Trudi Lynn Smith and I are honored to present our risograph print remediations of buildings and materials from the Bauhaus campus in Dessau in a chapter “Anarchival Materiality: The Bauhaus Building in Dessau” that we co-authored with Oliver Neumann. Bauhaus Futures (MIT Press 2019) is edited by Laura Forlano, Molly Wright Steenson, and Mike Ananny. […]
Reposted from http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/news-updates/profiles/travel-reese-muntean.html Reese Muntean, a PhD student in Interactive Arts and Technology, received a Graduate International Research Travel Award (GIRTA) to further her research in Thailand. Her report: For my doctoral research, I have been investigating how we communicate and embed values, including cultural and Indigenous values, into technology. As part of this research, I have been […]
Meghann O’Brien / Jaad Kuujus’s Wrapped in the Cloud is part of Boarder X, curated by Jaimie Issac. It just opened at The Rooms in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Kate Hennessy, Hannah Turner, Conrad Sly, and Reese Muntean are privileged to have supported the creation of Wrapped in the Cloud and all the good thinking we have been […]
Kate Hennessy and Karrmen Crey (Stó:lō) are co-curators of The Roots of Meaning: A Symposium on Lisa Jackson’s Transmissions, taking place on Sept. 20th 2019 at the SFU Woodwards World Art Centre. The Roots of Meaning: A Symposium on Lisa Jackson’s Transmissions Sept. 20th, 2019 9am -5 pm EVENTBRITE REGISTRATION World Art Centre, Simon Fraser University, Woodwards. Curated by […]
Our sincere congratulations to Dr. Aynur Kadir, who has accepted a position as a tenure track Assistant Professor in Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo! Dr. Aynur Kadir’s research focuses on practices and theories of design and the study of interactive multimedia in the humanities, ethnographic practices, and museum curation. She works with local […]
Our chapter, written by the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective, “Ethnographic Terminalia: Co-Curation and the Role of the Anecdote in Practice” is coming soon in the volume The Anthropologist as Curator, edited by Roger Sansi. Bloomsbury Press. About The Anthropologist as Curator Why do contemporary art curators define their work as ethnography? How can curation illuminate the […]
We were super interested to read this short essay byt PhD student Rachel Ward on her research doing time-based media conservation at Small Data Industries, Brooklyn NY, as a part of her National Digital Stewardship Residency. ________________________________ From National Digital Stewardship Residencies: “When time-based media art in private collections no longer functions, who is responsible for […]
We are thrilled to share the news that Dr. Hannah Turner has been hired as an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool (Library, Archival, and Information Science). The UBC iSchool has been named best in the world for Library and Information Management graduate programs. Congratulations Hannah, we are so happy that you are […]
Read all about the wonderful work of PhD student Reese Muntean! Copied from the SIAT website: ************************************************** Reese Muntean shares stories on her SIAT graduate research that has taken her around the world. What are you working on in your graduate studies? My research, broadly, explores how we embed values into technology. I am interested […]
We had an excellent roundtable session at HASTAC2019 in Vancouver, on the unceded ancestral territory of the Musqueam people. Thank you to the organizers for a wonderful conference! Wrapped in the Cloud: Exhibition, Return, and Digital Representations of Meghann O’Brien’s Sky Blanket A 60-minute Roundtable of Talks by Beth Carter (Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest […]