An article by David Shorter, professor and vice-chair of the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California in Los Angeles. Originally published 5/14/16 on Indian Country Today. Excerpt: In 2002, I began working on my first website that would feature ethnographic and self-representations of the Yoeme people in northwest […]
2016 • indigenous aesthetics • indigenous language • photographs • representation • WIL • YoemeIndigenous New Media Symposium
February 21, 2014 | New York City | School of Media Studies at The New School The Indigenous New Media Symposium brings together Native American and First Nation media makers and creative activists to discuss how new media platforms are being used in the indigenous community to educate, organize, entertain, […]
2014 • identity • indigenous aesthetics • indigenous issues • new media • representation • social mediaObsidiana TV
What is Obsidiana TV? Obsidiana TV is a web platform that is born to be a support tool in the broad spectrum of work audiovisual- for emerging and professional filmmakers, who make visible the reality of Indigenous Peoples of America through his eyes. What makes Obsidiana TV? We have created […]
citizen media • community media • crowdsourcing • film • indigenous aestheticsExploring Culture in a Digital World
This is a technical paper describing the pedagogical and technological requirements for the Wondervision Project. It examines how digital technologies can be used to connect cultures in a way that is respectful and results in deeper understanding of culture. The Indigenous culture of Australia is the learning context, with the […]
2014 • Australia • cross-cultural • design • digital • indigenous aesthetics • research • technologyHow the West was Played: Offering Indigenous Voice to Video Game Studies
While many scholars have addressed the presence of stereotypical representations of Native Americans in the traditional media of film and literature, there has not as of yet been much dialogue around the newer medium of video games. This is in part due to their newness, as well as a perceptual […]
2012 • gaming • indigenous aesthetics • Native American • representation • subversion • video gameIsumaTV: an independent online interactive network of Inuit and Indigenous multimedia
MISSION IsumaTV is an independent online interactive network of Inuit and Indigenous multimedia. IsumaTV uses the power and immediacy of the Web to bring people together to tell stories and support change. Our tools enable Indigenous people to express reality in their own voices: views of the past, anxieties about […]
community media • indigenous aesthetics • Inuit • IsumaTV • multimedia • storytelling • videoProblematizing Indigenous Aesthetics
In 1966, Sol Worth (professor of Communication from the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania) and John Adair (professor of Anthropology at San Francisco State University) set out to find “what kind of visual and temporal style and aesthetics might [the] Navajo use if they were trained […]
2009 • colonization / colonialism • indigenous aesthetics • Media: Film • Native American • Navajo