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Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia (2020)
Journal Article
Supartono, A., & Moschovi, A. (2020). Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 51(3), 343-371. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463420000508

This article seeks to explore the impact of digital technologies upon the material, conceptual and ideological premises of the colonial archive in the digital era. This analysis is pursued though a discussion of creative work produced during an inter... Read More about Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia.

One, Two, Three, Many: Dream-Culture, Charms and Nightmares (2019)
Book Chapter
Milne, L. S. (2019). One, Two, Three, Many: Dream-Culture, Charms and Nightmares. In E. Pocs, J. Kapaló, L. S. Milne, & C. Somerville (Eds.), Charms and Charming: Studies on Magic in Everyday Life (129-167). Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Researchers may focus on charms as evidence about belief-systems in particular regions, periods or demographics; for insights into wider theoretical issues in the anthropology of religion, magic and ritual; or for their intrinsic qualities as poetic... Read More about One, Two, Three, Many: Dream-Culture, Charms and Nightmares.

Cultural antinomies, creative complicities: Agan Harahap's digital hoaxes (2019)
Book Chapter
Moschovi, A., & Supartono, A. (2019). Cultural antinomies, creative complicities: Agan Harahap's digital hoaxes. In H. Lewi, W. Smith, S. Cooke, & D. vom Lehn (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites (227-240). Routledge

The chapter explores how creative repurposing of networked photographs and online interactivity may open new channels and networks for the critical re-evaluation of mainstream culture and subcultures, identity politics, history and power structures.... Read More about Cultural antinomies, creative complicities: Agan Harahap's digital hoaxes.

From Singapore with Nature (2018)
Book Chapter
Supartono, A. (2018). From Singapore with Nature. In Capitalist Realism: Future Perfect, Past Continuous (200-211)

In 1819, when Stamford Raffles decided to turn the small fishing island at the Malacca strait into a trading port of British East India company, the future of Singapore was sealed.  Highly influenced by then the admirable Adam Smith and David Ricardo... Read More about From Singapore with Nature.

From Singapore with Nature. (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Supartono, A., Renhui, R. Z., Ang, S. N., Marvin, T., & Woong, S. T. From Singapore with Nature. Exhibited at Thessalonika, Greece. 28 September 2018 - 27 January 2019

In this year’s Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2018, the central exhibition entitled “Capitalist Realism“, which is structured in two large sections, at the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, is curated by... Read More about From Singapore with Nature..

One and Three Discs (after Kosuth) (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holmes, P. (2018, September). One and Three Discs (after Kosuth). Presented at Creative Legacies: Collaborative Practices for Digital Cultural Heritage

It is over 50 years since Joseph Kosuth’s conceptual work One and Three Chairs (1965) challenged its viewer to locate the “real” by choosing between an object & its visual or textual representations (Juzefovic, 2013). Replacing Kosuth’s chair with a... Read More about One and Three Discs (after Kosuth).

‘An otherness that cannot be sublimated’: Shades of Frankenstein in Penny Dreadful and Black Mirror (2018)
Journal Article
Artt, S. (2018). ‘An otherness that cannot be sublimated’: Shades of Frankenstein in Penny Dreadful and Black Mirror. Science Fiction Film and Television, 11(2), 257-275. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2018.18

This article traces some of the legacies of the Frankenstein narrative as it appears in the television series Penny Dreadful and Black Mirror. Both series deploy Frankenstein themes to explore the relationship between gender and technology. Drawing o... Read More about ‘An otherness that cannot be sublimated’: Shades of Frankenstein in Penny Dreadful and Black Mirror.

Tarkovsky: Cinema of Dreams (2018)
Digital Artefact
Milne, L., & Martin, S. (2018). Tarkovsky: Cinema of Dreams. [Website]

Lanterna Magicka comprises film makers Louise Milne and Sean Martin. Currently in production, their film Tarkovsky: Cinema of Dreams, is a critical account of the great director's relationship with dreams and the subconscious, seeing his films as a c... Read More about Tarkovsky: Cinema of Dreams.

Eidolon (2018)
Digital Artefact
Milne, L. (2018). Eidolon. [Film]

10 mins, experimental Super 8 film

Eidolon: dream image, apparition, phantom, ghost. Three dreams in three voices navigate a garden of forking paths. With texts from Horace, Freud's Wolf Man and an anonymous late 20C dreamer, a film in Super8 and... Read More about Eidolon.

The History of Boys, the MES 56 and Beyond: A survey of Contemporary Photography in Indonesia (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
Supartono, A. The History of Boys, the MES 56 and Beyond: A survey of Contemporary Photography in Indonesia. Exhibited at Singapore. 17 March 2017 - 23 April 2017

This inaugural show of “Crossing SEA”, a series of research-based Southeast Asia photographic exhibitions, DECK presented one of the most successful and enduring photography collective in the region: the MES 56 of Yogyakarta, curated by Dr. Alexander... Read More about The History of Boys, the MES 56 and Beyond: A survey of Contemporary Photography in Indonesia.

Mnemosyne (2017)
Digital Artefact
Milne, L. (2017). Mnemosyne. [Film]

5,22 min experimental, Super 8 film

Mnemosyne: Muse of Memory, Inventor of Language. A blue road, an alphabet nursery rhyme, the country of the past, seen in dreams. A Super8 essay on time and simultaneity.

Chobi Mela IX (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
Cavers, C. Chobi Mela IX. Exhibited at Dhaka, Bangladesh. 3 February 2017 - 16 February 2017

The Postcolonial Photo Studio exhibition, explores the interface of photography and colonial history by examining how photo studio concept and technique in the colonial era influence the world of images in a ‘postcolonial’ age. Contemporary South and... Read More about Chobi Mela IX.

Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moschovi, A., & Supartono, A. (2016, September). Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia. Paper presented at Association of Southeast Asian Studies UK (ASEASUK) Conference 2016, SOAS, London

This paper seeks to explore the impact of digital technologies upon the material, conceptual and ideological premises of the colonial archive in the digital era. This analysis is pursued though a discussion of the findings of an international, multid... Read More about Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia.