In this special collaborative issue of Branch and Ding Magazines, Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith present an essay based on a series of anthotype prints as homage to Tu’i Malila, a tortoise evoked by Phillip K. Dick in the epigraph for his 1967 novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.” Created with fugitive photographic […]
Kate Hennessy, Trudi Lynn Smith, Steve DiPaola, and Amineh Ahmadi Nejad published a chapter “Sensing the Cloud: Research Creation as Sensory Ethnography”. Link to Publication “In this chapter, we describe the large-scale video projection artwork that we eventually created from this first video recording, titled White Clouds in Blue Sky (Hennessy et al., 2021). Through […]
Our new installation of The Water We Call Home is now open at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Museum in Steveston, B.C. A soft opening took place in July 2023 with the Welcoming the Sun event at the museum. We will be holding an official opening event in October, 2023. Between 2020-2022, an advisory circle […]
Exciting news! We were awarded an Honorable Mention for our DIS’23 pictorial “Transmediating Sky Blanket: Tensions with a Digital Jacquard Loom”. The paper is open access ! Abstract: This pictorial presents an ongoing collaboration between a Haida/Kwakwaka’wakw/Irish artist and a multi-disciplinary team of settler researchers around Sky Blanket, a hybrid Yeil Koowu (Raven’s Tail) and […]
Congratulations to Brett Gaylor, whose podcast series Necessary Tomorrows is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this week. This project mixes science fiction and speculative fact to explores how to make better futures. Brett is a PhD student in the Making Culture Lab and a documentary filmmaker known especially for his film RiP! […]
Brett Gaylor and Kate Hennessy traveled to the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Paris to present their paper “Welcome to the Metaverse Hacking Affect in Interactive Documentary to Increase Critical Big Data Literacy”. Based on Brett’s interactive Instagram- based doc “Welcome to the Metaverse”, produced with Hololabs, which was selected by the ISEA Jury for the 2023 […]
In Spring 2023, Kate Hennessy and Teaching Assistant Julian Iliev mentored students in Moving Images (IAT 344) in the production of 11 video poems that brought new meaning and creative approaches to representing the award winning poems about Vancouver that were selected as a part of Vancouver Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam’s City Poems Contest. […]
Premiering works of videopoetry created by @siatsfu students in our Moving Images course, in collaboration with Vancouver’s Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam and her CityPoems Contest. Screening on Friday March 31. Contact us here for details to attend.
Monday, November 22nd, 2022 11:30 am – 12:50 pm Online via Zoom The Water We Call Home Rosemary Georgeson (Coast Salish / Sahtu Dene) Artist, Writer and Storyteller Jessica Hallenbeck, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Queens University, SSHRC Postdoctoral Scholar SFU School of Interactive Arts and Technology Kate Hennessy, Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University School […]
Kate Hennessy, Stephanie Takaragawa, and Trudi Lynn Smith have organized a round table and online collection of research-creation works for the 2022 Meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Seattle. See the website here. Continuing in the trajectory to “expand beyond Eurocentric, colonialist, and ableist ways of doing what we do, with or without technology” […]