Wampum.Codes

OLIVIA KOMAHCHEET - Target Practice & Guitar Loops

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:00:00 -0400

In this episode, our host, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, chats with musician, composer, and illustrator Oliva Komancheet about making music, keeping skills sharp, the magic of water, and connecting to ancestral wisdom.

To learn more about Olivia and listen to some of her music, check out the following links:

The music featured in this episode was written and performed by Eamon O'Connor.

Season 2 of the award-winning podcast Wampum.Codes bring you audio from live streams, on-location recordings, and some of the same formats you know from Season 1. Indigenous guests explore themes of creative exploration, storytelling, and emerging technologies. Your host Amelia Winger-Bearskin (Seneca-Cayuga) invites you to sit back and have a vibe shift for your day.

Water Is Life: a conversation for the Parables Experience at Mozilla Festival 2023

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 12:00:00 -0400

Water is Life
This conversation aired live at Mozilla Festival March 20th 07:00 ET // 12:00 CET
you can view the immersive web VR experience here on Mozilla Hubs:
https://mozfest.myhubs.net/5AhCpr6/parables-experience

Witness an exchange about themes of Climate Justice and Water within Octavia E. Butler’s Parables series and connections to the work of brilliant cultural strategists, artists, scientists, and technologists. Tré Vasquez of Movement Generation facilitates a conversation with Talk To Me About Water Collective members Nour Batyne, Martha Bearskin, Devin Ronneberg, Eamon O'Connor, and Amelia Winger-Bearskin. A group of artists, science storytellers, water scientists, artificial intelligence researchers, data scientists, and more, Talk To Me About Water’s website states:

“It is said that “The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.” It’s the same way with the water crisis— it will be a crisis for all of us one day, but currently, those shouldering the most of this burden are the global indigenous, the water protectors seeking to stop the extraction and pollution of their ecosystems. It feels far away now, but their water is our water or will be soon. If we don’t listen to them it’s like we’re ignoring a message from the future. Part of ‘Talk to me About Water’ is also bridging that gap for those who are experiencing the water crisis more acutely to hear from them, unfiltered.”

Climage Lounge: Lafayette Cruise and polychrome futures

Sun, 12 Feb 2023 13:00:00 -0500

In this episode, the group chats with special guest, Lafayette Cruise, an urban planner, and futurist. Cruise’s practice engages projects at the intersection of urban planning and speculative fiction. We chat about Star Trek, public transit, storytelling, regalia, and more. Thanks for joining.

Climate Lounge: Madebo Fatunde on Futurism and Prophetic Culture

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:00:00 -0500

Madebo Fatunde chats on live stream about the book Prophetic Culture, and what the practice of worlding can build for future generations. Joined by members of Talk to Me About Water, this episode deepens our vibes on generational thinking and where to find hope in a changing world.

Incubators, residencies and being shy

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:00:00 -0500

Special Guest from the ISO (Indigenous Screen Office) Isabelle Ruiz, a Program Manager, (https://iso-bea.ca/staff/isabelle-ruiz/) joins a Climate Lounge Live stream with Martha Bearskin, Nour Batyne, and Eamon O'Connor to talk about immersive and interactive art incubators, residencies and why some artists are shy, like your host, Amelia Winger-Bearskin.

In this episode, we mention two opportunities for indigenous immersive creatives to take part in

ISO and MIT's Indigenous Immersive incubator this April 2023 https://cocreationstudio.mit.edu/us-based-call-indigenous-incubator/
One of Many Studios has an art residency focused on Water in Wadi Rum this May
https://oneofmany.studio/residency

Jon Corbett talks about Cree# and ancestral code

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Jon Corbett talks about ancestral code, his amazing coding language Cree#, and what it is like to build code from our ancestors one bead at a time, without breaking the thread.

You can read his interview with Daniel Temkin in Esoteric Codes here:
https://esoteric.codes/blog/jon-corbett

Jon Corbett's research website:
http://joncorbett.ca/default.html

Climate Lounge: the collective "Talk to Me About Water" talks about AI and deep fakes

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 21:00:00 -0500

In this episode host Amelia Winger-Bearskin (Seneca-Cayuga) debuts a new format: Climate Lounge a vibe shift for your day with members of the collective Talk to Me About Water, a group of global indigenous explorers who are seeking new ways to center the global water crisis in daily conversations. In this episode, the guests talk about Artificial Intelligence, Deep Fakes, and join us as we wander through a particularly weird type of collective consciousness in regard to water stories. Featuring Nour Batyne, Martha Bearskin (Seneca-Cayuga), Eamon O'Connor, and Devin Ronneberg (Hawaiian, Okinawan, European)

Pixelated Truth: A conversation with Game Designer and Artist Elizabeth LaPensée

Sat, 22 Aug 2020 21:00:00 -0400

A conversation with Game Designer, Writer, Musician, Coder, Beader and Artist Elizabeth LaPensée (Anishinaabe, Métis, and settler-Irish). She has created groundbreaking works of indigenous game design and unique interactions with emerging technology since the internet was young. (Also, she beads pixel perfect screen shots from Super Mario Brothers in her spare time!)

