Indigenizing Immersive Tools: AR VR XR to Celebrate the Arts

This webinar recording is part of the Online Learning Series, which took place in November/December 2024. To learn more about FPCC's Learning Series, visit: https://fpcc.ca/stories/fpcc-learning...

In this webinar, Josh Conrad shares his personal journey to becoming a digital artist and gives tips on how other Indigenous artists can use extended reality (XR) to celebrate their community's culture, arts, heritage and language.

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A summary of the Question-and-Answer period can be found here: https://fpcc.ca/wp-content/uploads/20...

Speaker bio: Josh Conrad is a multi-disciplinary digital artist, curator, art director and the founder of Slow Studies Creative. Based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, also known as Vancouver, BC, Josh is of Stó:lō and mixed European descent, with strong Nlaka’pamux ties and belongs to the Chawathil First Nation on S’ólh Téméxw. His work spans 3D illustration, motion arts, projection mapping, installation and augmented reality. Using vibrant colors, abstract shapes, and textures inspired by memories and the lush natural environment around him, he creates tactile, dreamlike worlds that blur the line between reality and imagination. Josh enjoys collaborating with established and emerging artists, helping bring their works into the augmented reality space, where they can amplify their stories in immersive, shareable ways through social platforms.