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        • Summer 2025
          • First graduates of the Certificate in Sound gain valuable skills to enhance their degree
          • A Magical Time highlights the legacy of the early days of the arts at SFU
        • Spring 2025
          • Meet the FCAT Social Media Ambassadors
          • The Skoden Indigenous Film Festival returns for its seventh year!
          • Scholarly Impact of the Week: Honouring the long view of an award-winning artist
          • Disability Rights vs. Disability Justice: A Day with Dr. Fady Shanouda
          • Scholarly Impact of the Week: What does the AI-enabled future look like?
          • SFU alumni are building community at the Black Arts Centre
          • MPub edit: A revised program to meet the needs of today’s students
        • Fall 2024
          • Meet the FCAT Social Media Ambassadors
          • Using the MDM to Springboard into a Senior Product Designer
          • Featured Alumnus: Emma Jean is building a career in journalism and a network of FCAT alumni
          • SFU Publishing Director Hannah McGregor's new book explores everyone's favourite dinosaur movie and what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free
          • From MDM to Game Industry Success: An Alumnus' Journey
          • Scholarly Impact of the Week: Handbook explores essential role of ethnic media
          • MDM Alumnus Launch Neesh: A Safe Digital Space for the LGBTQ2S+ Community
        • Summer 2024
          • New book edited by SIAT Senior Lecturer Michael Filimowicz offers a comprehensive overview of sound design
          • New Certificate in Sound offers interdisciplinary perspectives
          • FCAT & SIAT partner with two BC school districts to bring new learning opportunities to indigenous students
          • Lita Lising and Kiran Sonea are the inaugural recipients of the Shaun Kenneth Gauthier Memorial Award
          • Communication alumnus and renowned acoustic ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp receives honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from SFU
          • New award nurtures artists to push creative limits
          • SCA's Laura U. Marks Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
        • Spring 2024
          • Congratulations to the 2023/2024 major graduate award recipients from FCAT
          • "The Fold", a new book from the SCA's Laura U. Marks offers a philosophy for living in an infinitely connected cosmos
          • IUPP student Morgan Peequaquat finds her voice and a community while organizing the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival
          • SFU Publishing Director Hannah McGregor's new book asks "Can podcasting save academia?"
          • Scholarly Impact of the Week: Understanding Authenticity Age Information Disorder
          • MDM alumnus wins 2024 Emmy for Outstanding Visual Effects for The Last of Us
          • Meet Sorren Jao, 2023 Lighthouse Lab Prize Recipient
          • FCAT scholars awarded Community Engagement Initiative grants for their innovative work
          • Going beyond diversity and inclusion: A Day with Dr. Kim TallBear
        • Fall 2023
          • FCAT Celebrates with the 2023 Excellence Awards
          • Scholarly Impact of the Week: Photograph-based Storytelling Connects the Holocaust and the Nakba
          • FCAT schools and programs come together for first Community in Practice day
        • Summer 2023
          • SCA's Arne Eigenfeldt in The Conversation: Why the growth of AI in making art won’t eliminate artists
          • FCAT hosts Safe Space for White Questions online discussion
          • Our Way and The Klabona Keepers among 5th Annual Skoden Film Festival award winners
          • FCAT supports northern BC communities with increased learning opportunities
          • Master of Digital Media Grads Tackle Plastic Waste Blanketing Our Oceans with Group Shopping App
          • June 2023 Convocation Featured Student Profiles
          • Introducing FCAT Research Spotlight
          • The School of Communication's 50th Anniversary: From 1973 to 2023
          • Jon Corbett Joins School of Interactive Art and Technology
          • Svitlana Matviyenko was Respondent in Gwynne Dyer Lecture: War, Close-Up and Big Picture
          • Eldritch Priest hosted conference: The New Daydream Imaginary: On the Ethico-Aesthetics of Spontaneous Thought
        • Spring 2023
          • Cody Sawatsky Memorial Plaque Unveiled at the SFU Surrey Campus
          • Scholarly Impact of the Week: Michael Filimowicz
          • School of Interactive Arts & Technology professor Wolfgang Stuerzlinger inducted to prestigious VR academy
          • Meet Nico Hernandez, 2022 Lighthouse Lab Prize Recipient
          • Welcome Kota Ezawa, the 2023 Spring Audain Visual Artist in Residence
          • MPUB Alumnus Claire Cavanagh Becomes Literary Agent
          • Alumnus designs Canucks Lunar New Year jersey
          • 2023 Skoden Indigenous Film Festival
          • How the Online Streaming Act will support Canadian content
          • Meet Jonathan Newman, the 2022 Recipient of the Cody Sawatsky Memorial Award in Gaming
          • Juan Alperin, Ron Wakkary, and Siyuan Yin featured in SFU's Top 22 of 2022 SFU’S Scholarly Impacts, Innovations and Ideas
          • FCAT's School of Communication hosts The Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising Symposium
          • Long-term Impact Award for Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Awarded to SIAT's Alissa Antle
          • Svitlana Matviyenko on Below the Radar: Ukraine: Dispatches from the Place of Imminence
          • Nadia Shihab on Below the Radar: Film and the Political
          • Kathy Slade with exhibition: As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop, rooted in research in Switzerland
          • NiNi Dongnier on Below the Radar: Motion, Material, and Parallel Living
          • Arne Eigenfeldt's Muse-bots featured on CBC's new series, digi-Art
          • Jin-me Yoon's Long Time So Long featured at Capture Photography Festival
        • Fall 2022
          • Eight SFU innovators bestowed with Canada’s highest academic honour
          • SIAT Convocation Features October 2022
          • Graduating Student Sharlyn Monillas Tells Us About Her Time in CMNS
          • Centre for Digital Media partners with Ethọ́s Lab to improve Black representation in digital media
          • Explore the Surrey Community Open House SIAT Project Demos
          • new interdisciplinary technology aid wilderness search and rescue
          • Building better democracies through journalism
          • Charter alumnus making a big impact through small gifts
        • Summer 2022
          • FCAT June 2022 Convocation: Looking back
          • Meet Contemporary Arts alum Krystle Silverfox
          • SFU researchers receive over $6 million to tackle online disinformation, foster data fluencies
          • SIAT researchers develop and curate exhibition at Galiano Island’s Yellowhouse Art Centre
          • Roll out the red carpet: Surrey students showcase filmmaking talent
        • Spring 2022
          • FACTS AND FALSEHOODS IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
          • Celebrating Black History Month across the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology
          • SFU professor shares experience living and teaching in war-torn Ukraine
          • SFU artists and researchers showcase art installation on Surrey’s ‘UrbanScreen’
          • Leadership and Agile Production Management micro-credential established in partnership with DigiBC
          • Leading with heart: Meet Staff Achievement Award winner Corbin Saleken
          • HOW GOOGLE’S SEARCH ENGINE SUPPORTS CONSPIRACY THEORISTS AND HATE FIGURES
          • SFU staffer’s commitment to local arts community nets staff achievement award
        • Fall 2021
          • Fall 2021 Convocation: Looking back
          • TikTok/Instagram video contest
          • Meet communication undergraduate student Ashran Bharosha
          • FCAT Pro Workshop: Professionally Brand Yourself & Create a Digital Portfolio!
          • SFU establishes first interdisciplinary and practice-based PhD in contemporary arts in Western Canada
          • To design a more ethical app, consider youth well-being
          • Peter Anderson: Fighting fires with better emergency communication
          • FCAT Alumni Excellence Award winners reflect on their awards and their time in their programs
          • This season, give the gift of tech literacy — not addiction — along with that device
          • Study identifies link between certain lifestyle activities and reduced cognitive decline
        • Summer 2021
          • SFU Publishing Launches the Greg Younging Publishing Award Endowment
          • Resources and readings to start National Indigenous History Month
          • Celebrating Indigenous history and culture during National Indigenous History Month
          • Communication honours student studies online conspiracy theories, disinformation
          • Making the world a better place: criminology alumnus turned interdisciplinary artist continues academic journey
          • FCAT June 2021 Convocation: Looking back
          • An invisible polluter: SFU researchers investigate the growing carbon footprint of streaming media
          • Low res, high impact: Small File Media Festival raises awareness of the carbon footprint of online streaming
          • Welcoming Canada HomeShare to Metro Vancouver
          • FCAT faculty members receive tri-council grants to support their research
        • Spring 2021
          • Winners of the FCAT Student Photo Contest Spring 2021
          • Alex Krilow receives first Greg Younging Undergraduate Award in Publishing
          • FCAT Student Photo Contest Spring 2021
          • Skoden Indigenous Film Festival co-founder and SCA alumnus returns to teach Skoden course
          • Communication professor Martin Laba shares what he's learning about remote teaching
          • In the rush for coronavirus information, unreviewed scientific papers are being publicized
          • Film alumnus Kelvin Redvers receives Governor General’s Meritorious Service Medal
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        • Season One
          • Episode 1: What is the Certificate in Sound?
          • Episode 2: What does convocation sound like?
          • Episode 3: How did the pandemic impact academia?
          • Episode 4: What is the role of AI in the arts?
          • Episode 5: Can ChatGPT be a learning tool?
          • Episode 6: How did the pandemic impact students?
          • Episode 7: What do students think about the purpose and value of university?
      • FCAT After School Podcast
        • Season One
          • Episode 0: Welcome to After School
          • Episode 1: Finding Your Creative Potential with Prem Gill
          • Episode 2: Inclusivity in the Performance Arts with Aryo Khakpour
          • Episode 3: Connecting Design and Technology with Sofia Bautista
          • Episode 4: Storytelling in Game Design with Mars Balisacan
          • Episode 5: Challenging the Status Quo through Art with Shion Skye Carter & Stefan Nazarevich
          • Episode 6: Starting Your Own Publishing Company with Jesse Finkelstein
          • Episode 7: Finding Happiness in Your Work with Nick Doering
          • Episode 8: Making a Name in Independent Filmmaking with Gloria Mercer
          • Episode 9: It All Starts with a Strategy with Adam Brayford
          • Episode 10: Shifting Places, Shifting Minds with Milton Lim
          • Episode 11: Being the Big Piece in a Small Pie with Jordan Yep
          • Episode 12: Reimagining Dance Training with Tin Gamboa
          • Episode 13: Standing Out as a Creative with Sara Milosavic
          • Episode 15: Kristin Richter
        • Season Two
          • Episode 0: Welcome to FCAT After School Series 2!
          • Episode 1: Entrepreneurship in UX Design with Eric Lee
          • Episode 2: Community and Adaptability in the Performing Arts with Howard Dai
          • Episode 3: Mastering the Art of Publishing with Jazmin Welch
          • Episode 4: Navigating your Educational Journey with Broadcaster Simi Sara
          • Episode 5: Career Transitions of a Software Engineer with Vic Ong
          • Episode 6: Becoming Your Own Boss with Kirstin Richter
          • Episode 7: Gaining a Global Outlook with Kai Bockmann
          • Episode 8: Finding Your Place in Publishing with Heidi Waechtler
          • Episode 9: Exploring Virtual Production with Brenda Medina
          • Episode 10: Inclusion in the Design Industry with Priscilla Skylar Lee
          • Episode 11: Exploring Study Focus in Contemporary Arts with Sophie Tang
        • Season Three
          • Episode 0: Season 3 Coming Soon!
          • Episode 1: Following Your Creative Passions with Cameron Maitland
          • Episode 2: Shame Demons and Queer Sci-fi Horror with Mily Mumford
          • Episode 3: The Poetry of Publishing with Charlotte Nip
          • Episode 4: Clowning, Failing, and Re-enchanting the Everyday with June Fukumura
          • Episode 5: Tech, Meditation, and Leaving a Legacy with Jay Vidyarthi
          • Episode 6: Your Work Is Not Your Life with Valentina Forté-Hernandez
          • Episode 7: Trying Everything Once and the Future of Media with Jason D’Souza
          • Episode 8: Decolonizing and Doing What You Have Always Done with Audrey Heath
        • Episode Transcripts
          • Season 3, Episode 7: Trying Everything Once and the Future of Media with Jason D’Souza
          • Season 3, Episode 6: Your Work Is Not Your Life with Valentina Forté-Hernandez
          • Season 3, Episode 5: Tech, Meditation, and Leaving a Legacy with Jay Vidyarthi
          • Season 3, Episode 4: Clowning, Failing, and Re-enchanting the Everyday with June Fukumura
          • Season 3, Episode 3: The Poetry of Publishing with Charlotte Nip
          • Season 3, Episode 2: Shame Demons and Queer Sci-fi Horror with Mily Mumford
          • Season 3, Episode 1: Following Your Creative Passions with Cameron Maitland
          • Season 2, Episode 11: Exploring Study Focus in Contemporary Arts with Sophie Tang
          • Season 2, Episode 10: Inclusion in the Design Industry with Priscilla Skylar Lee
          • Season 2, Episode 9: Exploring Virtual Production with Brenda Medina
          • Season 2, Episode 8: Finding Your Place in Publishing with Heidi Waechtler
          • Season 2, Episode 7: Kai Bockmann
          • Season 2, Episode 6: Becoming Your Own Boss with Kirstin Richter
          • Season 2, Episode 5: Career Transitions of a Software Engineer with Vic Ong
          • Season 2, Episode 4: Navigating your Educational Journey with Broadcaster Simi Sara
          • Season 2, Episode 3: Mastering the Art of Publishing with Jazmin Welch
          • Season 2, Episode 2: Community and Adaptability in the Performing Arts with Howard Dai
          • Season 2, Episode 1: Entrepreneurship in UX Design with Eric Lee
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    January

  • January 30, 2023

    MPUB Alumnus Claire Cavanagh Becomes Literary Agent

    January 30, 2023

    The new year began remarkably for Master of Publishing (MPub) alumna Claire Cavanagh. She was recently announced as a literary agent for The Rights Factory, an editorial agency founded almost two decades ago by its CEO, Sam Hiyate. Currently living and working in Lisbon, Portugal, Claire gave us an insight into her journey so far.

  • February

  • February 15, 2023

    Meet Nico Hernandez, 2022 Lighthouse Lab Prize Recipient

    February 15, 2023

    As the 2022 recipient of the Lighthouse Lab prize, Interactive Arts and Technology 4th year student Nico Hernandez completed a web development Bootcamp in December 2022. Today, he is using his new skills, finishing his last semester at SFU, and ready to start his career.

  • February 16, 2023

    Welcome Kota Ezawa, the 2023 Spring Audain Visual Artist in Residence

    February 16, 2023

    The SFU School for the Contemporary Arts is pleased to welcome Kota Ezawa as the 2023 Spring Audain Visual Artist in Residence.

  • February 03, 2023

    Alumnus designs Canucks Lunar New Year jersey

    February 03, 2023

    SFU Alumnus Trevor Lai (BBA ’02) was tapped by the Vancouver Canucks to design their warmup jersey to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit. The thoughtful design uses a rabbit in place of the iconic original flying skate logo and was worn during the January 24th game.

  • February 28, 2023

    Juan Alperin, Ron Wakkary, and Siyuan Yin featured in SFU's Top 22 of 2022 SFU’S Scholarly Impacts, Innovations and Ideas

    February 28, 2023

    Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Scholarly Impact of the Week series celebrates the work of SFU researchers, while raising their profile and mobilizing their research impact. Since its inception in 2021, the series has featured the work of more than 80 SFU scholars from all eight faculties. Thank you to all the faculty and staff members who have collaborated with us to make this possible.

  • March

  • March 27, 2023

    Cody Sawatsky Memorial Plaque Unveiled at the SFU Surrey Campus

    March 27, 2023

    On Monday, March 27th, family, friends, colleagues, peers, and instructors of SIAT alumnus Cody Sawatsky gathered at the SFU Surrey campus for the dedication of a memorial plaque in his honour.

  • March 31, 2023

    2023 Skoden Indigenous Film Festival

    March 31, 2023

    The 2023 Skoden Indigenous Film Festival returns in person March 31, 2023 - April 1, 2023. This year's edition of the Festival is split into five programs: Activating the Landscape; It’s a Long Story, with feature Ever Deadly; The Deepest Part of my Heart; Who I Am, Who We Are; and Our Connections.

  • March 28, 2023

    Meet Jonathan Newman, the 2022 Recipient of the Cody Sawatsky Memorial Award in Gaming

    March 28, 2023

    Jonathan Newman is a fourth-year SIAT student pursuing a Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in media arts and he was recently presented with the Cody Sawatsky Memorial Award in Gaming.

  • March 03, 2023

    FCAT's School of Communication hosts The Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising Symposium

    March 03, 2023

    Almost six months after the birth of “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, we are gathering to collectively reflect on the multiple grievances that caused the uprising and the horizons that it opens up to the future. This symposium aims to critically engage with the questions that might illuminate the possible directions that the uprising might take in the months or years to come.

  • March 15, 2023

    Long-term Impact Award for Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Awarded to SIAT's Alissa Antle

    March 15, 2023

    School of Interactive Arts & Technology professor Dr. Alissa Antle and former graduate students Lesley Xie and Nima Motamedi were recently recognized with the Long-Term Impact Award at the ACM 17th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (ACM TEI).

  • March 07, 2023

    Svitlana Matviyenko on Below the Radar: Ukraine: Dispatches from the Place of Imminence

    March 07, 2023

    Svitlana talks about her experiences living in Ukraine over the past year, documenting a rising militarization and being attentive to the social changes that war imposes. Am and Svitlana also discuss the asymmetrical cases of misinformation between Ukraine and Russia, as well as how the invasion has merged her research interests of media and cyberwar.

  • March 14, 2023

    Nadia Shihab on Below the Radar: Film and the Political

    March 14, 2023

    Artist, filmmaker, and Assistant Professor for the School of Contemporary Arts, Nadia Shihab, sits down with Am Johal to explore her path as a filmmaker.

  • March 31, 2023

    Kathy Slade with exhibition: As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop, rooted in research in Switzerland

    March 31, 2023

    For over three decades, Kathy Slade has produced conceptually driven work that engages techniques of copying, repetition and reenactment, often coalescing in materially sumptuous objects. In her wide-ranging interdisciplinary practice, Slade inhabits sources from literature, art history, philosophy, and popular culture, weaving her references into absurd and frequently playful loops and voids.

  • April

  • April 04, 2023

    Scholarly Impact of the Week: Michael Filimowicz

    April 04, 2023

    Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Michael Filimowicz studies new and emerging technology with a critical lens. He teaches and researches human-computer interaction, sound design, media arts and experimental phenomenology—the study of human experiences—at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT). He is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, sound designer and a prolific scholar, creator and author.

  • April 05, 2023

    School of Interactive Arts & Technology professor Wolfgang Stuerzlinger inducted to prestigious VR academy

    April 05, 2023

    Earlier this month, the prestigious academy inducted seven new members including SIAT professor Wolfgang Stuerzlinger at a ceremony hosted in Shanghai on March 28th.

  • April 05, 2023

    How the Online Streaming Act will support Canadian content

    April 05, 2023

    Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, PhD Candidate from SFU's School of Communication writes for The Conversation about the Online Streaming Act and its potential impacts on freedom of expression for digital content creators and the variety of content Canadian audiences see.

