Auckland’s Media Design School, in association with TechWeek, is running a free one day event that demonstrates how emerging technologies are being used to inform and transform the practice of indigenous art and design in Aotearoa.
The show, which is being held this coming Wednesday 10 May, features some of Australasia’s exciting creative practitioners from across the fields of graphic design, games, VR/AR, animation, video, art, and interaction design.
Following the conference, there will also be a number of workshops, including Approaching Māori Cultural Concepts With Confidence (with Johnson McKay), Creative Strategist at Fly; 3D Printing: Addressing Pacific Plastic Waste with Lionel Taito-Matamua, Digital Maker and Educator at Creative Pathways; and Decolonising Design Futures with Dr. Sarah Elsie Baker and Jodi Meadows.
MDS’s Dr Sarah Elsie Baker says that Emerging Technology, Design and Indigenous Culture will explore how creative practitioners deal with the tensions and synergies produced by working with both the customary and the contemporary and asks how local communities can become involved with new technologies.
“The workshops will explore how we can decolonise the future of design, as well as its past,” she said.
Live-streaming
Those who are unable to attend in Auckland can join in via a virtual conference (the event will be live-streamed).
- Register here (this site also includes details of the streamlined ‘virtual conference’)
- www.mediadesignschool.com
- techweek.co.nz
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