Technology is Land: Strategies towards decolonisation of technology in artmaking

Zak Argabrite, Jim Murphy, Sally Jane Norman, and Dale Carnegie

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2022
• Location: The University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Article Number: 32
• DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.68f7c268 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

This article provides a lens for viewing technology as land, transformed through resource extraction, manufacturing, distribution, disassembly and waste. This lens is applied to processes of artistic creation with technology, exploring ways of fostering personal and informed relationships with that technology. The goal of these explorations will be to inspire a greater awareness of the colonial and capitalist processes that shape the technology we use and the land and people it is in relationship with. Beyond simply identifying the influence of these colonial and capitalist processes, the article will also provide creative responses (alterations to a creative process with technology) which seek to address these colonial processes in a sensitive and critical way. This will be done not to answer the broad question of ‘how do we decolonise art making with technology?’, but to break that question apart into prompts or potential pathways for decolonising.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME22_32,
 abstract = {This article provides a lens for viewing technology as land, transformed through resource extraction, manufacturing, distribution, disassembly and waste. This lens is applied to processes of artistic creation with technology, exploring ways of fostering personal and informed relationships with that technology. The goal of these explorations will be to inspire a greater awareness of the colonial and capitalist processes that shape the technology we use and the land and people it is in relationship with. Beyond simply identifying the influence of these colonial and capitalist processes, the article will also provide creative responses (alterations to a creative process with technology) which seek to address these colonial processes in a sensitive and critical way. This will be done not to answer the broad question of ‘how do we decolonise art making with technology?’, but to break that question apart into prompts or potential pathways for decolonising.},
 address = {The University of Auckland, New Zealand},
 articleno = {32},
 author = {Argabrite, Zak and Murphy, Jim and Norman, Sally Jane and Carnegie, Dale},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.68f7c268},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {jun},
 pdf = {222.pdf},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/JZTmiIByYN4},
 title = {Technology is Land: Strategies towards decolonisation of technology in artmaking},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.21428%2F92fbeb44.68f7c268},
 year = {2022}
}