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
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
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:
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
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