IM4 Immersive Knowledge Transfer Series – Episode 2
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 2 will feature IM4 Matriarch Cease Wyss with guest speakers Dallas Flett-Wapash and Suzanne Kite.
Cease Wyss is Skwxwu7mesh/Sto:Lo/ Hawaiian/Swiss, Cease is an IM4 Matriarch, and a media artist 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.
Dallas Flett-Wapash, BFA, is an Ininew-Seaulteaux from KeeseekooseFirst Nations. He is currently based in Brandon, Manitoba, working in GameDesign and other interactive art forms with Unity.
Kite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and is a PhD candidate at Concordia University, Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures, and a 2019 Trudeau Scholar. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota epistemologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance practice. Recently, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances, carbon fiber sculptures, immersive video & sound installations.
Be sure to check out IM4 Lab’s youtube channel for the DJ set featured in the live webinar. For information about IM4’s online workshops visit www.im4lab.com.
