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 […]
Image credit: From Wrapped in the Cloud, Meghann O’Brien, 2018. Produced in collaboration with Conrad Sly, Hannah Turner, Reese Muntean, Jaimie Issac, and Kate Hennessy. Wrapped in the Cloud | A collaboration with Meghann O’Brien Kate Hennessy, Hannah Turner, Reese Muntean, and digital artist Conrad Sly are thrilled to be collaborating with curator Jaimie Issac […]
“Wrapped in the Cloud”
Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith’s exhibition Fugitives in the Archive at the Royal British Columbia Museum’s Pocket Gallery and Lightbox Gallery opened on Nov. 2 2018 and ran until January 1, 2019. Fugitives in the Archive is inspired by unexpected objects that we have encountered while doing art-based research in archives. How are decisions […]
Fugitives in the Archive: Exhibition
AI-generated Anonymization in VR Journalism AI GENERATED ANONYMITY IN VR JOURNALISM from Making Culture Lab on Vimeo. Taylor Owen (Graduate School of Journalism, University of British Columbia), Kate Hennessy and Steve DiPaola (School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University) This project was awarded a 2017-2018 Knight Foundation/ Google News Lab / Online […]
AI-generated Anonymization in VR Journalism
The Making Culture Lab has been working with the UN’s One Planet Network on the production of a series of 360° videos and the design of their installation at the UN Headquarters in NYC as part of the Camp One Planet exhibit at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development July 9-18, 2018. The […]
360° Video for Sustainability
Led by Kate Hennessy (in collaboration with Trudi Lynn Smith, Craig Campbell, Stephanie Takaragawa, and Fiona P. McDonald), the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective is in the process of designing and creating a digital archive that will document the work of the collective Since 2009, the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective has staged annual exhibitions and projects in major North American […]
The Ethnographic Terminalia Archive
CEDHI is the Critical Ethnography and Digital Heritage Initiative, a Canada Foundation for Innovation / British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund supported media production and research studio. It is a partnership between Dr. Jan Marontate (SFU School of Communication) and Dr. Kate Hennessy (SFU School of Interactive Arts and Technology). CEDHI is dedicated to designing innovative methods […]
CEDHI
The Making Culture Lab is thrilled to have worked in collaboration with the Stó:lo Research and Resource Management Centre, the Scowlitz First Nation, Ursus Heritage Consulting, and a diverse project team of archaeologists, software developers and designers. With funding from the Virtual Museum of Canada, we worked from 2012 to 2017 to produce an exhibit titled Sq’éwlets: […]
digital sqewlets.ca
Ethnographic Terminalia | No longer content to theorize the ends of the discipline and possibilities of new media, new locations, or new methods of asking old questions, Ethnographic Terminalia is working in capacity to develop generative ethnographies that do not subordinate the sensorium to the expository and theoretical text or monograph. Ethnographic Terminalia is an initiative designed […]
Ethnographic Terminalia
ʔeləw̓k̓ʷ – Belongings: A Tangible Table in c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia | c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city is an historic partnership of three Vancouver institutions: the Musqueam Indian Band, the Museum of Vancouver, and the Museum of Anthropology at the University […]