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As an international symposium “promoting new directions for critical practice among both indigenous and non-indigenous practitioners alike”, Cultural Futures 2005 provided an opportunity to reflect and debate, within safe ground (the Hoani Waititi marae), the various locations of “new media practice” among distinct cultures, peoples and nations of the Asia Pacific.Co-organizer of CF Danny Butt raised an important problem in “Local Knowledge: Place and New Media Practice” (November 2005), about what constitutes mainstream new media practice, where ways of thinking in new media are invested in epistemological biases developed within a culture of extreme objectivity, an anti-culture, in fact, that denies contexts of knowledge and knowing.

Although epistemology - the nature, methods, limits and validity of knowledge - is perceived critically at CF, in practice, it is difficult to engage and challenge an established way of thinking. But unlike many academic or wholly commercially-motivated conferences, CF provided the opportunity or at least the possibility to actually question and not merely celebrate mainstream thinking in new media.

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