The Space between us: col(lab)orations within Indigenous, Circumpolar and Pacific places through digital media and design

SSHRC Partnership Grant - Principal Investigator
2021-2028

The Space Between Us is a seven year SSHRC funded partnership that explores how digital and new media art, created through innovative incubator labs, workshops, makerspaces and symposia, might create new paradigms for community engagement extending to remote and rural communities both nationally and abroad.

Our vision is to examine different models and methodologies in digital and new media, and to create new models for institutions and cities to engage underserved members of marginalized communities, leading to the creation of new knowledges, advanced training opportunities, capacity building, higher enrolment in education, and Indigenous cultural resurgence. To demonstrate the role of Indigenous new media production in the project of decolonization, and advance new research on how to create a self-sustaining project that builds long-term capacity in underserved communities. Through our collaborative work, this research will enhance international connections and strengthen intellectual relationships among nations with shared colonial histories in the three areas of Canada, Circumpolar and Pacific connections to in digital and new media technology in the future.

Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership: The Pilimmaksarniq Project

SSHRC Partnership Grant – Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator, Dr. Heather Igloliorte
2018-2024

Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership: The Pilimmaksarniq / Pijariuqsarniq Project supports Inuit and Inuvialuit to become leaders within their communities in all areas of the arts, by providing innovative, hands-on mentoring and training opportunities across the north and south. Our Inuit Futures Ilinniaqtuit (students / learners) undertake their own research in the arts, participate in other Inuit-led artistic projects, or gain valuable skills and knowledge by participating in paid internships within our network of arts institutions across the North and South. These experiences improve their readiness for careers in the arts across the North and South as well as creating a new generation of knowledge creators.

Archive/Counter-Archive (A/CA): Activating Canada's Moving Image Heritage

SSHRC Partnership Grant – Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator, Dr. Janine Marchessault
2018-2024

Archive/Counter-Archive (A/CA): Activating Canada's Moving Image Heritage is a seven-year research-creation project focusing on works by Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis, Inuit), the Black community and People of Colour, women, LGBT2Q+ and immigrant communities. Our research is committed to finding solutions for safekeeping Canada's audiovisual heritage. We seek to activate and remediate audiovisual heritage that is most vulnerable to disappearance and inaccessibility, fostering a community and network dedicated to creating best practices and cultural policies.

Hemispheric Encounters: Developing transborder research-creation practices

SSHRC Partnership Grant – Co-Investigator.
Principal Investigator, Dr. Laura Levin
2019-2026

Performance, Placemaking, and Cultural Policy Workshop & Digital Hub

SSHRC Connections Grant – Co-Investigator.
Principal Investigator, Dr. Laura Levin
2014

The Transactive Memory Keepers: Indigenous Public Engagement in Digital and New Media Labs and Exhibitions

SSHRC Insight Grant - Principle Investigator
2016-2020

The Kanata Indigenous Performance, New and Digital Media Art Project

SSHRC Insight Development Grant - Principle Investigator
2013-2015