Happy Autumn! May cool weather and spooky vibes be upon us.
🍁🍂YOU’RE INVITED!📼📀
An evening of BIOMETRICS + BRAINS + CARTOONS + THEATRE + FOOD, THE GREAT TIT IS A BIRD(BRAIN) team would like to cordially invite you to a showcase at Goldfarb Gallery in Toronto on October 8th from 4:00 – 6:00 pm.
THE GREAT TIT IS A BIRD(BRAIN), combines a Telly-award winning sci-fi arthouse animation series that follows six Black and Brown femmes around the world, a brain-computing research group, and the human trafficking ring that links them together; with the spatialized biometric technology platform Multimer.
Connected Minds, a research initiative at York University and Queen’s University, is a co-leading and co-creating Neural and Machine Systems for a Just, Healthy Society. Sensorium, is a research centre at the intersection of media arts, performance, and digital culture This is event is the culminating showcase of Sensorium’s CM Artist-in-Residence Ar Ducao. The project is produced by DuKode Studio.
To RSVP, please email creativeb@dukodestudio.com
🌈 PRIDE EVENT 🏳️⚧️
DuKode hosted an NYC Summer Youth Employment Program Pride event on August 8th. Thanks to NYC Department of Youth and Community Development and Children’s Arts & ScienceWorkshops, Inc., LGBTQ+ Youth were able to experience for themselves creative tech career exploration. The attendees were able to meet LGBTQ+ game devs, 3D animators, AR/VR/XR designers, synth composers, and much more!
We welcomed the event’s panelists:
Margaret Lin, A digital pop culture strategist, cozy game designer, and K-pop enthusiast who grew Vanity Fair’s TikTok to 1M followers. With experience across tech, design, and media, they now create playful, story-rich games like Trinkets!, a crow-themed multiplayer party game featured in AAPI in Gaming and Patch Magazine.
Austin John, A Chicago-born electronic musician and Yale graduate in African American Studies and Art History. Based in NYC, they work at YouTube Music and as a resident at Synth Library NYC, expanding access to electronic music for BIPOC and nonbinary/femme artists, and curate shows at Below Grand Gallery.
Inga Raschka, A CalArts-trained animator from Manhattan whose surreal, sex-positive, and anti-narrative works draw from early CGI and 90s animation. She’s created for Adult Swim, the BBC, Netflix, and Cartoon Network, blending humor and existential themes in her experimental storytelling.
Delaney Benstead, A Brooklyn-based audio engineer and Synth Library NYC Artist-in-Residence focused on building synths, coding audio plugins, and creating open-access educational materials. Formerly an engineer in Boston, he’s now developing a free video series to teach music tech to diverse learners.
Jin, A trans queer Korean-American animator and educator whose hybrid animation style explores identity, gender, and human connection. Their award-winning films have screened internationally, and they’ve taught at SVA, MassArt, and RISD, with features on Cartoon Brew and Catsuka.
Kudos to our summer intern Amelie Pollack, who helped run the event.
🏆🏆 ACCOLADES 🏆🏆
THE GREAT TIT IS A BIRD has been on fire! The project won a Telly Award for Animation. The team attended the Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival, where they celebrated the “Best New Media (BIPOC Film)” Award.
TGTIAB also received a Finalist nomination from the Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival. The awards will be announced on October 11. If you would like to be a part of the good news, an online festival pass will be available through the website, and 10/11 tickets are here. Email creativeb@dukodestudio.com for a 25% promo code.
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