SFU School of Interactive Arts + Technology

【University VTuber Debut Lore Trailer】

https://ow.ly/6f0z50Ylybn

Find out about how Wren and Apollo have come to join us at SFU in this stunning animated trailer produced from the ground up by the Fall 2025 cohort of IAT 443 - Senior Project in Creative Media!

#ENVtuber

配信時間:
レン @akanewren 🎩🪶 19:00 PST / 22:00 EST / 12:00 JST
アポロ @beepboopKACAW 🦉🗿 20:00 PST / 23:00 EST / 01:00 JST
SFUVtuberプロジェクト一周年記念コラボ! 21:00 PST / 21:00 EST / 02:00 JST

配信はすべてキャップバースSFU公式チャンネルにて行われます！
https://ow.ly/Zsfr50YkNbm

【新人大学系Vtuberデビュー】

「ビューロー」現着！サイモンフレーザー大学公認Vtuber第二期生となる、レンとアポロが近日デビューします！二人のデビュー、そしてプロジェクトの一周年記念配信は2月27日です！

🦉https://ow.ly/fG8A50YkNaR
🪶 背景ストーリーは火曜！

#ENVTuber

DEBUT STREAM TIMES:
Wren @akanewren 🎩🪶 19:00 PST / 22:00 EST / 12:00 JST
Apollo @beepboopKACAW 🦉🗿 20:00 PST / 23:00 EST / 01:00 JST
SFU VTuber 1st Anniversary Special Collaboration! 21:00 PST / 21:00 EST / 02:00 JST

All streams will occur on the Cappuverse SFU YouTube: youtube.com/@cappuverse!

The Bureau has LANDED! Meet Wren and Ap0110, the second class of Simon Fraser University's official VTubers, and celebrating the program's first anniversary in tandem on February 27th!

🦉https://ow.ly/uBwI50Ykwvr
🪶 Lore trailer on Tuesday!

#ENVTuber

We are rebranding the home of SFU’s Virtual Ambassadors on YouTube to Cappuverse SFU, and creating a new dedicated SIAT YouTube channel to better serve our audiences.

Find the Cappuverse SFU YouTube at https://ow.ly/kmCV50Yitbv, and the NEW SFU SIAT Youtube Channel at https://ow.ly/BG4I50Yitbw

Last week at #BUILDEXVancouver, SIAT Professor Halil Erhan, took part in a discussion on the Housing Growth Innovation Program’s Prefabricated Timber Housing Systems project.

Learn more about Erhan and the SIAT Computation Design Lab's work on the project: https://ow.ly/GocY50Yitoz

We’re excited to announce that SIAT will be attending Fan Expo 2026 from Feb 14-16, 2026 at the Vancouver Convention Center! Come by Booth #1407 for goodies and a peek at the next gen of our Virtual Ambassador program! 🐦‍⬛🦉

For more info about Fan Expo and Gen 2, join the StudioSIAT Discord server!

The SIAT Spring Speaker Series continues this Wednesday February 4, 2026, 12:30-2pm at SFU Surrey.

Patrick Pennefather, UBC Associate Professor and founder of the Transmedia Spatial Storytelling Lab, joins us for a discussion about transforming how we learn and create with Generative AI.

The SIAT Spring Speaker Series continues on Jan. 28, 2026 with a discussion on Generative AI, Co-Creation, and Computer-Assisted Creativity with SIAT Professor Philippe Pasquier.

Where: SRYC 5380 @ SFU's Surrey Campus
When: Jan 28, 12:30-2:00pm

Learn more: https://ow.ly/3JfF50Y3Ucb

Diffracting the North | Events - Concordia University

Tomorrow, January 14, celebrate the launch of a new book, edited by SIAT's Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda with Analays Álvarez Hernández, and Zaira Zarza, collecting and sharing the experiences and material realities of Latinx Canadian cultural producers.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/AABs50XWskh

Today is Mo Ayato’s Birthday! 🥳🎉
To celebrate, Mo alongside students from last semester’s IAT 443 course have put together something tiny but very special that we’re releasing on our YouTube channel in 30 MINUTES. 👀

GO GO GO!
youtu.be/4yAnD5TyY9A

As a very special Christmas gift, Faye Ayato joined forces with students from this semester’s IAT 443 class to release the FIRST EVER SIAT Virtual Ambassador music video! Here’s a sneak peek!

Go check out the full music video over on SIAT's Youtube Channel!
https://ow.ly/XGKE50XNuwh

Happy Holidays from Mo, Faye and everyone at StudioSIAT! 🎄☃️

Keep your eyes peeled on the SIAT SFU Youtube channel tomorrow for a special gift from your SIAT Virtual Ambassadors 👀🌬️🪈

This beautiful holiday art was created by yuuki.onna over on Instagram: https://ow.ly/w8pc50XNuuG

🎄 Warm holiday wishes from all of us here at SIAT! 🎄

A reminder that our offices will be closed during the holiday break from December 24th to January 1st.

