

It also acknowledges the fact that historical records have long been digitised. The rather clever brand, Timestamp, literally signifies the digital record of the time of an event. This is how they describe the company: “We are a collective of filmmakers, storytellers, and scholars who believe that knowledge of our entangled past can light the way to a common future.” Cross-cultural dialogue is a primary objective. He and the award-winning filmmaker Graham Judd are co-founders of Timestamp Media.

Vincent Brown is both a distinguished historian and filmmaker. Experimentation is an essential element of the artistic process. They engage in “databasing, storyboarding, audiovisual narration, performance, cartography, and software development”. The History Design Studio’s website confirms that scholars and students use innovative multimedia strategies to make history exciting and accessible to a diverse audience. Applied to history, this sexy image turns the study of the past into a stimulating subject. The term ‘design studio’ usually refers to the space in which creatives work. He’s the director of the History Design Studio at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American History. Professor Vincent Brown is determined to take history out of the musty archives.
