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Skawennati ,  TimeTraveller™ , 2007-2014, machinima, 9 episodes, 75 min. Image courtesy Skawennati / ELLEPHANT

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TimeTraveller™ tells the story of Hunter, a young Mohawk man living in the twenty-second century who meets Karahkwenhawi, a young Mohawk woman from our era. Follow them while they use an edutainment system popular in the future —TimeTraveller™— to embark on a virtual joyride that immerses them in historical events significant to Native North Americans, such as the Dakota Sioux Uprising, the Oka Crisis and the occupation of Alcatraz Island.

NOTE: TimeTraveller™ is a nine episode series, and contains coarse language, discussions of sex and depictions of nudity.

Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change. Her work has been presented internationally. A Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) of Kahnawà:ke residing in Montreal, she co-directs Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace, a research-creation network based at Concordia University. She is represented by ELLEPHANT.

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Skawennati’s first machinima project TimeTraveller™, is a science- fiction story of a Mohawk man who lives in the year 2121. He uses the technology of his time to visit important historical events.

• Title: TimeTraveller™
• Creator: Skawennati
• Date Created: 2012
• Location: Arsenal Contemporary Art
• Subject Keywords: Contemporary Digital Art, New Media Art, Video installation
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TimeTraveller™

Skawennati 2009 – 2010

Thanks to a Canada Council New Media Residency grant, Skawennati was able to spend a year researching and developing TimeTraveller™, a multi-platform project that includes a website, nine machinima episodes, several sets of digital prints and a Hunter mega-figurine.

Highlighted residency activities.

• Designed and launched www.TimeTravellerTM.com website
• Worked with professionals at Concordia to develop an optimal workflow, including figuring out the best settings (framerate, resolution, codecs, etc.),
• Historical research on Dakota Sioux Uprising; Fort Calgary; Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz; Tenochtitlan, Kateri Tekakwitha, Mohawk Crisis
• Interviews with participants in the Mohawk Crisis
• Built sets for Dakota Sioux Uprising, 1862; Behind the barricades in Kanesatake, 1990; St-Francis Xavier Church, Iroquois village, longhouse interior, “Indian Church” interior; pow wow stadium of the future; Karahkwenhawi’s home; Alcatraz island; Tenochtitlan (interior, exterior, sacrifice and boat scenes; and TimeTraveller™ boutique. Improved Hunter’s apartment.
• Designed multiple HUD screens
• Wrote and storyboarded each episode
• Designed costumes for each episode
• Identified, rehearsed with and directed voice talent for each episode.
• Shot each episode.
• Identified and worked with composers for the music for each episode.
• Worked with a sound designer both to record voice talent and for the sound design of each episode.
• Identified and learned how to use new hardware (the SpaceNavigator, a 3D mouse used to better manipulate the Second Life camera controls)
• Edited, edited, edited
• Presented my work to various audiences, including twice to Hexagram Concordia’s community.
• Made a FaceBook artist page to let people in on my process: www.facebook.com/skawennati
• Began a series of large digital prints called “TimeTraveller™ Production Stills.”

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Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change. Her pioneering new media projects include the online gallery/chat-space and mixed-reality event,  CyberPowWow (1997-2004); a paper doll/time-travel journal, Imagining Indians in the 25th Century (2001); and TimeTraveller™(2008-2013), a multi-platform project featuring nine machinima episodes. These have been widely presented across North America in major exhibitions such as “Now? Now!” at the Biennale of the Americas; and “Looking Forward (L’Avenir)” at the Montreal Biennale. She has been honored to win imagineNative’s 2009 Best New Media Award as well as a 2011 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship. Her work in is included in both public and private collections. Born in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, Skawennati holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, where she is based. She is Co-Director, with Jason E. Lewis, of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC), a research network of artists, academics and technologists investigating, creating and critiquing Indigenous virtual environments. She also co-directs their workshops in Aboriginal Storytelling and Digital Media. Skins, This year, AbTeC launched IIF, the Initiative for Indigenous Futures; Skawennati is its Partnership Coordinator.

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Montreal based artist Skawennati will present her award-winning transmedia artwork TimeTraveller™ (2008–2013) at Squeaky Wheel. Created and shot in the virtual world of Second Life, this award-winning machinima video series re-imagines the history of colonization from the point of view of native peoples in a science-fiction future. Co-presented with PLASMA at the Department of Media Study.

Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change. Her pioneering new media projects include the online gallery/chat-space and mixed-reality event, CyberPowWow (1997-2004); a paper doll/time-travel journal, Imagining Indians in the 25th Century (2001); and TimeTraveller™ (2008-2013), a multi-platform project featuring nine machinima episodes. These have been widely presented across North America in major exhibitions such as “Now? Now!” at the Biennale of the Americas; and “Looking Forward (L’Avenir)” at the Montreal Biennale. She has been honored to win imagineNative’s 2009 Best New Media Award as well as a 2011 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship. Her work in is included in both public and private collections.

Born in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, Skawennati holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, where she is based. She is Co-Director, with Jason E. Lewis, of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC) , a research network of artists, academics and technologists investigating, creating and critiquing Indigenous virtual environments. She also co-directs their workshops in Aboriginal Storytelling and Digital Media. Skins, This year, AbTeC launched IIF, the Initiative for Indigenous Futures; Skawennati is its Partnership Coordinator.

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Skawennati's 2018 Satellite of Love, on view as part of Avatars Aliens Ancestors at Canada House in London. Courtesy Skawennati / ELLEPHANT

A cyberpunk spaceship has landed inside Canada House in London’s Trafalgar Square, and its virtual crew, a cast of Indigenous time travellers from the 15th to the 23rd centuries – created by Kahnawa:ke-born, Montreal-based multimedia artist Skawennati – are poised and ready to meet any curious Earthlings who would like to get on board.

Avatars Aliens Ancestors, on view to March, assembles characters from all corners of Skawennati’s artistic universe. Among them, there’s Kateri Tekakwitha, born in 1656 and the first Indigenous woman to have been named a saint by the Catholic Church; elders from SkyWorld, the planet our ancestors are said to have come from, who wear white clothes with circles cut out of them to expose their technicoloured skin; and “xox”, Skawennati’s own avatar from online game Second Life , where she designs and builds many of the virtual worlds populated by her figures.

Skawennati's SkyWorld elders wear robes featuring cutouts that reveal their technicolour skin. Courtesy Skawennati / ELLEPHANT

She calls her works machinimas (a portmanteau of “machine” and “cinema,” meaning movies created in virtual environments) and machinimagraphs (photographs taken in these virtual environments by her avatar), and creates them with help from her team at Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace, a creative research network for Indigenous youth that she co-directs with partner Jason Edward Lewis.

“Youth truly are the future,” she says. “Through our Skins workshops in Indigenous Storytelling and Digital Media, we aim to empower them to be producers, in addition to users, of digital media.”

Active in cyberspace since the 1990s, Skawennati has repeatedly called out the fact that the most common representations of Indigenous peoples in popular culture are from the past. Look into your mind’s eye and you’ll see them: anonymous, sepia-toned and serious-looking, in traditional garb. “I fear that if Indigenous people cannot envision ourselves in The Future, we will not be there,” she says. “We need to visualize ourselves as full participants in the multimediatized world of today and tomorrow to help ourselves become active agents in the shaping of new mediums and new societies.”

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For the exhibition Message from Our Planet: Digital Art from the Thoma Collection at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, curator Jason Foumberg brought together 19 international artists who use digital media in their work. The exhibition takes inspiration from a time capsule included in Voyager 1, the space probe launched by NASA in 1977, containing a record of human civilization.

Tabita Rezaire’s video work, “Sorry for Real,” (2015) follows a phone call to outer space from the Western world, apologizing for crimes against Africans and Afro-descendants. As a cell phone glows, the “Speak & Spell” sounding voice apologizes for slavery, racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and for claiming to have discovered the g-spot. The unseen recipient of the phone call mocks the apologizer through a chat exchange with another friend. They quote Tupac and reject the apology while a phone floats toward an autonomous existence in outer space.

In the video “Time Traveler ™” (2007-14) by Mohawk artist Skawennati , a protagonist from the future travels to significant moments in Indigenous history like the US-Dakota War and the Occupation of Alcatraz . Skawennati created the work as a machinima (machine cinema) using the 3D virtual world platform, Second Life . 

Some works in the exhibition, including Robert Wilson’s “Lady Gaga: Mademoiselle Caroline Riviere” (2013) use 21st-century technologies to reinterpret art history. In the video work with sound, the pop star is dressed as Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s portrait of the same title , sans Gaga, (1805). In Wilson’s version, birds pass behind the subject, her eyelashes flutter, and a haunting score by Michael Galasso plays quietly. Already an iconic figure herself, Gaga’s presence transfixes the viewer in the same way as the work’s original subject.

