Right now I am in the midst of redeveloping this website, and the Making Culture Lab’s website. Please bear with me as I bring this to completion! In the meantime, please visit the Making Culture Lab site for news and current projects.
I am very excited to be a part of team of curators, interaction designers, artists, and computer scientists who have developed a new tangible table-top exhibit called ʔeləw̓k̓ʷ – Belongings: A Tangible Table in c̓əsnaʔəm: the city before the city at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. c̓əsnaʔəm,; the city before the […]
MCL PhD student Claude Fortin’s 10-week ethnographic field study of Mégaphone, an interactive installation produced by the National Film Board of Canada and the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership, created by Moment Factory and directed by Etienne Paquette, has been getting some nice shout-outs by the GRAND network and Simon Fraser University (here and here).
Ethnographic Terminalia is pleased to formally announce our upcoming exhibition this November in Chicago: “Exhibition as Residency–Art, Anthropology, Collaboration” will be taking place 18-22 November 2013 at the Arts Incubator in Washington Park. ‘Exhibition as Residency” is an installation of international collaborative projects that visitors are invited to interact with in the gallery. Join us […]
“Because We Are Yong” (2011) Produced in collaboration with Wat Pratupa, Lamphun, Thailand. The Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums Field School is an intensive, 2-week course offering a combination of lectures and a hands-on field practicum. Participants–heritage professionals and students from the Mekong Delta region––work in cross-cultural, interdisciplinary teams to apply their newly gained concepts and approaches […]
A full description of this project in progress can be found in our 2011 Project Report: The Inuvialuit Smithsonian Project: Winter 2009-Spring 2011 During our visit at the National Museum of Natural History in 2009, elder Albert Elias described the MacFarlane Collection as a “living collection”. As curator Stephen Loring pulled intricate and beautiful items […]
Ethnographic Terminalia 2009-present [Philadelphia 2009; New Orleans 2010; Montreal 2011] Montréal, 2011: field, studio, lab “We seek projects in any medium for inclusion in Ethnographic Terminalia 2011 that take up the theme: field, studio, lab. These three locations–the field, the studio, the lab–comprise both their own communities of practice, and form sites of inquiry and production for […]
Media on the City: The Lee Building: a video projection that documents the demolition of the Lee Building’s historic billboard in Vancouver B.C over a period of four months. Kate Hennessy, Co-director, co-producer, with Oliver Neumann Video: Media on the City: The Lee Building “Observing the demolition of a billboard on top of Vancouver’s Lee Building, this video […]
The website of the Society for Visual Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association. Designed and maintained by Craig Campbell (U Texas, Austin; Intermedia Ethnography Lab) and Kate Hennessy
VAR 19 (1-2) 2003 was the first multimedia issue of the journal Visual Anthropology Review, the peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Visual Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association. This volume was designed by Kate Hennessy and Peter Biella, Director of the Program in Visual Anthropology at San Francisco State University.