TRIS
Traditional Ritual Information System is a Piet Zwart Institute for postgraduate studies and research, final MA project work for Salvador Lawrence d'Souza. TRIS is a proposed web-based infrastructure for connecting elements of Academic and Scholarly research outcomes. This project is inspired by my over 10-years of work with Academia, focusing on world cultures. In Ghana, festivals are a pinacle of traditional rituals and a tourist attraction. Visitors capture unfolding events on a variety of memory banks. These visual and auditory memory snippets in the form of photos and symbols, audio-visual anthology and performances are experienced without consideration of what they collectively stand for, and how each item is an intricate part of another. Meanings are allocated to them which may include exotic culture, traditional authentic performances and other non-western ideas. Using varied rituals as backdrop and selected visual banks and new media tools, I attempt and in the process examine how connected traditional Ghanaian rituals are entwined with other cultures and economies.
Course Director - Dr. Florian Cramer (PhD)
Project Supervisor - Micheal Murtaugh (MSc)
Creative advisor - Leslie Robbins (MA)
Technical advisor - Cal Selkirk (SA)
Historical advisor - Prof. Irene K. Odotei (PhD)
Historical works - Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong (FGA)
Professor Kodjo Senah - Sociologist (PhD)
Piet Zwart Institute for postgraduate studies and research
Willem de Kooning Academy, Hogeschool Rotterdam.
P.O.Box 1272, 3000 BG Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Phone (Wednesday & Thursday): +31 (0)10 7947401
Fax: +31 (0)10 7947403
E-mail: sdsouza@ofamfa.org