Data-Driven Decolonisation? AI and Metadata in the AV Archive
When: Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Where: BLOC Cinema, Mile End
Explore how artificial intelligence can both challenge and perpetuate colonial structures within audiovisual archives.
The workshop explores how artificial intelligence can both challenge and perpetuate colonial structures within audiovisual archives. By interrogating the role of metadata—often a silent but powerful force in shaping access, representation and memory—panellists and participants will discuss experiments with AI-driven tools to reimagine archival practices. In recentring marginalized narratives and erased histories, these institutional and creative interventions attempt to dismantle colonial hierarchies embedded in archival systems and propose new frameworks for ethical and inclusive metadata practices.
Panel 1- Decolonising Archival Metadata: Institutional Experiments - 9:30 - 11:15
⁃ Kerstin Herlt, EU Projects Coordinator - Europeana De-BIAS / DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
⁃ Daniel Chavez Heras, KCL - Intelligent Systems for Screen Archives
⁃ TBC
Coffee and tea break - 11:15 - 11:45
Panel 2 - AI, Archives, and Decolonial Imagination -11:45 - 13:30
⁃ Amanda Egbe, UWE
⁃ Christopher Allen - The Light Surgeons
Respondent Jiří Anger, QMUL - British Academy
Lunch (provided) - 13:30 - 14:30
Plenary - Best Practices and Guidelines -14:30 - 17:00
The plenary session will build on the panel discussion, the attendance to which is highly recommended ahead of the plenary.
Full programme and registration on Eventbrite.
Everyone is welcome to attend. This event is organised in collaboration with the Centre for Film and Ethics and CLARIAH, University of Amsterdam.
The workshop will be followed by the discussion of Dr. Christian Gosvig Olesen’s new book Visualizing Film History (Indiana University Press, 2025) with Amanda Egbe hosted at BIMI on 30th April 2025: Visualising Film Archives: Digital Tools and Practice-Based Media Histories.
Register for this event here<https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/49812/visualising-film-archives-digital-tools-and-practice-based-media-histories>.