NEW MEDIA WORKS
unsettled
An Indian Act: Shooting the Indian Act Artist: Archer Pechawis Canada, 2007, CD Rom An Indian Act: Shooting the Indian Act is an interactive online book that documents Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s performance. It includes videos, photos and essays on the performance. Archer Pechawis is a media-integrated performing artist, new media artist, writer, curator and teacher. He has been creating solo performance works since 1984. His practice investigates the intersection of Plains Cree culture and digital technology.
Four Directions Teachings Url: http://fourdirectionsteachings.com Artist: Jennifer Wemigwans Canada, 2007, Website Four Directions Teachings celebrates Indigenous oral traditions, honouring the process of listening with intent, as each elder or traditional teacher shares a teaching from their perspective on the richness and value of cultural traditions from their nation. In honour of the timelessness of Indigenous oral traditions, audio narration is provided throughout the site complimented by beautiful animated visuals. Jennifer Wemigwans is an Ojibwe from Wikwemikong First Nation. She takes pride in inverting the conventional use of media and revealing the potential for Indigenous cultural expression through education, e-learning and the arts.
Plain Tr uth
Plain Truth Url: http://www.stormspirits.ca/plaintruth/ Artist: Jason Baerg Canada, 2007, Website In the Plain Truth we navigate through a unique virtual gallery floating in a virtual sky. As unexpected sounds provide ambience, one can experience visuals by Jason Baerg over the Great Plains. Jason Baerg (Métis) is a new media and visual artist. He has had works presented at such institutions as the Walter Phillips Gallery, the Canadian Art Centre in Ottawa, and the Woodland Cultural Centre.
unsettled Url: http://www.stormspirits.ca/unsettled Artist: Jenny Fraser Australia, 2007, Website unsettled is a series of nine stories celebrating the lives of the Yugambeh family members that first survived outside of their traditional homelands in South East “Queensland”, working on pastoral properties. The project highlights an era of late 1800s/early 1900s colonial Australia and explores the prickly issues of Native policing, dispossession, displacement, massacres and survival. Jenny Fraser (yugambeh/mununjali) works at the nexus of art, filmmaking and new technologies. Because of the diverse creative mediums she uses, much of her work defies categorization. Jenny founded cyberTribe, an online gallery that aims to encourage the production and exhibition of Indigenous art with a focus on the digital.
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