Brett Leavy, Australia | ISBN: | Submitted: Jul 28, 1998

Cyber Dreaming: digitally mapping indigenous Australia

This paper is about mapping the cultural landscape of indigenous Australia. I have permission to go to my traditional sacred areas and document them using sophisticated audio/visual digital and MM techniques. Getting the permission from my Elders has been a very delicate a difficult task and something that should never be underestimated. (A lot of gubba fellas do unfortunately!!)

I was seeking funding support to visit the Cathedral to survey, record, document and annotate my special sites. This way my mob and my story can be told a "new" way using the available technology without removing or disturbing the sites or any artefacts.

I would enjoy and hope to use the MM techniques as a methodology within the Ranger Certificate program offered through Cairn's Tafe. This course needs and does respect traditional practices and ways to pass on information and I believe on-line training methodologies developed by sensitive instructional designers can respect these principles.

That all I have time to say at the moment..., but I know this concept and the possibilities it presents can save much of my culture of my tribe and its clans.

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Aboriginal Australia, World Heritage, Virtual reality, mapping and preserving cultural heritage