Announcing the 2023-2024 Indigenous Technologies Season
Indigenous Technologies is a program of the Berkeley Center for New Media that engages questions of technology and new media in relation to global structures of indigeneity, settler colonialism, and genocide in the 21st century. Our Indigenous Tech events and ongoing conversations with Indigenous scholars and communities aim to critically envision and reimagine what a more just and sustainable technological future can look like. We will highlight Indigenous engagements with robotics, computer science, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, social media, online activism, video games, and more.
Fall 2023 - Spring 2024
2023
10/16 Rerouting Media in the Living Forest
Martina Broner, Assistant Professor, Department of Arts & Sciences, Dartmouth University, and Co-Founder of the Amazonia Section of the Latin American Studies Association
In-person event, location to be announced. Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and the Department of Art Practice.
11/13 What Gets Amplified
Raven Chacon, Composer
In-person event at the Arts Research Center (ARC), Hearst Field Annex, D23. Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Department of Music, the Department of Ethnic Studies, and the Department of Art Practice.
2024
2/26 Unsettling Sound Technologies: Indigenous Sonic Sovereignty and Border Politics
Christina Leza, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Indigenous Studies, Colorado College
Trevor Reed, Professor of Law in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Online event, Zoom and YouTube links forthcoming. Co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Art Practice.
Accessibility
BCNM events are free and open to the public. Our 2023-24 Indigenous Technologies lecture series will be held in person on the Berkeley campus, with the exception of our event with Christina Leza and Trevor Reed, Unsettling Sound Technologies: Indigenous Sonic Sovereignty and Border Politics, which will be held online, on Zoom and YouTube. We post video, with captioning, of our in-person events to our YouTube channel within a few weeks of the event date. For our online events, we provide live-captioning in Zoom and offer a separate Streamtext window for live-captioning with options to customize text size and display. We strive to meet any additional access and accommodation needs. Please contact info.bcnm [at] berkeley.edu with requests or questions.
For more information, please see:
https://bcnm.berkeley.edu/resources/3997/indigenous-technologies