Simple communications for people in an overgrown media landscape
Posted in preservation on Aug 9th, 2008
Kim Christen (my wife), Shawn Lamebull, Craig Dietrich, and Raegan Kelly are extending the open source archival tool developed for Mukurtu Project to a new indigenous project for the Plateau Center for American Indian Studies.
Years ago the idea of an extensible archiveal system based on cultural protocols which could be shared with many communities was [...]
Posted in culture, preservation on Apr 4th, 2008
The Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive received some wonderful exposure a couple months back. A mention of the archive in a BBC New article by Bill Thompson led to: a BBC Radio interview, an article by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), a Web feature on the Washington State University site, and even a heated discussion on Slashdot!
The [...]
Posted in culture on Nov 25th, 2007
The Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive is a browser-based digital archive created by the Warumungu community in Tennant Creek, N.T. Australia in collaboration with researchers: Kimberly Christen, Craig Dietrich, Tim Dietrich, and Chris Cooney (me).
This project has been in process since 2005 and was installed at the Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Culture Center this past summer.
Posted in culture on Jul 12th, 2006
How could anyone not see that the human is a social animal, that separated from other people the human is not a whole creature — we are completed by our families, friends, co-workers. Without interaction we are like routers with nothing coming in our out — we are just potential.
Posted in culture on Jun 14th, 2006
The Aymara concept of time is opposite the common perception of time. So, the past is in front of them and the future is in back of them.
Backs to the Future
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