Technology has been part of humanity since the earth was formed, yet many people have lost their connectivity to “temexw” or “earth” and have attempted to find their way through digital technologies. But the connections have always been there on both ends of the technological spectrum: how we play and create today reflects this, and how we interact is our connection to the beginning.

T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss (Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh/Sto:Lo/Hawaiian/Swiss) is a community-engaged public artist and IndigiFuturisms developer who works with writing, digital media, performance and land-based remediations in her multi-disciplinary arts practice.

An ethnobotanist and permaculture designer, Wyss is currently working on bridging the languages and healing sounds of plants and fungi with Indigenous languages through biosonification with modular synthesizers, creating conversations between them all. For more than 30 years, her works have focussed on sustainability, permaculture techniques and Coast Salish cultural elements, including themes of ethnobotany, Indigenous language revival, Salish weaving and digital media technology. She also holds the MST Fieldhouse artistic residency in Vancouver’s Stanley Park.