Nostalgia Ti Frega : a photographic topography of memory, identity, and place

Drago, C

Nostalgia Ti Frega : a photographic topography of memory, identity, and place

Drago, C

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Drago, C
dc.date.accessioned	2014-08-27T07:03:53Z
dc.date.available	2014-08-27T07:03:53Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/29217
dc.description	University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Nostalgia Ti Frega is a photographic exploration of memory, identity, and place focusing on the migrant community of a Sicilian village destroyed by an earthquake 40 years ago. It is a creative photographic project that aims to capture a sense of the virtual space the destroyed village now inhabits within the community, the memories and stories that form this space, and the role of photographs in its construction. The project is designed to depict and engage the community of villagers and their descendants, inviting them to engage and interact with photographs and experience a sense of what ‘the village' is today. Broadly the project consists of over 1200 individual postcard-sized printed photographs, presented in (and across) 5 specially designed, handcrafted wooden boxes; a ‘bespoke’ iPad application showcasing the same photographs within an emergent digital environment, allowing users to discover images playfully and leave comments if desired; and an exegesis that outlines the theoretical and creative framework of the project, including literature of influence during creative development, methodologies employed during research and production, and the project’s contribution to broader creative practice within a hybrid post-digital media context. Conceptually Nostalgia Ti Frega examines notions of memory, identity, and place by tracing a path through the disruption of post-war migration and loss of homeland to current thinking around a ‘reflective nostalgia’ that makes space for hybrid identities and histories. It also examines the evocative potential of objects and touch, both physical and digital, as sources of identity, connection, and belonging. Creatively the project has sought to experiment with storytelling, exploring how non-linear, fragmentary, hybrid story platforms may operate to enhance formation and maintenance of a collective hybrid identity. To that end it positions itself as the inheritor of a creative trajectory beginning with literary experiments in book publishing in the 1960s, moving through broadcast television during the advent of media convergence, and arriving at the mutable “post-artefact” potential of current digital technologies. Finally, while employing an emergent creative process, the digital design and development of Nostalgia Ti Frega has drawn heavily from the Agile methodology of software development. The synergies and resonances with this methodology are outlined.	en_US
dc.format	Thesis (DCA)	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation	https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/29217/10/02whole.pdf
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	au.edu.uts.lib/ppc
dc.rights	The author owns the copyright in this thesis including all reproduction and reuse rights for the work. The work may not be altered without the permission of the copyright owner. Attribution is essential when quoting or paraphrasing from this thesis.
dc.subject	Nostalgia.	en
dc.subject	Memory.	en
dc.subject	Immigration.	en
dc.subject	Australia.	en
dc.subject	Sicily.	en
dc.subject	Photography.	en
dc.subject	Material culture.	en
dc.subject	Storytelling.	en
dc.subject	Identity.	en
dc.subject	Place.	en
dc.subject	Italy.	en
dc.subject	Belice River Valley (Italy) Earthquake, 1968.	en
dc.subject	Digital storytelling.	en
dc.title	Nostalgia Ti Frega : a photographic topography of memory, identity, and place	en_US
dc.type	Thesis
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

Nostalgia Ti Frega is a photographic exploration of memory, identity, and place focusing on the migrant community of a Sicilian village destroyed by an earthquake 40 years ago. It is a creative photographic project that aims to capture a sense of the virtual space the destroyed village now inhabits within the community, the memories and stories that form this space, and the role of photographs in its construction. The project is designed to depict and engage the community of villagers and their descendants, inviting them to engage and interact with photographs and experience a sense of what ‘the village' is today. Broadly the project consists of over 1200 individual postcard-sized printed photographs, presented in (and across) 5 specially designed, handcrafted wooden boxes; a ‘bespoke’ iPad application showcasing the same photographs within an emergent digital environment, allowing users to discover images playfully and leave comments if desired; and an exegesis that outlines the theoretical and creative framework of the project, including literature of influence during creative development, methodologies employed during research and production, and the project’s contribution to broader creative practice within a hybrid post-digital media context. Conceptually Nostalgia Ti Frega examines notions of memory, identity, and place by tracing a path through the disruption of post-war migration and loss of homeland to current thinking around a ‘reflective nostalgia’ that makes space for hybrid identities and histories. It also examines the evocative potential of objects and touch, both physical and digital, as sources of identity, connection, and belonging. Creatively the project has sought to experiment with storytelling, exploring how non-linear, fragmentary, hybrid story platforms may operate to enhance formation and maintenance of a collective hybrid identity. To that end it positions itself as the inheritor of a creative trajectory beginning with literary experiments in book publishing in the 1960s, moving through broadcast television during the advent of media convergence, and arriving at the mutable “post-artefact” potential of current digital technologies. Finally, while employing an emergent creative process, the digital design and development of Nostalgia Ti Frega has drawn heavily from the Agile methodology of software development. The synergies and resonances with this methodology are outlined.

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