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[Bio c. 2010] Dona Schwartz earned her PhD at the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, and works as a photographic artist, scholar, and educator. Among her many academic publications are two photographic ethnographies, Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992) and Contesting the Super Bowl (Routledge, 1997). Her first photographic monograph, In the Kitchen, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2009. Her photographic work has been internationally published and exhibited, and is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Musée de lʼElysée, the George Eastman House, the Harry...
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[Bio c. 2014] Tim Schwartz is a Los Angeles-based artist, technologist, and activist who makes works of art focused on technology, information, privacy, and how culture absorbs changes in these areas. He received a BA in Physics from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. http://www.timschwartz.org
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[Bio c. 2014] Trish Scott is an interdisciplinary artist currently concluding a practice led PhD entitled Socialising the Archive at Chelsea College of Art & Design in London, supported by a Rootstein Hopkins Studentship. She has a site-responsive practice and often collaborates with others to make work at the intersection of encounters and documents. http://www.trishscott.org [Bio c. 2010] Trish Scott uses performance, video and installation to intervene in and transform experiences of the everyday. Working site responsively she explores and redefines the material, historical and political dimensions of place, probing the complex interrelationship between objects, habits and values. Her work...
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[Bio c. 2014] Megha Sehdev is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She is currently on fieldwork in New Delhi, where she is following domestic violence cases as they travel through NGOs, courtrooms, and domestic spaces.
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[Bio c. 2015] Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda is a cultural historian and interdisciplinary media artist working at the intersections of video and performance with a research focus on feminist media, visual culture and Latin American art history. Her work explores changing conceptions of what constitutes an archive in the context of the emergence of new media technologies and on the archive’s historical role in the production of knowledge in and about Latin America including the exclusions this role has produced throughout the modern history of the region. She teaches in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University....
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[Bio c. 2010] Travis Shaffer was born in rural Pennsylvania in 1983 and currently lives and works in Lexington, Kentucky. He received an MFA from the University of Kentucky in 2010. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Texas Tech University, Lubbock (2010); Land of Tomorrow Gallery, Louisville, KY (2010) and Institute 193, Lexington KY (2010). He has also participated in group exhibitions and artist’s book fairs Throughout the US, Canada and Europe. Shaffer’s work is included in the collection of Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book + Manuscript Library; The University of the West of England’s Centre for Fine Print...
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[Bio c. 2017] Trudi is an artist and anthropologist. She works with cultural practices of media and archives. Her current research interests include the role of entropy within archives, and helping to re-establish connections between contemporary photography practices, camera obscuras. She received an interdisciplinary PhD in Anthropology and Visual Art from University of Victoria, Canada. Trudi's artistic and academic practices are platforms to address the significance of photography by breaking it down to its fundamental properties. Her work explores the way that places like National Parks are maintained through photography; the relationships between archives and photography; and the structure of...
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[Bio c. 2015] Jacek Smolicki is an artist, designer and researcher currently undertaking PhD studies at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University in Sweden. In his research Smolicki explores recording practices conducted by individuals who creatively, subversively and reflectively deploy recording technolo-gies to construct personal and site-specific archives. His interest encompasses practices of sousveillance, lifelogging and field recording studied in the context of the changing nature of the archive. Since 2009 Smolicki himself has been conducting a number of self-tracking practices utilizing variety of available recording media technologies (www.on-going.net). Smolicki holds his master degrees from the Design...
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[Bio c. 2009] Hannah Smotrich is a graphic designer and Associate Professor at the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. In her creative practice, Smotrich works collaboratively with a range of non-profit clients on print publications, environmental graphics, and branding. Recent work has centered on communities, identity and cultural history and includes projects such as the design of street markers and accompanying publications for a citywide system of Neighborhood Heritage Trails in Washington, DC, and an exhibit for Museum L-A exploring the lives and communities of former textile workers in Lewiston, Maine. Smotrich holds a BA...
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[Bio c. 2014] Hunter Snyder’s work seeks to agitate the representational relationships between land and labor. His current work explores how Inuit balance hunting and fishing practices amid the prospects of large-scale mining. He is a recent Oxford graduate, a co-founder of CAMRA, a National Geographic Young Explorer, and Greenland’s first Fulbright fellow. www.huntersnyder.net www.sensatejournal.com
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[Bio c. 2009] Stephanie Spray is a doctoral candidate in social anthropology at Harvard University, where she works in the Sensory Ethnography Laboratory and the Film Study Center producing nonfiction video. She received her B.A. in the study of world religions at Smith College (2001) and a master’s degree at Harvard Divinity School (2004). She has been engaged in various fieldwork-based projects in Nepal since 1999. In 2001, she was the recipient of a Fulbright-IIE grant, which she used to begin an ethnomusicological project with the Gaine, a caste of itinerant musicians. Two such musicians were the subjects of an...
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[Bio c. 2013] Ruben Steinum (Norway) is an artist who lives and works in Oslo. He received his BFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and is currently the Deputy Chair at the Young Artists Society. Recently he launched the publication Casual Maneuver—A Step Away from It at the exhibition spaces Entreé and Kunsthall Oslo.
