Conference Presentations, Keynote Presentations, and Invited Talks
Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations
“Collaborations Within Indigenous, Circumpolar and Pacific Places Through Digital Media, Art and Design” Native American Indigenous Studies Association, June 2021.
“Forging connections between Aotearoa and Turtle Island through Indigenous Methodologies of Collaboration” Native American Indigenous Studies Association at Hamilton, New Zealand, June 2019.
“Indigenous Collaborations Through the Gallery as a Site for Self-Determination and Social Change.” Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Peoples: Sovereignty, Sustainability, and Reconciliation, Kona, Hawaii, March 6–10 2018.
“Embodying Place: Thinking Through Projections, Body and Land as Sites for Social Change. Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Toronto, ON, May 29 2017.
Indigenous Art: New Media and the Digital. Organizer and Chair of panel on Indigenous Art: New Media and the Digital. Native American Art Association, Tulsa, OK, October 2017.
“Kitchen Table Logic: A Metis Women's Creative Knowledge Roundtable.” Native American Indigenous Association, Hawaii, May 17 2016.
The Initiative For Indigenous Futures Project. Native American Indigenous Studies Association, Hawaii, May 20 2016.
“The Occupation of Space.” Native American Art Association, Santa Fe, NM, September 30 2015.
The Kanata Indigenous Performance, New and Digital Media Art Project and the Transactive Memory Keepers Database. SSHRC Congress – Women Studies and Digital Humanities, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, May 29 and June 3 2015.
The Sovereignty of Indigenous Aesthetics and Bodies, Leading a working group for a week for a formal presentation for Hemispheric Institute Encuentro, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, June 2014.
“Performing Memory: Indigenous Women Performance Artists and the Intervention of the Gendered Colonial Representations of the Body.” University of London: London, England, October 24 2013.
“Sovereignty and Digital Technologies, Symposium on Decolonial Aesthetics.” University of Toronto Hart House, Toronto, ON, October 2013.
“Indigenous (Re)Articulation of Space Through Creative Interventions.” Critical Ethnic Studies at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, September 2013.
“Alternative Cartographies: Grafting New Routes for Indigenous Artistic Practices.” Art and Geography: Aesthetics and Practices of Spatial Knowledges, University of Lyon, Lyon, France, February 2013.
“Decoding the Signals: Radical Transformations in “New” and Digital Media Art.” Native American Indigenous Studies Association, University of Saskatoon, Saskatoon, SK, June 2013.
Featured Talk: “Incubator as Methodology GLAM ”. MIT open doc lab, April 13, 2021.
This talk explores the recent projects of Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Dr. Julie Nagam, and Dr. Carla Taunton as a collective of curator-artist-scholars who present innovative projects in public spaces by working through Indigenous, feminist, and anti-oppressive methodologies that are grounded in practices of research creation through incubators. Over the past few years, they have brought forward several exhibitions that hold space for critical discussions about long standing Indigenous relationships to technologies as creative materialities and as sites for exchange and continuities. They will discuss our incubator and night festival series which includes Memory Keepers I, II, and III as well as gathering across moana (2019-2020) and ebb and flow (2020) in order to consider their engagement with and activation of Indigenous methodologies of visiting, mentorship, and intergenerational exchange.
Nuit Talks
Art speaks volumes with the free Nuit Talks program offering in-depth conversations with Nuit Blanche artists, scholars and curators all year long online and when public talks are able to happen again safely at partner venues across the city. These curated 60-minute sessions were hosted by the University of Winnipeg and moderated by Dr. Julie Nagam through a series of set questions and topics where each of the participants dialogues with each other and the host.
Invited and Keynote Conference Presentations
2021
“ThisGEN Cultural Leadership” Toronto April 15/16. Webinar
“Nuit Blanche Toronto Digital Shift” Ontario Galleries, Toronto April 14.
“Incubator as Methodology GLAM ”. MIT open doc lab, April 13.
“Apathy is Boring” Toronto, April 9.
“Frank Talk Series” New York, April 8.
“Decolonial Moves of the Transcultural GLAM” Orb Gallery March 4.
“Collective Collaborative Futures GLAM”. University of California Los Angeles, Feb 19.
“Opening Qaumajuq Canada’s Inuit Art Centre” Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, Feb 10.
“Reclaiming Our Spaces: Design, Community and Co-Creation. Entro based Toronto, Jan 29.
“Intersections of Critical Race, Place and Culture within our Current Climate” Weweni Series, Winnipeg, Jan 24.
2020
“Indigenous Lab and Digital development”. ImagineNative Film and New Media Festival, Oct 21
“The Arts+: How New Technologies Can Drive Narratives and Communities Forward”. Frankfurt Boor Fair, Oct 14.
“Decolonizing collections and museums” – Art Gallery of Ontario for Art Toronto talks series Oct 14.
“Digital and media technologies: way of collaboration that will bring us into the future” Immersive lab NFB, July 21.
“Indigenous methodologies and creation of artwork” Keynote Webinar for Contingences of Care residency June 25.
