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Coded Territories

Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art

Edited by Steven Loft & Kerry Swanson
Contributions by Jackson 2Bears & Archer Pechawis & Jason Edward Lewis & Stephen Foster & Candice Hopkins & Cheryl L’Hirondelle & Steven Loft
Categories: Ethnic studies, Social groups and identities, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences, United States of America, USA, North America (USA and Canada), The Americas, Place qualifiers, Relating to Native American people, Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures, tribes and other groupings of people, Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests, Interest qualifiers
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Paperback : 9781552387061, 216 pages, October 2014
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Table of contents

Jason Ryle

Foreword
Donia Popescu

For Iktomi

Introduction: Decolonizing the Web
Steven Loft

1. My Post–Indian Technological Autobiography
Jackson 2 Bears

2. Indigenism: Aboriginal World Views as Global Protocol
Archer Pechawis

3. A Better Dance and Better Prayers: Systems, Structures, and the Future Imaginary in Aboriginal New Media
Jason Edward Lewis

4. Documentative: Inclusivity and the Ethics of Interactive Documentary in an Indigenous and Participatory Context
Stephen Foster

5. If History Moves at the Speed of Its Weapons…
Candice Hopkins

6. Codetalkers Recounting Signals of Survival
Cheryl L’Hirondelle

7. Mediacosmology
Steven Loft

Description

This collection of essays provides a historical and contemporary context for Indigenous new media arts practice in Canada. The writers are established artists, scholars, and curators who cover thematic concepts and underlying approaches to new media from a distinctly Indigenous perspective. Through discourse and narrative analysis, the writers discuss a number of topics ranging from how Indigenous worldviews inform unique approaches to new media arts practice to their own work and specific contemporary works. Contributors include: Archer Pechawis, Jackson 2Bears, Jason Edward Lewis, Steven Foster, Candice Hopkins, and Cheryl L’Hirondelle.

Awards

  • Short-listed, BPAA Alberta Book Award for Scholarly and Academic Book 2015

Reviews

 

Coded Territories takes the reader on a journey through time, story and imagination that joins past, present and future . . . powerful, absorbing and challenging.

—Terry Huffman, ALTERNATIVE

 

This book directs our attention to the ways of knowing, logics, beliefs and traditions that drive uniquely Indigenous visions . . . It offers important lessons to help us collectively navigate the evolving landscape of the network society.

—Rob McMahon, BC Studies

 

Not to be missed!

—Centre for Imaginative Ethnography