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Created 2019-02-10 8:56:39 PM. Most recently updated 2019-02-10 8:56:39 PM
[Bio c. 2014] William Odom is a researcher, designer and postdoctoral fellow in the School of Interactive Arts + Technology at Simon Fraser University. His research focuses on the growing presence of interactive technology in everyday life and its sometimes delightful, often disruptive, and nearly always unanticipated effects. He leads a range of research projects themed within slow technology, the growing digitization of people’s possessions and archives, and design-oriented methods to critically investigate potential technological futures. He holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and was a Fulbright Scholar in the design department at Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art...
Created 2019-05-02 1:42:28 PM. Most recently updated 2019-05-02 1:42:28 PM
[Bio c. 2013] Adam Olsen (Coast Salish from the Tsartlip First Nation near Victoria, BC, Canada) is a proficient machine knitter. He designs knitted fabric that he transforms into innovative wearable and household products. He is co-owner of Salish Fusion with his sister, Joni, and mother, Sylvia.
Created 2019-05-13 6:53:13 PM. Most recently updated 2019-05-13 6:53:13 PM
[Bio c. 2013] Joni Olsen (Coast Salish from the Tsartlip First Nation near Victoria, BC, Canada) is a hand and machine knitter who learned the art of making Cowichan Sweaters that she fuses with new knitting techniques and designs to make projects for her company, Salish Fusion, that she co-owns with her brother, Adam, and mother, Sylvia.
Created 2019-05-13 7:22:03 PM. Most recently updated 2019-05-13 7:22:03 PM
[Bio c. 2013] Sylvia Olsen (Canada) has a long history in First Nations wool working on Southern Vancouver Island. She studied the rich history of Cowichan Salish knitters for her master’s thesis after having moved to the Tsartlip First Nation with her Coast Salish husband. She started the Olsen family Cowichan sweater business, Salish Fusion, and is the author of many historical fiction books for young people.
Created 2019-05-13 7:22:54 PM. Most recently updated 2019-05-13 7:22:54 PM
[Bio c. 2010] Juan Orrantia (B. Bogotá, Colombia. 1975) is a photographer and anthropologist. Conceptually his work is based on a notion of photography that relies on the poetic and the evocative as forms of narration of social realities. Drawing on contemporary ethnographic practice and cultural theory, his work explores the emotive qualities of the mundane as ways by which to unsettle representations, but still communicate ordinary social conditions that many ignore. He has exhibited in Colombia, South Africa and the UK, on topics such as the aftermath of terror, the residues of war and colonialism (www.issuu.com/juanorrantia/docs/residuesmozambique) as well as...
Created 2019-02-19 12:25:55 PM. Most recently updated 2019-02-19 12:25:55 PM
[Bio c. 2013] Ida Falck Øien (Norway) is an Oslo-based artist with a background in fine art and design. She is cofounder of the clothing label and collaborative platform HAiK with us! (since 2011) and is currently working on a commission for the Odontological (Medical) Faculty of the University of Bergen to create uniforms.
Created 2019-05-13 5:51:23 PM. Most recently updated 2019-05-13 5:51:23 PM
[Bio c. 2011] Monica Eileen Patterson is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence (CEREV) at Concordia University. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology and History and is completing a certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan. Monica is the author of numerous publications and co-editor of Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline (University of Michigan Press, 2011) and Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places (Palgrave, 2011). In 2009, Monica curated “Apartheid and Resistance: An Exhibit in Honor of Archbishop Desmond Tutu” for his visit to the University...
Created 2019-02-19 12:22:06 PM. Most recently updated 2019-02-19 12:22:06 PM
[Bio c. 2012] Robert Peterson is an artist originally from Louisiana. His work typically manifests itself as mixed media, document based performances and installations. He works in film, sound and book arts mainly. His main interests are cultures in peril, architectural history, southern music and art history and biodynamic farming.
