NY [Link]

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