  • April 11, 2023

    NiNi Dongnier on Below the Radar: Motion, Material, and Parallel Living

    April 11, 2023

    This week our host Am Johal is joined by NiNi Dongnier, an interdisciplinary choreographer and dancer, and Assistant Professor in Dance at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts.

  • April 12, 2023

    Arne Eigenfeldt's Muse-bots featured on CBC's new series, digi-Art

    April 12, 2023

    The latest episode of digi-Art is all about music made with machines ... and by machines

  • April 21, 2023

    Jin-me Yoon's Long Time So Long featured at Capture Photography Festival

    April 21, 2023

    Since the early ’90s, Jin-me Yoon has used photography, video and performance to situate her personal experience of migration in relation to unfolding historical, political and ecological conditions.

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        • Summer 2025
          • First graduates of the Certificate in Sound gain valuable skills to enhance their degree
          • A Magical Time highlights the legacy of the early days of the arts at SFU
        • Spring 2025
          • Meet the FCAT Social Media Ambassadors
          • The Skoden Indigenous Film Festival returns for its seventh year!
          • Scholarly Impact of the Week: Honouring the long view of an award-winning artist
          • Disability Rights vs. Disability Justice: A Day with Dr. Fady Shanouda
          • Scholarly Impact of the Week: What does the AI-enabled future look like?
          • SFU alumni are building community at the Black Arts Centre
          • MPub edit: A revised program to meet the needs of today’s students
        • Fall 2024
          • Meet the FCAT Social Media Ambassadors
          • Using the MDM to Springboard into a Senior Product Designer
          • Featured Alumnus: Emma Jean is building a career in journalism and a network of FCAT alumni
          • SFU Publishing Director Hannah McGregor's new book explores everyone's favourite dinosaur movie and what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free
          • From MDM to Game Industry Success: An Alumnus' Journey
          • Scholarly Impact of the Week: Handbook explores essential role of ethnic media
          • MDM Alumnus Launch Neesh: A Safe Digital Space for the LGBTQ2S+ Community
        • Summer 2024
          • New book edited by SIAT Senior Lecturer Michael Filimowicz offers a comprehensive overview of sound design
          • New Certificate in Sound offers interdisciplinary perspectives
          • FCAT & SIAT partner with two BC school districts to bring new learning opportunities to indigenous students
          • Lita Lising and Kiran Sonea are the inaugural recipients of the Shaun Kenneth Gauthier Memorial Award
          • Communication alumnus and renowned acoustic ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp receives honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from SFU
          • New award nurtures artists to push creative limits
          • SCA's Laura U. Marks Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
        • Spring 2024
          • Congratulations to the 2023/2024 major graduate award recipients from FCAT
          • "The Fold", a new book from the SCA's Laura U. Marks offers a philosophy for living in an infinitely connected cosmos
          • IUPP student Morgan Peequaquat finds her voice and a community while organizing the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival
          • SFU Publishing Director Hannah McGregor's new book asks "Can podcasting save academia?"
          • Scholarly Impact of the Week: Understanding Authenticity Age Information Disorder
          • MDM alumnus wins 2024 Emmy for Outstanding Visual Effects for The Last of Us
          • Meet Sorren Jao, 2023 Lighthouse Lab Prize Recipient
          • FCAT scholars awarded Community Engagement Initiative grants for their innovative work
          • Going beyond diversity and inclusion: A Day with Dr. Kim TallBear
        • Fall 2023
          • FCAT Celebrates with the 2023 Excellence Awards
          • Scholarly Impact of the Week: Photograph-based Storytelling Connects the Holocaust and the Nakba
          • FCAT schools and programs come together for first Community in Practice day
        • Summer 2023
          • SCA's Arne Eigenfeldt in The Conversation: Why the growth of AI in making art won’t eliminate artists
