http://www.dannybutt.net/acp Danny Butt's writings on cultural politics - http://acp.dannybutt.net Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:57:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This book chapter appears in the Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader. Over the last four years, and with the support of numerous people including many in the Aotearoa Digital Arts network, I have been writing articles, giving talks, editing books, producing creative works and organising events that ask what it means for ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2008/03/15/local-knowledge-and-new-media-theory/ From 3C Media: Journal of Community, Citizen’s and Third Sector Media and Communication http://www.cbonline.org.au Issue 4 (August) 2008 The issue of evaluation is far from the sexiest topic for a journal issue on community technology. It brings to mind the endless forms and responses required by funders, or writing proposals with ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2007/10/15/reflections-on-the-politics-of-practicality-evaluating-ict-for-community-development/ Introduction to panel on Tauiwi and Tino Rangatiratanga Parihaka International Peace Festival, January 6 2007 Danny Butt - http://www.dannybutt.net Tena koutou katoa and welcome to the panel "Pakeha/Tauiwi and Tino Rangatiratanga: A possibility for peace or a contradiction in terms?" I'd like to give thanks to Te Miringa Hohaia for inviting me to ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2007/02/12/pakehatauiwi-and-tino-rangatiratanga/ To appear in MyCreativity Reader, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2007. Preprint - please do not quote or cite without permission. Danny Butt - http://www.dannybutt.net This paper emerged from an invitation to join a panel for myCreativity on alternative business and organisational models, which I accepted because I was excited to ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2006/11/12/craft-context-and-method-the-creative-industries-and-alternative-models/ Published in THE CREATIVITY newspaper, Amsterdam, in association with the myCreativity conference, November 2006. It's a cliché that the currency of the creative sector is cosmopolitanism. The artist who sells hundreds of paintings through the commercial gallery system can be snubbed at the fancy opening, in favour of the artist with ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2006/11/11/cosmopolitanism-nationalism-and-the-creative-industries/ I grew up selling Local Knowledge, though I didn't think much about it at the time. Local Knowledge was the brand name for the surfboards made by my stepfather's surf shop on Australia's Gold Coast. Surfers - compared to most other white settlers who aren't farmers - have detailed relationships ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2006/02/26/local-knowledge-place-and-new-media-practice/ Cultural Futures: Place ground and practice in Asia-Pacific New Media Arts. Hoani Waititi, Auckland, December 1-5 2005. This piece (1000-word limit, so a little sketchy) appears in Visit magazine, published by the Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ. For more information on Cultural futures, visit the symposium website. "Sarai" ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2006/02/19/cultural-futures-recap/ Danny Butt, Independent Consultant In Conversation with Anand Taneja, Sarai-CSDS , January 2005. See the conference website for a downloadable copy of the excellent book that this appears in. AT: You grew up in Australia and moved to New Zealand; your work focuses a lot on Indigenous conceptions and what these ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2006/01/16/interview-with-db-from-contested-commonstrespassing-publics-conference-sarai-csds-delhi/ Biculturalism as Multiculturalism (in monocultural New Zealand) Talk given at "Biculturalism or Multiculturalism?" conference, hosted by the School of Culture, Literature and Society at the University of Canterbury, 1-3 September 2005 [This is a rough paper, not designed to be published, so excuse poor grammar and lack of references] Tena koutou katoa. Nau te raurau Naku ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2005/09/04/biculturalism-as-multiculturalism/ [Updated the discussion about "public" at the end in response to an e-mail question] The conversation that made me finally sure I'd stop blogging had nothing to do with the Internet. It was a barbecue with family and family friends at my mother's house on the Gold Coast. One guy, in ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2005/05/29/give-it-up/ Attached a presentation I gave yesterday at the fantastic conference on Intellectual Property in Delhi, organised by Sarai and the Alternative Law Forum ( http://www.sarai.net/events/ip_conf/ip_conf.htm - eventually there will be transcripts I believe). Once again, very rushed (I repurpose a quote or two from my recent "Home Improvement" essay ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2005/01/11/location-location-location-property-in-the-first-and-fourth-worlds/ I posted to #place a review of this excellent conference that I attended in Sydney last month, that featured some of the best Australian discussion on indigenous issues I've encountered for a while... Marcia Langton and Lewis Gordon were in full effect. Thinking Race and Identity (Conference Review) University of New South ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2004/08/10/thinking-race-and-identity/ Something that's been making me grumpy recently is the way that white scholars display their "awareness" of the sensitivity around indigenous issues while not making any attempt to take on board the insights of indigenous theorists in their practice. So I thought I'd write something about it (128KB PDF) for ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2004/07/11/on-new-zealand-studies/ Many of you will be aware of the Government's current proposed legislation to curtail Maori rights to the foreshore and seabed. I've written a quick summary from my perspective that may be useful to get a handle on what is happening. The 5-minute Foreshore and Seabed A Pakeha perspective and summary - ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2004/05/04/foreshore-and-seabed/ A reflection on Michael King's obituaries The shocking death of Michael King and his wife marks the passing of a crucial figure from New Zealand's public life. His work represented a turning point in Pakeha history and media, beginning an acknowledgement of Maori culture that was long overdue. His stature has ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2004/04/05/michael-kings-obituaries/ "The high-tech is an epistemological constraint I want to escape. That's the secret of hybridisation. The biggest hybridisation is of course the sexual encounter which you want to escape and at the same time are seduced by. Yes, epistemologic constraints seduce me because they are outside of me, while at ... http://www.dannybutt.net/acp/2004/03/03/170/