A paper titled “Virtual Repatriation and the Application Programming Interface: From the Smithsonian Institution’s MacFarlane Collection to “Inuvialuit Living History” that I co-authored with Ryan Wallace and Nicholas Jakobsen, Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, and Charles Arnold, from the University of Calgary, Canada, has just been published on the Museums and […]
I had the pleasure of spending last weekend in Fort St. John, B.C. working with former Doig River First Nation chief Garry Oker and SFU PhD Candidate Rob McMahon to plan a documentary video that Mr. Oker will produce for the First Mile project, which is based in part at Simon Fraser University. The First Mile […]
I am reposting Kim Christen’s great summary on Material World of the ‘After the Return’ workshop held at the American Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. in January. In addition to describing many of the fantastic presentations given in the course of the event, she talks about how Inuvialuit Living History Project partner Mervin […]
Next week I will travel with my Inuvialuit Living History Project colleague and collaborator Mervin Joe to Washington D.C. to participate in an exciting workshop called “After the Return: Digital Repatriation and the Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge”. Organized by Kim Christen (Washington State U), Josh Bell (Smithsonian Institution), and Mark Turin (Cambridge and Yale), the […]
The 2011 Ethnographic Terminalia exhibit “Field, Studio, Lab” has now concluded at Eastern Bloc Centre for New Media and Interdisciplinary Art in Montréal, Canada. Our whirlwind 10 days included the exhibit installation, an opening party, an artist/curator talk with Art Gallery of York University curator Emelie Chhangur and Director Phillip Monk, an artists’ walk-through and […]
In November I presented a paper at the Meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Montréal, QC. Our session was entitled “Digital Anthropology: Projects and Projections”, and was organized by Mike Fortun and Kim Fortun of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This was an exciting session to be a part of, and included: Jason Jackson (Indiana), […]
Our exhibition Ethnographic Terminalia 2011: Field, Studio, Lab will installed at Eastern Bloc Centre for New Media and Interdisciplinary Art from Nov. 15-19 2011 in Montréal. A conversation with artist Humberto Vélez and curator Emelie Chhangur (Art Gallery of York University), and our opening reception, will be on Friday, Nov. 18th. Descriptions of more than 25 […]
“Because We Are Yong” (2011) Produced in collaboration with Wat Pratupa, Lamphun, Thailand. The Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums Field School is an intensive, 2-week course offering a combination of lectures and a hands-on field practicum. Participants–heritage professionals and students from the Mekong Delta region––work in cross-cultural, interdisciplinary teams to apply their newly gained concepts and approaches […]
On Friday, September 30th 2011 I presented a draft version of the Inuvialuit Living History virtual exhibit with Natasha Lyons (Ursus Heritage), Charles Arnold (U Calgary), and Stephen Loring (Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution) at the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) Mid-term conference, held at Simon Fraser University. Our presentation focused on the […]