2025 Speakers
Vanessa Racine, Skins Coordinator, Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
Vanessa Racine is a French-Anishinaabe artist and game developer. Currently completing an MA at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) their research sits at the cross-section of Algonquian linguistics, Indigenous futurism, and game development. In re-imagining open pit mines as urban centers, their research focuses on one of the seven grandfather teachings, reciprocal love (zaagi’idiwin) and how it can be used as a technology for understanding relationality. By using video games and traditional weaving as a medium, their practice engages in questions of sustaining knowledge in a world with ever-growing technologies. Vanessa currently works as the Skins Coordinator at Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace.
