The Artificial as an Intelligent Indigenous/Indigenizing System

This article explores the vital importance of the sensory at the nexus of the artificial and real life. Co-existing within colonial histories, the artificial and lived are bound up with intractable violence and inequities driven by capitalist, militarist, and anthropocentric trajectories. Our collaborative article examines the 30-year practice of the non-binary, Gamilaraay/Wailwan/ Biripi artist r e a. As we contend, r e a’s experimental media arts practice pivots on sensory and affective truth-telling of the “artificial”. Their work is a re-Indigenization of country, body, and experience, specifically because digital art represents an “unoccupied space” for counter-historical transformation.

Please Note: This material contains themes and discussions of institutionalisation, Blak deaths in custody, and gender and sexuality.

Output(s)

The Experimental Art and Artifice of r e a

Type

Journal article

Authors

r e a, Jennifer L. Biddle, Lily Hibberd

Publisher

Visual Anthropology Review

Publication date

2023

Rights notice

Visual Anthropology Review, Vol. 0, Issue 0, pp. 3–18, ISSN 1058-7187, online 1548-7458. © 2023 The Authors. Visual Anthropology Review published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Anthropological Association. DOI: 10.1111/var.12284 This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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10.1111-var.12284Figure122840003.pptx

Link

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/var.12284

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Project contact(s)

Jennifer L. Biddle

j.biddle@unsw.edu.au

Researcher(s)

r e a
Jennifer Biddle
Lily Hibberd

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Topic(s)

Closing the Gap focus

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Indigenous involvement

Indigenous involvement notes

r e a is University of Queensland Research Fellow and an experimental interdisciplinary artist, activist, academic, educator, and creative thinker from the Gamilaraay/Wailwan/ Biripi nations Australia. They create radical spaces of Indigenization through the sensorial and intersectional convergences of Aboriginality across the arts, technology, history, and colonialism.

This article is a three-way dialogue between the First Nations Indigenous Gamilaraay/Wailwan /Biripi experimental artist r e a, non-Indigenous anthropologist and activist Jennifer L. Biddle, and non-Indigenous artist Lily Hibberd, who has collaborated extensively with childhood institutional survivor communities at Australian sites of trauma.

The Artificial as an Intelligent Indigenous/Indigenizing System

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