Relational Technologies Speakers Series ft. Marlena Myles (Dakota Artist)
March 14, 2024, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
This is a hybrid event co-hosted with the Community Engaged Documentation and Research (CEDaR) space and the Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER)
Artist Talk with Marlena Myles
(Spirit Lake Dakota/Mohegan/Muscogee)
We invite you to an upcoming Relational Technologies a hybrid talk featuring Dakota artist Marlena Myles on Thursday, March 14th, with a reception to follow. Myles will delve into her art practice, which uses augmented reality and public art to tell stories that connect people to the history, land, language, and culture of the Dakota people.
Date: March 14
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Coach House, Green College UBC Vancouver & Online Via Livestream
Speaker bio:
Marlena Myles is a self-taught Spirit Lake Dakota artist located in St Paul, Minnesota. Her art brings modernity to Indigenous history, languages and oral traditions while using the land as a teacher. Her professional work includes children's books, augmented reality, murals, fabrics, animations and has shown her fine art in galleries such as Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Museum of Russian Art, and the Minnesota Museum of American Art to name a few.
She has installed three site-specific augmented reality public art installations: the Dakota Spirit Walk (Saint Paul), the Sacred Hoop Walk (Minnesota Landscape Arboretum) and the Wodakota Walk (Caponi Art Park). She owns a Dakota publishing company, Wíyouŋkihipi (We Are Capable) Productions, to create a wider platform that educates and honors the culture, language and history of the Dakota people. In 2013, she was awarded the Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship, Joyce Award and Rise25 Mozilla Honoree.