Open GLAM Night
- GLAM
5 September 2024, 19:00–23:00 @ Neubad, Bireggstrasse 36, 6003 Luzern
Collage created on the occasion of the Open GLAM Night 2024. Image credits see below.
Over the past ten years, the Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon (or “GLAMhack”) has stopped off in a different city each year, inviting participants from a variety of backgrounds to engage in a playful manner with cultural heritage data. On its journey, the event has transformed itself by and by – both as regards its thematic focus and the methodological approaches employed.
This year, our journey takes us to Lucerne, where the GLAMhack is hosted by the Central and University Library. In reference to the city’s role as Switzerland’s tourism capital and historical transportation hub, we chose the theme “on the move”: In the focus are people who have left their homes for a variety of reasons and have found themselves in faraway places. Their encounters with foreign lands, their inhabitants, their customs, their flora and fauna, have left traces in our collective memory, which we put at the center of this year’s event.
To set the mood and to introduce the theme, we invite hackathon participants and the general public alike to join us on the eve of the hackathon at Lucerne Neubad to celebrate an Open GLAM Night with contributions from Mexican artists, an immersive performance entitled “Re-imagining Future Collections” by the Afro-Cuban artist Ivonne Gonzalez and Ali-Eddine Abd El Khalek, as well as a kaleidoscope of “remarkable” Lucernese people presented by the ZHB Luzern.
The first part of the event will be live-streamed to one of the cinemas of the Complejo Cultural of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), our Mexican partner organization.
Image Credits
Collage created on the occasion of the Open GLAM Night 2024. Creator: Beat Estermann, with AI support. In copyright. Individual images (from the top left, in clockwise direction):
- Demon mask, Oaxaca, Mexico. Unknown artist, 20th century. Unknown rightsholder. Photo: Museum Schloss Burgdorf.
- Arrival of the Emperor Maximilian and the Empress Carlota at the Port of Veracruz, Mexico. Lithograph, unknown artist. Public Domain. Wikimedia Commons.
- Death of Arnold von Winkelried during the battle of Sempach 1386. Painting by Konrad Grob (1828-1904). Public Domain. Wikimedia Commons.
- Two mountaineers, presumably on the Titlis towards the Wenden Glacier. Photo: Weber-Strebel, Joseph Maria, 1905. CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication. https://zentralgut.ch.
- Mask, Teotihuacán style, Mexico, 3rd-6th century. Museum Rietberg. Photo: Beat Estermann, CC BY 4.0.
- “Mujer Lipan” (“figurine d’indien”), Mexico, before 1896. Public Domain. Musée d’ethnographie de Genève. Photo: Johnathan Watts. Copyright held by the Musée d’ethnographie de Genève (MEG).
Partners and Sponsors
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Programme
- 19:00
Doors open
- 19:30–19:45
Welcome and opening of the Open GLAM Night
- 19:45–20:45
CultureFLOW – colonial heritage through the lens of Mexican artists
Opendata.ch teamed up with the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) to try out «CultureFLOW», a method for artistic work with collective memory: students in visual arts from Mexico worked with Mexico-related collections of Swiss heritage institutions. Three artistic creations are presented, one of them made in contact with the Lipan people. Sandra Palacios (BUAP) shares her impressions of the cooperation, Beat Estermann the involvement of Swiss ethnographic museums. Live-streamed to the BUAP’s Complejo Cultural in Puebla.
- 21:15–21:45
- 21:45–22:00
Kaleidoscope of «openness» – remarkable people from Lucerne
Together with UnsereGeschichte.ch, ZHB Luzern is looking for «remarkable» people from the Canton of Lucerne – a contemporary counterpoint to the portrait gallery of «Merkwürdige Luzernerinnen und Luzerner» in its catalogue hall.
Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern - 23:00
End of the event
