Sonny Assu: Legacy Format
Kate Hennessy was recently invited to write an essay for Sonny Assu’s solo exhibition of digital jacquard woven blankets at Vancouver’s Equinox Gallery. Read the essay here. Images courtesy Equinox Gallery, 2023.
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Presentation to MASTS, University of Southern California
Kate was recently invited to present work to the MASTS Program (Media as SocioTechnical Systems) at the University of Southern California. Thanks to Mike Ananny and Simogne Hudson for organizing!
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Congratulations to Brett Gaylor, 2023 Vanier Canada Scholar
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.
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Now open: The Water We Call Home at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Museum
Our new installation of The Water We Call Home is now open at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Museum in Steveston, B.C. A soft opening took place in July 2023 with the Welcoming the Sun event at the museum. We will be holding an official opening event in October, 2023. Between 2020-2022, an advisory circle […]
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DIS’23 Honorable Mention: Transmediating Sky Blanket
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 […]
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Top Prizes in Vancouver Poet Laureate’s VideoPoetry Contest
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 […]
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Brett Gaylor’s new podcast series premieres at Tribeca Film Festival
Congratulations to Brett Gaylor, whose podcast series Necessary Tomorrows is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this week. This project mixes science fiction and speculative fact to explores how to make better futures. Brett is a PhD student in the Making Culture Lab and a documentary filmmaker known especially for his film RiP! […]
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Brett Gaylor and Kate Hennessy present paper at ISEA 2023 Paris
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 […]
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City Poems Video Poetry Contest! “Like” for the Audience Award!
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. […]
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MCL/cMAS Presents: Michelle-Marie Latelier, “Transhemispheria”, April 12th 2023
Michelle-Marie Letelier Michelle-Marie Letelier is a Chilean artist and researcher based in Berlin. Her multidisciplinary work orchestrates transformations of ‘natural resources’, alongside extensive wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research into the sea- landscapes where their exploitation and speculation take place. Through her work, she blends different epochs, regions and societies, examining political- economic, historical and cultural aspects. Supported […]