When Adam Goodes played AFL, his body was tracked 10 times per second via a global network of satellites and a small device on his back. When he played at his best, he felt guided by his ancestors, and now there's a way to see that.
Now, 140 years later, the tree carries a different knowledge — Goodes's playing data, claimed back from the AFL, a computerised history of his performance metrics as the cacophony of racist booing, swirled around him, carried by the Ararru and Mathari.
"It was something that I felt really blessed to be able to do … just trust that connection to my culture and my people really shone through. "There's a lot of cultural information that resides within data … it's tracked Adam's body, it's an incredibly rich data set. Athletes succeed or fail on an intuitive understanding and manipulation of time and space. Goodes credits the best of his games to the flow of his ancestors that he tapped into before his matches.
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