Stephen foster, Re-mediating Curtis video still
WHAT: Indigenous Media and the Post Colonial Imagination
WHEN: Wednesday, March 19, 2 to 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: CCS 142, UBC Okanagan Campus
ADMISSION: Free
As part of the FCCS Research Series, Emerging Visions: Digital Media and Culture, Stephen Foster will discuss his current research projects with Jason Edward Lewis Skins, Storytellers And Second Lives and Re-Mediating Curtis.
Re-mediating and remixing mass culture representation of indigeneity. From early cinema to video games, history has shown that new technologies play a critical role in shaping how Aboriginal people are perceived by Western culture. Lewis and Foster reframe mass media representation of indigenous peoples incorporating new technologies and contemporary forms of media. Their practice-based creative research critiques and subverts images of Indianess while extending the tradition of aboriginal storytelling through new media including video games, interactive installation and stereoscopic photography. .
Stephen Foster is an Associate Professor in the Creative Studies Department, teaching courses dedicated to video production, digital media, and visual and cultural theory.
Foster is a digital media artist and researcher of mixed Haida and European background whose work deals with issues of Indigenous representation in popular culture through personal narrative.
Emerging Visions: Digital Media and Culture is sponsored by Green College UBC and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, UBC Okanagan. For more information on the research series, visit www.ubc.ca/okanagan/fccs/research/areas-of-expertise/media/emergingvisions.html