Saturday, March 2nd

 

Symposium

Location: EV-1-615, the auditorium

 
 
 
8:30 – 9:00 am

Symposium sign-in outside the FoFA Gallery/ EV-1-615

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9:00 – 9:15 am: Morning Remarks

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9:15 – 10:30 am

Current and Continuous: Indigenous Knowledge and High-tech Media Arts

Skawennati, Artist and Co-Director, Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC)Montreal

Jason Edward Lewis, Associate Professor of Computational Arts and Research Director, Obx Labs,Concordia University/Co-Director, Time Traveller™, Montreal

Scott Benesiinaabandan, AbTeC Artist-in-Residence at Obx Labs, Concordia, Montreal

Moderated by Amber Berson, Development & Outreach Coordinator, Eastern Bloc / MA Art History, Concordia University, Montreal

 

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10:30 – 10:45 am: coffee break

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10:45 am – 12:00 pm

A New Language: Creating and Exhibiting Indigenous Visual Culture in the Digital Era

Ryan Rice, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe: “Sharpening Tools

Jordan Bennett, Indigenous Artist in Residence at the University of Alberta, Edmonton

Steven Loft, Curator and Trudeau Foundation Fellow, Toronto: “Cosmological Foundations of Indigenous Media Ecologies”

Moderated by Carla Taunton, Assistant Professor, Historical and Critical Studies, NSCAD University

 

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1:15 – 2:30 pm:

Indigenous Rights and Activism: Museums, Film and Media Arts

Tricia Logan, Curator: Indigenous Content, Canadian Human Rights Museum, Winnipeg: “Finding Space and Voice: Transmitting Indigenous Knowledges in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights”

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Filmmaker and Owner of Unikkaat Studios, Iqaluit

Julie Nagam, Assistant Professor, Aboriginal Visual Culture, OCAD University, Toronto: “Coding/Decoding the Signals of Sovereignty and Recognition through Digital and New Media Art”

Moderated by Monica Patterson, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, CEREV Concordia, Montreal

 

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2:30 – 3:15 pm: coffee break

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3:15 – 4:30 pm

Indigenizing the Archive: The Aboriginal Art History Project

Roundtable Discussion Hosted by The Aboriginal Curatorial Collective/ Collectif des Conservateurs Autochtones

Sherry Farrell Racette, Associate Professor of Native Studies / Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Manitoba / Director, the Aboriginal Art History Project, Winnipeg

Jason Baerg, Artist, Curator and Chair of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective, Toronto

Cathy Mattes, Curator, Assistant Professor, Brandon University and phd Student, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

Guy Sioui-Durand, Sociologist (PhD), Art Critic, Sessional instructor, and Independent Curator

Dayna Danger, MFA student, Concordia University / Artist and Research Assistant, the Aboriginal Art History Project, Montreal

 

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4:30 pm: Closing Comments

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