We'll see you again in the New Year!

Jaad Kuujus–Meghann O’Brien with her mother, Tsamtsaka–Dixie Johnston, 1983. Photo By Dianna Hayes.

Everyone Says I Look Like My Mother, 2020, Jaad Kuujus. Photo by Reese Muntean.

Video still of Wrapped in the Cloud, 2018, Jaad Kuujus. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Celebrate Jaad Kuujus: Everyone Says I Look Like My Mother’s opening on Dec 4 from 6-9pm at the Museum of Anthropology.

Co-curated by SIAT's Kate Hennessy, Jaad Kuujus’s art celebrates the threads that bind across generations while imagining futures still to come.

More: moa.ubc.ca/exhibition/j...

AI music creates unease as it tops the charts – DW – 11/27/2025 As AI-generated music saturates the market, people are realizing they can't distinguish it from human-made music. Many listeners, and musicians, are unsettled by this.

SIAT professor and director of the Metacreation Lab for Creative AI, Philippe Pasquier, speaks with DW News' Cristina Burack about a new study from the Lab searching for human bias against AI-composed music and how music fandom is about more than just sound.

Read more: https://ow.ly/cM5050XzbkY

Join us at 11am on Friday, November 28 for Telematic Parallels, a site-specific interactive video installation linking remote locations with shared purpose. Three live video feeds connect the Simon Fraser University's three campuses into a singular tableau.

Event details: https://ow.ly/JktS50Xym8U

Unfortunately we have had to postpone this event due to an illness.

Stay tuned for future events and talks!

Experience how play can shift perspectives, spark empathy, and connect us more deeply.

Join us for the IAT 312 student showcase "Play with Purpose" on Thursday, November 20th in the SFU Surrey Mezzanine.

Try the games. Meet the designers. Be transformed.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/vJ8050Xtcmc

On November 19 at 12:45pm, join Tom Cummins, Director of Exhibits, and Dave Malcom, Interactive Media Designer, for a behind-the-scenes look at Science World’s Creative Technology Gallery.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/aniI50Xta3v

SIAT Associate Professor Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda is premiering a new experimental video exhibition titled "Diasporic Worldings" on the Libby Leshgold Gallery's Urban Screen at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on Nov 18.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/TF4E50XqIWE

Dreams, desires and the digital world: Developing critical data literacy in teens

How do teens feel about their phones? @siatsfu.bsky.social Homeware Lab worked with Grade 9s to explore tech, data and emotion. Their award-winning research reveals teens’ deep connections to devices as well as the need for better data literacy. 📱

Software art is widely accepted, but can programming languages themselves be art?

You are invited to join the SIAT Graduate Colloquium on November 12 for our guest speaker Daniel Temkin, presenting his new book "Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code”.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/TSX650XpzYM

Congratulations to Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology Palashi Vaghela! She was named Canada Research Chair in Technological Change for Inclusion earlier this fall.

Read more: ow.ly/zGNY50XngAJ

⁠Do you dream of making films, developing games and becoming a master of design?⁠
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If you answered yes, we invite you to learn more about SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology at one of our online info sessions!

Our next session is Nov 6, 5:30pm PST!

RSVP now: https://ow.ly/I6Ol50XiLLq

SFU tops national rankings again as Canada’s leading comprehensive university

SFU is Canada’s top comprehensive university! 🍁

Continuing a tradition of excellence, Maclean's has ranked SFU in the top spot for 17 of the last 18 years, describing it as a "contemporary, inventive, and forward thinking" institution.

Learn more at the link below.

This Friday Oct 24, SIAT’s virtual ambassador Faye Ayato will be joining SIAT alumni Jun Kakeru, part of the team behind Yet Another Killing Game, for a special stream!

Tune in to https://ow.ly/vKOp50XfWUI @ 6:00pm PST to take learnnwhat it takes to make an indie game!

Remote Valentine: Glove Tech Puts 'Touch' into Long-Distance Relationships Researchers from Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) have designed a pair of interconnected gloves called 'Flex-N-Feel.' When a user's fingers flex in one glove, the actions are transmitted to a remote partner wearing the other. The glove's tactile sensors allow the wearer to 'feel' the movements.

FCAT Dean Carman Neustaedter and SIAT researchers show off glove tech that puts 'touch' into long-distance relationships!

Check out this story from tech brief featuring a pair of interconnected gloves called 'Flex-N-Feel' designed by researchers from our school.

https://ow.ly/7IRP50XfabV

SFU’s new School of Medicine, the first in Western Canada in nearly 60 years, is now officially accepting applications for its first cohort of future physicians! The inaugural class will begin the program in August 2026.

Read more: www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stor...