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Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2003 Proceedings
| Informing Science + IT Education Conference |
| Pori, Finland June 24-27, 2003 |
| Looking for Ishi: Insurgent Movements through the Yahi Landscape |
| University of California Santa Barbara, USA |
| In 1911 a Yahi man wandered out of the Northern California landscape and into the twentieth century. He was |
| immediately collected and installed at the just opened Anthropology Museum by Alfred Kroeber at the University |
| of California's Parnassus Heights campus. Dedication invitations came from the U.C. Regents led by Phoebe |
| Apperson Hearst. Maintaining the discretion of his indigenous culture this man would not divulge his name. Kroeber |
| named him Ishi, the Yahi word for man. |
| These assembled facts introduce narrative streams that continue to unfold around us. To examine these contingent |
| individuals, events and institutions collectively labeled Ishi myth is to examine our own posi-tion, our horizon. |
| Looking for Ishi is a series of interventions and appropriations of Ishi myth involving video installation, looping |
| DVD, encrypted motion images, web work, streaming video, print objects, written and spoken word, and |
| documentation of the author's own insurgent movements through the Yahi landscape. |
| Keywords: Ishi, canon, insurgent, media, institutions |
ISSN
1535-07-03
Unless otherwise indicated, this paper has undergone blind external review by three or more reviewers.
Types of Papers: A Best Paper, Regular Paper, Short Paper, Informal Paper,
Unrefereed Panel Paper
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