Linc Kesler, First Nations Studies ProgramUlrich Rauch, Arts Instructional Support & Information Technology

University of British Columbia,Vancouver, BC, Canada

Indigenous Cultures: From Looking To Experiencing;

From Videography To 3D Immersion

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Who are we?

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Outline

• Contextualizing Technology & Communication• Part One: weaving a narrative with videography• Part Two: immersive exploration• Conclusion and Q & A

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Why are we here (together)?

– Digital Media that support a collaborative learning process

– Digital communications that permit expression of social and cultural meanings

– Technology that provides a more immersive, personalized and subjective meaningful way of seeing each other across cultural differences.

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• Making digital media a useful tool e.g.– digital preservation of cultural and

historic artefacts– Creating a narrative, weaving a story

–Turning video recordings “into an evocative object around which conversations get stimulated and anchored” (John Seely Brown)

– exploring a new mode of discourse

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• Learning environments move into uncharted space– there is a renewed realization that learning is tremendously social activity and that knowledge is distributed

• Technology might help us to better grasp and take advantage of a distributed cognition

• A new age of participatory collaboration

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• Learning as a visual and tactile experience• Story telling as a mode of weaving

knowledge

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BUT…

• Changing the learning environment to make it collaborative means:Sharing power, partnering, collaborating

• Education and Technology: the master’s tools

Jerry Mander, “Television(2): Satellites and the Cloning Of Cultures.”

Among the effects of satellite downlinks in the far north:

• Disregard for maintaining the skills and modes of social interaction that supported subsistence survival.

• Loss of interest among youth in interaction with grandparents who were traditional transmitters of cultural information.

In the Absence of the Sacred: the Failure of Technology and the

Survival of Indian Nations. San Francisco. Sierra Club, 1991. 98-112.

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Introduce Metaverse

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AN ONLINE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE INTERACTIVE STUDYOF THE ANCIENT WORLD

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Construction

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Machu Picchu - Maps

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Machu Picchu - Overview

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Machu Picchu - Photos

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Machu Picchu - Sketches

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Machu Picchu - Modeling

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Machu Picchu - Texturing

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Piece-by-piece Reconstruction

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Machu Picchu - Construction

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Machu Picchu - Rendering

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Bonampak, Building One, Room One

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Bonampak (from Wikipedia)

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Bonampak SL

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Bonampak Croquet

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Arts Metaverse (Croquet)

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