Over the course of his 17-year AFL career with the Sydney Swans, champion Indigenous player Adam Goodes’ performance on the field was tracked 10 times per second by a small device he wore on his back.
Going through the four-year collaborative process to develop the installation helped Goodes understand how the data measured far more intimate details about him on the field – an environment that became increasingly confronting and exhausting emotionally at the tail end of his career as he was targeted with racist insults by spectators and high-profile AFL pundits alike.“This data really is me in that moment, at that point in time, when all that stuff was going on.
Goodes and Pailthorpe – who has produced earlier work from player data sets retained by the AFL and the Sydney Swans Football Club – worked alongside Trawlwoolway woman Angie Abdilla, a designer, filmmaker and technologist.“You look at Europe and what’s going on with data policies there – the way in which they’re trying to wrestle back some control of their data from the big tech corporations.
After viewing the projection, viewers can step behind the image, as though entering the hollowed trunk of the tree, to listen to the Adnyamathanha Yura Muda spoken in language by Goodes and Uncle Terrence Coulthard, who represent the two wind moieties.Loading
Great read thanks, I saw Adam play in Sydney years ago, he was a great player and it makes me happy he is embracing country, I’m 53 now and have started going bush with a swag and yes Aboriginal people know the peace you find it works for me.
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