New Media W orks

Prince George Métis Elders Documentary Project

It’s Never Too Late to Be a Cowgirl Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain USA · 2008 · Interactive DVD

Originally shown as a multimedia gallery installation, It’s Never Too Late to Be a Cowgirl is a series of audio, film and video loops and a slideshow of ledger drawings and photographs that depicts the artist’s preoccupation with her cultural histories—a multimedia exploration of imagined pasts.

Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) is an award-winning photographer and emerging filmmaker based in Los Angeles. In 2008 she received a BA from Hampshire College in Massachusetts.

Prince George Métis Elders Documentary Project Artist: Stephen Foster Producer: Dr. Michael Evans Canada · 2009 · Interactive DVD

This project represents four years the artist has dedicated to documenting the culture, stories and lives of Métis elders and their families in Prince George, BC. A non-linear experimental narrative, it is designed to allow the subject matter to form a weave that is both complimentary and contradictory, shedding what it means to be Métis.

Stephen Foster (Haida/European) is a video and electronic media artist whose work deals with issues of Indigenous representation in popular culture. He is currently a Professor in the Creative Studies Department at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus.

Time Traveller™

TimeTraveller™ Skawennati Tricia Fragnito http://www.timetravellertm.com/ Canada · 2009 · Website

TimeTravellerTM.com purports itself to be a Web site from the future and sells a device useable only to avatars in immersive environments. The Web site features a short machinima production shot on location in Second Life, an on line virtual world. The story is of Hunter Dearhouse, an angry young Mohawk man living in the 22nd century as he teleports himself through time to revisit historical moments from his ancestors’ past.

Skawennati Tricia Fragnito (Mohawk) is an artist and independent curator. From 1996 to 2004, she was the director of CyberPowWow, an on-line gallery and chat space. She is currently Co-Director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace, a network of artists, academics and technologists investigating, creating and critiquing Aboriginal virtual environments.

What They Speak When They Speak To Me Jason E. Lewis http://www.obxlabs.net/experiments/speak/ Canada · 2007 · Website

This highly engaging and interactive Web site is about mistaken identity. At first glance, it looks like nothing more than slow moving ghostly apparitions within a browser window. However, holding down the mouse and moving around the screen triggers a string of letters and words that, with repeated attempts, form a narrative.

Jason E. Lewis (Cherokee/Hawaiian) is a digital media artist, poet and software designer. He founded both Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media and Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace, and is an Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.

Note: All new media works are exhibited at A Space Gallery