Skawennati

Skawennati is a Kahnawakeronon multimedia artist, best known for her online works as well as Machinima that explore contemporary Indigenous cultures, and what Indigenous life might look like in futures inspired by science fiction. She served as the 2019 [https://www.mcgill.ca/indigenous/channels/news/indigenous-knowledge-holder-series-2019-295082 Indigenous Knowledge Holder] at McGill University. In 2011, she was awarded an Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship which recognized her as one of "the best and most relevant native artists."

Skawennati is the co-founder of ''Nation to Nation'' and Co-Director with Jason Edward Lewis of ''Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace'', [https://abtec.org/ AbTeC], a research network of artists and academics who investigate and create Indigenous virtual environments. AbTeC, whose goal is to ensure Indigenous presence in the web pages, online environments, video games and virtual worlds that comprise cyberspace, is based at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.

She is one of the co-founders of ''daphne,'' the first Indigenous artist-run centre in Québec, along with Caroline Monnet, Hannah Claus, and Nadia Myre. Provided by Wikipedia