Image – Music – Text: An Interdisciplinary Symposium Exploring Media in Indigenous Histories

20 March 2015

Old Darlington School, Darlington campus, University of Sydney

Digital copying, and the widespread dissemination of computer-based media platforms, allows a wholly new relationship between media archives and Indigenous knowledge holders.

Sound recording, film and still photography have, since their inception, shaped encounters between Indigenous and non-Indigenous societies. The wide distribution of media also facilitates new and innovative uses of historical objects in contemporary live performance. ‘Image – Music – Text’ brings together an ensemble of researchers from a range of disciplines, all of whom are working interactively and experimentally with historic media in cross-cultural situations.

This one-day forum will examine the relationship between performers, the people who documented them and the afterlives of resulting records in order to better understand the historical and contemporary relevance of these interactions. The fluidity of our own media moment, including the large-scale digitisation of media archives, makes it timely – and indeed necessary – to rethink the significance of these encounters.

‘Image – Music – Text’ is jointly organised by the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC), the Research Centre for Music Diversity at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney and the School of History, Australian National University.

Convenors: Linda Barwick, Amanda Harris and Martin Thomas

 

9:20-9:40	Welcome to Country	ODS
9:40-10:20	Martin Thomas: The Flight of Discovery: Following the Contrail of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition	ODS
10:20-11	Jane Lydon: The pulse of imperial networks: photography, digitisation, return	ODS
Break
11:20-12	Amanda Harris: Pan-Indigenous encounter in the 1950s: “Ethnic Dancer” Beth Dean	ODS
12-1	PANEL: Mediating the Present: Contemporary Perspectives on the Archive Paul Arthur, Melinda Hinkson, Harold Short, Julia Torpey	ODS
Lunch
2-2:40	Ian McLean: Trouble in the Archive	ODS
2:40-3:20	Reuben Brown and Linda Barwick: Curating the musical record	ODS
Break
3:40-4:40	PANEL: Repatriation in the digital age: a panel on use and reuse of images, music and text Clint Bracknell, Genevieve Campbell, Sally Treloyn	ODS
5-6 Launch & drinks	Book Launch: Expeditions into Empire: Exploratory Journeys and the Making of the Modern World (ed. Martin Thomas) to be launched by Kirsten McKenzie Circulating Cultures: Exchanges of Australian Indigenous Music, Dance and Media (ed. Amanda Harris) to be launched by Linda Barwick	FR
Dinner at local restaurant

 

 

Venues
Old Darlington School (ODS)
Forum Restaurant, Darlington Centre (FR)

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