IM4 Immersive Knowledge Transfer Series – Episode 8 Closing Circle Season 1
The IM4 lab, in collaboration with Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF), invites you to attend the ‘IM4 XR Knowledge Gathering’, an exciting live webinar series. This webinar series features conversations among XR media creators, artists, and storytellers from Indigenous and culturally diverse communities.
Episode 8 will be the closing webinar for the IKT Series Season 1 featuring IM4 Matriarch Cease Wyss, Kari Kēhaulani Noe and Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla.
Cease Wyss is Skwxwu7mesh/Sto:Lo/ Hawaiian/Swiss, Cease is an IM4 Matriarch, artist, and educator with close to 25 years experience in the field. She has produced various formats of media art, as well as being a mentor in her field for close to 15 years. Cease co-authored Journey to Kaho’olawe, covering more than two centuries of the Kanaka family’s migration to the Pacific Northwest coast, and was also a recipient of the City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for film and new media in 2010. She is also an ethno-botanist, traditionally trained in this field by Indigenous Elders. Her work involves site-specific and culturally focused teaching with storytelling as her means to sharing knowledge.
Kari Kēhaulani Noe is a graduate research assistant at the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications (https://www.lavaflow.info/) at the University of Hawai’I at Mānoa. She is currently pursing a M.S. in Computer Science. Noe’s research revolves around identifying the limitations and strengths that virtual, augmented, and mixed reality spaces affords to teaching and experiencing Hawaiian language and cultural knowledge. Her past published work includes Kilo Hōkū, a virtual reality educational simulation designed to aid users in their study of Hawaiian non-instrumental navigation by allowing them to virtually sail the Hōkūle’a. Noe’s current work involves developing an interactive digital mural that uses a Hawaiian language interface to allow users to generate new elements to populate the mural. Aside from programming, her other passion lie with art. In her free time she enjoys illustration and animation.
Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla (Kanaka Hawaiʻi & Filipino) is an Associate Professor in Language and Literacy Education (Faculty of Education) and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies (Faculty of Arts)at the University of British Columbia (UBC) on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. Her teaching, research, and service demonstrates sustained scholarship locally, nationally, and internationally emphasizes Hawaiian language and Indigenous languages at the intersection of education, revitalization, digital technology, well-being, traditional and cultural practices, and/or policy and planning; and decolonizing and Indigenizing the academy to create pathways for Indigenous thinkers and scholars, and scholarship. She received her MA in Native American Linguistics and a PhD in Language, Reading and Culture with a specialization in Indigenous languageeducation, revitalization, and multimedia technology from the University of Arizona (UA). While there, she served as the Program Coordinator of the American Indian Language Development Institute. Upon graduation, she returned back to Hawaiʻi to teach in Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawaiʻi in Hilo.
Be sure to check out IM4 Lab’s Youtube channel for the DJ set featured in the live webinar.
