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[Bio c. 2012] Amber Ablett is an artist and curator based in London. Ablett’s work concentrates on the question of our relationship with making the intangible tangible and the dichotomy of using obsessive documentation to describe metaphysical concepts, through text, participatory performance and research based work focusing on the limitations and contrarieties of language and communication. She seeks to involve the viewer in the work, as a co-performer or co-author and to open up the control of the art work to the viewer. She is currently studying an MA in Book Arts at Camberwell College of Art, UAL. Exhibitions and...
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[Bio c. 2012] Alejandro T. Acierto is a clarinetist, composer, and multimedia artist whose innovative work in contemporary music, performance art, and art installation has led Time-Out New York to call him a “maverick.” He employs a multi-media aesthetic integrating music, sound, performance, and installation that explores notions of fluid identities and the slippages of cultural definitions. His musical and performative works have been performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, ThingNY, Loadbang in New York, and Vox Humana in Montreal. He has exhibited installations at the Arts in Bushwick SITEFEST in Brooklyn and as part of the New Voices In...
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[Bio c. 2012] Mitchell Akiyama is a Toronto based composer, artist, and scholar. He has released several records on labels such as Raster Noton (Germany), Sub Rosa (Belgium), and Alien8 (Canada), in addition to works on his own imprint, Intr.version Records. He has scored and contributed music to many films and dance performances. Akiyama has received commissions from, among others, the Akousma Festival (in conjunction with the Canada Council for the Arts) and the Nouvel Orchestre D’aujourd’hui. He has performed across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North American in concert halls, clubs, art galleries, fallout bunkers, and festivals including Sonar, Mutek,...
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[Bio c. 2012] Kevin T. Allen is a filmmaker, sound artist and radio producer whose practice ranges from the ethnographic to the experimental. He has exhibited at numerous venues, including MoMA, the Margaret Mead Film Festival and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. His sound work has been featured at museums and festivals, including the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Third Coast International Audio Festival and Deep Wireless Festival of Radio Art. He has made ethnographically imbued films in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, the Wild West, and the migrant farm worker community of Immokalee, Florida. Recent research has lead...
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[Bio c. 2018] Glenn Alteen is a Vancouver-based curator and writer as well as co-founder and Director of grunt gallery. He has worked extensively with performance art and was co-founder of Vancouver’s LIVE Performance Biennale. His writing on performance has been published in books and catalogues and he was also the producer of Brunt magazine. Alteen has been a critical organizer in a number of significant conferences and has also produced a series of websites focusing on current cultural production including, most recently, grunt’s Activating the Archive project. excerpt from 'capturephotographyfest.com'
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[Bio c. 2012] Patricia Alvarez is a Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology department at UC Santa Cruz. She is working towards a designated emphasis in Film and Digital Media to complement her work in visual anthropology. Her intellectual and creative interests explore ethnography, documentary and other research-based art practices. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, her photographic, video and installation work has been exhibited in the Caribbean and the US. Throughout her graduate career she has collaborated with independent documentary filmmakers in California. She is currently writing her dissertation and editing an ethnographic film on the supply chain of alpaca...
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[Bio c. 2012] Justin Armstrong holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. His work examines the ethnographic intersections of memory, materiality and place in isolated and abandoned settlements (ghost towns) throughout rural North America. Justin is also a sound artist and occasional filmmaker. His current research explores the unique cultural landscape of isolated and abandoned settlements throughout rural North America. For Armstrong, the study of culture is an ever-evolving and constantly engaging pursuit that finds beauty and significance in everyday lives and spaces. He currently teaches writing and anthropology in the Writing Program at Wellesley...
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[Bio c. 2014] Raul Ortega Ayala is a British/Mexican artist. He studied Visual Arts in Mexico City and then a Master in Fine Arts at the Glasgow School of Art —in combination with Hunter College in New York, from which he graduated in 2003. He then moved to London, where he worked for 5 years on various projects and returned to Mexico in 2009 where he currently lives and works.
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[Bio c. 2012] Alison is an Associate Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University where she completed a BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art in 2004. Alison Ballard’s current practice is concerned with the politics of sound and place which she explores by using the materiality of sound as a political tool. She is currently studying for an MA in Sound Arts at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. She is also the creator of Audio Pigeon, a sound arts website that aims to raise the profile and enjoyment of all things sonic.
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[Bio c. 2013] Charlotte Bik Bandlien (Norway) is an Oslo-based anthropologist specializing in material and visual culture. She is an Assistant Professor and course Director at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in the Department of Design (since 2011), and a contributing editor to the Norwegian fashion journal, Personae.
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[Bio c. 2013] Vitor Barros (UK) is a PhD candidate at King’s College London (UK) and a researcher in the areas of history of medicine, public health, and the social care sector. He is also an independent photographer and multimedia producer. Together with fellow EBANO Collective member Chiara Pussetti he curated the exhibition Woundscapes in Brazil.
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[Bio c. 2012] Amanda Belantara is a documentary artist who researches ethnographies audio-visually, creating pieces that focus attention on the various images and sounds that emanate from people’s behavior. Her films Lifelibrary and Ears are Dazzled have been screened at festivals and academic conferences around the world. Amanda holds an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester and currently works as research assistant in acoustics at the University of Salford. She is also co-founder of the Manchester based sound and storytelling collective Kinokophone.
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[Bio c. 2013] Lindsay A. Bell (Canada) is a SSHRC funded Faculty Associate in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. Specializing in the industrial development and urbanization of Circumpolar North America, her research and writing strives to understand how northern populations shape and relate to large-scale social, environmental and economic change.
