Holocaust Memory during the Covid-19 Pandemic An Online Roundtable
If you missed Digital Holocaust Memory's first webinar on 'Holocaust memory during the Covid-19 Pandemic' you can catchup on it here.
Hunters – Amazon’s fictional Jewish Nazi-hunters
60 years after Mossad agents captured Adolph Eichmann and took him to Israel to stand trial, I look at the controversy about Amazon's new series 'Hunters'.
VE Day: Websites/ Physical Sites: 75 Years since the End of World War II
What might we learn from this year's online-only commemorations in terms of how we might modify or augment future events with technology?
Implications of Physical Distancing for Commemoration
Following my previous blog which interrogated the significance of interactivity, virtuality and immersion to digital Holocaust memory, today, I explore another term that is often used to describe the digital - immateriality - and think about it in relation to recent commemorative events during the Covid-19 Pandemic, which of course could only take place online.
Debunking Digital Myths
Last night, I was very honoured to present some initial ideas related to my research about digital Holocaust memory for The Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre. In today's blog, I thought I would summarise some of my main arguments.
75 Years Later: Digitally Commemorating the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
75 Years Later: Digitally Commemorating the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen This week - 15th April - was the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Yet, unlike previous commemorations, the date was marked with online-only rather than physical events at the site. A few years ago, when I was writing my last book Cinematic Intermedialities and Contemporary Holocaust Memory, I went on a research trip to the Gedenkstaette Bergen-Belsen to explore their Here: Space of Memory project, a collaboration with the SPECS Research Group in Barcelona. The audio-visual installation stood in a box at the Anne-Frank-Platz in the Memorial's ground from October 28th 2012 until February 2014. A short trailer by SPECs shows the original installation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1JydZqXOI8&w=560&h=315 The installation's content continues to exist in an augmented-reality (AR) app on i-pads, which visitors can hire at the site. AR technology blends virtual reality (VR) content with images of the lived-world environment. This is particularly effective at Bergen-Belsen because the typhoid outbreak in 1945 meant that the camp's structures had to be destroyed. There are few physical remains of the site - unlike Auschwitz I and other well-visited concentration camp memorials. Photograph of Victoria Grace-Walden engaging with the Here: Spaces of Memory Project on site. [...]
What’s in a Name? An Unexpected Researchable Moment
How naming this project's social media profiles provided a 'researchable' moment.