Archival Emanations and Contrapuntal Transformations: Digital Cultural Productions in

Post-1965 Indonesia

Viola LasmanaUniversity of Southern California

@viola_lasmanaMSU Global DH Symposium, Mar 16-17, 2017

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

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

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

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

Mapping Memory Landscapes

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

EngageMedia: Papuan Voices

EngageMedia: Papuan Voices

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”

Indignant, indigenous, diligent humanities

Thank you! @viola_lasmana