We have known each other only though the internet and get to have our first conversation in real time-two introverts-so grab a cup of tea, it is going to be some wisdom from the aunties in this episode.

Super-Group - Indigenous Tech, Indigenous Knowledge: Wampum.codes as a model for decolonization

Fri, 01 May 2020 18:00:00 -0400

Indigenous Tech, Indigenous Knowledge: Wampum.codes as a model for decolonization

In this public panel, Amelia Winger-Bearskin brings together Indigenous artists, technologists and knowledge keepers to discuss how we can take an ethical approach to tech projects. The conversation will be a part of of Wampum.codes, her Mozilla Fellowship Project at the MIT Open Documentary Lab's Co-Creation Studio. Wampum is the practice of encoding contracts and agreements into beaded patterns, which was commonly done by Winger-Bearskin’s own tribe (Seneca-Cayuga Haudenosaunee) in pre-contact times. Just like the craft that serves as its namesake, Wampum.codes is a recording of the stories, ideas, and wisdom that is collected through conversations with other native people. This panel is part of a virtualized delegation in collaboration with the Indigenous Screen Office.

Panelists include Asha Veeraswamy, Dawn Borchardt, DeLesslin Roo George-Warren, Erica Tremblay, Jade Begay, Joseph Clift, Martha Winger-Bearskin, MorningStar Angeline, and Eve-Lauryn LaFountain.

Apr 28, 2020 12:00 PM in

Bug Juice / Native Reality [TV]: A conversation with artist Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 17:00:00 -0400

Imagine being a 13 year old girl in the 90s and entering an AOL chat room where everyone is pretending to be YOU! The 90s:, dial-up, Rainbow Bright, and Eve LaFountain 'single handedly bringing down Disney's first reality TV show'.

In this episode Amelia and Eve chat about what it was like to be a teen Disney star, being Native in Santa Fe, Video Art, Experimental Film, Virtual Reality and were all early hackers really 13 year old girls?

Weirdness with MorningStar

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:00:00 -0400

Me and MorningStar Angeline (MorningStar Angeline Wilson-Chippewa) get weird, wild and wonky while discussing her acting career, directorial debut and working crew on weird native films. Most importantly we talk about how she is The Local Pedestrian Population (voice actor) in my favorite video game Red Dead Redemption 2.

Little Chief: A conversation with Erica Tremblay

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:00:00 -0400

In this episode I chat with the director of the short film Little Chief, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2020. Me and Erica are both from the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma and we chat about our ancestral land, the Cayuga language, shape shifters and migraine headaches which suck super hard. We swear, but are also super nice I promise, it is just the New Yorker in us.

Wild Wild Film Fest: A conversation with Dawn Borchardt

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:00:00 -0400

We talk about Artificial Intelligence, quarantine, Coded Bias, and how wildlife trafficking has contributed to the the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dawn also talks about her film projects, her own podcast and her 3rd annual Freeland Film Festival in Green Lake, WI, which shares stories of inspiration - specific topics include human and wildlife trafficking, environmental issues, and Native American stories, especially centered around Native land rights and environmental issues.
Links we talked about:
https://www.sundance.org/projects/infinitely-yours
http://www.freelandfilmfest.org/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faux-reel-podcast/id1498621703
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/02/08/770174171/when-bias-is-coded-into-our-technology
The Back and Forth Part: https://vimeo.com/400046294
Experimental film spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1DHealTzCR0qNkq-fbuPRd9Nzi7NSAM5HKQ84grFEFO8/htmlview#

Comedy in the age of Quarantine: A conversation with comedy writer and performer Joey Clift

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 22:00:00 -0400

The Shelter in Place order hit Los Angeles yesterday and comedy writer Joey Clift has already got jokes. Join us as we muse on life during shelter, how to help fellow artists friends, and talk Tig Nataro Twitter takeover. Joey also has a lot to say about cats and cat Facebook drama. I laugh a lot in this one.

Decolonizing Community Care in Response to COVID-19: A Conversation with Jade Begay

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:00:00 -0400

Jade and Amelia talk about Jade's recent article for NDN Collective "Decolonizing Community Care in Response to COVID-19", life and love in the age of quarantine. We catch up on Jade's VR projects, 180 videos, magic and taking care of yourself.

Rock Hands with "Roo": a conversation with DeLesslin "Roo" George-Warren

Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:00:00 -0400

In the second episode of Wampum.Codes Amelia Winger-Bearskin chats with DeLesslin "Roo" George-Warren about "Rock Hands" and naming new technologies in traditional native languages, wry tours of the Smithsonian, how native youth are the best and how not to lose hope during the Covid-19 shut in (...introverts it's your moment to shine!)

Deep Space Natives: a Conversation with Asha Veeraswamy

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 20:00:00 -0500

Amelia and Asha (two native Seneca women) talk about hacking tech for communal experiences, eating pancakes with virtual beings, transforming native casinos into Deep Space 9 and building an AR App for Theater geeks at an incubator on Broadway, NYC baby!