DAAO: DICTIONARY OF AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS ONLINE

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DAAO DICTIONARY OF AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS ONLINE

• New History
• for a
• New Australian Art

a resource for future scholarship
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because the Internet is not always a reliable
source of information

• Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1851 - 1913)
  Biography, Artwork ...
• Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri 1851 - 1913
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• articles and exhibition history as well as
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• DAAO CORE BUSINESS
• harnessing IT to make accurate biographical
  information on Australian artists globally
  accessible
• setting industry wide standards for the
  documentation of artists identities
• challenging art world elitism

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The DAAO will empower our own and future
generations of art historians and the general
public to understand the cultural landscape of
Australia in a wholly new way, providing a
topographical image of artistic activity in
Australia across space and time.

• VISION

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• The idea of a Biographical Dictionary of
  Australian Artists
• Bernard Smith 1970
• Joan Kerr 1981
• DAAO 2005

New Australian Art History
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WHAT IS DAAO?

• a series of online databases, maintaining the
  integrity of their individual authorship
• search engines with the capacity to search within
  and across them
• checking of biographical entries by the DAAO's
  editorial committee before they go on line

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• OUTCOME
• authoritative information about every significant
  artist, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, who has
  worked in Australia since colonisation

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Indigenous art and its relation to the
mainstream
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respecting Indigenous cultural authority
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• Collaborative art making practices are an
  integral part of the transmission of skills and
  knowledge from generation to generation in the
  painters culture

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Michael Nelson Tjakamarra
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Louisa Lawson Pupiya Napaltjarri Lajamanu 1989
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Cultural Inscription
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The DAAO has the potential to be the most
authoritative and widely accessible reference
resource on Australian art and artists

• How can this potential be realised?

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Using Interactivity to Grow the DAAO

• People posting entries online to be referred to
  peer review
• Scholarly commentary on individual entries (new
  information, correction of errors, differences of
  interpretation)
• readers forum - to develop broad base
  involvement in DAAO cf. Intellectual
  Sustainability

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Sustainability

• Pilot is free
• Post pilot options
• Advertising
• Sponsorship
• User pays - Time Charge or Download Charge
• Benevolent Foundation
• Intellectual sustainability

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Art Historians of Australia UniteWhat Have We
to Lose?