Notes on Visiting Sarai, Delhi, Dec. 2003
“The high-tech is an epistemological constraint I want to escape. That’s the secret of hybridisation. The biggest hybridisation is of course the sexual encounter which you want to escape and at the...
View ArticleMichael King’s obituaries
A reflection on Michael King’s obituaries The shocking death of Michael King and his wife marks the passing of a crucial figure from New Zealand’s public life. His work represented a turning point in...
View ArticleThe 5-Minute Foreshore and Seabed
Many of you will be aware of the Government’s current proposed legislation to curtail Maori rights to the foreshore and seabed. I’ve written a quick summary from my perspective that may be useful to...
View ArticleOn “New Zealand” “Studies”
On “New Zealand” “Studies” Danny Butt <db@dannybutt.net> Lecturer, School of Design, Unitec New Zealand Presentation to Imagining New Zealand / Aotearoa, 11th Annual day conference of the New...
View ArticleGive it up (blogging and the public)
[Updated the discussion about "public" at the end in response to an e-mail question] The conversation that made me finally sure I’d stop blogging had nothing to do with the Internet. It was a barbecue...
View ArticleBiculturalism as Multiculturalism
Biculturalism as Multiculturalism (in monocultural New Zealand) Talk given at “Biculturalism or Multiculturalism?” conference, hosted by the School of Culture, Literature and Society at the University...
View ArticleInterview with DB from Contested Commons/Trespassing Publics Conference,...
Danny Butt, Independent Consultant In Conversation with Anand Taneja, Sarai-CSDS , January 2005. See the conference website for a downloadable copy of the excellent book that this appears in. AT: You...
View ArticleCultural Futures recap
Cultural Futures: Place ground and practice in Asia-Pacific New Media Arts. Hoani Waititi, Auckland, December 1-5 2005. This piece (1000-word limit, so a little sketchy) appears in Visit magazine,...
View ArticleLocal Knowledge: Place and New Media Practice
I grew up selling Local Knowledge, though I didn’t think much about it at the time. Local Knowledge was the brand name for the surfboards made by my stepfather’s surf shop on Australia’s Gold Coast....
View ArticleDigital Rights Management and Music in Australasia
Digital Rights Management and Music in Australasia Danny Butt and Axel Bruns Preprint of article published in Media and Arts Law Review, 10(4), November 2005 The Contemporary DRM Terrain Technologists...
View ArticleNet Neutrality: No Easy Answers
Comment piece for Media International Australia, June 2006. http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/ Danny Butt, Suma Media Consulting The concept of “Network Neutrality” has received a great deal of attention...
View ArticleCraft, Context and Method: The Creative Industries and “Alternative Models”
To appear in MyCreativity Reader, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2007. Danny Butt – http://www.dannybutt.net This paper emerged from an invitation to join a panel for myCreativity on...
View ArticlePakeha / Tauiwi and Tino Rangatiratanga
Introduction to panel on Tauiwi and Tino Rangatiratanga Parihaka International Peace Festival, January 6 2007 Danny Butt – http://www.dannybutt.net Tena koutou katoa and welcome to the panel...
View ArticleReflections on the Politics of Practicality: Evaluating ICT for community...
Results-oriented development frameworks often continue to advocate what Iris Marion Young calls a ‘distributive paradigm’, without a holistic overview of the real outcomes for communities....
View ArticleLocal Knowledge and New Media Theory
Over the last four years, and with the support of numerous people including many in the Aotearoa Digital Arts network, I have been writing articles, giving talks, editing books, producing creative...
View ArticleReview of “Thinking Through Practice: Art as Research in the Academy”
“Thinking Through Practice: Art as Research in the Academy”, edited by Lesley Duxbury, Elizabeth M.Grierson and Dianne Waite. RMIT Publishing 2007 Review by Danny Butt – preprint To appear in Second...
View ArticleWhose knowledge? Reflexivity and ‘knowledge transfer’ in postcolonial...
In her book Decolonizing Methodologies, Linda Tuhiwai Smith describes how “theories about research are underpinned by a cultural system of classification and representation†that has commodified...
View ArticleAlex Monteith: Red Session No.2
[This text initially appeared in the catalogue for The 4th Auckland Triennial - Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon. Documentation is on the artist's website.] Alex Monteith is not a body at rest. A phone...
View ArticleThe Opposite of Whiteness
Three problems in whiteness discourse, and a fear of men’s support groups.
View ArticlePūrākau: stories of future homelands
Catalogue Essay for PÅ«rÄkau poster project organised by Xavier Meade, 2010.
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