I am What I Yam
Experimental Animation on Yams. From an art installation.
Animation by: Jenny Fraser
Length: 2:24 Minutes
CAFF screening 5/24
Hawai‘i Premiere
Animation by: Jenny Fraser
Length: 2:24 Minutes
CAFF screening 5/24
Hawai‘i Premiere
Bunurong
I chose to work with a National Park that has an Aboriginal name, and in this instance Bunurong is also the name of their local Traditional Owner group within the Kulin Nation. While I worked with the documented images to make the animation I was fascinated by the other-worldliness of the underwater life there, and I was please to work with those the striking colours, which we don't often see. My intention was to manifest an Aboriginal aesthetic in the work, to communicate old and new cultures across languages and other borders.
Animation by: Jenny Fraser
Length: 1:11 Minutes
CAFF screening 5/24
Hawai‘i Premiere
Animation by: Jenny Fraser
Length: 1:11 Minutes
CAFF screening 5/24
Hawai‘i Premiere
Jenny Fraser
Jenny Fraser is a digital native working within a fluid screen-based practice. Her old people hail from Yugambeh Country in the Gold Coast Hinterland, of the Bundjalung Nation. In 2015 she was the first Murri to have her video art imprinted on a gold record and broadcast into outer space via Hobart and Cape Canaveral, Florida in the Forever Now project, as a follow-up to the Voyager Golden Records sent into space in 1977 by NASA. She is a celebrated screen artist. In 2016 Jenny was recognised with a Mana Wairoa award for Advancement of Indigenous Rights. Jenny has a professional background in Art and Media Education and has since completed a Master of Indigenous Wellbeing at Southern Cross University in Lismore, NSW; and has a PhD in the Art of Healing and Decolonisation from Batchelor Institute in the Northern Territory.
Jenny founded online gallery cyberTribe in 1999, the Blackout Collective in 2002, and World Screen Culture in 2015. She is currently an Adjunct Research Fellow at The Cairns Institute, and also works as an organiser for Jirun Aboriginal Women's Council.
Jenny Fraser is a digital native working within a fluid screen-based practice. Her old people hail from Yugambeh Country in the Gold Coast Hinterland, of the Bundjalung Nation. In 2015 she was the first Murri to have her video art imprinted on a gold record and broadcast into outer space via Hobart and Cape Canaveral, Florida in the Forever Now project, as a follow-up to the Voyager Golden Records sent into space in 1977 by NASA. She is a celebrated screen artist. In 2016 Jenny was recognised with a Mana Wairoa award for Advancement of Indigenous Rights. Jenny has a professional background in Art and Media Education and has since completed a Master of Indigenous Wellbeing at Southern Cross University in Lismore, NSW; and has a PhD in the Art of Healing and Decolonisation from Batchelor Institute in the Northern Territory.
Jenny founded online gallery cyberTribe in 1999, the Blackout Collective in 2002, and World Screen Culture in 2015. She is currently an Adjunct Research Fellow at The Cairns Institute, and also works as an organiser for Jirun Aboriginal Women's Council.