THE INUVIALUIT LIVING HISTORY PROJECT In 2009, Inuvialuit Elders, youth, seamstresses, cultural experts, and media producers from the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Canadian north traveled with a group of anthropologists, archaeologists, and educators from the south to research and document the Smithsonian’s MacFarlane Collection at the National Museum of Natural History. This collection is […]
Hidden Pasts, Digital Futures: Generations from Alida Horse on Vimeo. (See an SFU News story profiling filmmaker Alida, whose video about the Generations exhibit (above) won 1st Place in the 2016 International Conference on Computational Creativity, Paris). Generations was a part of Hidden Pasts. Digital Futures – digital art and VR exhibition featuring the works by Jeffrey […]
Generations (Generative Art exhibition) (2015)
Ethnographic Terminalia, grunt gallery (Vancouver) and the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) were excited to present an exhibition, panel, workshop and a performance in Vancouver BC in August 2015. Please view our e-zine ‘Terminus: Archives, Ephemera, and Electronic Art’ and its companion website. These events revolve around the exhibition ARCTIC NOISE at grunt […]
ARCTIC NOISE and Ethnographic Terminalia at ISEA 2015
snəw̓eyəɬ (teachings) Located at Waterfront Station, Canada Line, Vancouver B.C. through April 2015 ARTIST: Reese Muntean, with Jordan Wilson and the Musqueam Fisheries Commission CURATOR: Kate Hennessy “Fishing is not the act of just putting a net in the water. Why it is so vital to us is because the preparation that goes before fishing is […]
snəw̓eyəɬ (teachings) | Public Art Installation
The public symposium On Endangered Languages––Indigeneity, Community, and Creative Practice took place on September 14, 2013 at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. It was co-organized by Karen Duffek (MOA), Kate Hennessy (Simon Fraser U, SIAT), Tyler Peterson (U Arizona) and John Wynne (U of Arts, London), in conjunction with the exhibition of […]
On Endangered Languages––Indigeneity, Community, and Creative Practice (2013)
DANE WAJICH: DANE-ZAA STORIES AND SONGS Dane Wajich: Dane-zaa Stories and Songs–Dreamers and the Land is a collaboratively produced exhibit of Dane-zaa oral traditions from the Doig River First Nation. Dane Wajich was honored with the Jean Rouch Award in Visual Anthropology by the Society for Visual Anthropology (2008). Amber Ridington and Kate Hennessy were the project co-curators […]