Paul Pfeiffer’s silent lopped video depicts the last minutes of heavyweight boxer Bermane Stiverne losing his world title in “Caryatid (Stiverne)” (2018). The work is captivating in the way it erases the violence of the action. The artist digitally omitted Steiverne’s opponent, leaving only an excoriating view of the boxer’s face rippling with punches. By taking away the sounds of the ring and the victor himself, Pfeiffer critiques the way that hypermasculinity is glorified in the sport of boxing, and in our culture more broadly. Deleting the victor takes away his glory. 

“White Tower,” (2007) by Jenny Holzer, punctuates the exhibition nicely. Hyperbolic phrases scroll up with flashing lights. “Don’t control or manipulate,” Holzer writes. “Make amends. It all has to burn. It’s going to blaze.” The frantic, post-apocalyptic tone of the messages places the work in the aftermath of late-stage capitalism, represented by the towered structure of the tower where the words scroll continuously. A message for the end of the world indeed.  

As a whole, the artists in Message from Our Planet use various technological tools to shake the viewer awake. We aren’t going in the right direction, many of them seem to be saying. Wake up and change the world before the planet isn’t here anymore. 

Message from Our Planet: Digital Art from the Thoma Collection is on view through May 14 at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Known as the “Motor City of Russia.”

Elektrostal, a city located in the Moscow Oblast region of Russia, earned the nickname “Motor City” due to its significant involvement in the automotive industry.

Home to the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Elektrostal is renowned for its metallurgical plant, which has been producing high-quality steel and alloys since its establishment in 1916.

Boasts a rich industrial heritage.

Elektrostal has a long history of industrial development, contributing to the growth and progress of the region.

Founded in 1916.

The city of Elektrostal was founded in 1916 as a result of the construction of the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Located approximately 50 kilometers east of Moscow.

Elektrostal is situated in close proximity to the Russian capital, making it easily accessible for both residents and visitors.

Known for its vibrant cultural scene.

Elektrostal is home to several cultural institutions, including museums, theaters, and art galleries that showcase the city’s rich artistic heritage.

A popular destination for nature lovers.

Surrounded by picturesque landscapes and forests, Elektrostal offers ample opportunities for outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, and birdwatching.

Hosts the annual Elektrostal City Day celebrations.

Every year, Elektrostal organizes festive events and activities to celebrate its founding, bringing together residents and visitors in a spirit of unity and joy.

Has a population of approximately 160,000 people.

Elektrostal is home to a diverse and vibrant community of around 160,000 residents, contributing to its dynamic atmosphere.

Boasts excellent education facilities.

The city is known for its well-established educational institutions, providing quality education to students of all ages.

A center for scientific research and innovation.

Elektrostal serves as an important hub for scientific research, particularly in the fields of metallurgy, materials science, and engineering.

Surrounded by picturesque lakes.

The city is blessed with numerous beautiful lakes, offering scenic views and recreational opportunities for locals and visitors alike.

Well-connected transportation system.

Elektrostal benefits from an efficient transportation network, including highways, railways, and public transportation options, ensuring convenient travel within and beyond the city.

Famous for its traditional Russian cuisine.

Food enthusiasts can indulge in authentic Russian dishes at numerous restaurants and cafes scattered throughout Elektrostal.

Home to notable architectural landmarks.

Elektrostal boasts impressive architecture, including the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord and the Elektrostal Palace of Culture.

Offers a wide range of recreational facilities.

Residents and visitors can enjoy various recreational activities, such as sports complexes, swimming pools, and fitness centers, enhancing the overall quality of life.

Provides a high standard of healthcare.

Elektrostal is equipped with modern medical facilities, ensuring residents have access to quality healthcare services.

Home to the Elektrostal History Museum.

The Elektrostal History Museum showcases the city’s fascinating past through exhibitions and displays.

A hub for sports enthusiasts.

Elektrostal is passionate about sports, with numerous stadiums, arenas, and sports clubs offering opportunities for athletes and spectators.

Celebrates diverse cultural festivals.

Throughout the year, Elektrostal hosts a variety of cultural festivals, celebrating different ethnicities, traditions, and art forms.

Electric power played a significant role in its early development.

Elektrostal owes its name and initial growth to the establishment of electric power stations and the utilization of electricity in the industrial sector.