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[Bio c. 2019] Raymond Boisjoly is an Indigenous artist and citizen of the Haida Nation based in the Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood of Vancouver. His practice concerns the deployment of varied phenomena in, and as, Indigenous art. Boisjoly has been included in exhibitions and projects at SITE Santa Fe, Triangle France(Marseille), Samtidsmuseet for nordlige folk (Manndalen), Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington (Seattle), Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Vancouver Art Gallery, The Power Plant (Toronto), and Urban Shaman (Winnipeg), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), The Polygon Gallery (North Vancouver) and the Walter Phillips Gallery...
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[Bio c. 2012] Karin Bolender’s interdisciplinary practice investigates the brackish places where our human selves meet other domestic species. For the past decade, she has lived and traveled with a small family herd of American asses, exploring a sort of barnyard ontological choreography that negotiates between human logos and other, embodied ways of being and knowing. Since 2007, Bolender has presented solo and collaborative works nationally and internationally under the auspices of the Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W).
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[Bio c. 2013] Lorenzo Bordonaro (Portugal) is the president of the EBANO Collective. As an anthropologist and artist he has conducted research on youth, childhood, creativity, and urban marginality in Guinea Bissau (since 1996), Cape Verde (since 2007), and Lisbon. He is currently exploring the intersections between public art, ethnography, and urban intervention.
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[Bio c. 2014] Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier is a visual anthropologist working on music and sound in Cuba, Canada and more recently Brazil. She is an assistant professor in the department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria where she teaches about sound, visual anthropology, media, and creative practices. http://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/anthropology/people/faculty/boudreault-fournieralexandrine.php http://musdig.music.ox.ac.uk/ [Bio c. 2011] Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier completed her PhD in Anthropology with Visual Media at the University of Manchester and at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. She conducts fieldwork in Cuba since the year 2000. As part of her second postdoctoral fellowship at York University, Université Laval and the CÉLAT, she...
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[Bio c. 2016] Dominic Boyer is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and Founding Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS, culturesofenergy.org), the first research center in the world designed specifically to promote research on the energy/environment nexus in the arts, humanities and social sciences. He is part of the editorial collective of the journal Cultural Anthropology (2015-2018) and also edits Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge, a book series for Cornell University Press. His research interests include media, knowledge, energy and power. His most recent monograph is The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in...
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[Bio c. 2011] Lesley N. Braun is a PhD candidate at Université de Montréal in Anthropology. Her research focuses on the ways in which dance in its embodied and symbolic forms, participates in the constitution of an urban experience. As a dancer, she has performed with various groups and companies in Montreal. Most recently, she explored the dance of female concert dancers, and shegue (streetkids) in Kinshasa, Congo. In addition to Congolese Ndombolo, she studies and dances Jamaican Dancehall, American urban dance. She has recently received grants and awards from the Canadian Humanities and Social Science Research Council and Concordia...
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[Bio c. 2013] Zoe Bray (UK/Basque Country) is a realist painter and social anthropologist. Since 2011, she has been an Assistant Professor in the Center for Basque Studies in Anthropology and Art at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her current research on ‘The Artist as Hero: Art and Politics in the Basque Country Today’ uses portrait painting as an additional ethnographic method in her fieldwork.
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[Bio c. 2010] I am a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow conducting research for my dissertation in New Orleans, LA. Currently a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Anthropology at Teachers College, Columbia University, I earned my B.A. with honors in english and anthropology from San Diego State University (SDSU). While at SDSU, I participated in an ethnobotany project in Peru, helpting to develop a comprehensive database on the medicinal uses of plants in the region. I also graduated from the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program, a national organization that aims to prepare under-represented students – such as ethnic minorities and...
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[Bio c. 2010] Ryan Burns mines history for his environmental art. His old growth tree-stump rubbings and quasi-archaeological installations chronicle human exploitation of the natural world, excavating the future and mapping the past through large-scale works. He examines the traces left behind by time-based processes of growth and history, and catalogues the damage done. Burns has exhibited work nationally in several universities and galleries. He is the recipient of two Puffin Foundation grants and a Regional Arts and Culture Council grant, which funds this project. His art is represented by the Augen Gallery in Portland and Barrister’s Gallery in New...
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[Bio c. 2010] An enrolled member of the Karuk Tribe of California, Anthony was born and raised in the Seattle area and earned a Design BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. He has also studied at Pilchuck Glass School, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and Crow’s Shadow Institute. He was selected in 2009 as the first Emerging College Artist by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and has received grants and awards from a variety of organizations including Worldstudio/American Institute of Graphic Arts, Potlatch Fund, and the National Native Development Program at the Longhouse at Evergreen...
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[Bio c. 2015] Baird Campbell is a second year doctoral student in Anthropology at Rice University. His dissertation project examines processes of history-making and the creation of alternative archives among Chilean queer activists, focusing specifically on the use of history in performative protest and the use of new media for archival purposes. He has served as adjunct Spanish faculty at Finlandia University, and has worked as a translator for Harvard University Press, the George Wright Society, and Revista “Le Trans,” Chile’s first journal of Trans activism. He has also served as an interpreter and community educator for immigrant rights programs...
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[Bio c. 2017] Craig Campbell is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. He received his PhD in Sociology (Theory and Culture) from the University of Alberta in 2009. He is actively involved in producing works that span the range of expository writing, art exhibition, and curation. These function as companion works to a thematic interest in archives, photography, documents, and the anxious territory of actuality. Craig Campbell’s ethnographic, historical, and regional interests include: Siberia, Central Siberia, Indigenous Siberians, Evenki, Evenkiia, Reindeer hunting and herding, Travel and mobility, Socialist colonialism, early forms of Sovietization, and the circumpolar...
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