Archive for February, 2006

Local Knowledge: Place and New Media Practice

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

New media practice is often thought of as placeless. In reality, new media discourse and theory is invested in colonial culture and particular relationships to land. Recognising the difference between this and indigenous world-views in uses of new media shows the potential for reshaping our suppositions. Surfing gives an example of the ways different conceptions of place can exist in a given locality.

Cultural Futures recap

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

A brief piece on the Cultural Futures symposium held at Hoani Waititi, December 2005