Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Being, Doing

• Konai Thaman
• My USP/ Jica NmInTheSouthPacific project examined in a very preliminary way how ed tech might be less specifically western
• Linda Tuhiwai Smith Decolonizing Methodologies

L'Hirondelle, Cree Language Programming, BANFF

• http://www.banffcentre.ca/Aboriginal_Arts/streaming/biographies.htm
• http://www.horizonzero.ca/textsite/tell.php?is=17&art=0&file=0&tlang=0
• http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/papers/diamond/diamond.html

Media and Capitalism

"Modernization is the process by which capitalism uproots and makes mobile that which is grounded, clears away or obliterates that which impedes circulation, and makes exchangeable what is singular."
-Virilio in Manovich

Quantifying Thought

"In point of fact, the first instance of grading students's papers occurred at Cambridge University in 1792 at the suggestion of a tutor named William Farish. No one knows much about William Farish; not more than a handful have ever heard of him. And yet his idea that a quantitative value should be assigned to human thoughts was a major step toward constructing a mathematical concept of reality"
-p. 13, Technopoly, by Neil Postman : The Judgement of Thamus

Orality

"Orality stresses group learning, cooperation, and a sense of social responsibility, which is the context within which Thamus believed proper instruction and real knowledge must be communicated. Print stresses individualized learning, competition, and personal autonomy"
-p. 16, Technopoly, by Neil Postman: The Judgement of Thamus

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

A radically different approach to virtual reality is demonstrated by Inherent Rights, Vision Rights (1992), a VR-installation work by native Canadian artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. (52) The visitor (usually a white urban westerner) is immersed into a virtual 'spirit lodge', a ritual environment belonging to Yuxweluptun's tribe. It is an enchanted world with radically different values and concerns from those of most visitors The freedom of movement is deliberately restricted and the graphics crude. When entering the world, for example, one cannot back up to admire the carved 'wooden' gates in their entirety. Why? Because the artist does not want them to look like 'white man's postcards'. -from Erkki Huhtamo's Seeking Deeper Contact

Bad Aboriginal Art, Eric Michaels

see DmPostCol

Thinking/ Approach

After a convo with Catherine D'Ignazio (I decided to sit in on her first class to see what she's about), I realised that I should probably clarify my goals regarding Indigenous Culture. I'm more interested in opening up interfaces and explorations of Interactive Media than specifically looking at Indigenous Approaches at this point. Mostly because as a white guy based in USA right now I don't feel I have the right. But opening up and perhaps providing venues and tools and concepts that others (or even myself, in future circumstances) can use is more my approach.