Digital Humanities Meetup, Canberra 2013

Dr Tracey M Benson

aka @bytetime

What do big bananas, fairy chimneys and Namadgi National Park have in common?

All of these topics have been subjects to explore ideas of place, identity and belonging.

Some projects:

- Big Banana Time Inc. (1996 – 2001)

1)- Performances in real and cyberspace

2)- Fauxonomy (2007 – current)

tracey m benson :: www.byte-time.net


Big Banana Time Inc.

Souvenir objects – questioning values

1996 - 1997


Souvenir objects

1996 - 1999


Cowgrrls.com, 2001


SciArt'99

Queensland Sciencentre 1999, Curated by Paul Brown


‘Each of us constructs our own personal

– mythology from bits and fragments of

– information extracted from the media flow

– and transformed into resources through

– which we make sense of our everyday lives.’

– (Jenkins 2006: 3-4)


Convergence Media: Where old and new media collide, Henry Jenkins 2006

Scalpland: performance and embodiment

1995, 1996


Virtual selves: performance and embodiment

1998 - 2001


Fauxonomy: mapping as experience

Project: Cultural Strangers Turkey 2011


Project: Cultural Strangers, Turkey 2011


Project: SCANZ2013,3rd Nature, Taranaki, New Zealand


Project: Finding Balance : Mura Gadi, 2013 Canberra


Thanks for having me!


Contact details:

Tracey M Benson

www.byte-time.net

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Digital Humanities Meetup, Canberra 2013

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