Wed, October 29, 2014 1:00 AM - 3:00 PM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. All too often there is a perceived gap between Indigenous peoples and technology. This imaginative fissure is symptomatic of a larger, fallacious belief that indigeniety and Indigenous cultural practices are products of the past. However, Indigenous knowledges and peoples are not only mobilizing technology, they are also shaping the way technology is being developed and utilized.
In this session we will discuss the theoretical implications of cyberspace in the field of Indigenous Critical Theory and the intersections between tradition and innovation, examining Indigenous contributions to hardware and software development in the digital age. Participants will leave this sessions with a better sense of how to read, analyze and teach with Indigenous technology along with Indigenous new media examples they can use in class to break through the tradition/innovation divide.
Some things to consider are: the implications of open source knowledge and the settler insistence that “information wants to be free.”
Location: Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Seminar (Room 2.22 A/B)