In Dialogue: Scott Benesiinaabandan’s waabana’iwewin (exhibition)

Jaimie Isaac selected a few works of Scott Benesiinaabandan’s and they discussed his process and art-technological experiments. The introduction and interview address overarching concepts in the world of technology and art to locate an Indigenous new media territory. Art and technology provides a continuum for Indigenous cultural knowledge, closing the gap between remoteness of place, gender, age and accessibility – a criticality of substance through the entanglement of knowledge is a continued necessity. Indigenous new media artists are actively confronting systems of information in the media by creating their own new technologies and frameworks to inform and influence a decolonized and self-determined identities. Scott Benesiinaabandan’s work has created new digital technologies and interactive media to expand the ways of telling a story, experience, personal/collective memory and knowledge.