Illustration from the Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Workshops
Hello! Shé:kon! Aloha! Waciye! Tunnagasugitsi!
The Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF) is a partnership of universities and community organizations dedicated to developing multiple visions of Indigenous peoples tomorrow in order to better understand where we need to go today. Through its four main components –workshops, residencies, symposia, and archive– IIF encourages and enable artists, academics, youth and elders to imagine how our communities will look in the future. IIF is anchored by Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC), a research-creation network based at Concordia University, and includes Partners from across Canada.
Workshops
Bringing Aboriginal Storytelling to Experimental Digital Media
The Skins Workshops teach Indigenous youth how to adapt stories from their community into experimental digital media, such as video games, machinima, 3d modeling and animation, virtual reality, and augmented reality.
Residencies
Enabling the Future Imagaries of Indigenous Makers and Thinkers
The IIF residency program invites an array of Indigenous artists, writers, activists, thinkers or other makers to envision Indigenous futures. They are asked to consider the question: where would you like to see our people in seven generations?
Symposia
Exchanging Visions of Indigenous Futures
The Symposia on the Future Imaginary bring together artists, scholars, community members, knowledge-keepers and technologists from across Canada and internationally to exchange ideas on how Indigenous people imagine themselves in the future. The Symposia are intensely interdisciplinary, and include lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and land-based learning.
Archive
Archiving Indigenous Digital Media Art
The Indigenous Digital Art Archive (IDAA) is a project in its early formations and developed by the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF) to organize, care for, and make accessible the records of Indigenous digital artists.
Other
All the Other Stuff We Do
We conduct a number of other projects that don’t fall neatly into the four main categories above. This is where you will find information about our speaker series, interviews, work related to the Indigenous Protocol and AI research, a timeline of all of IIF’s activities since 2013, and various other probes from the future.
AbTeC: Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace: artists & academics researching & creating. We run Initiative for Indigenous Futures & Skins Workshops.
