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Knowledge/Culture/Ecologies KCE 2017 Paper Presentation
November 21, 2017
Knowledge/Culture/Ecologies KCE 2017 Universidad Diego Portales Santiago Chile November 15-18 2017 On November 15, MCL Artist in Residence Trudi Smith presented “Anarchival Materiality: Proximal interactions” at The Knowledge/Culture/Ecologies KCE 2017 conference at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago Chile November 15-18 2017. The paper considered our (Trudi and Kate’s) recent research into fugitive archives, fleshing out relationships between the materiality of things and their […]

Collaborations, Presentations, Research
Sq’éwlets Exhibition at Chilliwack Museum & Archives
October 30, 2017
We are proud to announce that an exhibition drawing from the online exhibition SQ’ÉWLETS: A Stó:lō–Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley opens November 2, 2017 at the Chilliwack Museum & Archives. It runs until April 28, 2018. Download the Press Release here. Exhibition Description (courtesy Chilliwack Museum & Archives) -SQ’ÉWLETS: A Stó:lō–Coast Salish Community […]

Collaborations, Congratulations, Exhibitions
Conversations with Unusual Suspects: Trudi Lynn Smith, Kate Hennessy, and Sabine Bitter, Oct. 19.
October 6, 2017
Conversations with Unusal Suspects is a seminar series by the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography (CIE) & the Institute for Performance Studies (IPS/SFU). Trudi Lynn Smith and Kate Hennessy will be in conversation with Sabine Bitter about their new project, Fugitives: Anarchival Materiality in Archives. Abstract In analog and digital archives, issues of material loss are met […]

Presentations, Publications, Research
City on Edge: A Century of Vancouver Activism – Documentaries
September 25, 2017
Students from our Moving Images class produced three documentaries that are featured in the Museum of Vancouver’s upcoming exhibition “City on Edge: A Century of Vancouver Activism”. The course was taught by Instructor Kate Hennessy and Teaching Assistant Aynur Kadir. Congratulations to the students! ______ Visually stunning, City on Edge: A Century of Vancouver Activism is a photo-based […]

Congratulations, Exhibitions, Teaching
Student Video documentaries featured in “Intangible: Memory and Innovation in Coast Salish Art” at the Bill Reid Gallery
August 23, 2017
The exhibition ‘Intangible: Memory and Innovation in Coast Salish Art’ will run from September 13 to December 10, 2017 at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Vancouver BC. It features 6 short documentaries created by students in Kate’s Moving Images class (IAT 344) that profile each of the exhibiting artists. Aynur Kadir was the […]

Congratulations, Exhibitions, Teaching
Maps and Dreams Reading Group, led by Kate Hennessy
July 22, 2017
Kate led a reading group at the Audain Gallery last week as a part of the public programming for the exhibition Maps and Dreams, curated by Brian Jungen and Melanie O’Brian. The group read aloud and discussed some selections from Hugh Brody’s book Maps and Dreams that Kate had chosen, and listened to narratives in Dane-zaa Záágéʔ […]

News, Presentations
Best Paper Award, EVA London 2017
July 13, 2017
We were thrilled to be awarded the 2017 Best Paper Award at the EVA London (Electronic Visualization and the Arts) Conference, for our paper: Virtual Transcendance: An interactive immersive media installation of Sufi Dhikr Ritual Aynur Kadir, Kate Hennessy, Steve DiPaola, and Ozge Yalcin Abstract “Virtual Sama” is an interactive multimedia installation that connects computationally […]

Congratulations, Current Projects, Graduate Students, Publications, Research
SIAT + UBC team wins Journalism 360 Challenge Grant
July 11, 2017
The Making Culture Lab is excited to be collaborating with SIAT’s Steve DiPaola and Taylor Owen from the UBC Graduate School of Journalism on this exciting project. AI-generated Anonymization in VR Journalism is “Helping reporters test whether an emotional connection can be maintained in immersive storytelling formats when a character is algorithmically distorted so that their […]

Awards, Congratulations, Current Projects, Research
Congratulations Dr. Hannah Turner, Associate Curator of Museum of Vancouver’s exhibit “Unbelievable!”
June 26, 2017
MCL congratulates Hannah Turner on the opening of the Museum of Vancouver’s exhibition “Unbelievable!”, which runs from June 24th to September 24th 2017. Hannah is the Associate Curator, with curator Greg Dreicer and curator Sharon Fortney. MCL Associate Alix Shield also curated part of the exhibition related to E. Pauline Johnson. We can’t wait to […]

Congratulations, Exhibitions, News
Review in BC Studies of Sq’éwlets Virtual Museum of Canada exhibit
June 14, 2017
We were excited to see this review of Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lō -Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley just published in BC Studies by Dara Kelly. ___________________________________________________ SQ’ÉWLETS: A STÓ:LŌ-COAST SALISH COMMUNITY IN THE FRASER RIVER VALLEY VIRTUAL MUSEUM Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre and Stó:lō Nation Reviewed by Dara Kelly http://digitalsqewlets.ca/ Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lō -Coast […]

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