Profile: Jarrett Martineau

Culturite explores Indigenous issues, hip-hop, politics, music, art, design, film, technology, and media. Longer form posts can be found here on WordPress, but I also post photos, video, and audio over at culturite.tumblr.com

Here’s a short bio.

I’m a Cree/Dene digital media producer, curator, journalist, and hip-hop musician from Frog Lake First Nation, Alberta, but currently based in Victoria [located on the Coast Salish & Songhees territories of Turtle Island], and I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria. I’m interested in the critical intersection of indigeneity, technology, art, aesthetics, music & media; and my research focuses on Indigenous hip-hop as a strategy for decolonization, political resistance and cultural resurgence — as a means of culturally remixing/reimagining/revisioning Indigenous identity.

I’m currently working with Make Believe Media to produce a digital media project to promote Indigenous musicians online. Check out Revolutions Per Minute at www.RPM.fm

I’ve worked as the Co-News Director of NowPublic.com, the world’s largest participatory news network and an Emmy-nominated leader in crowd-powered media; as an editor for Jay Rosen‘s pro-am crowdsourced journalism project AssignmentZero, as a host/producer of the Emmy Award-winning cross-platform program, ZeD, on CBC Television; and as host of Brave New Waves on CBC Radio. I co-founded the New Forms Festival and Capital Magazine and I produce & perform hip-hop music (solo as no-1) and with The Front and Damage Control.

Follow me elsewhere on the web:

• Twitter

• Flavors.me

• Blip.fm

• Flickr

• Last.fm

• Muxtape

• Mixwit (RIP)