Summer 2024
Indigenous Technologies
July 9 — August 15
Tuesdays & Thursdays
4 — 5:30PM PST
BCNM's Indigenous Technologies workshop happening this summer 2024, is a six-week online course offering our broader community a space to delve into contemporary Indigenous issues, particularly those intertwined with new media and technology. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from prominent Indigenous scholars, artists, and practitioners. Guiding the course discussions will be Sierra Edd (Diné), the current graduate coordinator for Indigenous Technologies.
Sustainable technology futures
The workshop's content is designed to address pressing topics, including Indigenous representations in film, Indigenous Futurisms, the #LandBack and rematriation movement, Environmentalism, and Indigenous Food systems. Each Tuesday we will feature a lecture from a visiting artist, scholar, or activist, with Thursdays devoted to discussions that stem from these explorations into the intersection of technology, new media, Indigeneity and settler-colonialism, critically envisioning a sustainable technological future.
Sierra Edd (Diné) is a PhD student in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is Tł’ógi, born for the Kinłichii’nii people and grew up in Durango, Colorado / Four corners. Her current interests are in Indigenous gender and sexuality, culture, storytelling, futures/futurity, and digital media. She is also a 2020 recipient of the Ford Predoctoral Fellowship and a student coordinator for the Digital Ethnic Studies & Indigenous Sound Studies working groups.
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Introductions
Land acknowledgements and positionality
Defining Indigenous Technologies
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Tazbah Rose Chavez is a performance poet turned director and television writer. She is a citizen of the Bishop Paiute Tribe, from the Nüümü, Diné and San Carlos Apache tribes.
She has been a director for Reservation Dogs, FX | Season 1, Episode 207 & Season 2, Episodes 205 / 206; Rutherford Falls, Peacock | Season 2, Episodes 203 / 204; Sex Lives of College Girls, HBOMAX | Season 2, Episodes 207/208; and Accused, FOX | Season 1, Episode 107.
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Skawennati investigates history, the future, and change from her perspective as an urban Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) woman and as a cyberpunk avatar. Her artistic practice questions our relationships with technology and highlights Indigenous people in the future. An early adopter of cyberspace as both a location and a medium, she creates machinimas and machinimagraphs (movies and still images made in virtual environments) as well as sculpture, fashion, and performative experiences.
Her works have been presented in Europe, Oceania, Asia and across North America and are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Thoma Foundation, among others. She is honoured to have received a 2022 Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions Grant; a 2020 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship; and a 2011 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship. She holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
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Sogorea Te’ Land Trust cultivates rematriation.
Sogorea Te’ calls on us all to heal and transform the legacies of colonization, genocide, and patriarchy and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do.
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Margo Robbins is the co-founder and president of the Cultural Fire Management Council (CFMC). She is one of the key planners and organizers of the Cultural Burn Training Exchange(TREX) that takes place on the Yurok Reservation twice a year. She is also a co-lead and advisor for the Indigenous People’s Burn Network.Margo comes from the traditional Yurok village of Morek, and is an enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe. She gathers and prepares traditional food and medicine, is a basket weaver and regalia maker. She is the Indian Education Director for the Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School district, a mom, and a grandma.
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Cafe Ohlone’s latest iteration, ‘oṭṭoytak, is located outside the Hearst Museum of Anthropology on the UC Berkeley campus, at Bancroft on College Avenue.
Our work is multifaceted and promotes language restoration, traditional arts, Ohlone culinary traditions, and climate justice through land rehabilitation — to name a few elements - aims to produce a dynamic campus climate that brings the university closer to a just and appropriate relationship with the most local indigenous community and, as a direct result, with the land upon which it is situated.
Register
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Early bird special
Register now until March 15, 2024 and receive a 50% discount!
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Student discount
Are you a UC Berkeley student? You are eligible to receive an 67% discount!
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Summer 2024 pass
Get access to this amazing program with five exceptional speakers!