Publications
Here you can find links to documentaries, academic papers, media articles and presentations that both AbTeC and other people have published about the Skins Workshops.
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Documentaries by abtec
Past Future Forward: The Making of a Hawaiian Video Game (2022)
Dir. Jason Edward Lewis
Past Future Forward: The Making of a Hawaiian Videogame is a documentary that tells the story of Skins 5.0, AbTeC’s fifth major videogame workshop. Watch how a group of Hawaiian youth drew upon their community’s long history of technological innovation to make the first video game about Hawaiians in space.
Skins 4.0 Workshop on Aboriginal Storytelling and Video Game Design (2014)
Dir. Jason Edward Lewis & Skawennati
This short documentary offers a glimpse of our three-week intensive workshop as participants each took on multiple video-game-industry roles to turn a story they wrote collaboratively into a playable video game.
skins 2.0 documentary - Skins Summer Institute (2013)
Dir. Jason Edward Lewis & Skawennati
This mini documentary shows the making of The Adventures of Skahiòn:hati: The Legend of the Stone Giant, a video game based on a story co-written by an all-Kahnawakero:non cohort and made over 14 days straight at Concordia University’s Hexagram Research Institute. Woven throughout the story are insights from the mentors on the importance of the Skins workshops.
Press
Press
The Skins Workshops have been featured both locally and internationally in the news and on social media.Â
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JUNE 2023
Indigenous peoples want to be encouraged to invent computer games (Translated)
Yleisradio Oy Sapmi (YLE) Finnish Public Broadcasting
OCTOBER 2012
Aboriginal video game puts modern twist on tradition of storytelling
CTV News Montreal
Papers by abtec
Papers by AbTeC
As part of Initiative for Indigenous Futures (2015-2022) and our research network within Concordia University and beyond, we explore the relationships between digital media, Indigenous futurism and community storytelling. As many of our staff are students and researchers themselves, they have published academic papers that you can read here.
SPRING 2014
Grand Theft Rez: Building a Community for the Skins Workshops on Aboriginal Storytelling in Digital Media
Jason Edward Lewis and Skawennati Fragnito
APRIL 2014
Time Travellers, Flying Heads and Second Lives: Designing Communal Stories
Jason Edward Lewis
WINTER 2011
Skins: Designing Games with First Nations Youth
Lameman, Beth Aileen and Jason E. Lewis
MAY 2010
Skins: Skins 1.0: A Curriculum for Designing Games with First Nations Youth
Lameman, Beth Aileen et al.
talks by abtec
Talks by AbTeC
Outside of workshops, the Skins team also attends festivals and conferences. Ranging from industry events to academic symposiums and more, Indigenous storytelling in cyberspace reaches a wider community thanks to these engagements.
If you would like to hear directly from the Skins team at your next festival or conference, please reach out to us through this contact form!