What can you do to bring about a brighter future? A decolonized future? How about imagining Indigenous people in spaceships? Contemporary artist, Skawennati, tells it like she sees it.
Skawennati is an artist whose many achievements include a 2011 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, several Best New Media awards from imagineNative and being shortlisted for the inaugural National Media Arts Prize last year. Her art addresses history, the future, and change, and has been widely exhibited across North America.
Born in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, Skawennati graduated with a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, where she is based. 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. Please visit www.skawennati.com to see more.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx