‘As Long as the Internet Lasts’: Harnessing the Digital Turn in Turkish-Australian Gallipoli Centenary Commemorations

Intensified commemorations and funding opportunities during the centenary of the Great War, combined with the enabling potential of digital media, led multiple community members and artists to imagine new commemorative projects. Focusing on two digital commemorative projects produced in Sydney and dedicated to the Turkish-Australian remembrance of Gallipoli, this research will give a glimpse of a dynamic society’s attempts to revisit the remembrance of a shared past. Relying mainly on the explanations of the creators of the two digital projects and examination of the exhibits, this paper argues that these centenary projects reflect the changing relationship to a past that is no longer in living memory in an increasingly culturally diverse society and that these recent commemorations ultimately reassess the definition of publicly and nationally significant local heritage.