IM4 Online Workshop with Amelia Winger-Bearskin
IM4 will be hosting a series of online distant-learning workshops by amazing XR media creators who are partaking in the IM4 Immersive Knowledge Transfer (IKT) Series this June/July months. This workshop is open for Indigenous media creators, artists, storytellers, and the larger Indigenous community.
On Saturday June 27th at 11am PST will be an online workshop with Amelia Winger-Bearskin on “Web Practices with Content Management Systems.”
Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist/technologist who empowers people to leverage bleeding edge technology to effect positive change in the world. In 2019 she was an invited presenter to His Holiness Dalai Lama’s World Headquarters in Dharamsala for the Summit on Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion. In 2018 she was awarded a McArthur and Sundance Institute fellowship for her 360 video immersive installation in collaboration with the artist Wendy Red Star (supported by the Google JUMP Creator program), exhibited at the Newark Museum and ASU in 2019. The non-profit she founded IDEA New Rochelle, in partnership with the New Rochelle Mayor’s Office, won the 2018 $1 Million Dollar Bloomberg Mayor’s Challenge for their VR/AR Citizen toolkit to help the community co-design their city. She is a Sundance Institute Creative advisor and alum of their New Frontiers Story Lab and Festival(AR/VR/XR/AI tech section). In 2018 she was awarded the 100k Alternative Realities Prize for her Virtual Reality Project from Engadget and Verizon Media.
Amelia is the founder and host of wampum.codes podcast and the stupidhackathon.com. She is also the host and producer of the Contentful + Algolia Developer Podcast DreamStacks.
Amelia is Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan.
Register now to reserve your spot where you will receive an email from the IM4 Lab to fill out an application form to complete the registration. Once the application form is completed you will receive a link to confirm your spot in the online workshop.
Please note due to the requirements our funding structure we are prioritizing spots for this free online workshop for Indigenous peoples, and those who self-identify as Indigenous. All information provided in the application form will be kept confidential. The application form will request your SIN number, and a copy of a status card. For non-status, Metis and Inuit peoples we will have a separate form to fill out. For any questions you can email im4@ecuad.ca.
