Strehlow Archive: Explorations in Old and New Media

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 and the Digital Humanities Research Group at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the co-author of Screen Media Arts, winner of best textbook—Australian Publishers Association, 2009, and is editor of the Global Media Journal, Australian Edition: 2007–present.

• 1. Introduction: Archaeologies of the digital archive and the persistence of cultural memory 2. The Strehlow Collection: A Dangerous Archive 3. The Remote Aboriginal Community of Hermannsburg/Ntaria 4. Mr. Strehlow's Films: Digitising the Dreaming 5. Image archives as totemic geomedia 6. Databases and the book: T.G.H. Strehlow’s Journey to Horseshoe Bend 7. Cantata Journey: Songs and Central Australia 8. Cultural Re-Integration, Participatory Archives and Aboriginal Knowing 9. Conclusion: Genealogies of memory, an ethos of storytelling?