Dr Jason M. Gibson

It was a real treat to talk about the Birrundudu Drawings and anthropology with these two star communicators - Shelley Krape and Amy Carmichael on the best regional radio station in the country, MainFM. Listen to the cracking Drones song at the start: www.mixcloud.com/MainFm/the-n...

Discharge has ongoing relevancy.

Our book on these incredibly important drawings, their making and legacies is now in physical form! Birrundudu Drawings...John Carty, Jason M. Gibson, Alistair Paterson, Luke Scholes, @Jessyca Hutchens, Stephen Gilchrist. Pre order now: upswellpublishing.com/product/birr....

It was a honour to help launch Marty’s first solo exhibition.

Martin Hagan’s art. Australian desert iconography rendered with crushed native grasses and natural pigments.

The Spencer and Gillen: A Journey Through Aboriginal Australia website is up and running again: spencerandgillen.net

🚨🚨 After 7 years of research and 4 years of community consultation a new book emerges. Birrundudu Drawings showcases a body of imagery representing ceremony, country and Dreaming produced by 16 Aboriginal men in 1945. Preorder available now: upswellpublishing.com/product/birr...

The desert among the snow: how Anmatyerr ceremony men came to create ground paintings in Switzerland Anmatyerr people live 200 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs. The work of Anmatyerr artists is now on display in Switzerland for the first time.

The desert among the snow: how Anmatyerr ceremony men came to create ground paintings in Switzerland
theconversation.com/the-desert-a...

New Article on the Future of Connected Museum Collections out now: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

Is a list of the projects released to the public?

The proofs are in for our new paper in Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 12 (2024): 126–141
http://doi:10.3167/armw.2024.120111

An absolute honour to help the Anmatyerr men of central Australia bring their cultural performances to Swiss audience ms at the Fondation Opale.

Work begins on the Anmatyerr @ingkantety.bsky.social ground painting project at Fondation Opale in Lens, Switzerland.

“Figure made of carved wood depicting an anteater standing on four feet with a long nose, large rounded tail, and inset black and red seeds for eyes.” “Collection History Collected by photojournalist Claire James Steinberg during a trip to the Orinoco and Amacuro River delta region between December 1976 and January 1977; donated to NMAI by Claire James Steinberg in 2009.”

#Anteater figure, 1975-77
Warao artist, El Pajal, Venezuela
Carved Balsa wood with inlaid seeds
38.2 x 13.4 x 6.2 cm
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian 26/7561
americanindian.si.edu/collections-...
#IndigenousArt #SourhAmericanArt

The perfect soundtrack to finishing a writing project.

How This Cult Record Label Brings Forgotten Music Back from the Dead Numero Group was founded by Ken Shipley and Rob Sevier, who are part crate-diggers, part forensic scientists who unearth long forgotten music—funk, gospel, country, metal—from decades past. And more r...

As a archive/collections enthusiast and lover of music I can't get enough of the Numero Group. They are an archival record label unearthing and re-releasing 20th century sonic curios and forgotten artists of great diversity. www.gq.com/story/numero...

Back to Base: Fugazi & the D.C. Punk Zine Scene Fanzines are independent, often highly personal, small-run publications created by fans of a specific subject.

I had the pleasure of lunching with the Dischord Records crew back in the day. Their philosophy and principles had a huge impact. I continue to share their interest in diy culture-making and and archiving. festival.si.edu/blog/fugazi-...

Cleveland Museum of Art conceals displays of Native American art in observance of new federal regulations The federal government is asking museums to remove from view Native American objects until tribes give consent to their display.

Interesting development in the USA. The Cleveland Museum of Art has installed opaque covers on display cases containing Native American artworks and objects in compliance with the new NAGPRA amendments... www.cleveland.com/news/2024/01...

Anthropologists still longing for pristine and untouched Native cultures is always a trip (as it was for Radin in the 1930s), there's a kind of country and the city logic to it, those cultures were pristine in 1900 or 1850, always over that last temporal hill

Now that Bluesky numbers have improved, here’s a recent article I contributed to on the ‘New Protectionism’ in Indigenous collections and archives: publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/as...

A snip of my profile. Banner image incldes Arendt, Durkheim, Fanon and others drawn rouglys on eggs in Black and White. Profile picture is me in front of some autumn leaves. Key descriptive text identifies me as a criminologist working on atrocity crime. At the bottom, highlighted by a big red arrow is my ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7463-1302

A snip from my ORCID profile page - at the left is a list of institutional and other links to social media, including one to Bluesky, highlighted by a big red arrow.

Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID.

#AcademicSky

2024 was big year for fieldwork. Always a thrill to be mapping sites in central Australia amongst the spinifex.

Flood ‘like a scene from Titanic’, Sammy J says as Museums Victoria calls for help retrieving artefacts Burst water pipe washed fossils, rocks and other specimens of historical value down Coburg street on Saturday night

Last weekend, Museums Victoria's Coburg storage facility was flooded and collection items literally washed out onto the streets:
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Anmatyerr ingkantety team are heading to Switzerland in a few weeks to make a ground painting. Stay tuned!

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The AHA has joined the exodus from the bad place and has set up here (probably in both places for a while) - please follow and share for Aust History news:

More work to be done but we have begun mapping a song from Anmatyerr Country.

Anmatyerr Ceremony in the Twenty-first Century: Struggles Beyond Continuity In recent decades, ceremonial objects and recordings made by anthropologists have been gradually making their way back to Anmatyerr communities in central Australia. The reintegration of this material...

ANU Seminar on ceremony being worked up for publication now… rsha.cass.anu.edu.au/events/anmat...

Harvesting anteth mpay-mpay (common everlasting daisy) for an Anmatyerr art installation project. Stay tuned.