“Artist talk and reflection on sound work and practice” Webinar June 23
“Becoming Our Future: Global Indigenous Curatorial Practice” Chaired and organized talk with 16 authors of the from the book. Webinar: June 10.
“Cities in the Time of COVID-19: How Will Arts & Culture Survive Physical Distancing” Webinar June 4.
“Sparking Miyeu Pimatishiwin: A Métis Kitchen Table Talk” with Cathy Mattes, Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Jocelyn Piirainen, Jaimie Isaac, Niki Little, Daina Warren at the University of Winnipeg, Feb 6.
2019
“Becoming Our Future” Turangawaewae Marae, Hamilton New Zealand, Nov 18.
“Indigenous Digital Media and the Power of our Stories” University of New SouthWales, Sydney, Australia June, 28.
“Art: The Politics of Power” Canadian Art Summit, Montreal April, 12.
“Collaboration and Indigenous Arts” University of Hilo, Hawaii March 12.
“The Future of Indigenous Arts” Honolulu Museum, Honolulu Hawaii, March 8.
“Plants for Connection, Wellness and Healing” University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg Jan 15.
“Plants for Connection, Wellness and Healing”
2018
“Indigenous methodologies of collaboration” with Dr. Heather Igloliorte at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Nov 20.
“Collective and Creative Methodologies within the Future of Indigenous Arts” at University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, Nov 19.
“The Space Between Us: Collaboration, Digital Media and the Future” Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff Alberta, Nov 7.
“Collective and Creative Methodologies within the Future of Indigenous Arts” at Concordia University, Montreal, Oct 25.
“Sparking Miyeu Pimatishiwin: A Métis Kitchen Table Talk” with Cathy Mattes, Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Dr, Sherry Farrell Racette, Michelle LaVallee, Danger Danger at Concordia University, Montreal, Oct 3.
“Indigenous Methodologies in Digital and New Media.” MUTEK Digital Think Tank, Montreal, QC, August 20.
“Indigital and the Future.” International Symposium on Electronic Art, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, June 27.
“Collecting, Publishing and Archiving For Our Future Generations: Listen, Witness and Transmit.” Indigenous Media Art Alliance, Saskatoon, SK, June 15.
“Decolonizing and Indigenizing for Radical Transformation.” Innovations in Creative Space and Placemaking, ARTSCAPE, Toronto, June 6. (Keynote)
“Mobilizing Digital Technology at the Gallery and the University as a Site for Self-Determination and Social Change.” Canadian Art Summit, Banff, AB, April 20.
“Collective and Collaborative Methodologies and the Future of Indigenous Arts: Mobilizing the Gallery and the University as a Site for Self-Determination and Social Change.” Interrarium Curators Symposium, Banff Center of the Arts, Banff, AB, April 5.
“Aboriginal Curatorial Collective panel: “The State of Indigenous Curation in Brandon,” Art Gallery of Southwest Manitoba, Brandon, MB, February 21.
The GLAM collective projects and research collaborations with Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Brandon University, Brandon, MB, February 9.
“Collective and Creative Methodologies within the Future of Indigenous Arts.” University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, February 14. (Keynote)
2017
“Deciphering the Digital and Binary Codes of Sovereignty/Self-Determination and Recognition/Emancipation.” The Future is Indigenous, Winnipeg, MB, November 30.
“Metis Kitchen Table by Cathy Mattes Sparking Miyeu pimatishiwin: Metis Methodologies for Indigenous Littoral Curation and Critical Discourse,” in dialogue with Jaimie Isaac, Jenny Western, and Dr. Heather Igloliorte. Human Rights Hub, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, November 29.
“Collective and Creative Methodologies within the Future of Indigenous Arts.” Weweni Series, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, October 25. (Keynote)
“Indigenous Urban Interventions.” Indigenous Art Journal guest faculty at Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB, June 11–17.
“Alternative Cartographies: Grafting New Routes for Indigenous Artistic Practices in Canadian Cities.” Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC, April 1.
“Unraveling the Braids of Gender, Colonialism, and the Body.” Gallery C103. Panel with Jaimie Isaac and Jenny Western of The Ephemerals, Danishka Esterhazy and Freya Björg Olafson. University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, February 9.
2016
“Artists of the Americas and Street Action Art.” Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Santiago, Chile, July.
“The Power of Indigenous Arts: Centering Winnipeg as the Heart or the Place with the Creator lives.” Mayors Luncheon for the Arts, Winnipeg, MB, June 24. (Keynote)
“Deciphering the Digital and Binary Codes of Sovereignty/Self-Determination and Recognition/Emancipation.” Creating Nations: Past, Present and Future, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, March 28.
“Deciphering the Digital and Binary Codes of Sovereignty/Self-Determination and Recognition/Emancipation.” Cutting Copper: Indigenous Resurgent Practice, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, March 5.
“Women’s Voices: Indigenous Women and Film.” Native Women and Film. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, February 11. The Heretics Panel Discussion. University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, January 21.
List of talks from 2005-2015 available upon request.