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16. The digital mediation of film archives from the Strehlow Research Centre

Chapter of: Digital Humanities in the India Rim: Contemporary Scholarship in Australia and India(pp. 319–332)

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Title16. The digital mediation of film archives from the Strehlow Research Centre
ContributorHart Cohen(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0423.16
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0423/chapters/10.11647/obp.0423.16
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightHart Cohen
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-11-06
Long abstractThis chapter is concerned with the history of the Strehlow Research Centre (SRC) with a special emphasis on the how the film collection has been handled at various points in the institution’s history. As an archive and research centre, the SRC has evolved from an earlier series of controversies around cultural ownership to become a leading innovator of the digitisation of parts of its collection. The digitisation of the films of T.G.H. Strehlow have led the collecting institutions sector, not only in technological innovation but also in outreach and engagement with its Aboriginal constituency. The example of the Strehlow Film Collection, and its evolution as a database and focus for community engagement, resonate with the issues that have recently emerged around archive/counter archive projects and participatory archives (Huvila) which have re-capitulated the role of archives in recovering the space of cultural memory and cultural practice. The chapter will test the proposition that “[…] the archive as a site for creative intervention, is one that enables new possibilities for preserving and representing individual memory within a larger historical consciousness” (Kashmere, 2021).
Page rangepp. 319–332
Print length14 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Hart Cohen

(author)
Professor in Media Arts in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University
Member of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8676-4420

Dr Hart Cohen is Professor in Media Arts in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and a member of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. He is currently the university’s Discipline Leader for Communication and Media. Dr Cohen has published widely in the field of visual anthropology, communications, f ilm and media studies and directed three Australian Research Council Projects related to the Strehlow Collection. Three films have been made in relation to these projects: Mr. Strehlow’s Films (SBSi 2001), Cantata Journey (ABC TV 2006), and Ntaria Heroes (2016). Dr Cohen is co-author of the award-winning book, Screen Media Arts: An Introduction to Concepts and Practices (2009) and editor of the Global Media Journal (Australian Edition (2007–present) (https://www.hca.westernsydney.edu.au/ gmjau/). His most recent book is The Strehlow Archive: Explorations in Old and New Media (2018).

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