An interdisciplinary scholar, Claude has come to SIAT’s Making Culture Lab to study large interactive digital public displays and screens in urban environments. The past 10 years have seen a sizeable body of research adopting a technical approach towards the design and development of this new media platform, but Claude is interested in contributing to […]
The Ethnographic Terminalia Curatorial Collective is pleased to be opening our fourth annual exhibition of works at the intersection of anthropological and contemporary art practice. Audible Observatories is taking place in San Francisco in conjunction with the meetings of the American Anthropological Association, from Nov. 14-19. It includes installations at SOMArts, Alley Cat Gallery, and […]
On September 26th, 2012, I presented a paper at the UNESCO conference Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation. I was privileged to present my paper ‘Digital Heritage and Local Cultural Property Rights Discourse’ alongside very thought provoking academics and policy makers in a session titled ‘Intellectual property infrastructure initiatives for […]
Our article about collaborative work on the Inuvialuit Living History Project was recently published in a special issue of the Society for American Archaeology’s SAA Archaeological Record. The issue features case studies of international collaborations with Aboriginal communities, and we were honored to be a part of this effort. There was a very strong set […]
I was honored to be asked to give a lecture on Sept 18th in the SFU Department of English’s Print Culture Speaker Series. I gave a talk called “Cultural Heritage on the Web: Applied Digital Visual Anthropology and Local Cultural Property Rights Discourse”, which draws on a forthcoming article to be published in the International […]
An extended review of Ethnographic Terminalia by Shelly Errington (UC Santa Cruz) has just been published in the journal American Anthropologist. The review addresses our first three years of exhibition (Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Montréal) and traces theoretical and methodological connections to broader movements in anthropology and contemporary art. The full article can be downloaded […]
The Ethnographic Terminalia curatorial collective is now seeking submissions for our fourth exhibition to be held in San Francisco this coming November. Following our exhibits in Montreal, New Orleans, and Philadelphia, we are excited this year to bring together works featuring sound in a distributed, urban, location-specific presentation. The official Call for Submissions: Ethnographic Terminalia seeks […]
Our Inuvialuit Living History Project team is happy to announce the official launch of our virtual exhibit Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History – www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca. We see this launch as only the beginning, as the intent of the project is to build an archive of knowledge of the collection and to show how these objects […]
A new book “Safeguarding Intangible Heritage“, edited by Michelle Stefano, Peter Davis, and Gerard Corsane has just been published in the UK by Boydell and Brewer as a part of the “Heritage Matters” series. It includes a chapter that I wrote about my work on digital media, oral histories, and intangible heritage with the Doig […]
On April 10th, 2012, graduate and undergraduate students from my classes at SIAT “New Media and the Museum” (IAT888) and my Capstone Undergraduate Research group, will be presenting the results of their work conducted in collaboration with the Museum of Vancouver over the last two semesters. Both classes have been doing research and applied projects […]