This week in the Cappuverse:
- Mon: Apollo gets tortured in Minecraft for his birthday
- Tue: Mo finish Super Chat homework
- Wed: Faypollo plays @siatsfu.bsky.social student games
- Thurs: Members play Garrick Phone with MWF
- Fri: KARAOKE PARTY! with MWF
- Sat: Tomodachi Life
SFU is still accepting applications to identify nominees for the 2nd intake of the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program.
We're looking for leading international researchers in areas like quantum, cybersecurity & AI, cleantech, community & climate resilience, health, and food security. Apply now ⬇️
The first stream will be CHARACTER DESIGN, this SATURDAY, April 18th starting at 8:00pm on the official (new) SIAT YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@SFUSIAT
SIAT vTuber Characters depicted standing in front of a blurry photoshop window. A hand-drawn "A+" is circled in the top-left corner. The words "Spring 2026 Showcase Character Design" are superimposed on top of the image.
Final call for SIAT VTuber Spring 2026 Project Showcase submissions!
Mo, Faye, Wren & Apollo want your projects to REACT to on stream! We're calling all IAT 100, 312, 313, 380, 410, 445, 499 students to SUBMIT YOUR PROJECTS by TONIGHT before MIDNIGHT!
Submit here: forms.gle/B4uqfPntfRxp...
Join us for a game night with SIAT Students & VTubers! Find out how you can make your game dev, creative media, and design dreams come true!
Thursday, April 29th, 2026 | 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Online via Zoom
RSVP and get ready to learn more about your future at SIAT: https://ow.ly/WgHT50YGOg4
Congratulations to post-doctoral fellow in SIAT's criticalmediartstudio (cMAS) Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter!
Dr. Hunter has been awarded a SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant to examine bioart in Canada.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/Hha150YC2oy
Researchers from the School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) took home the CHI 2026 Best Paper Award at this year's ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction.
Read the whole story: https://ow.ly/6AM250YyWkt
Up this week: @beepboopkacaw.studiosiat.com gets jump scared by bugs, @redredraccoons.studiosiat.com & Wren plays spooky game as punishment, @akanewren.studiosiat.com goes overkill in Ultrakill, @ayatofaye.studiosiat.com solves more puzzles, and members find out how good drawers the Bureau is!
A familiar frequency hums again. Touchpoint is back!
🗓 Saturday, March 21
⏰ 9:00am - 4:00pm
📍SFU Surrey Sustainable Engineering Building
🔗 Click the link to learn more about the history of Touchpoint and reserve your ticket: https://ow.ly/kgms50YrB9J
Join us for the latest presentation in SIAT’s Spring Speaker Series: Opportunities and Challenges in Digitizing the Past with Dr. Cara Tremain, SFU Department of Archaeology.
When: March 11th, 2026. 12:45 - 2:20
Where: Room 5380, SFU Surrey Campus
Learn more: https://ow.ly/2Ogb50YrxoI
SIAT is excited to announce a limited merch drop celebrating the 1st anniversary of SFU's VTubers, Mo & Faye, as well as the second gen debut, Apollo & Wren! Anniversary t-shirt with art by pyuapitae (IG) and stickers by SFU student Jenny Xu available at https://ow.ly/a8Io50YoNW6
Join SIAT and SFU's Centre for Dialogue a 3 hour design workshop focusing on challenges in our democracy like mis/disinformation, trust, and civic participation.
When: Friday, March 6, 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Where: Studio B, SFU Surrey Campus
RSVP now: https://ow.ly/F1ZE50YoP4H
【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
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...
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
