Recoding relationality: Indigenous new media and digital storytelling

This talk will critically explore the theoretical, cultural, political-economic, and gendered dynamics underwriting the histories and futures of Indigenous new media. A key focus will be examining the ways in which new media and digital storytelling connect to and support key issues in the field of Indigenous studies, such as sovereignty, self-determination, decolonization, and land rights.

Presenter

David Gaertner

David is a settler scholar and Instructor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the ways in which Indigenous artists and programmers are deploying new medias towards resurgence and decolonization. David is the co-editor of Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island and the editor of Sôhkêyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe. His first monograph is currently in production with UBC Press.

This event is organised by The Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration, a new research unit at the University of Melbourne, and hosted in the Digital Studio. You can follow the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration on twitter at @ISCollaborates