Here’s the video of my presentation, ‘Secrets and lies’, for the (Re)create symposium at the University of Canberra, 21 April 2021. It’s mainly about finding and resting redactions in ASIO surveillance files held by the National Archives of Australia.

Secrets and lives from Tim Sherratt on Vimeo.

Here are links to the various sites and resources mentioned in the video:

• For more on records relating to the White Australia policy see The Real Face of White Australia
• Some summary information on ASIO records in the National Archives of Australia
• Jenny Holzer’s Mass MoCA exhibition, including redaction paintings
• CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years, The Onion, 2005
• Fun with the Petrovs, a Trove list that brings together photos from ASIO files in the NAA
• FOIA Facelift, MuckRock, 2020
• Redaction Hall of Shame, MuckRock, 2016
• Withheld Pending Advice, Inside Story, 2017, looks at ‘closed’ files in the NAA; the 2020 update is in this Twitter thread
• redacted, 2017 – browse my original collection of redactions
• The original #redactionart story, 2016-2017 – part 1 and part 2
• The Redaction Zoo, 2017
• DIY #redactionart , 2017 – repository of images
• Edward Shaddow’s #redactionart cookie cutters
• Wearing access, 2018, talk by Bonnie Wildie describing the creation of her #redactionart dress
• #redactionart jigsaw
• Some new #redactionart critters, 2021
• #redactionart hardcover journal, 2021, Redbubble
• #redactionart quilt cover, 2021, Redbubble
• #redactionart scarf, 2021, Redbubble
• DIY #redactionart collage – make your own collages of recycled ASIO redactions (includes at least one redaction art critter)

I haven’t yet written up the details of training my latest redaction finder. When I do, I’ll post it here! #dhhacks