CITP Students Meeting Charlie Gordon in his LOEB office

CITP Students Meeting Charlie Gordon in his LOEB office

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Remembering Charlie Gordon

Shape-Shifting and Other Points of Convergence: Inuit Art and Digital Technologies

Western thinking which is predominantly linear and analytical, does not adequately give access to the complexities of Inuit visual culture. However, hypertext offers new possibilities for information management, and the aboriginal communities are using it creatively to share information, for example in the Internet record of the development of Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut. This article examines how and why interactive multimedia were the means chosen to develop a master’s thesis on the Inuit artist Jessie Oonark.