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[Bio c. 2014] Xinyuan Wang was originally trained in classical Chinese painting and calligraphy, and currently working as a PhD student at the Department of Anthropology at UCL . Her project is a part of the Global Social Media Impact Study, and her research is funded by Wenner-gren foundation. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-social-media
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[Bio c. 2009] Jen Webel teaches elementary art at a private school in Austin. She completed an M.A. in Art Education with a studio focus on new genres at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her thesis focused on the history and aesthetics of kitsch. [with Scott Webel] Together they are the curators of the Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata, an in-home dime museum in Austin, Texas celebrating its tenth year. They contributed an installation to the Austin Museum of Art’s 2008 “New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch” exhibition which traveled throughout Texas. The Museum’s temporary exhibitions benefit...
Created 2018-09-14 11:03:46 AM. Most recently updated 2018-09-14 11:03:46 AM
[Bio c. 2009] Scott Webel is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin’s Folklore/Public Culture program in the Department of Anthropology. He is completing a dissertation on quasi-public houses in the Austin area that host art environments and urban ecology projects that remediate urban waste. [with Jen Webel] Together they are the curators of the Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata, an in-home dime museum in Austin, Texas celebrating its tenth year. They contributed an installation to the Austin Museum of Art’s 2008 “New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch” exhibition which traveled throughout Texas. The Museum’s...
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[Bio c. 2014] Florence Weber: Professor of Social Anthropology and Sociology at the Ecole normale supérieure, Paris (Centre Maurice Halbwachs), she published a dozen of books and more than 100 scientific articles, mostly on ethnography, the history of social sciences, kin theory, household and informal economy, Alzheimer’s care-work. Since 2011, she directs a project on mental health, social disqualification and disability in France, devoted to psychiatric patients’ biographies: their everyday life outside of the hospital, their social and civic rights, their relations with healthcare-workers, other paid care-workers and informal caregivers. http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/2014/11/17/exhibition/26633/mois-de-la-photo-2014-jean-robert-dantou-at-ens-objets-sous-contrainte Research: Florence Weber, social anthropologist (Ecole normale supérieure Paris,...
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[Bio c. 2010] Anders is an artist and filmmaker working in video, sound, new media and installations and he is primarily concerned with identity. The human body lies at the root of projects that formally and conceptually chart identity and its construction as a preamble to broaching matters of violence, genders, memory, loss or ideology in which personal experiences co-exists with references to popular culture, the media and consumerism. Specializing in digital technologies, he aims to mix genres and ways of expression to explore the potential of audio visual media.
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[Bio c. 2015] I am a linguistic anthropologist who studies ethnopoetics and verbal art more generally. My focus is on the intersections between verbal art and poetics, the individual, acoustemology, language change, language contact, aesthetics, and linguistic and social inequalities (the whole life of a language). This leads me to think a great deal about felt connections to linguistic forms in use and over time. Questions of imagination and expressive satisfication loom large (and loudly) here as well. My goal in this work is not so much “translation,” but rather with the proceses of attunement–of coming to terms with the...
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[Bio c. 2011] Dr. Jennifer Willet is an internationally successful artist in the emerging field of bioart. From 2000-2007 Willet and Shawn Bailey collaborated on a project called BIOTEKNICA. She taught in the Studio Arts Department at Concordia University from 2000-2007, and completed her PhD in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at the same institution. She now works as an Assistant Professor in the School of Visual Arts at The University of Windsor in Canada. In 2009 she opened a bioart research and teaching lab called INCUBATOR: Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Ecology at the University of...
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[Bio c. 2013] Robert Willim (Sweden), an artist and anthropologist (ethnologist), is an Associate Professor at Lund University in Sweden. His art is positioned in the borderland next to his academic practices as a cultural analyst and ethnographer. He uses his research to spur artistic concepts and to explore the interplay between representation and evocation, as well as art and anthropology. [Bio c. 2010] Robert Willim is a researcher, artist and teacher in European Ethnology. His research has primarily dealt with new media and digital culture. During the last years he has also developed a research track about the concept...
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[Bio c. 2011] Andrew Norman Wilson currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. He holds a B.S. from Syracuse University’s SI Newhouse School of Public Communication and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has worked as a curator for Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco, a video editor for Google at their headquarters in Mountain View, a researcher for the labor union UNITE HERE, and a video editor for filmmakers Craig Baldwin and Sam Green. Past exhibitions and presentations include the De Young Museum, The Banff Center, UCLA, UCSD, The Academy of Fine Arts...
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[Bio c. 2010] Richard Wilson is from the Hwlitsum First Nation and was born on Galiano Island in British Columbia, Canada where he now resides with his family. Richard is an independent multi media artist who has worked in many facets of film and theatre. His resume includes work in production, stage-managing, acting, and camera work as well as a sound and visuals technician. He has been honored to work with some of Canada’s premiere Aboriginal artists on projects across the country from Cooper Thunderbird at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, to The Edward Curtis Project in The Northwest...
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[Bio c. 2012] John Wynne is a Canadian artist based in London (UK) whose practice includes large-scale multi-channel sound installations for galleries and public spaces, delicate sound sculptures, flying radios and award-winning ‘composed documentaries’ for radio which hover on the boundary between documentation and abstraction. His massive installation for 300 speakers, player piano and vacuum cleaner became the first work of sound art in the Saatchi collection in London and won him the 2010 British Composer Award for Sonic Art. His work with endangered languages includes a project with click languages in the Kalahari Desert and another with one of...
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[Bio c. 2010] Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (MNY) AKA the “Haida-Manga guy” is an artist of indigenous and European settler ancestry, who grew up on the North Pacific islands of Haida Gwaii. Before relocating to Vancouver in 2001, for over two decades, MNY held political positions on Haida Gwaii, at a time when the Haida Nation was proactively negotiating issues of land, indigenous title and rights and contesting neo-colonialist acts of environmental exploitation. During this critical period, his early artworks, especially his politically-informed satirical and humorous cartoons, were circulating locally in various print media. More recently, his development of Haida-Manga—a distinctive...
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[Bio c. 2009] Gordana Zivkovic was born in Belgrade in 1964. She received her MFA from the Belgrade University of Fine arts in 2003. She is currently living and working in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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[Bio c. 2009] Marko Zivkovic was born in Belgrade in 1961 where he went to school and graduated from Belgrade University. He received his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago and is currently teaching at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. website: www.ualberta.ca/~zivkovic
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