An innovative digital artwork display brings Indigenous cultural experience like you’ve never seen

A digital artwork display at Charles Darwin University’s Waterfront Campus combines culture with technology.

Artwork brought to digital life in immersive First Nations showcase, collaborated with Tommy Riyakurray Munyarryun. Picture: Glenn Campbell

An immersive digital art experience is projecting Yolŋu stories to the broader Top End community.

InDigiMatha — ”Indigenous digital tongue “ - combines virtual reality with digitised art.

The gallery includes paintings of freshwater and saltwater Country by Yolŋu Elders and artists working together.

Charles Darwin University and Goŋ Wanhurr Indigenous Corporation collaborated to launch the showcase on November 10.

CDU Deputy Vice-Chancellor First Nations Leadership Professor Reuben Bolt said the display is an important initiative and combines two “worlds”.

The InDigiMatha display is critical to the “jigsaw” of Aboriginal and Western worlds because it plays a role in education, particularly around about elements of Yolŋu culture, he said.

Professor Bolt said sharing culture was key to maintaining it.

Goŋ Wanhurr Indigenous Corporation Chair Tommy Riyakurray Munyarryun said the installation was the community’s opportunity to express what was important to the land.

“The land can’t talk too much so it’s up to the people to tell the land’s story,” he said.

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