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Projects

2009

OCCAMS: Online Cultural Collections Analysis System

CASS E-research grant
 
2009

Yayayi film material documentaion and digitisation

External consultancies
 
2009

MILR (Maintenance of Indigenous Languages Records) mapping interface

AIATSIS-ANU research consultancy

 
2009

Boolarng Nangamai Aboriginal Art and Culture Centre digital media development

External consultancy

 
2009

Migration memories

A website developed for Migration Memories - a research project about making exhibitions of Australian migration histories from local and personal perspectives

rsh.anu.edu.au/migrationmemories/

 
2009

A series of films on Indigenous people and climate change

Consultancy for the United Nations University

 
2008-2010

Contexts of Collection, ARC Discovery project

Contexts of Collection aims to explore the contexts in which the collections of Yolngu cultural material were originally made and highlight the agency of Yolngu in influencing the nature of the collections and the interests of particular collectors, including missionaries, anthropologists, art dealers and filmmakers.

 
2008

AUSTKIN mapping interface

Developed for the AUSTKIN ARC Discovery project, see: http://austkin.pacific-credo.fr/
 
2008-

AUSTLANG: Indigenous Languages Web-based System

This project is an initiative of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). The project is to create a web-based system to administer and access multiple datasets on Australian Indigenous Languages. This data has been compiled over several decades by researchers at AIATSIS and elsewhere.
See: http://austlang.anu.edu.au

 
2008-2010

Seeing Change: Science, Culture and Technology in the Antipodes

ARC Linkage Project

Seeing Change is a multimedia research collaboration between the ANU, the University of Sydney, the Australian National Maritime Museum, Film Australia and Constraint Technologies International. 

 
2007

Pintubi Painters film for Papunya Painting out of the desert exhibition

Consultancy for the National Museum of Australia.

 
2007

Our marerlopepetar - our story film project

External Consultancy with Lola Greeno and FAHCSIA.

 
2006

Bidwern

ARC Special Research Inititative E-Research grant.

"Bidwern" is a term from the Bininj Kunwok languages of western Arnhem Land used to describe innovative ways of doing things. The Bidwern project explored and created means by which multi-formatted research information can be collated, archived and accessed using e-research infrastructures such as digital repositories.

kab
2006

iDig

ARC Special Research Inititative E-Research grant.

The iDig project involved the development of a prototype multi-institutional search engine for Australian Indigenous collections. See: http://www.idig.org.au

 
2005-

Western Arnhem Plateau Project

This project is documenting social and environmental history on the western Arnhem Land Plateau in the Northern Territory. It centres on a remote outstation which has become a centre for a range of activities to do with land management, social history recording, linguistics and rock-art recording.

rock art
2004-2008

The Living Knowledge project

ARC Linkage Project

Indigenous knowledge and Western science pedagogy: a comparative approach.

See:http://www.livingknowledge.edu.au

LK
2002-2005

The Art of Narrijtin Maymuru

Narritjin was one of the leading Aboriginal artists of his generation but was also a man of extraordinary vision who saw his art as a way of communicating an important message to the outside world. The CDROM explores the themes and meanings of 400 paintings that Narritjin produced as well as highlighting aspects of Narritjin’s life relevant to and reflected in his art.
narritjin
2001

Yingapungapu:
A National Museum of Australia Exhibition

The exhibition explores the meaning of the Yingapungapu, as it is used in different contexts. .

NMA Yingapungapu
1998-2001

People of the Rivermouth:
The Joborr Texts of Frank Gurrmanamana

People of the Rivermouth presents Frank’s Joborr Texts and provides a vast amount of information to create a context in which they can be better understood. It offers a detailed explanation of the kinship structure of Anbarra society – the central concern of the Joborr Texts. It also gives a great deal of visual, audio and written material describing the Anbarra, their history, their life and their land.

potr