About ARTCO

Artisans of Today's Communities

Inuit and Cree children use new media tools to explore their past and present realities, practice collective action and create a better future.

ARTCO is a project led by Kingulliit Productions and IsumaTV that engages children and youth across cultural divisions to use 2.0 digital media to share experience, resolve common problems and find new ways to communicate across old barriers toward a better future.

The artists who provide the workshops, the teachers and the community organizers go through the whole process of creation themselves. Throughout the project children, teachers, workshop artists and community organizers explore the power, the benefit, and the creative energy of collective action.

ARTCO project gives children a very pleasurable experience with creativity and makes evident to them that the work of art we make impacts social environments in which we live and is a practical tool to lead collective action.

As an action strategy ARTCO collects past knowledge and experience in a public space where people can learn from it; uses new media tools to adapt historic strengths of communication and consensus to new practical problems never imagined before, eg. mining, global warming, and language loss; and joins the globalized human internet collective solidarity with others to create a new, better future.

Contact:

Email: artco@isuma.tv

Phone: +1 (514) 486-0707