Oceanic Connections - Leah Barclay, in conversation with Mix Irving

A special session from Oceania on network technologies, culture and the living archive. Artist and acoustic ecologist, Leah Barclay, in conversation with Mix Irving around creative technologies in service to communities and cultural knowledge.

Leah is working with Kabi Kabi artist Lyndon Davis and photographer Tricia King on the creative research project Beeyali, a call to look after Country and its endangered ecosystems. Beeyali is a word from the Kabi Kabi peoples in southeastern Queensland, which means “to call”. Lyndon conceived the project as a way to encourage communities to listen, connect with place and share knowledge through new technology. The project aims to sound an alarm for the multitude of vulnerable species on the brink of extinction in Australia.

Mix is working on Āhau, a Data Platform developed in Aotearoa that helps whānau-based communities (whānau, hapū, Iwi) record and preserve histories, and share important information with secure, community managed databases and servers. The app is open-source, decentralized, and puts data sovereignty first, and is built to work offline, and survive disasters. It’s completely free to use and available on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android: ahau.io

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