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Sally Jane Norman

Like any culture, Maori culture is permeated by a wealth of more-or-less ritualised protocols that structure community living. Compared with many people, the Maori people have a particularly strong culture of the net, understood both literally and figuratively. Moreover, as accredited inventors of surfing, as inveterate ocean-goers and navigators, their mores and traditions and legends offer some strikingly original tacks on
cyberspace.

Eyebeam's Curatorial Fellow Discusses "Untethered" Exhibition

The 'Kauhale Theory,' is an educational philosophy for visual based research that is grounded in a Kanaka Maoli or indigenous Hawaiian cultural metaphor. Developed as a viable alternative to State mandated approaches that historically marginalized Kanaka Maoli knowledge, the Kauhale theory offers students in Hawai`i the chance to learn within an educational setting where Kanaka Maoli knowledge, ways of knowing and expressing knowledge was prioritized as the principle medium of investigation.

This paper describes the historical background against which the Kauhale theory was imagined and developed for the purposes of facilitating a learning setting through image making that is derived from the cultural perspectives, values and educational aspirations of Kanaka Maoli people.