Archival Emanations and Contrapuntal Transformations: Digital Cultural Productions in Post-1965 Indonesia

1. Archival Emanations and
Contrapuntal Transformations:
Digital Cultural Productions in
Post-1965 Indonesia
Viola Lasmana
University of Southern California
@viola_lasmana
MSU Global DH Symposium, Mar 16-17, 2017

2. As we look back at the cultural archive, we begin to
reread it not univocally but contrapuntally, with a
simultaneous awareness both of the metropolitan
history that is narrated and of those other histories
against which (and together with which) the
dominating discourse acts.
- Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism

3. President Soekarno at the Asia-Africa Film Festival (Jakarta, April 1964)
@CinemaPoetica Twitter post, March 12, 2017

4. More than those [technical] skills, we need the spirit of
a nation, the spirit of freedom, the spirit of revolution
[…]
What is the use of taking over the technology of the
Western world if the result of that adoption is merely a
state and a society à la West… a copy state?
- Soekarno, Independence Day Address, Aug 17, 1964

5. * Mapping Memory Landscapes (data
vizualization)
* Indonesian Institute of Social History (Oral
History Archive)
* EngageMedia (participatory videos)

6. Mapping Memory Landscapes

7. Indonesian Institute of Social History
“Through the Lens” interactive timeline

8. EngageMedia: Papuan Voices

9. EngageMedia: Papuan Voices

10. Amateurism
“an activity fueled by care and affection”
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“the desire to be moved not by profit or reward but
by love for an unquenchable interest in the larger picture, in
making connections across lines and barriers.”
- Edward Said, “Professionals and Amateurs”

11. Indignant, indigenous,
diligent humanities

12. Thank you!
@viola_lasmana