Autore
Russo, Katherine E.

Titolo
Convergence at the Crossroads of Modernity: Indigenous Australian New Media Art
Periodico
Textus
Anno: 2013 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 171 - Pagina finale: 186

In 2004 Stephen Muecke announced that "indigenous modernity isindeed possible" yet "this modernity is quite different from Europeanmodernisation processes since it developed its own forms, later includingmodernist and postmodernist aesthetics" (2004: 5). Pushing Muecke'scontention further, it may be argued that Indigenous Australian newmedia artists are rewriting the Western history of time and modernity forcontemporary audiences. The growing number of Indigenous Australiannew media art projects counters the digital revolution rhetoric of the 1990swhich assumed that new media were going to push aside and absorb oldmedia. Conversely, Indigenous Australian new media artists unsettle theunmarked norms of modernity's historicity (i.e. of what counts as part of itshistory) through a critical appropriation of "multimodal" discourse (Kress2010).



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