Leverhulme funded archive/oral history interview project, Satellite Dreaming, alongside lead filmmaker and Emeritus Professor, Tony Dowmunt.
Satellite Dreaming is a TV programme – broadcast in Australia and in the UK in the early 1990s – which traced the emergence of Australian Indigenous electronic media at the time. It is still seen as ‘a film of considerable historic importance’ (SBS/NITV) and a ‘a useful teaching resource on the history of Indigenous media, and how it differs from mainstream programming’ (Australia's National Film and Sound Archive).
SATELLITE DREAMING REVISITED uses the 1991 programme as the focus for exploring Indigenous media work in Australia over the last four decades – the 1980s to now – through the eyes of many of the people involved in the original programme, and in the wider field – some of whom have also written essays for the Site.
For the website, Memory Dance was behind driving website and CMS design, build, development, and deployment alongside South Coast company, WeSort. Also establishing best practices and strategies for audiovisual curation and preservation.
