Open Access Week with Tasveer Ghar

In October 2024, during Open Access Week, Yousuf Saeed published a new essay

Archiving Popular Visual Culture in South Asia: Celebrating Open Access Week with Tasveer Ghar
The essay shows how digital archiving of popular art follows an open access approach. The essay is posted on the Arcade platform of the Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, California.
https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/interventions/archiving-popular-visual-culture-south-asia-celebrating-open-access-week

Gautam Hemmady's Matchbox Collection at Tasveer Ghar

Dear friends of Tasveer Ghar

In Aug. 2021 we announced the release of a special exhibit on Tasveer Ghar, Gautam Hemmady's collection of matchbox labels along with a video film on him, which was followed in December 2022 with three unique exhibits from the same collection on Google Arts and Culture. Sadly, Gautam passed away in January 2023, and he is sorely missed by his family and friends, including us.  We had the good fortune of spending some magical time with him, and we are grateful for that.

Meanwhile, we collaborated with Google Arts & Culture and the digital artist Harshit Agarwal to build an online interactive game using Gautam's matchbox labels digitized by Tasveer Ghar. 

We are proud to announce that this game, Matchbox Mementos, has now been released on the Google platform, and we are already receiving some fabulous feedback.  Here are some relevant links:

Shining new light on India's matchbox art (Google blog): 
https://blog.google/intl/en-in/company-news/shining-new-light-on-indias-matchbox-art/

Magic Mementos - Google Arts & Culture: 
https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/ZwFnqVVEU-a7Eg

A Little Box of Lights: Tasveer Ghar exhibits on Google Arts & Culture

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/yQUxmdhlde8AJw

Video documentary on Gautam Hemmady's collection:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-fOrE80NXA