Mentorship In Motion
Mentorship in Motion
Episode 1
Workshopping Together: Transformation in Media Arts — with Ki Wight and Helena Krobath
Mentorship is really the thread that actually brings us all forwards collectively. It can reshape how we come forwards and how we shape an industry.
In Episode One, Mentorship in Motion show creators, and two of the Grounded Futures co-founders, Jamie-Leigh Gonzales and Melissa Sharp, invite their own technical mentors, Ki Wight and Helena Krobath, into a conversation about how they have been transforming the media arts industry. Together, they all trace their own roots in the industry, and bring together dreams of how the future of a more accessible media arts industry could look.
Each episode of Season One will include an introduction with the Mentorship in Motion production team to allow a little insight to the mentorship relationships happening behind the scenes on the production of this show.
Guest Bios
KI WIGHT
Ki Wight is a critical media studies educator and researcher with a focus on better understanding and transforming the relationships between media education practices, media cultures and social justice movements. She is a PhD candidate in equity studies at Simon Fraser University and teaches communication, media, queer and gender studies at Capilano University.
HELENA KROBATH
Helena Krobath is an artist, editor, and educator drawing on sensory experience and recomposition to consider presences, environments and narratives. Helena is the sound designer and audio post producer for Invisible Institutions podcast. Her electroacoustic fictions and radio art have been recently presented by Arts Assembly, Publik Secrets, and NAISA (New Adventures in Sound Art), among others, and her audio essay on hearing political economic realities during COVID-19 was published in the Journal of Design and Culture’s special issue on Covid Materialities. Helena has led soundwalks with Vancouver Soundwalk Collective and Vancouver New Music since 2015 and developed workshops on audio storytelling, including for Nuxalk Radio in Bella Coola, Megaphone Magazine in Vancouver, and VIVO Media Arts Centre.
HELENA KROBATH
Helena Krobath is an artist, editor, and educator drawing on sensory experience and recomposition to consider presences, environments and narratives. Helena is the sound designer and audio post producer for Invisible Institutions podcast. Her electroacoustic fictions and radio art have been recently presented by Arts Assembly, Publik Secrets, and NAISA (New Adventures in Sound Art), among others, and her audio essay on hearing political economic realities during COVID-19 was published in the Journal of Design and Culture’s special issue on Covid Materialities. Helena has led soundwalks with Vancouver Soundwalk Collective and Vancouver New Music since 2015 and developed workshops on audio storytelling, including for Nuxalk Radio in Bella Coola, Megaphone Magazine in Vancouver, and VIVO Media Arts Centre.
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About the show
This show is co-created by mentors Jamie-Leigh Gonzales and Melissa Sharp, alongside peer mentees Nadya Geta and Rebecca Peng — but as the show unravels, we see those lines of mentorship flow and weave in all directions. Read more about the team here.
Theme music by Nadya Geta
Show art by Maia Anstey