          • FCAT hosts Safe Space for White Questions online discussion
          • Our Way and The Klabona Keepers among 5th Annual Skoden Film Festival award winners
          • FCAT supports northern BC communities with increased learning opportunities
          • Master of Digital Media Grads Tackle Plastic Waste Blanketing Our Oceans with Group Shopping App
          • June 2023 Convocation Featured Student Profiles
          • Introducing FCAT Research Spotlight
          • The School of Communication's 50th Anniversary: From 1973 to 2023
          • Jon Corbett Joins School of Interactive Art and Technology
          • Svitlana Matviyenko was Respondent in Gwynne Dyer Lecture: War, Close-Up and Big Picture
          • Eldritch Priest hosted conference: The New Daydream Imaginary: On the Ethico-Aesthetics of Spontaneous Thought
        • Spring 2023
          • Cody Sawatsky Memorial Plaque Unveiled at the SFU Surrey Campus
          • Scholarly Impact of the Week: Michael Filimowicz
          • School of Interactive Arts & Technology professor Wolfgang Stuerzlinger inducted to prestigious VR academy
          • Meet Nico Hernandez, 2022 Lighthouse Lab Prize Recipient
          • Welcome Kota Ezawa, the 2023 Spring Audain Visual Artist in Residence
          • MPUB Alumnus Claire Cavanagh Becomes Literary Agent
          • Alumnus designs Canucks Lunar New Year jersey
          • 2023 Skoden Indigenous Film Festival
          • How the Online Streaming Act will support Canadian content
          • Meet Jonathan Newman, the 2022 Recipient of the Cody Sawatsky Memorial Award in Gaming
          • Juan Alperin, Ron Wakkary, and Siyuan Yin featured in SFU's Top 22 of 2022 SFU’S Scholarly Impacts, Innovations and Ideas
          • FCAT's School of Communication hosts The Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising Symposium
          • Long-term Impact Award for Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Awarded to SIAT's Alissa Antle
          • Svitlana Matviyenko on Below the Radar: Ukraine: Dispatches from the Place of Imminence
          • Nadia Shihab on Below the Radar: Film and the Political
          • Kathy Slade with exhibition: As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop, rooted in research in Switzerland
          • NiNi Dongnier on Below the Radar: Motion, Material, and Parallel Living
          • Arne Eigenfeldt's Muse-bots featured on CBC's new series, digi-Art
          • Jin-me Yoon's Long Time So Long featured at Capture Photography Festival
        • Fall 2022
          • Eight SFU innovators bestowed with Canada’s highest academic honour
          • SIAT Convocation Features October 2022
          • Graduating Student Sharlyn Monillas Tells Us About Her Time in CMNS
          • Centre for Digital Media partners with Ethọ́s Lab to improve Black representation in digital media
          • Explore the Surrey Community Open House SIAT Project Demos
          • new interdisciplinary technology aid wilderness search and rescue
          • Building better democracies through journalism
          • Charter alumnus making a big impact through small gifts
        • Summer 2022
          • FCAT June 2022 Convocation: Looking back
          • Meet Contemporary Arts alum Krystle Silverfox
          • SFU researchers receive over $6 million to tackle online disinformation, foster data fluencies
          • SIAT researchers develop and curate exhibition at Galiano Island’s Yellowhouse Art Centre
          • Roll out the red carpet: Surrey students showcase filmmaking talent
        • Spring 2022
          • FACTS AND FALSEHOODS IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
          • Celebrating Black History Month across the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology
          • SFU professor shares experience living and teaching in war-torn Ukraine
          • SFU artists and researchers showcase art installation on Surrey’s ‘UrbanScreen’
          • Leadership and Agile Production Management micro-credential established in partnership with DigiBC
          • Leading with heart: Meet Staff Achievement Award winner Corbin Saleken
          • HOW GOOGLE’S SEARCH ENGINE SUPPORTS CONSPIRACY THEORISTS AND HATE FIGURES
          • SFU staffer’s commitment to local arts community nets staff achievement award
        • Fall 2021
          • Fall 2021 Convocation: Looking back
