Congratulations to PhD student and media producer Brett Gaylor on being awarded a 2023 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship! This is a 3-year scholarship valued at $50,00 per year for doctoral studies. It recognizes academic excellence, research potential, and leadership. Brett joins PhD student Tylar Campbell, who was a 2022 Vanier Scholar.
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 […]
Huge congratulations to all of the student filmmakers in the SIAT class Moving Images (IAT344), who won top awards at the Vancouver Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam’s City Poems Video Poetry Completion Awards Ceremony, which took place at the Museum of Vancouver on June 11, 2023. These films were produced over 2 semesters in collaboration with […]
In Spring 2023, Kate Hennessy and Teaching Assistant Julian Iliev mentored students in Moving Images (IAT 344) in the production of 11 video poems that brought new meaning and creative approaches to representing the award winning poems about Vancouver that were selected as a part of Vancouver Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam’s City Poems Contest. […]
Congratulations Dr. Jessica Hallenbeck on your Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, at Queens University supervised by Dylan Robinson. We are so excited for this next project, “”Flow: film as a method for decolonial digital publishing”. We have been so lucky to work with you these last two years as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Scholar, including the co-curation of […]
Our massive congratulations to Tylar Campbell, who has been awarded a prestigious SSHRC Vanier Doctoral Scholarship to work on his project Fugitive Geographies Beyond the Archive: Multimodal Engagements with Historic Black Communities and Settlements. We are so excited to be working with and alongside you Tylar! Learn more about Tylar’s work at his website and […]
We Have Stories: Film as a Method for Decolonial Curation (Dr. Kate Hennessy, co-applicant) sets the stage for the development of decolonial curatorial practices for the confirmed exhibition at the Yellowhouse Art Centre in partnership with the Access to Media Education Society on Galiano Island, British Columbia. This research builds on an ongoing collaboration between Hallenbeck and Sahtu Dene and Coast […]
Congratulations to Kate Hennessy on being awarded the 2019 Simon Fraser University Faculty of Communication, Art, and Technology Research Excellence Award for Participatory and Collaborative Research, awarded to a faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in research co-creation. Also from SIAT, Dr. Alissa Antle was presented with the Distinguished Researcher Award, awarded to a faculty […]
Congratulations to Dr. Aynur Kadir, who has been working in her new position as a MITACS Elevate Postdoctoral Scholar and Visiting Media Curator at the Bill Reid Gallery of North West Coast Art. Her MITACS fellowship is supported by the Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Studies and the Making Culture Lab at SFU, where […]
Congratulations to Rachel Ward, PhD Candidate in the MCL. She has been awarded a 2018-2019 National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) Fellowship. She will spend the year working with Small Data Industries in Brooklyn, New York on the project Something Old, Something New: Born-digital Artist’s Materials in the Archive and the Studio. Overview National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) […]