The Squeaky Wheel will host Timetravelerâ„¢: Skawennati in Person.

Montreal based artist Skawennati will present her award-winning transmedia artwork TimeTravellerâ„¢ (2008–2013) at Squeaky Wheel. Created and shot in the virtual world of Second Life, this award-winning machinima video series re-imagines the history of colonization from the point of view of native peoples in a science-fiction future. Co-presented with PLASMA at the Department of Media Study. Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change. Her pioneering new media projects include the online gallery/chat-space and mixed-reality event, CyberPowWow (1997-2004); a paper doll/time-travel journal, Imagining Indians in the 25th Century (2001); and TimeTravellerâ„¢ (2008-2013), a multi-platform project featuring nine machinima episodes. These have been widely presented across North America in major exhibitions such as "Now? Now!" at the Biennale of the Americas; and "Looking Forward (L'Avenir)" at the Montreal Biennale. She has been honored to win imagineNative's 2009 Best New Media Award as well as a 2011 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship. Her work in is included in both public and private collections.

[source: Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center website, 2017-Feb-6]