Professor Jennifer Deger

Jenifer Deger is Professor of Digital Humanities with the Northern Institute and founding member of Miyarrka Media, an arts-research Yolŋu-led collective based In Yalakun, Arnhem Land.

For the past 25 years Jennifer has undertaken co-creative media projects under Yolŋu leadership, collaborations that continue to inform and energize her commitments to social research and its potentially transformative reach.

Jennifer is a co-editor and co-curator of Feral Atlas: The More-than-human Anthropocene, published online by Stanford University Press and exhibited at the Istanbul Biennale and Sharjah Architecture Triennial in 2019. She is a co-founder of Miyarrka Media, an award-winning arts collective based in northeast Arnhem Land; and co-instigator of curatorium collective, an intergenerational group of anthropologists attempting to compose anthropology otherwise.

Research Interests:

* Collaborative and experimental social research
* Yolngu future-making
* Visual ethics and aesthetics
* Photography and documentary studies
* Anthropocene studies