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Eve Christine Peacock Thesis (PDF 624Kb) A Novella of Ideas How interactive new media art can effectively communicate an Indigenous philosophical concept Eve Christine Peacock A Novella of Ideas How interactive new media art can effectively communicate an Indigenous philosophical concept Student: Eve Christine Peacock Student Number: 5477069 Queensland University of Technology Creative Industries Faculty Drama Submitted for Master of Arts (Research) Supervisor: Dr. Christine Comans, Discipline Leader, Drama. Associate Supervisor: Dr.Leah King-Smith, Sessional Academic, Art and Design. July, 2009 KEYWORDS The following is a list of keywords that appear within this exegesis or are associated with the exegesis topic. These keywords have been listed for cataloguing purposes. Philosophy; place theory; cultural theory; new media art; Indigenous arts practice; Indigenous practice-led research methodology. 1 ABSTRACT HOW INTERACTIVE NEW MEDIA ART CAN EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE AN INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT. The sophistication and complexity of the philosophical concept concerning relationships between land and people and between people, intrinsic to the laws and customs of Australian Indigenous society, has begun to be communicated and accessed beyond the realm of anthropological and ethnological domains of Western scholarship. The exciting scope and rapid development of new media arts presents an innovative means of creating an interactive relationship with the general Australian public, addressing the urgent need for an understanding of Indigenous Australian concepts of relationship to land, and to each other, absent from Western narratives. The study is framed by an Indigenous concept of place, and relationships between land and people and between people; and explores how this concept can be clearly communicated through interactive new media arts. It involves: a creative project, the development of an interactive new media art project, a website work-in-progress titled site\sight\cite; and an exegesis, a Novella of Ideas, on the origins, influences, objectives, and potential of creative practices and processes engaged in the creative project. Research undertaken for the creative project and exegesis extended my creative practice into the use of interdisciplinary arts, expressly for the expression of philosophical concepts, consolidating 23 years experience in Indigenous community arts development. The creative project and exegesis contributes to an existing body of Indigenous work in a range of areas - including education, the arts and humanities - which bridges old and new society in Australia. In this study, old and new society is defined by the time of the initial production of art and foundations of knowledge, in the country of its origins, in Indigenous Australia dating back at least 40,000 years. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS KEYWORDS ..................................................................................................... 1 ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................... 2 SCOPE ............................................................................................................. 5 DEFINITIONS ................................................................................................... 6 STATEMENT OF ORIGINAL AUTHORSHIP ................................................... 9 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .............................................................................. 10 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................ 13 1.1 Defining Practice .................................................................................... 14 1.2 Qualifying the Use of the term Indigenous ............................................. 14 1.3 Introducing Myself .................................................................................. 16 1.3.1 Teaching and Learning ................................................................... 18 1.3.2 What I have come to know .............................................................. 18 1.4 Orientation ............................................................................................. 19 1.5 Intention of the Study ............................................................................. 20 2. CONTEXTUAL REVIEW: PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS ............. 23 2.1 Ontological Viewpoints .......................................................................... 23 2.2 The Ontology and Epistemology of Praxis ............................................. 27 2.3 Methodology ......................................................................................... 31 2.3.1 Ethics Clearance ............................................................................. 33 3. KNOWING BEING AND DOING: THE CREATIVE PROJECT .................. 35 3.1 Context of Praxis ................................................................................... 35 3.1.1 Background ..................................................................................... 35 3.2 Narrativising Creative Practice (3.2.1; 3.2.2 Appendix 6.VI) .................. 36 3.3 Narrativising the Creative Project: The Third Revolution ....................... 38 3.3.1 Dialogue as central to praxis ........................................................... 40 3.3.2 Reconstructing Place ....................................................................... 41 3.4 site\sight\cite .......................................................................................... 44 3.4.1 Stage I ............................................................................................. 45 3.4.2 Stage II ............................................................................................ 46 3 4. ANALYSIS ................................................................................................... 49 4.1 Relationship to place and community, alongside peers .......................... 49 4.2 Critical Interpretation of Creative Project ................................................. 51 4.3 Outcomes of Study .................................................................................. 58 4.4 How outcomes are applied to, and impact upon, .................................... 60 current creative project. 5. REFERENCES ............................................................................................. 64 6. LIST OF APPENDICES ............................................................................... 70 6.I M. Graham in Aboriginal Affairs .......................................................... 72 6.II Accessing site_sight_site .................................................................... 76 6.III Uniikup Optical Media Collection ......................................................... 78 6.IV Ethics Clearance Documents ............................................................. 107 6.V Creative Team DetailsType chapter title (level 2) .............................. 112 6.VI 3.2.1 1ST Revolution; and 3.22 2nd Revolution ............................... 114 6.VI(i) Boxing Art .................................................................................... 124 6.VI(ii) Place Building Building Place ....................................................... 137 6.VII Place Relatedness ............................................................................. 140 6.VIII A Unique Australian Screen Culture .................................................. 142 6.IX Project Information Kit ........................................................................ 150 6.X sscIT Proposed Production Schedule ............................................... 155 4 SCOPE 1. Creative Project - site\ sight\cite An interactive new media project, site\sight\cite is a collaborative work-in- progress of a creative team of nine artists. Each artist takes both an individual and collaborative approach to the creation of the project to communicate the meaning, values and principals of Indigenous philosophy concerning the relationships between both land and people and between people. My role as concept initiator and developer, artist and project co-ordinator, is detailed at 3.4 and 4.1. A city walk through country, site\sight\cite is a tour-site containing nine contemporary places significant to the population of the Brisbane metropolis. This project has two stages. Stage I is the creative project of this study: a presentation of the concept development of the site\sight\cite project, housed at a preliminary website, site_sight_cite, located at www.colourise.com.au. (Appendix 6.II) Photoshop treated images, accompanied by artist statements, provide a perspective on, and an impression of the treatment of each place. Stage I conveys the proposed framework of www.sscIT.com, to be constructed at Stage II. Links to prospective sponsors/funding sources (for which the preliminary website is support material), and further research links are posted in the Links tab on site_sight_cite. The time, place and context for the proposed production of www.sscIT.com at Stage II is detailed in Appendix 6.X. 2. Novella of Ideas (Exegesis): A practice-led study, the exegesis examines the philosophical concept in relation to the development of the creative project. The conclusion is an analysis and interpretation of the creative project, including other relevant new media and internet work. The conclusion also presents outcomes of the study and how they are applied to, and impact upon, current praxis. The Novella of Ideas is also made accessible
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