UTC, Time Zone Fri, May 30, 2025 at 12:00 midn
New York, USA Thu, May 29, 2025 at 8:00 pm EDT
Chicago, USA Thu, May 29, 2025 at 7:00 pm CDT
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Sydney, Australia Fri, May 30, 2025 at 10:00 am AEST
Auckland, New Zealand Fri, May 30, 2025 at 12:00 noon NZST
First Nations’ Futures explores digital art as a gateway to share stories about culture, community, and identity. This First Nations’ led session will explore new practices, theories and approaches to socially and culturally engaged art and design that resonates with traditional knowledge systems. Taking a pan-Indigenous approach, we connect participants and projects from Oceania, the North and South Americas, Europe and Asia. Moving beyond aesthetics, we highlight First Nations’ artists, scientists, technologists and community leaders working with digital and emerging technologies in order to spark important discussions about identity, decolonisation, planetary ecology, and social justice.
Dr. Rewa Wright has presented academic and artistic research internationally in Portugal, Spain, Canada, Hong Kong, Colombia, Spain, London and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Her research weaves together theory and practice in art and design, with Indigenous thinking, cyberfeminism, interaction design, planetary ecology, machine learning and more, to think through some of the thorny problems posed by our new hybrid physical and digital spaces. Rewa is a First Nations woman, with Māori heritage from Ngai Tawake/Te Kaimaroke/Te Uri o Hau hapu of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Indigenous practices are emergent in her mixed reality art performances that incorporate and adapt gestures from traditional ‘kapa haka’ dance, and permeate her investigation of plant-data-body ecologies. Her personal website is https://www.rewawright.com.
Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro is a researcher, educator, and artist whose work focuses on cross-scale communication dynamics that shape emergent phenomena. Her projects have been exhibited globally, and she has published extensively in journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Ribeiro has served on international art juries and conference committees, including ISEA, Consciousness Reframed, SIGGRAPH, and CAA. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of São Paulo and was the Program Director of the Roy Ascott Studio’s Technoetic Arts (TA) program in Shanghai from 2023 to 2024. She holds the ‘Pete Townshend Endowed Senior Lecturership in Performative Technoetics’ (2022-2024), serves on the Editorial Board of Technoetic Arts journal, and is an ad hoc reviewer for Leonardo Journal. With a Ph.D. in Arts from ECA USP Brazil/Planetary Collegium, UK, she was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship at the UCLA Art|Sci Center and is a member of the UCLA Art|Sci Collective. Since 2017, she has chaired the Leonardo/ISAST LASER talks in Brazil and China.