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Skins
AbTeC – SKINS – Skins was a project of the Abtec network (Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace) in collaboration with OBX experimental media lab based at the University of Concordia Montreal. Skins started as a series of workshops at an Aboriginal high school that allowed students to work with game developers, artists, storytellers, Elders, that introduced students to the tools and potential for exploring their cultural identity in their own voices and according to their own vision -The project explored the potential to create new territories for contemporary indigenous cultures. After 12 Months the stories and spaces developed in the workshop were developed as a single first person shooter game called Otsi:! by the students. Otsi tells the story of a Aboriginal warrior and hunter as he hunts a mythical flying head. Video interviews with the students involved can be viewed here: http://www.skins.abtec.org/ . Skins and Abtec have since moved onto the Second Life platform. For the project TimeTraveller
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