Join Sundance Institute's Indigenous Program for a panel discussion with global Indigenous artists who are creating interactive media in the ever-evolving technological space of XR. Panelists will examine the importance of self-determination, agency, and protocol in Indigenized user experiences and will encourage budding artists to explore XR, and join them in the Indigenizing of a new media culture.

Bird Runningwater (Director, Indigenous Program), Amelia Winger-Bearskin (Contentful—Company; Wampum.Codes—Podcast), Tanu Gago (FAFSWAG—Indigenous Arts Collective; FAFSWAGVOGUE—Interactive Documentary), Nyla Innuksuk (Mixtape VR Inc—VR and AR Production Company; Slash/Back—Feature Film) and Terri Janke (Terri Janke and Company—Law Firm) will participate in a panel discussion and Q&A on topics including:

What are today's entry points into the digital art space?
The benefits of working in a field where new technologies rapidly become outmoded.
The importance of protocol when translating human culture into digital content.
How artists deal with issues of representation and distribution of their work.
What the future of interactive media and XR looks like in a COVID world.

RESOURCES FROM OUR PANELLISTS:

Amelia Winger-Bearskin

Wampum.Codes - Podcast.
More on Amelia - Resources featuring Amelia.

Tanu Gago

TAMATOA - FAFSWAG VOGUE; Short Documentary.
FAFSWAG VOGUE - Interactive Documentary.

Nyla Innuksuk

MIXTAPE VR Inc - 360 and Virtual Reality Production Company.

Terri Janke

Indigenous Law Firm | Terri Janke and Company - Company Website.

Learn more about Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program and New Frontier Program.

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THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS

This program is presented by Sundance Institute and is made possible by generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots. We invest in journalism, in the arts, and in the success of cities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight once published newspapers. Our goal is to foster informed and engaged communities, which we believe are essential for a healthy democracy. For more, visit kf.org.

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Thank you to our Detroit-based collaborator Aadizookaan for their guidance in programming this session.

Amelia Winger-Bearskin

Panelist

Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist/technologist who empowers people to leverage bleeding edge technology to effect positive change in the world. In 2019, she was an invited presenter to His Holiness Dalai Lama's World Headquarters in Dharamsala for the Summit on Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion. In 2018, she was awarded a McArthur and Sundance Institute fellowship for her 360 video immersive installation in collaboration with the artist Wendy Red Star (supported by the Google JUMP Creator program and exhibited at the Newark Museum and ASU in 2019). The non-profit she founded, IDEA New Rochelle, in partnership with the New Rochelle Mayor's Office, won the 2018 One Million Dollar Bloomberg Mayor's Challenge for their VR/AR Citizen toolkit to help the community co-design their city. She is a Sundance Institute Creative Advisor and artist of their New Frontier Story Lab and Festival (AR/VR/XR/AI tech section). In 2018 she was awarded the 100K Alternative Realities Prize for her Virtual Reality Project from Engadget and Verizon Media. Amelia is the founder and host of wampum.codes podcast and the stupidhackathon.com. She is also the host and producer of the Contentful + Algolia Developer Podcast DreamStacks. Amelia is Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan. more...