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[Bio c. 2014] Saransh Sugandh is a journalist and a filmmaker who currently works with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Delhi. His work, both fiction and non-fiction have so far been on subjects linked to biodiversity, livelihoods, migration and climate change.He has a special interest in animation and research on non-formal education, gender and visual media. His film, The Flight has won the CMS Vatavaran Best Animation (2014) and was nominated and screened at other film festivals.
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[Bio c. 2011] I make performance art, write songs and fiction, and work on a PhD in Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. I have performed at such galleries and festivals as the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, FADO Performance Art Centre, Eastern Edge Gallery, and Sappyfest. My bands (Peter Mansbridge and the CBCs, The Boy from ET, and The CFL Sessions) have toured all over Canada, and my recordings regularly play on the CBC and chart on campus radio. My scholarship has been published in Loading… and Celebrity Studies and is forthcoming in Popular Music and...
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Stephanie Takaragawa is an Associate Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and an Associate Professor of Sociology at Chapman University (Orange, CA). She received a PhD from Temple University (2006) in the Anthropology of Visual Communication emphasizing visual and media representations cross-culturally through art, performance and museum exhibitions. Her current research looks at representations of Japanese-American internment discourses at the interpretive centers now built at the Manzanar Relocation Center in California and Heart Mountain in Cody, Wyoming. Stephanie’s areas of interest are in the anthropology of visual communication, museum studies, the intersection of art and...
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[Bio c. 2014] Aga Tamiola is a Polish multimedia artist working out of Berlin and London. Her geographical and linguistic misplacement led her to focus on the aspects of loss, identity and belonging in the context of globalization and new technologies. Aga explores mutability of matter in sculptural assemblages fusing materials and processes. http://www.agatamiola.com http://eap.bl.uk/database/overview_item.a4d?catId=11209;r=18467
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[Bio c. 2017] Jordan Tate (b 1981) is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Cincinnati. Tate, a Fulbright Fellow (2008-2009), has a Bachelor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies from Miami University and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Indiana University. Tate’s work is currently held in collections nationwide, including Rhizome at the New Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Bidwell Projects, the Cincinnati Art Museum, The Columbus Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Recent exhibitions of his works include: Ditch Projects, Denny Gallery, Angela Meleca Gallery, New Shelter Plan, PH...
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[Quoted from Poetry Translation Center 2015] Victor Terán. Víctor Terán is the most personal poet of the Zapotec Isthmus of Oaxaca, México. He was born in Juchitán de Zaragoza in 1958. His work has been published extensively in magazines and anthologies throughout Mexico. Since 2000, he has also appeared in anthologies in Italy and the United States (Reversible Monuments, Copper Canyon: 2002; Words of the True Peoples, U Texas P: 2005). A three-time recipient of the national fellowship for writers of indigenous languages, his first book, Diixda; Xieeña (Barefoot Words) was republished in 1997 by Ediciones Bi’cu’ Nisa. His books...
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[Bio c. 2015] Gustavo Valdivia is a third-year PhD student at the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Since 2008, he has been doing fieldwork in the highest altitude communities in the Peruvian Andes. In his dissertation, he plans to investigate the representation of the Andes mountains in climate science, and to explore ethnographically the local understandings of climate and climate change in an Andean community. In the summer of 2015, he will start a collaborative project with people from the community of Phinaya in Peru –where the largest tropical glacier in the world is located in—, and who...
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[Bio c. 2012] Roxanne Varzi is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is a core faculty member of the Culture and Theory PhD program and the working group in African and Middle Eastern studies. She is an affiliated faculty member of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, Religious Studies, and the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies. She is also on the editorial board of the Journal for Media Sociology. Her film, Plastic Flowers Never Die, was an official selection of over half...
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[Bio c. 2011] Humberto Vélez studied Law and Political Sciences at the University of Panama and was awarded a scholarship from The Foundation of Latin American Cinema for studying Filmmaking and TV in the International School of Cinema of San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba, founded by Gabriel García Márquez. He has been an artist in residence in Vienna, London (Triangle Arts Trust-Gasworks), Sheffield (UK), London Southend-on-Sea (METAL) and Paris (Cite des Arts) and most recently the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada. In 2000, he presented his first solo exhibition “Instalaciones” (Installations) at the Museum for Contemporary Art...
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[Bio c. 2014] I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. I arrived at anthropology by way of studying architecture and graphic design. After a short hiatus from drawing, I began re-exploring drawing in the field as a process of doing ethnography. “Gatekeepers” is my first attempt at working with the visuals I produced in the field.
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Debra Spitulnik Vidali is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Emory University and Director of the Re-Generation Initiative. Current research concerns epistemology, ethnographic theater and experimental ethnography; media anthropology; civic engagement (US); and discourse circulation. In addition, she has published extensively on the Bemba language, Zambian sociolinguistics, and Zambian radio. http://scholarblogs.emory.edu/bemba/kabusha-remix/ https://www.facebook.com/BembaOnline
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[Bio c. 2013] Andrea Walsh (Canada), a visual anthropologist and artist, is an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria. Her research with contemporary Indigenous artists focuses on art as a method of communicating Indigenous experiences of history and identity. She is Canadian with Irish, British, Scottish, Nlaka’pamux, and Sxw’whámel ancestry.
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