Congratulations to Shumeng Dai, whose poster “Gen AI for Virtual Restoration of Chinese Paintings: Insights into Possibilities for Conservation” was accepted to the 2024 Institute ofConservator-Restorers in Ireland Conference. The poster is co-authored with Kate Hennessy and Steve DiPaola. Abstract:Chinese painting restoration is facing several challenges, such as the high risk involved in inpainting, the decreasing number […]
MCL PhD candidate Tylar Campbell has just published his article “Deep Roots, Bama Soil: Narrative Multimodal Anthropology and Fugitive Histories” in a forthcoming special issue of the journal Museum Anthropology on Black Museum Anthropology, edited by Deborah Johnson. Congratulations Tylar on this exceptional contribution! Read the open access article here. Fig. 9. Tylar Campbell discovers […]
Congratulations to Meta Vaughan, who just defended her Master’s Thesis Traversing the Therapeutic Cusp: The Perpetual Metamorphoses of Time for People with Cystic Fibrosis. Starting from her lived experience of cystic fibrosis, and using remote media production methods that became available at the time of the pandemic, Meta used a research-creation approach to create a […]
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 […]
Brett Gaylor and Kate Hennessy traveled to the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Paris to present their paper “Welcome to the Metaverse Hacking Affect in Interactive Documentary to Increase Critical Big Data Literacy”. Based on Brett’s interactive Instagram- based doc “Welcome to the Metaverse”, produced with Hololabs, which was selected by the ISEA Jury for the 2023 […]
Kate Hennessy, Stephanie Takaragawa, and Trudi Lynn Smith have organized a round table and online collection of research-creation works for the 2022 Meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Seattle. See the website here. Continuing in the trajectory to “expand beyond Eurocentric, colonialist, and ableist ways of doing what we do, with or without technology” […]
On July 6, 2022 Bryan Myles defended his dissertation “Bill Reid’s Tupperware Fleet: Meaning and Agency in the Cultural Lives of Four Replica Canoes”. Congratulations Dr. Bryan Myles, and thank you to the thesis committee and examiners: Dr. Jennifer Kramer (UBC Anthropology, MOA), Dr. Eldon Yellowhorn (SFU, Indigenous Studies); SFU Examiner Dr. Dara Culhane (Anthropology); […]
The Making Culture Lab and CriticalMediartStudio (cMAS) was excited to present new work at the Royal Anthropological Institute Conference Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society. Our session “Critical Research-Creation Engagements with Artificial Intelligence: New Works from the Making Culture Lab and CriticalMediaArtStudio” includes presentations by Dr. Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda, Dr. Kate Hennessy, Steve DiPaola, […]
WELCOME TO THE METAVERSE! Bring a smartphone, board a boat in the Inner Harbour, and join Brett Gaylor (documentary filmmaker) and Mike Wozniewski (President & CTO, Hololabs) for a hands-on demonstration and interactive conversation about their augmented-reality Instagram “meta-documentary”. Discover the power and perils of facial-recognition data-harvesting technologies — and how to make your “metaverse” […]