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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
We were honoured to be invited to contribute an article to the 50th Anniversary Issue of the journal BC Studies. Hannah Turner, Kate Hennessy, Meghann O’Brien and Conrad Sly co-authored “Wrapped in the Cloud: An Interview with Meghann O’Brien and Conrad Sly”. The article presents a contextual essay and conversation transcript exploring the ethical, creative, […]
In summer of 2018 Kate Hennessy and Hannah Turner collaborated with artist and weaver Meghann O’Brien and digital artist Conrad Sly to produce a new media work titled Wrapped in the Cloud. This media installation is a part of the traveling exhibition Boarder X, curated by Jaimie Issac. Boarder X has just opened at the […]