The 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?