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MWEB 21 Paper: “Visualizing Collaboration: Video Production and Decolonial Curation between the Museum and the University”
April 17, 2021
We were excited to present our paper at the 2021 Museums and the Web Conference. The open-access publication is available here, and the recording of our presentation is available here. Visualizing Collaboration: Video Production and Decolonial Curation between the Museum and the University Aynur Kadir, University of Waterloo, Canada, Kate Hennessy, Simon Fraser University, School of […]

Collaborations, Conferences, Exhibitions, Research, Teaching
#IsolatingTogetherMOV – SIAT Student Films Awards Premiere
April 15, 2021
OFFICIAL AWARDS SELECTION PREMIERE! Premiering on Youtube Live at 1:00pm on Friday April 16, 2021 In 2020, the Museum of Vancouver partnered with Dr. Kate Hennessy at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology and students in the class Moving Images (IAT 344) to develop material for a new upcoming studio exhibition that […]

Art, Collaborations, Congratulations, Screening, Teaching
The Data Visionaries Series: Data for the Senses
April 13, 2021
The Data Visionaries Series: Data for the Senses Can new technologies incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) and computational creativity re-imagine what it means to produce and consume art? The Data Visionaries Series Data for the Senses: Re-Imagining Multi-Sensory Experiences explores how emerging data-rich technologies can create a deeper understanding of our lived-experiences by combining AI, human […]

Art, Collaborations, Presentations, Research
SFU Student Profile: Tylar Campbell
March 29, 2021
MCL PhD Student Tylar Campbell was recently interviewed by SFU about his work and decision to join SFU. See the full story here. Tylar is a unique scholar, advocate, and leader who is using new tools and technologies to craft narratives of the past, present and future. He is an artist and multimodal producer with […]

Graduate Students, People, Research
Exhibition: ‘A Thread That Never Breaks’, AbTec + Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto, 2021
February 5, 2021
Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O’Brien) is one of the seven incredible artists featured in the exhibition A Thread That Never Breaks, as a part of Indigenous Fashion Week, Toronto. Curators Lisa Myers and Sage Paul originally intended to install the works in a physical gallery, but Covid-19 restrictions meant that they had to rethink their approach. […]

Art, Collaborations, Exhibitions
Brett Gaylor in the New York Times: “Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos”
February 1, 2021
MCL grad student Brett Gaylor’s research and documentary project is featured in this New York Times article about Facial Recognition systems and their exploitation of personal photographs. “Exposing.AI itself does not use facial recognition. It pinpoints photos only if you already have a way of pointing to them online, with, say, an internet address. People […]

Art, Graduate Students, News, Research
Article: “Films that Speak to the Pandemic” in La Source
January 18, 2021
Films that speak to the Pandemic By Liam Sfaxi (English Translation of the French language original found here) Much like many other periods of instability in the history of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic shows humanity’s ability to adapt to the way of life that is currently permitted. One key example of adaptation is the […]

News, Teaching
New Publication: “Function and Form: the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective Between Art and Anthropology” in Collaborative Anthropology Today
January 14, 2021
The Ethnographic Termialia Collective (Trudi Lynn Smith, Kate Hennessy, Craig Campbell, Fiona P. McDonald and Stephanie Takaragawa) has published a chapter “Function and Form: the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective Between Art and Anthropology” in this exciting new book edited by Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus. Collaborative Anthropology Today A Collection of Exceptions EDITED BY DOMINIC […]

Congratulations, Ethnographic Terminalia, Publications
Presentation: Digital Sq’ewlets in the Working Tools Seminar Series: Community-Facing Data Management Platforms for Indigenous-University Partnerships
December 15, 2020
On Dec. 11, 2020, Dave Schaepe (SRRMC), Kate Hennessy (SFU), Michael Blake (UBC), Natasha Lyons (Ursus Heritage) Clarence Pennier (Sq’ewlets First Nation), and Chief Johnny (Sonny) Williams Jr. (Sq’ewlets First Nation) gave an online seminar presentation as a part of the series Working Tools Seminar Series: Community-Facing Data Management Platforms for Indigenous-University Partnerships. Working Tools Seminar Series: Community-Facing Data Management Platforms for Indigenous-University […]

Collaborations, Conferences, Presentations, Publications
Moving Images students premiere their films in partnership with the Museum of Vancouver
December 6, 2020
On Dec. 4th, 2020, Moving Images students at SIAT premiered 34 films on the Museum of Vancouver as a apart of their #isolatingtogetherMOV project and forthcoming exhibition. We also handed out some awards! See the awards ceremony and playlist of all the films here. Since 2015, the Museum of Vancouver has worked with Dr. Kate […]

Collaborations, Congratulations, Exhibitions, News, Screening, Teaching

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