We excited to see the new redesigned issue of the journal Visual Anthropology Review! The cover image is drawn from Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith’s video To the Burning World (2018). It includes an exhibition review essay article by Jennifer Clare Robinson, discussing the 2019 exhibition Fugitives in the Archive by Kate Hennessy and […]
2 June 2020 Job Advertisement: Media/Web Content Specialist The Inuvialuit Living History Project is looking for a research assistant with media preparation and web development skills to support Phase 2 Content development of the innovative online digital heritage project Inuvialuit Living History (www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca). This project was initially launched in 2012, and documents the Smithsonian’s MacFarlane […]
The journal BC Studies has published a wonderful review of Lisa Jackson’s Transmissions exhibition, by Karlene Harvey. “This new body of work weaves interdisciplinary themes regarding society, nature, Indigenous languages, and ecological futures. Lisa Jackson is Anishinaabe from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation and she has an impressive filmmaking practice spanning twenty years. The multimedia format […]
Congratulations to Making Culture Lab PhD alumna Dr. Claude Fortin, who worked with Prof. Jim Bizzochi and Dr. Kate Hennessy to develop this close reading of the award winning Virtual Museum of Canada exhibit A Journey into Time Immemorial (Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology). This essay was originally developed as a graduate […]
Our chapter, written by the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective (Kate Hennessy, Trudi Lynn Smith, Fiona P. McDonald, Craig Campbell, and Stephanie Takaragawa), “Ethnographic Terminalia: Co-Curation and the Role of the Anecdote in Practice” has just come out in the volume The Anthropologist as Curator, edited by Roger Sansi. Bloomsbury Press. About The Anthropologist as Curator Why […]
Congratulations to Kate Hennessy on being awarded the 2019 Simon Fraser University Faculty of Communication, Art, and Technology Research Excellence Award for Participatory and Collaborative Research, awarded to a faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in research co-creation. Also from SIAT, Dr. Alissa Antle was presented with the Distinguished Researcher Award, awarded to a faculty […]
Vancouver, B.C. is known as Terminal City, the end of the railways and pipelines where land meets the Pacific Ocean. It is the terminus, the boundary, the border. It is a city on unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Territory, a place grappling with colonial ruptures, cultural continuities, and new beginnings. In 2009, […]
Trudi Lynn Smith and I are honored to present our risograph print remediations of buildings and materials from the Bauhaus campus in Dessau in a chapter “Anarchival Materiality: The Bauhaus Building in Dessau” that we co-authored with Oliver Neumann. Bauhaus Futures (MIT Press 2019) is edited by Laura Forlano, Molly Wright Steenson, and Mike Ananny. […]
Reposted from http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/news-updates/profiles/travel-reese-muntean.html Reese Muntean, a PhD student in Interactive Arts and Technology, received a Graduate International Research Travel Award (GIRTA) to further her research in Thailand. Her report: For my doctoral research, I have been investigating how we communicate and embed values, including cultural and Indigenous values, into technology. As part of this research, I have been […]
Meghann O’Brien / Jaad Kuujus’s Wrapped in the Cloud is part of Boarder X, curated by Jaimie Issac. It just opened at The Rooms in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Kate Hennessy, Hannah Turner, Conrad Sly, and Reese Muntean are privileged to have supported the creation of Wrapped in the Cloud and all the good thinking we have been […]