Panel Discussion 2: Mindful Approaches to Creating a 3D Digital Cultural Asset Archive for Indigenous Histories and Futures

Speakers for this event

• Brian Pope

  Brian Pope

  Founder / Executive Director, The Arc/K Project

  Brian Pope, a writer, director, entrepreneur and philanthropist, founded The Arc/k Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, in early 2015. Pope seeks to harness and develop emerging technologies on behalf of pressing humanitarian issues. With these priorities in mind, he spearheaded the creation of this organization which helps societies in extremis digitally archive that which is too valuable, too important, or too unique to be lost or forgotten. The Arc/k Project was created to straddle the gulf between scientific archiving and activism.

  Founder / Executive Director, The Arc/K Project

• Scott Purdy

  Scott Purdy

  Director of Operations, The Arc/K Project

  Scott majored in Anatomy/Physiology, graduating with a BS from the University of California, Santa Barbara. After transitioning from medicine to a more creative field, he began his career in post-production for films in 2003. Since then, Scott has collaborated with directors, producers, cinematographers and others on a wide range of projects. At Pacific Title, he managed post work for all of the “Big Six” major film studios. In 2009, he joined Lit Post as a digital intermediate producer, overseeing the finished process for more than 50 features, documentaries and shorts. After working closely with such talented artists and technologists and seeing the potential of digital cultural imaging, Scott decided to move into the nonprofit world. As the Director of Operations at Arc/k, he relishes the challenge of using his knowhow in bringing together technology and people to help further the cause of digital cultural preservation.

  Director of Operations, The Arc/K Project

• Zackary King

  Zackary King

  Geospatial Analyst, Doig River First Nation

  Zackary King is a geospatial specialist that has worked for the Doig River First Nation for the past 5 years. He studied Human Geography at the University of Saskatchewan and followed that up with an Advanced Diploma in GIS at BCIT. Zack began his GIS career in Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management in 2014 and joined the Doig River First Nation team in 2018. Since then, he has worked on making GIS available to DRFN’s staff through the development of software and processes that simplify consultation, field data collection and information sharing. The main principle behind the work is to ensure DRFN maintains ownership of its data, ensure that it is protected and future proof and integrates it throughout all the departments allowing a single point of access to authoritative information. Zack is passionate about helping preserve the Tsáá? Ché Ne Dane culture and help them be stewards of the land by using modern software to combat cumulative effects from industry, assist in healing the land with restoration planning and projects and help in community growth by assisting in urban reserve development and community and emergency response planning.

  Geospatial Analyst, Doig River First Nation