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!
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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! […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Premiering works of videopoetry created by @siatsfu students in our Moving Images course, in collaboration with Vancouver’s Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam and her CityPoems Contest. Screening on Friday March 31. Contact us here for details to attend.