The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya organised an eight-day workshop on audio video documentation, implementation and emission in a museum context entitled ‘Towards an Audio- Visual Museum’ from August 6 to 13.
In this workshop Surya Kumar Pandey delivered welcome speech and introduced all the participants about Rolf Killius, who is a consultant (museums, exhibitions and media), exhibition curator, ethnomusicologist (MMus SOAS, London University), sound recordist, film producer & editor and radio journalist whose work appears in a variety of contexts. He works in exhibition curating, academic research, music and sound production, film production and editing, oral history study, and the delivery of music, dance and arts events especially related to India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and the Arabic States of the Gulf. While introducing about an Audio- Visual Museum programme, Killius said that it was an interactive programme in which firstly we discussed on various topics and thereafter, other participants share their experiences on their domains. He further said The Museum as experience: The principal role of a museum and AV Media, The role of digital documentation, How to establish and maintain a digital archive, What is Digital Curation and how it helps to contextualise a digital collection, Analysis: Digital Situation at the IGRMS, Digital documentation during and after fieldwork (practical project) and Copyright Issues will be discussed. On the occasion, Dilip Singh, Joint Director of IGRMS, Bhopal said that it is the responsibility of all the participants to disperse knowledge gained by them during these 8 days, so that this knowledge shall be preserved for future generation.
The IGRMS has a systematic documentation of audio-visual recordings and we should be prepare a good roadmap for these service training programs in which people of the IGRMS can get training and receive high level of skill. The world's largest museum, such as the British Museum, London, can get training. At the end of programme, HBS Parihar, Head of sine-video section of IGRMS Bhopal gave vote of thanks.