          • TikTok/Instagram video contest
          • Meet communication undergraduate student Ashran Bharosha
          • FCAT Pro Workshop: Professionally Brand Yourself & Create a Digital Portfolio!
          • SFU establishes first interdisciplinary and practice-based PhD in contemporary arts in Western Canada
          • To design a more ethical app, consider youth well-being
          • Peter Anderson: Fighting fires with better emergency communication
          • FCAT Alumni Excellence Award winners reflect on their awards and their time in their programs
          • This season, give the gift of tech literacy — not addiction — along with that device
          • Study identifies link between certain lifestyle activities and reduced cognitive decline
        • Summer 2021
          • SFU Publishing Launches the Greg Younging Publishing Award Endowment
          • Resources and readings to start National Indigenous History Month
          • Celebrating Indigenous history and culture during National Indigenous History Month
          • Communication honours student studies online conspiracy theories, disinformation
          • Making the world a better place: criminology alumnus turned interdisciplinary artist continues academic journey
          • FCAT June 2021 Convocation: Looking back
          • An invisible polluter: SFU researchers investigate the growing carbon footprint of streaming media
          • Low res, high impact: Small File Media Festival raises awareness of the carbon footprint of online streaming
          • Welcoming Canada HomeShare to Metro Vancouver
          • FCAT faculty members receive tri-council grants to support their research
        • Spring 2021
          • Winners of the FCAT Student Photo Contest Spring 2021
          • Alex Krilow receives first Greg Younging Undergraduate Award in Publishing
          • FCAT Student Photo Contest Spring 2021
          • Skoden Indigenous Film Festival co-founder and SCA alumnus returns to teach Skoden course
          • Communication professor Martin Laba shares what he's learning about remote teaching
          • In the rush for coronavirus information, unreviewed scientific papers are being publicized
          • Film alumnus Kelvin Redvers receives Governor General’s Meritorious Service Medal
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          • Episode 1: Entrepreneurship in UX Design with Eric Lee
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          • Episode 0: Season 3 Coming Soon!
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          • Episode 6: Your Work Is Not Your Life with Valentina Forté-Hernandez
          • Episode 7: Trying Everything Once and the Future of Media with Jason D’Souza
          • Episode 8: Decolonizing and Doing What You Have Always Done with Audrey Heath
        • Episode Transcripts
          • Season 3, Episode 7: Trying Everything Once and the Future of Media with Jason D’Souza
          • Season 3, Episode 6: Your Work Is Not Your Life with Valentina Forté-Hernandez
          • Season 3, Episode 5: Tech, Meditation, and Leaving a Legacy with Jay Vidyarthi
          • Season 3, Episode 4: Clowning, Failing, and Re-enchanting the Everyday with June Fukumura
          • Season 3, Episode 3: The Poetry of Publishing with Charlotte Nip
          • Season 3, Episode 2: Shame Demons and Queer Sci-fi Horror with Mily Mumford
          • Season 3, Episode 1: Following Your Creative Passions with Cameron Maitland
          • Season 2, Episode 11: Exploring Study Focus in Contemporary Arts with Sophie Tang
          • Season 2, Episode 10: Inclusion in the Design Industry with Priscilla Skylar Lee
          • Season 2, Episode 9: Exploring Virtual Production with Brenda Medina
          • Season 2, Episode 8: Finding Your Place in Publishing with Heidi Waechtler
          • Season 2, Episode 7: Kai Bockmann
          • Season 2, Episode 6: Becoming Your Own Boss with Kirstin Richter
          • Season 2, Episode 5: Career Transitions of a Software Engineer with Vic Ong
          • Season 2, Episode 4: Navigating your Educational Journey with Broadcaster Simi Sara
          • Season 2, Episode 3: Mastering the Art of Publishing with Jazmin Welch
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          • Season 2, Episode 1: Entrepreneurship in UX Design with Eric Lee
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