![]() more Rapid cultural flows and the advent of new technologies have afforded new ways of imaging and imagining Tonga. Rapid cultural flows and the advent of new technologies have afforded new ways of imaging and ima. Sutton Parlour Centre, 2nd Floor Hilton New YorkĬhair: Bernida Anne Webb-Binder, Cornell University Paper presented at the Pacific Arts Association Sessionĭocumenting Oceania after the Twentieth Century, College Arts Association Conference 2011. This paper examines the work of Janet Lilo in relation to the ongoing construction of online identities and digital homelands. Utilizing online imagery and media platforms her work challenges spatial definitions of art and identity. New Zealand-based Pacific artist, Janet Lilo uses elements of online visual culture in her multi-media practice. The sharing of images and videos between networked users has created an online visual culture that is collaboratively authored and constantly revised. User created art forms such as vlogs and graphic interface skins have become new means of expressing and documenting Pacific identity.įor Pacific Island diasporic communities, the Internet has also become a site of re-territorialization allowing for the collaborative creation of ‘digital homelands’. The popularity of online expressions of Pacific identity suggests that the Internet is a critical site of identity performance. ![]() ![]() more The internet has provided a new (cyber) space for the articulation and expression of identity. The internet has provided a new (cyber) space for the articulation and expression of identity. ![]()
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