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Virtual Representations and Imagined Reconstructions of one of Australia's most significant Bark Painting Collections

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dc.contributor.authorFarrar, C.
dc.contributor.authorJalandoni, A.
dc.contributor.authorTaçon, P.S.C.
dc.contributor.authorMay, S.K.
dc.contributor.authorNamundja, M.
dc.contributor.authorMaralngurra, G.
dc.contributor.conference30th International Symposium (CIPA) (25 Aug 2025 - 29 Aug 2025 : Seoul, Republic of Korea)
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionThe theme of the 30th CIPA 2025 Symposium is “Heritage Conservation from Bits: From Digital Documentation to Data-driven Heritage Conservation,”
dc.description.abstractRepatriation of museum materials to their originating cultures and communities remains an ongoing process, often marred by controversy but also the limited resources of communities to house vast collections of often fragile cultural heritage. Using photogrammetry and other digitisation methods to make museum materials remotely available does not replace repatriation but these digital simulacra can become the anchors for immersive and interactive virtual reality environments to provide communities with alternative and powerful platforms for cultural engagement. The ease with which large collections of museum materials can be digitised with photogrammetry and the growing capabilities of standalone virtual reality headsets to render complex models and environments enables immersive experiences of museum collections to be brought directly to remote communities like Gunbalanya in Australia’s tropical north. Trials of these virtual experiences in Gunbalanya based on a more than one hundred-year-old bark painting collection at the Melbourne Museum have demonstrated the strong emotional reactions immersive and interactive cultural virtual reality experiences can produce, bringing about both fun and nostalgic reflection. Constructing these virtual experiences also challenges conceptions of scientific authenticity in archaeological digital reconstructions of the past, particularly where inclusion of Indigenous ontologies is necessary to produce a truly authentic cultural experience.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityCalum Farrar, Andrea Jalandoni, Paul S.C. Taçon, Sally K. May, Merrill Namundja, G. Maralngurra
dc.identifier.citationProceedings of the 30th International Symposium (CIPA 2025), as published in ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2025, vol.X-M-2-2025, pp.81-88
dc.identifier.doi10.5194/isprs-annals-x-m-2-2025-81-2025
dc.identifier.issn2194-9042
dc.identifier.issn2194-9050
dc.identifier.orcidMay, S.K. [0000-0003-2805-023X]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/147848
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCopernicus Publications
dc.relation.granthttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/SR200200062
dc.relation.granthttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE240100030
dc.relation.ispartofseriesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences; X-M-2-2025
dc.rights© Author(s) 2025. CC BY 4.0 License.
dc.source.urihttps://isprs-annals.copernicus.org/articles/X-M-2-2025/index.html
dc.subjectVirtual Reality; Photogrammetry; Arnhem Land; Bark Painting; Gunbalanya
dc.titleVirtual Representations and Imagined Reconstructions of one of Australia's most significant Bark Painting Collections
dc.typeConference paper
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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