Webinars

Collaborations Within Indigenous, Circumpolar and Pacific Places Through Digital Media, Art + Design

This panel will reflect on the importance of building connections between Indigenous peoples of North America, the Circumpolar region, and the Pacific.

This panel was originally presented as part of the 2021 NAISA conference.

Dr. Julie Nagam – Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts, Collaboration, and Digital Media
Dr. Heather Igloliorte – Concordia Research Chair in Indigenous and Circumpolar Arts
Dr. Johnson Witehira – Co-founder of APOPO Creative Design Hub
Taqralik Partridge – Director of the Nordic Lab
Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi – Post Doc at Concordia University and Curator
Liisa-Rávná Finbog – Doctoral Research Fellow at Oslo University

Incubator as Collaborative Methodology

This talk explores the recent projects of Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Dr. Julie Nagam, and Dr. Carla Taunton as a collective of curator-artist-scholars who present innovative projects in public spaces by working through Indigenous, feminist, and anti-oppressive methodologies that are grounded in practices of research creation through incubators. Over the past few years, they have brought forward several exhibitions that hold space for critical discussions about long standing Indigenous relationships to technologies as creative materialities and as sites for exchange and continuities. They will discuss our incubator and night festival series which includes Memory Keepers I, II, and III as well as gathering across moana (2019-2020) and ebb and flow (2020) in order to consider their engagement with and activation of Indigenous methodologies of visiting, mentorship, and intergenerational exchange.

Weweni Indigenous Scholar Series

Theme: Intersections of Critical Race, Place and Culture Within our Current Climate

Moderator: Dr. Julie Nagam, Associate Professor at the University of Winnipeg, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts, Collaboration and Digital Media

Panelists:
Dr. Ronak Kapadia, University of Chicago
Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills, University of Winnipeg
Dr. Heather Igloliorte, University of Winnipeg Indigenous Scholar in Residence
Tasha Spillett, PhD Canidate University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Mishuana Goeman, University of California

Overview: This panel will reflect on the collapse of the old world order, sustained through ongoing fears and objectification of the other, critically mapping the emergence of new and radical alternatives. Speakers will consider acts of alliances through BIPOC gatherings, solidarity, creative interventions and scholarship. Each speaker will discuss the ways in which their relationships between race, sexuality, culture and their communities allow for transformation, change through their work of curatorial, literature, aesthetics and artistic practices. Discussing diverse forms of scholarship, this talk will forge new possibilities for our collective anticipation of the new world with BIPOC voices leading the way.

Weweni | Indigenous UWinnipeg | The University of Winnipeg

DDD - International. Indigenous.

Indigenous-led media labs are growing all around the world! This panel invited academic who are leading those creative tech spaces and offers that opportunity to connect with each other.

Panelists include: Prof. Jason Edward Lewis, Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Dr. Julie Nagam, Johnson Witehira, and Loretta Todd. Moderated by Niki Little.

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THE ARTS+: How New Technologies Can Drive Narratives and Communities Forward (Presented by Telefilm Canada)

Stories are no longer solely powered by author and reader imagination. New technologies are allowing for stories to evolve into new platforms, reaching extended audiences. This is resulting in new individual and shared experiences, and important learnings about others’ histories and perspectives, enhancing the impact of the original stories. Learn about which new technologies can help to drive your narratives and characters forward, as experts in immersive storytelling and AI share their insights. Featuring Dr. Julie Nagam, Cindy Au Yeung, Pietro Gagliano, Randall Okita, and Catherine Mathys.

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Dish with One Spoon

As part of the Inaugural Indigenous Digital Delegation at MIT, Elder Dr. Duke Redbird (Ojibway) will present a keynote talk titled “Dish with One Spoon”. The talk will begin with a poem by that name and will close with a poem and/or video called “The Power of the Land.” Dr. Redbird will frame his talk as follows: A BLINK OF AN EYE • A STROKE OF A PEN • A CLICK OF A MOUSE • SPEED OF LIGHT. There will be Welcome Remarks from Home Territory by Elizabeth Solomon of the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag, and an introduction by Kerry Swanson of the Indigenous Screen Office. Dr. Redbird’s keynote will be followed by a conversation with the ten delegates, all leading Indigenous media scholars and artists, who are virtually meeting with MIT to exchange with the MIT community on the theme of Indigenous Knowledge, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Worlds. The Delegation is led by the Indigenous Screen Office (Canada), funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Government of Canada, and hosted by Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab.