Indigenous art : new media and the digital

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Indigenous Art: Media and the Digital convenes leading scholars, curators, and artists from the Indigenous territories in Canada, the United States of America, Australia, and Aotearoa (New Zealand). It brings forth urgent conversations about resistance to colonial modernism, and highlights the historic and ongoing use of technology by Indigenous communities and artists as vehicles of resilience and cultural continuity. This issue ignites productive dialogue around the definitions of new and digital media art and practice-based work within the framework of Indigenous art and theory. While showcasing Indigenous artists’ work, it also probes the significant ways that this work contributes to—yet also intervenes on—the fields of art history, visual, cultural and media studies. PUBLIC 54 contributors investigate contemporary Indigenous digital and new media art’s relationships with sovereignty, self-determination, and nationhood. Altogether, the diverse articles, artworks, and dialogues illustrate the ways that Indigenous new media art can dynamically activate and embody Indigenous epistemologies, cosmologies, and methodologies.

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Indigenous Art: Media and the Digital convenes leading scholars, curators, and artists from the Indigenous territories in Canada, the United States of America, Australia, and Aotearoa (New Zealand). It brings forth urgent conversations about resistance to colonial modernism, and highlights the historic and ongoing use of technology by Indigenous communities and artists as vehicles of resilience and cultural continuity. This issue ignites productive dialogue around the definitions of new and digital media art and practice-based work within the framework of Indigenous art and theory. While showcasing Indigenous artists’ work, it also probes the significant ways that this work contributes to—yet also intervenes on—the fields of art history, visual, cultural and media studies. PUBLIC 54 contributors investigate contemporary Indigenous digital and new media art’s relationships with sovereignty, self-determination, and nationhood. Altogether, the diverse articles, artworks, and dialogues illustrate the ways that Indigenous new media art can dynamically activate and embody Indigenous epistemologies, cosmologies, and methodologies.

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Vol. 27 issue 54 (winter/2016) of Public.

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Introduction | Heather Igloliorte, Julie Nagam, Carla Taunton -- Pou Rewa, the Liquid Post, Māori Go Digital? | Maree Mills -- Re:lating Necessity and Invention | Cheryl L’Hirondelle -- A Brief (Media) History of the Indigenous Future | Jason Edward Lewis -- Artwork | Skawennati -- LEFT_CHANNEL | Geronimo Inutiq -- Aesthetics, Violence, and Indigeneity | Jolene Rickard -- Coming of Age under Colonialism | Wahe Kavara -- Reverse Notions, Darkness and Light | Megan Tamati-Quennell + Lisa Reihana -- Deciphering the Refusal of the Digital and Binary Codes of Sovereignty/Self-Determination and Civilized/Savage | Julie Nagam -- Skull Stories | Jordan Bennett -- For this Land: Chiefswood | Jackson 2bears + Janet Rogers -- Arctic Cultural (Mis)Representation: Advocacy, Activism, and Artistic Expression through Social Media | Erin Yunes -- Tilllutarniit: History, Land, and Resilience in Inuit Film and Video | Heather Igloliorte -- The Phone Booth Project | Jennifer Biddle, Lily Hibberd + Curtis Taylor -- On Indigenous Digit-al Media and Augmented Realities in Will Wilson’s eyeDazzler: Trans-customary Portal to Another Dimension | Laura E. Smith -- Animation Stills | Amanda Strong -- Nga Whatu-ora: We the Living Are the Seeing -- yes of Our Sleeping Ancestors | Natalie Robertson -- Bodies that Matter | Léuli Eshraghi, Angela Tiatia + Jasmine Te Hira -- blueberry pie under a martian sky | Scott Benesiinaabandan -- In Dialogue: Scott Benesiinaabandan’s waabana’iwewin | Jaimie Isaac -- Artwork | Bracken Hanuse Corlett -- Games as Enduring Presence | Elizabeth LaPensée -- Digital Games Stills | Pinnguaq.