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Becoming Anarchival: Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith at Gallery 881, Nov 2- 30 2024
EXHIBITION STATEMENT Becoming Anarchival is a collaboration between artist-ethnographers Trudi Lynn Smith and Kate Hennessy that activates instability and impermanence as generative forces in museums and archives. Over the past decade, they have oriented their writing and art practice toward the anarchival, both as transformative disruption and as a methodology for engaging time-based media and […]
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Shumeng Dai presents poster at ICRI 24
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 […]
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Tylar Campbell’s article in special issue of Museum Anthropology
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 […]
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EVA London ’24: “Journey into Form: Transmediating the Woven Artwork of Jaad Kuujus”
We recently presented our new paper “Journey into Form: Transmediating the Woven Artwork of Jaad Kuujus” (by Kate Hennessy, Hannah Turner, Meghann O’Brien, Doenja Oogjes, and Reese Muntean) as a part of the EVA London ’24 conference (Electronic Visualization and the Arts). We love this relatively small, long-running conference at the British Computer Society in […]
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DIS’ 24 Paper: Untangling Cables: A Case Study of the Life & Afterlife of Digital Devices in Academic Research
We have just published a new paper in the proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems (Copenhagen, 2024) titled “Untangling Cables: A Case Study of the Life & Afterlife of Digital Devices in Academic Research” by Reese Muntean, Kate Hennessy, Chelsea Mills, and Alissa Antle. Read the full open-access paper here or get the PDF here. Abstract:As […]
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Congratulations Meta Vaughan, M.A.
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 […]
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NYC Exhibition: Everyone Says I Look Like My Mother
In April our team traveled to New York to install two short-term exhibitions of Jaad Kuujus Meghann O’Brien’s woven and digital artwork, first at Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan and then at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn. This was the first time that Meghann’s incredible Chilkat and Ravenstail-style woven robe Sky Blanket was exhibited […]
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Fugitive Memory: For Tu’i Malila
In this special collaborative issue of Branch and Ding Magazines, Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith present an essay based on a series of anthotype prints as homage to Tu’i Malila, a tortoise evoked by Phillip K. Dick in the epigraph for his 1967 novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.” Created with fugitive photographic […]
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New publication, International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography
Kate Hennessy, Trudi Lynn Smith, Steve DiPaola, and Amineh Ahmadi Nejad published a chapter “Sensing the Cloud: Research Creation as Sensory Ethnography”. Link to Publication “In this chapter, we describe the large-scale video projection artwork that we eventually created from this first video recording, titled White Clouds in Blue Sky (Hennessy et al., 2021). Through […]