In this episode, cohosts Lauren Kata and Emily Mathay speak with Chris Pandza, Canadian communication designer and oral historian living and working in New York City. Pandza’s practice involves combining experience design and artificial intelligence to make archives that are more accessible, beautiful, and equitable than otherwise possible. He has led communication design and curation for the Obama Presidency Oral History, the Baldwin-Emerson Elders Project, and the Movements Against Mass Incarceration oral history. His work has been covered in the New York Times and MSNBC and honored by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. This November, he won a gold Anthem Award for innovation on the Elders Project digital archive. He currently works at Incite Institute at Columbia University, which is home to the Columbia Center for Oral History Research.
Episode Extras
Check out: nobody’s diary;
Incite; and
Methodological Experiments in the Field of Oral History, Fall 2023 Talk
Other resources include: “Slow work” comes from “Slowing Down to Listen in the Digital Age: How New Technology Is Changing Oral History Practice” by Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki
The discussion of agendas in this episode is from “Living Voices: The Oral History Interview as Dialogue and Experience” by Alessandro Portelli