[Bio c. 2011]
Stephen Foster is a video and electronic media artist of mixed Haida and European background. His work tends to deal with issues of indigenous representation in popular culture through personal narrative and documentary. He has exhibited both internationally and nationally and is a sought after lecturer and panelist on interactive documentary and Canadian contemporary indigenous art.
Stephen is currently an Associate Professor in the Creative Studies Department at the University of British Columbia–Okanagan where he instructs courses dedicated to video production, digital media and visual theory.
[Bio c. 2009]
Stephen Foster is a video and electronic media artist of mixed Haida and European background. His work deals with issues of indigenous representation in popular culture through personal narrative. He has exhibited in solo as well as group exhibitions both internationally and nationally as well as participating in various festivals with video installations and single channel works. Stephen has published and presented numerous scholarly works, and has participated on panels for new media, video art and contemporary indigenous art at national and international venues. In 2007, Stephen received his first opportunity to present a retrospective screening of his video work at the Dawson City International Short Film Festival. Stephen holds two college diplomas, as well as a BFA and a MFA. For his Masters of Fine Arts degree at York University he received the Master’s Thesis Prize, one of three given University wide, for his thesis exhibition and support paper entitled ‘Behind a Sheet of Glass’. More recently, Stephen was awarded a Research/Creation Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for exploring interactive and experimental approaches to documentary, through which the Prince George Métis Elders Documentary Project was resourced. Stephen is currently Associate Professor in the Creative Studies Dept. and is the Director of the Summer Institute for Interdisciplinary Indigenous Graduate Studies at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan. He is also the coordinator of the CanWest Global Centre for Artists’ Video and instructs courses dedicated to video production, digital media and visual and cultural theory.
website : web.ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/faculty/stephenfoster.html
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| Role | Project |
|---|---|
| Artist | Ethnographic Terminalia: Philadelphia |
| Role | Project |
|---|---|
| Artist | The Prince George Métis Elders’ Documentary Project |
| Artist | Re-Mediating Curtis: Toy Portraits |