Skawennati, Nancy and I are in Toronto this week, giving a two-day Machinima Workshop as part of imagineNative 2010. We have nine students, invited by iNative to participate, who spent yesterday on a very steep learning curve. Today we’re going to start shooting 3 30 second machinimas to enter into the Machinima Expo promo festival.
Skawennati won Best New Media at the imagineNative Festival in Toronto last weekend for the TimeTraveller™ website. Congratulations to the whole TimeTraveller™ team and cast of thousands.
It’s pedal down, wall-to-wall over here at Obx Labs. We’re in full production mode at the this point, trying to both complete work on Skins and on the first episode of TimeTraveller. For Skins, we we’re working with the students to finish the vertical slice of Otsi! Rise of the Kanienkehaka Legends, doing the final [...]
Beth pointed us to a new resource for talking about and disseminating Aboriginally-created media, sponsored by APTN, called Digital Drum:
Digital Drum is a place for Aboriginal Cultural expression — for example: storytelling, media literacy, community traditions, activism and music.
One of the main ideas for us was that Digital Drum | Tambour digital would engage youth [...]
Skawennati and I were interviewed about AbTeC for Concordia’s in-house alumni magazine. The article just came out—and Hunter has his first cover:
We’ve had two papers accepted to conferences in May (the same weekend, to be exact.)
The first, entitled “Skins: Virtual Modding As Self-Determination” (Dillon, Lewis), will be given by Beth at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association 1st Annual Conference at the University of Minnesota, MN.
The second, entitled “First Nations / Future Imagination” (Lewis, Lameman, [...]
I’m posting out of turn here, but it’s a blog so that’s OK, right?
One of my main interests in the AbTeC project is working on ways of articulating arguments–beyond the moral ones– for broadening the producer base to include people from a wider range of backgrounds than is presently the case. In other words, why [...]
Beth gets interviewed by The Escapist online magazine, and does a great job laying out the Skins / AbTeC agenda. Here’s an excerpt:
Traditional knowledge is vital to the well-being of our youth and their futures,” Dillon explains. “We learn from the ones before us. In the case of Skins, the importance is carefully considering traditional [...]
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