Created 2019-05-13 8:06:35 PM. Most recently updated 2019-05-13 8:06:35 PM
[Bio c. 2014] Kwame Phillips received his PhD in Anthropology and Film and Media Studies from Emory University in 2014. His PhD research focused on Caribbean service users in London. Kwame works in visual and sensory media production, ethnographic documentary, and soundscapes. He is currently teaching ethnographic film in Thailand. http://scholarblogs.emory.edu/bemba/kabusha-remix/ https://www.facebook.com/BembaOnline
Created 2019-05-02 1:29:59 PM. Most recently updated 2019-05-02 1:29:59 PM
[Bio c. 2014] Marie-Josée Proulx holds a multidisciplinary bachelor degree in communication, scripting, and anthropology. She completed her Master degree in anthropology on independent film productions in China. She directed several independent productions and took part in production and post-production projects for several television channels in Québec. [Bio c. 2011] Marie-Josée Proulx holds a multidisciplinary bachelor’s degree including a background in communication, scripting, and anthropology. She completed her Master degree in anthropology at the Université de Montréal and is a specialist on independent film productions in China. She is also interested in contemplation and life narratives, and is additionally directing...
Created 2019-05-02 11:50:56 AM. Most recently updated 2019-05-02 11:50:56 AM
[Bio c. 2011] The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) is a community which develops and applies open-source tools to environmental exploration and investigation. By democratizing inexpensive and accessible “Do-It-Yourself” techniques, Public Laboratorycreates a collaborative network of practitioners who actively re-imagine the human relationship with the environment. The core PLOTS program is focused on “civic science” in which we research open source hardware and software tools and methods to generate knowledge and share data about community environmental health. Our goal is to increase the ability of underserved communities to identify, redress, remediate, and create awareness and accountability around...
Created 2019-02-19 12:42:49 PM. Most recently updated 2019-02-19 12:42:49 PM
[Bio c. 2013] Chiara Pussetti (Portugal) is an anthropologist who has published extensively on the subjects of the anthropology of body and emotions, medical anthropology, and migration studies. She is a member of the EBANO Collective. Her extensive fieldwork looks at mental health and emotions in Guinea Bissau and Portugal.
Created 2019-05-13 6:04:36 PM. Most recently updated 2019-05-13 6:04:36 PM
[Bio c. 2010] Born 1974 in United Kingdom, Simon Rattigan is a film and video installation artist who grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. His practice is one of object making, filming and collecting of the over-looked fragments of daily life. These are presented in the form of installations in which Rattigan uses the re-organizing of materials and repetition to engage with ideas of individuality and shared experience. The moving image and sculpture are at the centre of this practice which seeks to question recording media and its influence on history and individual consciousness. He has an interest in anthropology...
Created 2019-02-19 12:27:27 PM. Most recently updated 2019-02-19 12:27:27 PM
[Bio c. 2011] Renée Ridgway is an artist, free-lance curator, writer and educator based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Since completing her studies in fine art at the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA) and Piet Zwart Institute (MA), she has exhibited widely in the Netherlands and internationally (Manifesta8, P.S.1 MoMA Hotel New York, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Museum De Lakenhal, Conflux Festival), made numerous public presentations at various conferences and forums, and taught at several universities in the Netherlands and abroad. Ridgway’s work comprises a range of media in her video installations: audio, texts, textile, drawings along with contributions and feedback...
Created 2019-02-19 12:39:02 PM. Most recently updated 2019-02-19 12:39:02 PM
[2009] Temple University
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[Bio c. 2011] Joseph Rosen is a postdoctoral fellow in Montreal at Concordia University’s Department of History & Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence. Rosen’s work investigates the cultural production and deployment of collective memory in relation to contemporary sites of suffering and oppression. His dissertation, Beyond Memory: From Historical Violence to Political Alterity in Contemporary Space, developed an ethical theory of working-through traumatic cultural memory and addressed mobilizations of Holocaust memory in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ongoing research investigates the relation between cultural memory, identity and resistance in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and develops curatorial strategies...
Created 2019-02-19 12:21:20 PM. Most recently updated 2019-02-19 12:21:20 PM
[Bio c. 2011] Barbara Rosenthal is an avant-garde artist from New York who produces idiosyncratic combinations of words, communicative sounds, and pictures. Her videos have screened at Anthology Film Archives, The Kitchen, and Berlin Directors Lounge, and her books are in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney, Tate, and Kunstbibiliotek. Her projects have been reviewed in The New York Times, Village Voice, and Flash Art International. Her work investigates the relationship between an artist’s psyche and the outer world.
