about
Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace is an Aboriginally determined research-creation network whose goal is to ensure Indigenous presence in the web pages, online environments, video games, and virtual worlds that comprise cyberspace.
Co-founded and co-directed by Jason Edward Lewis and Skawennati, our multi-faceted effort includes artwork, writing, lectures, workshops, residencies, and exhibitions. Since 2005, AbTeC has collaborated with many individuals and has been generously supported by a number of sponsors.
AbTeC’s roots lie with a project called CyberPowWow, a pioneering on-line gallery and chat space for contemporary Indigenous art. It was through CyberPowWow that we realized that, even on the Internet, Native people need a self-determined place to call home.
projects
Activating AbTeC Island
2016 - Present
Skins Workshops
2008 - Present
Tsi Tiotonhontsatáhsawe
2022
AbTeC Gallery
2020 - 2022
Initiative for Indigenous Futures
2015 - 2022
Calico & Camouflage
2021
Greetings from Skyworld
2020
Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Workshops
2019
The Peacemaker Returns
2017
Words Before All Else Part 1
2017
She Falls For Ages
2017
Blueberry Pie Under a Martian Sky
2016
Each Branch Determined
2016
TimeTraveller ™
2008 - 2013
mentoring and production support
A First Peoples’ Postsecondary Storytelling Exchange
2018
Ota Nda Yanaan – We Are Here
2010
Kahnawake Voices
2010
related projects
Avatar Performance Stream
2007
CyberPowWow
1997 - 2001
awards
Ars Electronica
Digital Communities Honorable Mention
2018
Resisting Reduction Competition
2018
Trudeau Foundation
Fellowship
2014 - 2017
imagineNATIVE
Best New Media
2013
Ashoka
Changemakers Award
2012
Eiteljorg Museum
Fellowship
2011
imagineNATIVE
Best New Media
2010
imagineNATIVE
Best New Media
2009
imagineNATIVE
Best New Media Honorable Mention
2008
connect
Tons of press about the exhibition Terms of Use at @FondationPHI! And each mentions CyberPowWow, the Nation to Nation project spearheaded by @Skawennati! 1/3
https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/2023-03-10/megashow-techno-a-phi.php
Check out this show that includes former AbTeC Research Assistant Ray Caplin!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1566506960525055/
Check out this show that includes former AbTeC artist-in-residence Hannah Claus and former AbTeC Research Assistant Kaia’tanó:ron Dumoulin Bush!
https://www.facebook.com/events/890944645323536/?ref=newsfeed
Illustration I made for the Data and Society Research Institute; for a series of lectures about Indigenous Approaches to Technology #nativefuturism