Full Description
This collection of essays provides a historical and contemporary context for Indigenous new media arts practice in Canada. The writers are established artists, scholars, and curators who cover thematic concepts and underlying approaches to new media from a distinctly Indigenous perspective. Through discourse and narrative analysis, the writers discuss a number of topics ranging from how Indigenous worldviews inform unique approaches to new media arts practice to their own work and specific contemporary works.
Contents
Jason Ryle
Foreword
Donia Popescu
For Iktomi
Introduction: Decolonizing the Web
Steven Loft
1. My Post-Indian Technological Autobiography
Jackson 2 Bears
2. Indigenism: Aboriginal World Views as Global Protocol
Archer Pechawis
3. A Better Dance and Better Prayers: Systems, Structures, and the Future Imaginary in Aboriginal New Media
Jason Edward Lewis
4. Documentative: Inclusivity and the Ethics of Interactive Documentary in an Indigenous and Participatory Context
Stephen Foster
5. If History Moves at the Speed of Its Weapons…
Candice Hopkins
6. Codetalkers Recounting Signals of Survival
Cheryl L'Hirondelle
7. Mediacosmology
Steven Loft