Created 2019-02-19 12:02:47 PM. Most recently updated 2019-02-19 12:02:47 PM
[Bio c. 2012] Following a 16-year career as an actor, Steve Rosenthal returned to education in 2004, graduating in Fine Art with First Class Honors from Camberwell College of Arts and Chelsea College of Art & Design. His work, which manifests in miscellaneous forms–from sculpture to video, as installation, video, performance, sound and intervention–has been exhibited in commercial galleries, project spaces and public museums throughout the East Coast as well as the UK and continental Europe. Often working to commission, Steve has pieces residing in numerous public, corporate and international private collections.
Created 2019-05-13 8:07:28 PM. Most recently updated 2019-05-13 8:07:28 PM
[Bio c. 2010] Rousseau is an artist-designer-programmer in the field of new media. He holds a degree in Computation Arts from Concordia University. Recently, he has been working at the Topological Media Lab, ESKI Studio and the Society for Arts and Technologies, as a researcher, affiliate programmer and designer.
Created 2019-02-19 11:49:09 AM. Most recently updated 2019-02-19 11:49:09 AM
[Bio c. 2017] Chad Rutter (b. 1978, York, NE) is an artist living and working in Minneapolis, MN. He makes work in a wide range of media exploring themes of place-based experience in the human-altered landscape. He received an interdisciplinary BFA in drawing, print and installation from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA in sculpture from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His work has been exhibited locally and regionally in venues such as The Soap Factory, Soo Visual Arts Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. In addition to his studio practice, Rutter co-founded the...
Created 2019-05-01 3:38:00 PM. Most recently updated 2019-05-01 3:38:00 PM
[Bio c. 2017] Stephanie Sadre-Orafai is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Critical Visions Certificate Program at the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on transformations in contemporary US racial thinking and visual culture by examining emerging forms of expertise, cultural and institutional practices of type production, and the intersection of race, language, and visual practices in aesthetic industries. In addition to publishing traditional academic articles and essays, she has pursued projects that blend research with creative practice, resulting in video, curatorial, and experimental design work, as well as a new program of study. In 2013, with Jordan...
Created 2019-05-01 3:39:05 PM. Most recently updated 2019-05-01 3:39:05 PM
[Bio c. 2012] Jennifer Schine is a Masters student in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and an active sound artist. Her ethnographic work explores the aural and oral heritage of British Columbia’s coastal communities.
Created 2019-05-13 8:08:37 PM. Most recently updated 2019-05-13 8:08:37 PM
[Bio c. 2017] Kate Schneider’s work is based in the traditions of documentary storytelling and ethnography. Her most recent works focus on the impact that land, and the socialized landscape, have on individual and cultural identity in North America. Kate was recognized by the Magenta Foundation’s 2015 and 2013 Flash Forward competitions, and has recently shown her work at the Soho Photo gallery (New York), the Great Plains Art Museum (Nebraska), the Society of Photographic Education (Cleveland), and the floor of the United States Senate. She received her MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University (2009). Kate is also an...
Created 2019-05-01 3:41:29 PM. Most recently updated 2019-05-01 3:41:29 PM
[Bio c. 2017] Jeffrey Schonberg is a medical and visual anthropologist. He received his doctorate in Medical Anthropology from the Joint University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley program. He currently lectures in the Department of Anthropology at San Francisco State University. He is the co-author, (with Philippe Bourgois), of the photo-ethnography Righteous Dopefiend. Righteous Dopefiend is currently in its 8th printing. In 2015 Dr. Schonberg received the Paul Farmer award from the Society for Public Anthropology. Dr. Schonberg has worked on projects in the U.S. on homelessness, addiction, gangs and inner-city violence, the drug economy and HIV; in Latin...
Created 2019-05-01 3:43:19 PM. Most recently updated 2019-05-01 3:43:19 PM