On July 6, 2022 Bryan Myles defended his dissertation “Bill Reid’s Tupperware Fleet: Meaning and Agency in the Cultural Lives of Four Replica Canoes”. Congratulations Dr. Bryan Myles, and thank you to the thesis committee and examiners: Dr. Jennifer Kramer (UBC Anthropology, MOA), Dr. Eldon Yellowhorn (SFU, Indigenous Studies); SFU Examiner Dr. Dara Culhane (Anthropology); […]
The Making Culture Lab and CriticalMediartStudio (cMAS) was excited to present new work at the Royal Anthropological Institute Conference Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society. Our session “Critical Research-Creation Engagements with Artificial Intelligence: New Works from the Making Culture Lab and CriticalMediaArtStudio” includes presentations by Dr. Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda, Dr. Kate Hennessy, Steve DiPaola, […]
Kate Hennessy recently delivered a presentation co-authored with Rosemary Georgeson (Coast Salish / Sahtu Dene) and Dr. Jessica Hallenback and titled “The Water We Call Home: Community Engaged Research and Methodologies of Transformational Reconnection” at the Horizons: Crisis and Social Transformation in Community-Engaged Research Conference at Simon Fraser University. This presentation shared photographs, sound, and […]
Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith were recently invited to presented their research-creation work in film, video, and photography in a Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Film Seminar. We hope to share the recording of the session soon. RAI Film Seminar, April 29th 2022 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 Speakers: 𝗗𝗿 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘆 (Simon Fraser University) 𝗗𝗿 […]
Excerpt from white clouds in blue sky (2022). Preview 1 min 50 sec. Original work 6 mins. 25 sec. By Kate Hennessy, Trudi Lynn Smith, and Steve DiPaola. white clouds in blue sky white clouds in the blue sky is a three-channel video installation by artist-anthropologists Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith and artist and artificial […]
WELCOME TO THE METAVERSE! Bring a smartphone, board a boat in the Inner Harbour, and join Brett Gaylor (documentary filmmaker) and Mike Wozniewski (President & CTO, Hololabs) for a hands-on demonstration and interactive conversation about their augmented-reality Instagram “meta-documentary”. Discover the power and perils of facial-recognition data-harvesting technologies — and how to make your “metaverse” […]
On Feb. 1, 2022, MCL PhD student Tylar Campbell and Dr. Cecil Brown are presenting a talk “Liberty!: Revival of African American Folk Culture in the Age of Digital Technology” at Stanford University’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). About this talk: This presentation explores George Moses Horton as an oral poet, from Oral Horton […]
We Have Stories: Film as a Method for Decolonial Curation (Dr. Kate Hennessy, co-applicant) sets the stage for the development of decolonial curatorial practices for the confirmed exhibition at the Yellowhouse Art Centre in partnership with the Access to Media Education Society on Galiano Island, British Columbia. This research builds on an ongoing collaboration between Hallenbeck and Sahtu Dene and Coast […]
More than 20 short films documenting experiences of the pandemic were premiered by the Museum of Vancouver on YouTube on Monday Dec. 6th. Congratulations and gratitude to curator Viviane Gosselin, the MOV team and the students of IAT 344 Moving Images for their brave, funny, creative and community-oriented stories of this time. Congratulations to the award […]
Wrapped in the Cloud: An Anthropology of the Multimodal between the Physical and the Virtual | SSHRC Insight Grant Wrapped in the Cloud. Video still. Jaad Kuujus Meghann O’Brien, 2018. Produced in collaboration with Conrad Sly, Hannah Turner, Reese Muntean, and Kate Hennessy. Wrapped in the Cloud: An Anthropology of the Multimodal between the Physical and […]