Boasts a thriving economy.

The city’s strong industrial base, coupled with its strategic location near Moscow, has contributed to Elektrostal’s prosperous economic status.

Houses the Elektrostal Drama Theater.

The Elektrostal Drama Theater is a cultural centerpiece, attracting theater enthusiasts from far and wide.

Popular destination for winter sports.

Elektrostal’s proximity to ski resorts and winter sport facilities makes it a favorite destination for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter activities.

Promotes environmental sustainability.

Elektrostal prioritizes environmental protection and sustainability, implementing initiatives to reduce pollution and preserve natural resources.

Home to renowned educational institutions.

Elektrostal is known for its prestigious schools and universities, offering a wide range of academic programs to students.

Committed to cultural preservation.

The city values its cultural heritage and takes active steps to preserve and promote traditional customs, crafts, and arts.

Hosts an annual International Film Festival.

The Elektrostal International Film Festival attracts filmmakers and cinema enthusiasts from around the world, showcasing a diverse range of films.

Encourages entrepreneurship and innovation.

Elektrostal supports aspiring entrepreneurs and fosters a culture of innovation, providing opportunities for startups and business development.

Offers a range of housing options.

Elektrostal provides diverse housing options, including apartments, houses, and residential complexes, catering to different lifestyles and budgets.

Home to notable sports teams.

Elektrostal is proud of its sports legacy, with several successful sports teams competing at regional and national levels.

Boasts a vibrant nightlife scene.

Residents and visitors can enjoy a lively nightlife in Elektrostal, with numerous bars, clubs, and entertainment venues.

Promotes cultural exchange and international relations.

Elektrostal actively engages in international partnerships, cultural exchanges, and diplomatic collaborations to foster global connections.

Surrounded by beautiful nature reserves.

Nearby nature reserves, such as the Barybino Forest and Luchinskoye Lake, offer opportunities for nature enthusiasts to explore and appreciate the region’s biodiversity.

Commemorates historical events.

The city pays tribute to significant historical events through memorials, monuments, and exhibitions, ensuring the preservation of collective memory.

Promotes sports and youth development.

Elektrostal invests in sports infrastructure and programs to encourage youth participation, health, and physical fitness.

Hosts annual cultural and artistic festivals.

Throughout the year, Elektrostal celebrates its cultural diversity through festivals dedicated to music, dance, art, and theater.

Provides a picturesque landscape for photography enthusiasts.

The city’s scenic beauty, architectural landmarks, and natural surroundings make it a paradise for photographers.

Connects to Moscow via a direct train line.

The convenient train connection between Elektrostal and Moscow makes commuting between the two cities effortless.

A city with a bright future.

Elektrostal continues to grow and develop, aiming to become a model city in terms of infrastructure, sustainability, and quality of life for its residents.

In conclusion, Elektrostal is a fascinating city with a rich history and a vibrant present. From its origins as a center of steel production to its modern-day status as a hub for education and industry, Elektrostal has plenty to offer both residents and visitors. With its beautiful parks, cultural attractions, and proximity to Moscow, there is no shortage of things to see and do in this dynamic city. Whether you’re interested in exploring its historical landmarks, enjoying outdoor activities, or immersing yourself in the local culture, Elektrostal has something for everyone. So, next time you find yourself in the Moscow region, don’t miss the opportunity to discover the hidden gems of Elektrostal.

Q: What is the population of Elektrostal?

A: As of the latest data, the population of Elektrostal is approximately XXXX.

Q: How far is Elektrostal from Moscow?

A: Elektrostal is located approximately XX kilometers away from Moscow.

Q: Are there any famous landmarks in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal is home to several notable landmarks, including XXXX and XXXX.

Q: What industries are prominent in Elektrostal?

A: Elektrostal is known for its steel production industry and is also a center for engineering and manufacturing.

Q: Are there any universities or educational institutions in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal is home to XXXX University and several other educational institutions.

Q: What are some popular outdoor activities in Elektrostal?

A: Elektrostal offers several outdoor activities, such as hiking, cycling, and picnicking in its beautiful parks.

Q: Is Elektrostal well-connected in terms of transportation?

A: Yes, Elektrostal has good transportation links, including trains and buses, making it easily accessible from nearby cities.

Q: Are there any annual events or festivals in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal hosts various events and festivals throughout the year, including XXXX and XXXX.

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