More than 20 short films documenting experiences of the pandemic were premiered by the Museum of Vancouver on YouTube on Monday Dec. 6th. Congratulations and gratitude to curator Viviane Gosselin, the MOV team and the students of IAT 344 Moving Images for their brave, funny, creative and community-oriented stories of this time. Congratulations to the award […]
Wrapped in the Cloud: An Anthropology of the Multimodal between the Physical and the Virtual | SSHRC Insight Grant Wrapped in the Cloud. Video still. Jaad Kuujus Meghann O’Brien, 2018. Produced in collaboration with Conrad Sly, Hannah Turner, Reese Muntean, and Kate Hennessy. Wrapped in the Cloud: An Anthropology of the Multimodal between the Physical and […]
On October 5th, Kate Hennessy will give an invited presentation titled “Collaborative Reserach-Creation and Exhibition as Space for Articulation of Cultural Property Rights: Projects from the Making Culture Lab” as a part of the symposium Industries culturelles globalisées usages, droits, circulations” at the Maison Sciences l’Homme, Paris Nord. COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH-CREATION AND EXHIBITION AS SPACE FOR THE […]
The SPAO Centre Gallery proudly presents Intimate Textures of the Digital World featuring the photo-based work of AM Dumouchel Gilles Tarabiscuité Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O’Brien) The artists in the exhibition negotiate between digital and physical spaces, continually asking viewers to orient themselves between physicality and abstraction. The artworks capture a tactile and sensory subject matter, […]
We are excited to announce that a new exhibition has opened at the Museum of Vancouver which features more than 50 short films created by students in Moving Images (IAT 344) at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. “Real-Time Collecting: Documenting and Remembering Covid-19” helps to preserve the memory and […]
Kate recently met with the exciting Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge research group in Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge based at the Bern University of the Arts, Institute Materiality in Arts and Culture, Switzerland. They recently published this short essay on the presentation and work. She discussed questions of conservation of ethnographic documentation and possibilities for the expression of […]
From the Field/Works exhibition, Anthropology/Art Network of the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA): We proudly announce the 11th Field/Works Antart session! On May 13 2021, Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith will talk about their project. Fugitive Structures: The Bauhaus Building in Dessau is a series of five risograph images remediating the Bauhaus building […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]