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[Bio c. 2010] Stephanie Keith has a degree in Anthropology from Stanford University, certificate in photojournalism from the International Center of Photography, and received a Master’s of Photography from NYU in 2003. Since then, she has worked at many newspapers including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor and The New York Daily News. Her personal work explores themes of religion, immigration and pop culture. Her photo series about Egyptian Soap Operas for Islamic Ramadan was published across Europe and the United States including an essay in the New York Times “Week in...
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[Bio c. 2011] Selena Kimball earned her BFA in sculpture from The Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from Hunter College. Her recent large-scale wall installations have been exhibited at the Portland Museum of Art and the University of North Texas. She is currently in a two-person show at Wolfstaedter Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany. Kimball has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell colony, Blue Mountain Center, and Millay Colony of Art. Kimball’s collages, installations, and animations rework cultural artifacts focusing on the hidden, sometimes abstract or overlooked, aspects of these histories. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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[Bio c. 2013] Ian Kirkpatrick (UK-based) is a Canadian contemporary artist and graphic designer currently based in the UK. His fine art has been exhibited internationally since 2008, including recent shows in London, New York, and Berlin. [Bio c. 2011] Ian Kirkpatrick is a Canadian contemporary artist currently based in the UK. His work has been exhibited across England and internationally, and is currently on tour related to the upcoming 2102 Olympic Games. This Fall he will be speaking about his sculptural practice at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. [Bio c. 2010] Ian Kirkpatrick is a Canadian contemporary artist...
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[Bio c. 2011] La Cosa Preziosa (Susanna Caprara) is an award-winning emerging sound artist originally from the south of Italy and based in Dublin, Ireland. With a keen interest in acoustic ecology, La Cosa Preziosa is committed to producing original work (aural dreamscapes, soundscapes and experimental organic tracks) by exploring the intersection between the realism of field recording and the possibilities of narrative staging. A recipient of the ‘Europe: A Sound Panorama’ prize for soundscape art (Goethe Institut, EBU Ars Acoustica Group, ZKM Karlsruhe), La Cosa Preziosa performs regularly in both Europe and America. In addition to her sound work,...
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[Bio c. 2014] Anna Laine is an interdisciplinary researcher with a PhD in social anthropology from Gothenburg University and current funding within the field of artistic research. Trained in both academic and artistic practices, she investigates overlapping interests and forms of knowledge production between the two fields, and her present project is focused on migration as experienced within the Tamil diaspora in the UK. Laine is employed at Stockholm University and the Museum of Ethnography, and has been a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths, UoL.
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[Bio c. 2011] Jae Ok Lee was born in Korea. He moved to Canada and studied Design for the Theater. After working as a designer and artist for experimental theater and new media performances, Jae Ok studied Digital + Media at RISD. He creates at the intersection of art, design, and digital media. His works creatively pokes around the digital, physical, and in-between.
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[Bio c. 2011] Erica Lehrer is assistant professor in the departments of History and Sociology/Anthropology at Concordia University, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography and Museology. She is the director of CEREV (Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the aftermath of Violence) . Her work thus far has focused on post-Holocaust Jewish culture; memory, heritage, museums, and tourism; ethnography; intercultural dialogue; and public scholarship. She is co-editor of Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places (Palgrave 2011) and Revisiting Jewish Poland: Tourism, Memory, Reconciliation (University of Indiana 2012). [Bio c. 2009] Erica Lehrer...
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[Bio c. 2012] Wolfgang Lehrner (born November 14, 1980) is an artist based in Vienna, Europe. Educated at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Lehrner has exhibited widely since 2008. On his countless voyages he captured over 50 moving images: 1-minute videos which are dedicated to the poetic of the everyday. Lehrner’ recent work, World City, investigates the cosmopolitan image of the 21st century. Searching for the local in the global, the same in the other. As a visionary he is working constantly on a aerial tramway from Vienna to Tokyo: Eurasian Gondolas.
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[Bio c. 2010] jan lemitz was born in duesseldorf. he is currently based in london and about to complete his MA in photography and urban cultures at goldsmiths college, university of london. he works as a visual artist with main interests in landscape and space. jan has been working in seoul over the last two years. he was artist in residence at seoksu art project in anyang. recent exhibitions include a contribution to this year’s edition of singapore international photography festival.
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[Bio c. 2010] Nicola Levell is an assistant professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver), whose teaching and research interests are located in the interdisciplinary folds of anthropology, theoretical museology and critical curatorial studies. Before moving into academia she was a curator in London (UK). Informed by her curatorial practice, her current research is orientated to contemporary culture-making and the politics and performativity of space (material forms and social relations) on the North Pacific Coast of Canada. She is especially interested in the work of institutions, artists and curators and their role in the local/...
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[Bio c. 2014] As a cultural anthropologist, I draw on phenomenology, material culture, and storytelling approaches. I’m fascinated by the things we make, and the processes and narratives involved in making. These interests shape how I explore my current research about the histories and legacies of reindeer herding on the Alaska Peninsula. http://www.uaf.edu/deer/
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[Bio c. 2011] Laura Malacart is an interdisciplinary artist. Her work constructs frameworks of interactions between different groups or individuals in order to open a discussion on the founding premises of those initial positions. Drawing from linguistics, social sciences and cultural histories, her work places careful attention on the relationship between content and medium. A past work features professional actors and refugees exploring the potential violence inherent in everyday speech when a subject lacks articulacy in a foreign language (Voicings www.lauramalacart.org.uk). Other collaborations include an opera performer and director, (Mi Piace), the Metropolitan Police and dancers (Flamenco).
