A presentation about my creative practice to date for the inaugural Canberra Digital Humanities Meetup group.

1. Dr Tracey M Benson
aka @bytetime

2. What do big bananas, fairy chimneys and
Namadgi National Park have in common?

3. All of these topics have been subjects to
explore ideas of place, identity and belonging.
Some projects:
- Big Banana Time Inc. (1996 – 2001)
1)- Performances in real and cyberspace
2)- Fauxonomy (2007 – current)
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4. Big Banana Time Inc.
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5. Big Banana Time Inc.
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6. Souvenir objects – questioning values
1996 - 1997
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7. Souvenir objects
1996 - 1999
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8. Cowgrrls.com, 2001
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9. SciArt'99
Queensland Sciencentre 1999, Curated by Paul Brown
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10. ‘Each of us constructs our own personal
– mythology from bits and fragments of
– information extracted from the media flow
– and transformed into resources through
– which we make sense of our everyday
lives.’
– (Jenkins 2006: 3-4)
Convergence Media: Where old and new media collide, Henry Jenkins 2006
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11. Scalpland: performance and embodiment
1995, 1996
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12. Virtual selves: performance and
embodiment
1998 - 2001
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14. Fauxonomy: mapping as experience

15. Project: Cultural Strangers
Turkey 2011
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16. Project: Cultural Strangers, Turkey 2011
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17. Project: SCANZ2013,3rd Nature, Taranaki, New Zealand
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18. Project: Finding Balance : Mura Gadi, 2013 Canberra
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19. Project: Finding Balance : Mura Gadi, 2013 Canberra
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20. Thanks for having me!
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Contact details:
Tracey M Benson
www.byte-time.net
www.geokult.com
http://mediakult.wordpress.com
You can find @bytetime online at twitter, delicious, scribd, flickr, identica and
slideshare
Skype and facebook me @ mediakult