Friday, September 13, 2019 12:00 pm
-
12:00 pm
EDT (GMT -04:00)
Skawennati (Mohawk,
turtle
clan)
makes
art
that
addresses
history,
the
future,
and
change
from
an
Indigenous
perspective.
Her
innovative
new
media
projects
include
the
online
gallery
/
chat-space,
and
mixed-reality
event, CyberPowWow (1997-2004);
a
paper
doll
/
time-travel
journal, Imagining
Indians
in
the
25th
Century (2001);
and TimeTraveller™ (2008-2013),
a
multi-platform
project
featuring
nine
machinima
episodes. These
works
and
others
have
been
presented
in
New
Zealand,
Germany,
Italy,
Ireland
and
across
North
America
in
major
exhibitions
such
as Now?
Now! at
the
Biennale
of
the
Americas
and Looking
Forward
(L’Avenir) at
the
Montreal
Biennale.
Skawennati
is
represented
by
ELLEPHANT
and
her
award-winning
work
is
included
in
both
public
and
private
collections.
Born
in
Kahnawà:ke
Mohawk
Territory,
Skawennati
holds
a
BFA
from
Concordia
University
in
Montreal,
where
she
is
based.
Currently,
she
is
Co-Director,
with
Jason
E.
Lewis,
of
Aboriginal
Territories
in
Cyberspace
(AbTeC),
a
research
network
of
artists,
academics,
and
technologists
investigating,
creating,
and
critiquing
Indigenous
virtual
environments.