ARTH 6771 - [Indigenous Art, Film, and New Media: Anti-Colonial Strategies]

(crosslisted) AMST 6771, ANTHR 6771, COML 6771

Spring. Not offered: 2024-2025. Next offered: 2025-2026. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with AMST 4771/ANTHR 4771/ARTH 4771/COML 4771.

J. Rickard.

This course examines Indigenous art, new media and film from three distinct interrelated perspectives of aesthetics/theory, technology and history/culture. The relationship between technology and tradition reevaluates established assumptions between representation, power and the gaze. Decolonizing methodologies will establish the translatability of Indigenous oral tradition to visual expression as a form of cultural agency. The use of media as a cultural and political intervention will be discussed through the work of Hopi filmmaker, Victor Masayesva, Inuit filmmaker, Zacharias Kunuk, the Kayapo Media Collective, Aboriginal artist, Tracy Moffat, new media artist; Mohawk, Skawanati, Maori photographer, John Miller and more. The construction, circulation, and reception of Indigenous visual culture will be discussed within a transnational, diasporic and global frame.