Transference, tradition, technology : native new media exploring visual & digital culture

Book 2004

Transference, Tradition, Technology explores Canadian Aboriginal new media and references the work of artists within a political, cultural and aesthetic milieu. The book constructs a Native art history relating to these disciplines, one that is grounded in the philosophical and cosmological foundations of Aboriginal concepts of community and identity within the rigour of contemporary arts discourse. Approachable in nature but scholarly in content...

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Art, Canadian 20th century

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Computer art Canada

Indigenous art Canada

Indigenous art Canada 21st century

Video art Canada

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ISBN:

9781894773096
1894773098

Description:

xiii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Co-published by the Indigenous Media Arts Group, and the Art Gallery of Hamilton
Published to accompany an exhibition
Canadiana
Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Content meets context / Melanie Townsend
Re:wind / Dana Claxton
Dialogue : Pumipau in conversation with Zacharias Kunuk
Sovereignty subjectivity and social action : The films of Alanis Obomsawin / Steven Loft
Worldviews in collision : Dana Claxton's video installations / Monika Kin Gagnon
Thirza Cuthand / Shawna Dempsey
Aboriginal media art and the postmodern conundrum : a coyote perspective / Steven Loft
Polemics, philosophies and a story : aboriginal aesthetics in the media of this land / Loretta Todd
Interventions in digital territories : narrative in Native new media / Candice Hopkins
Aboriginal voices : entitlement through storytelling / Marjorie Beaucage
Narratives in cyberspace / Loretta Todd
Indigenous experimentation / Victor Masayesva
The indigenous tradition/new technology interface / Greg Young-Ing
Drumbeats to drumbytes : globalizing networked aboriginal art / Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew
Writer biographies

LCCN:

2007531925

Control Number:

988091

Other Authors:

Art Gallery of Hamilton (Ont.), issuing body
Claxton, Dana, author
Hopkins, Candice
Indigenous Media Arts Group, issuing body
Loft, Steve, 1960- author
Townsend, Melanie A. (Melanie Adaire), 1968- author
Walter Phillips Gallery, host institution

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