Hello - I rarely get time to input into these discussions, though I am a
frequent reader. First let me say how very much I appreciate the
dialogue and debate available through this channel.

I wanted to pick up on this topic, as I did quite a bit of research into
some parallel issues last year.

Recently I ran a 4 week online panel discussion titled 'Common Ground:
Collective Practice and Shared Knowledge'. In this debate, I was very
keen to include international and specifically indigenous perspectives.
A number of the contributors added very interesting comments along the
lines of your enquiry.

The formal panel discussion:
http://www.tate.org.uk/contact/forums/onlineevents/thread.jsp?forum=47&t
hread=3051&tstart=0&trange=45

The associated public forum (which saw quite a bit of activity) the
forum has now closed:
http://www.tate.org.uk/contact/forums/onlineevents/thread.jsp?forum=48&t
hread=3052&tstart=0&trange=46

Contributors and perspectives:

Jane Anderson, is a legal anthropologist who works extensively with
aboriginal communities in Australia (I recommend taking a look at her
work if you have an interest). Jane made some extremely interesting
comments and case study references on the relationship Australian
indigenous people have to the ownership and circulation of knowledge.
Proposing some very challenging notions into the intellectual property
and open source debate, which asks us to readdress location and the
local, in context of this globally relevant debate.

Cheryl L'Hirondelle is a Canadian Indigenous artist who also had
valuable input into the discussion. 

The moderator Danny Butt is a New Zealander and has also done a lot of
work in this area.

The forum also addressed the European perspective - represented by
Florian Cramer. Who's ideas were followed through in the associated
public forum, in quite a bit of detail as well. Further contributions
included the Raqs Media Collective from India and Yuwei Lin (Taiwanese
Sociologist, based in Amsterdam) who has a unique cyber-feminist
perspective on intellectual property and associated issues.

Here are the contributors' biogs, with relevant web references should
you wish to follow up on any of their work:
http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/archive/common_ground/biogs.htm#lin

Here is the forum topic summarized:
Reviewing intellectual property in light of a variety of cultural
relationships to notions of property, collaboration, and circulation.
Reflecting on case studies which elucidate both traditional indigenous
and contemporary media practices, that are innately shared, distributed,
time-based, seasonal or nomadic concepts. Considering the value of aural
histories, performative and media practices; which embody themselves in
both private and collective knowledge/s. 

I do hope these references are useful to your research.

This online discussion is part of an ongoing series. Next one due to
launch in March on the topic of --
'Liquid Architectures: The future of the artefact and the institutions
which steward there exhibition, collection and preservation'

Kind Regards

Kelli Dipple
Webcasting Curator
Digital Programmes / Education & Interpretation
Tate 
www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents



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dear jennifer, dear others,

not a full answer, just a reference: issues around First Nations 
artists will be discussed during transmediale.06 in Berlin next 
month, esp. in the 'imagine native' screening organised in 
cooperation with V-Tape in Toronto.

best regards - hope to see some of you in berlin!

regards,
-a



Monday 6 Feb 17h > imagine native

The videos in this compilation all come from the Canadian distributor 
and co-founder of the imagineNATIVE festival, Vtape, which has 
developed a special focus on distributing these works. The title of 
the programme is a reference to the annual Toronto-based festival of 
the same name. It is a platform for artistic video works by 'First 
Nations Canadians' and Indigenous Peoples from around the world.

http://www.transmediale.de/page/listings/listing.0.programme.screenings.
3.html



Monday 6 Feb, 14h > Canadian Video Art Alliance

'Pensees mouvants/Moving Thoughts' is a selection of 13 recent 
Canadian films and videos. It presents various aesthetic styles, but 
all focus on a few common issues: the pleasure or need of speaking 
and storytelling; the role of the body in performance as a standard 
measure of time and space; the invasive role of mass media in our 
daily lives. It provides a mosaic of perspectives onto the reality 
that inhabits and transforms us, for all these artists not only share 
their vision, but make us part of it in continuing their work.


Monday 6 Feb, 19h > Su Ballard: Considering Digital Arts in New Zealand

'Aotearoa Digital Arts' (ADA) is New Zealand's only digital artist 
network. The 70 artists associated with ADA are engaged in 
discussions of the nature of digital practice; the ways that these 
histories are being recorded and constructed; and the kinds of 
relationships that might be emerging across public and gallery 
spaces. The presentation considers the manner in which ADA and its 
artists are constructing digital histories in New Zealand Aotearoa.

Tuesday 7 Feb, 15.30h > Sumugan Sivanesan: A Distance in Place and Time

Sumugan Sivanesan presents a series of video works from young and 
emerging Australian artists featured at Electrofringe, an annual 
festival of digital, electronic and new media art. These particular 
works explore notions of identity of artists who question dominant 
cultural values and social norms which are conveyed by media 
representation.

electrofringe.org



>From: Jennifer Maddock <[log in to unmask]>
>
>I would like to join the discussion to introduce myself and share
>some of my current research ideas with a view to having some 
>conversations; i'd be hugely grateful for your thoughts and 
>feedback. My name is Jennifer Maddock and I'm currently undertaking 
>the MA Curating Program at Goldsmiths College, University of London 
>and am passionate about developing my interest in Contemporary 
>Native American and First Nations artwork, which I developed while 
>studying in Vancouver and subsequently when writing my dissertation 
>entitled 'Cultural Autonomy: Contemporary First Nations Artists 
>Creating A Space For Self Representation' I was fortunate to get in 
>touch with Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and Gerald McMaster whose work 
>both contributed to two chapters of my paper.