Tonight the grunt gallery launched its newly renovated and totally wired gruntKitchen Media Lab. They have transformed their old kitchen space into a new lab for development and exhibition of new media works, performance, and a range of educational programming. The space is flexible and modifiable and ready to support many future projects, exhibitions, and conversations… The gruntKitchen […]
A collaboratively produced exhibit of Dane-zaa oral traditions from the Doig River First Nation. Core funding by the Virtual Museum of Canada and the Volkswagen Foundation for Endangered Languages. Amber Ridington and Kate Hennessy, Co-curators, co-producers Doig River First Nation, Directors See Complete Project Credits Jean Rouch Award in Visual Anthropology, Society for Visual Anthropology
I was really happy to see this week that artist Candy Chang’s work has been getting kudos and raves all over the net; from Wired to the cover of the most recent issue of Typo Magazine (see images below). She is also a TED Fellow, and at this year’s TED conference she presented on her […]
Greenest City Conversations is an innovative, interdisciplinary and wide-scale research project aimed at developing multiple channels for public engagement on sustainability policies. Its two main goals are (1) to facilitate discussion, solicit and analyze public attitudes and opinions on, and support for, a variety of sustainability policies; and (2) to provide a comprehensive understanding of the content and […]
Cartographic Exploits: Making Territory in the Contemporary City (“A Symposium Exploring the Spatial Poetics of Vancouver”) will take place on January 28th and 29th as a part of the PuSH International Festival for the Performing Arts. It will be held in the Warehouse at the Great Northern Way Campus / Center for Digital Media. On Saturday morning, […]
On January 25th, the exhibit Entwined Histories: Gifts from the Maisie Hurley Collection will open at the North Vancouver Museum (Presentation House). This exhibit is remarkable as the first curatorial partnership between the North Vancouver Museum and Archives and the Squamish Nation. It was curated by Dr. Sharon Fortney and Damara Jacobs, and beautifully conveys […]
The Making Culture Lab is excited to work in research partnership with the grunt gallery Media Lab in Vancouver, B.C. The grunt gallery was founded in 1984 as an artist-run centre exhibiting the diverse work of local, national, and international artists. grunt gallery has been a leader in the exhibition of First Nations contemporary art and […]
*This RA position has been filled. Thank you for your interest!* Study: “Inuvialuit-Smithsonian Virtual Exhibit Project”. Start date: Immediate End date: April 15 2011, with possible extension through Summer 2011. Hours: 10 hours/week Position: Research assistant to work with Dr. Hennessy and research team members to develop a virtual museum exhibit featuring a collection from […]
The North Shore News recently wrote this article about the upcoming exhibit Entwined Histories: Gifts from the Maisie Hurley Collection. The exhibit is curated by Dr. Sharon Fortney and Damara Jacobs, and represents the first collaboration between the North Vancouver Museum and Archives and the Squamish Nation. Entwined Histories will exhibit a selection of the […]
From Nov. 7th to Dec. 4th, my ethnographic video collaboration with media artist Richard Wilson, Active Pass to IR9, will be a part of the exhibition Ethnographic Terminalia at the DuMois Gallery in New Orleans. Full disclosure: I am a part of the Ethnographic Terminalia curatorial collective, a group that formed to explore the disciplinary […]