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[Bio c. 2011] Florencia Marchetti is an Anthropologist and documentarian currently pursuing a PhD in Humanities at Concordia University, in Montréal. Her dissertation builds on her previous ethnographic research on the politics of memory and the memories of politics in post-dictatorship Argentina. Born in the city of Cordoba (Argentina), Florenica completed a degree in Social Communications and received graduate training in Anthropology at Universidad Nacional de Cordoba before moving to California and obtaining a MA in Social Documentation from UC Santa Cruz, for which she completed a video essay called Haunting Presences (2007, 42’).
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Fiona P. McDonald completed her PhD (2014) in the Department of Anthropology at University College London (UCL) in visual anthropology & material culture (Supervisors: Professor Susanne Kuechler and Professor Christopher Pinney). Her dissertation is entitled, Charting Material Memories: a visual and material ethnography of the transformations of woollen blankets in contemporary art, craft, and Indigenous regalia in Canada, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the United States . This project was undertaken as both an historic and contemporary visual and material ethnography of the material nature and transformations of woollen (trade) blankets that were produced in the United Kingdom since the seventeenth century....
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[Bio c. 2011] Luc Messinezis was born in Athens, Greece in 1977. After relocating in the UK, he achieved a MA in Sound Arts at the University of the Arts, London and since, he has developed several projects researching the means throughout which sound can constitute the base for artistic expression. Luc’s conceptual interests mainly focus in triggering feelings, aural awareness, and memory by challenging perception and stimulating the imagination of the audience, using the concrete audible world as a sound palette. He was recently awarded with an artist’s residency in the lower Austria region and his latest work has...
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[Bio c. 2012] Abinadi Meza received a Master of Architecture degree from Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles. His installations, performances and spatial fictions have been presented in numerous exhibitions including at Utzon Architectural Centre, Aalborg; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth; and Uppsala Art Museum.
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[Bio c. 2013] Thomas Ross Miller (USA) is an Associate Professor of Liberal Arts at Berkeley College, director at independent Curatorial Consulting in Brooklyn, and Adjunct Instructor at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. His interdisciplinary and multimedia work incorporates sound, shamanism, visual representation, museum studies, ethnomusicology, and the history of anthropology. [Bio c. 2010] Thomas Ross Miller is an anthropologist, media artist, curator, and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. His interests include shamanism, sound, museology, ideas of north, and the history of scientific expeditions and collections. He has taught visual anthropology at Pratt Institute, ethnomusicology at Barnard...
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[Bio c. 2011] A New York-based experimental production studio, MomenTech coined the term Augenblicksmus to describe a creative philosophy based on the notion of the momentary to develop new themes for the mobilization of transnational progressivism, post-humanism, neo-nomadism and futurism. With instructional works, public interventions, and audience participatory projects, MomenTech views artmaking as creative production, providing art solutions to curators, producers, directors, exhibition organizers looking for new ways to engage the public on critical issues and theoretical problems in modern Western approaches to art.
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[Bio c. 2010] Born in Rome, Fiamma Montezemolo is both a Cultural Anthropologist (Ph.D, University of Naples) and an artist (MFA, SFAI). As a an established scholar in border and urban studies, she has patiently designed rigorous and long-term ethnographic-artistic interventions at the Tijuana-San Diego border where she has also resided and taught for many years. As an artist she situates her work as a critical extension and overcoming of the ethnographic turn in contemporary art during the 1990s. She works with various media, including, installation, cartography, video, digital photography, industrial materials, performance, video and archival documents. She contributed a...
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[Bio c. 2017] Teresa Montoya (Diné) is pursuing her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at New York University where she is also earning a certificate in Culture and Media. In 2013, Montoya produced her first documentary film titled Doing the Sheep Good that traces the return of iconic Navajo-made films, produced in the 1960s visual anthropology experiment Through Navajo Eyes, to their community of origin. Currently Montoya is working on her second short film, The Day Our River Ran Yellow/ Tó Łitso, a Diné centered visual meditation on the land and waterscapes affected by the Gold King Mine spill in August...
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[Bio c. 2014] Alejandro Morales lives and works in Ciudad Juárez, México. Exhibitions highlighting the XIX Biennial Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia 2014); V Festival A-part (France, 2014); FIF_BH (Brazil, 2013) and emerging photographer featured by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chile. He recently curated Index: Archiving the edges of Violence. www.alejandroluperca.com
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[Bio c. 2009] Oliver Neumann is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the role of digital technology in the building process and in broader speculations of emerging material culture. Together [with Kate Hennessy] they document transformations in urban and rural space to reflect cultural, social, and environmental conditions in flux.
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[Bio c. 2011] I am an Irish-American artist, living and working in London. I have a MA in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art, London and I’ve been exhibiting my work for the last six years locally and internationally. My practice revolves around a multitude of media, but its core is video, as it’s the one medium that engages all of my senses. I use my personal experience as content, and languages of observation, exploring the nature, impact and nuances of memory. These moments of recollection are always in direct relationship to a place–a landscape, or rather to...
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[Bio c. 2014] Petrina Ng is currently based in Toronto, Canada. She holds an MFA from the Slade School of Art in London, UK. Her practice includes video, print, installation, and sculptural objects. Most recently, her work was presented in Tod und Sterben, curated by David Lillington, at MAG3 Space in Vienna, Austria. www.petrinang.com
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