Archives Without Descendants - Living ancestral memory in the digital age - presented by The Indigenous Screen Office
Archives Without Descendants - Living ancestral memory in the digital age - presented by The Indigenous Screen Office
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
2:30 pm_2:45 pm
Monument-National
110$
Day Pass price, excl. fees & taxesIn this presentation, Abenaki artist Mélanie O’Bomsawin explores how our relationships with the people, the land and its elemental forces, are central to the transmission of her community’s knowledge. Her approach invites us to reimagine our connections to time, space, and technology.
Through her lens as a new media artist, O’Bomsawin reflects on the many forms memory can take: carved in stone, spoken through breath, and stored in the digital “cloud.” She considers how emerging technologies can become meaningful tools for preserving and sharing Indigenous worldviews—when approached with care, reciprocity, and respect. Ultimately, this presentation is a call to action: to listen, to remember, and to engage with the future through grounded, relational practices that honor difference and otherness.
Please note: this activity will be in French, with live transcription available.
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
2:30 pm_3:30 pm
Rachel Germain - Société des arts technologiquesCA/QC
Alexandra Marin - Société des arts technologiquesCA/QC
Lionel Ringenbach - Ucodia | Metacreation LabCA
Sura Hanna - Next-Generation Cities InstituteCA/QC
Femke Kocken - Next-Generation Cities InstituteCA/QC
Connor Cook - Next-Generation Cities InstituteCA/QC
Dane Malenfant - Université McGill | MilaCA/QC
