Ethnographic Terminalia is pleased to highlight two works installed at Barrister’s Gallery in the St. Claude Arts District: Lina Dib’s interactive video work Recantorium, and Ryan Burns’ sculptural installation Profane Relics: An ossuary of the Congo mineral wars.
[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...
[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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[Bio c. 2018] I am an Associate Professor specializing in Media at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology. I am an anthropologist with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia and an MA in the Anthropology of Media from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. As the director of the Making Culture Lab, my research explores the role of digital technology in the documentation and safeguarding of cultural heritage, and the mediation of culture, history, objects, and subjects in new forms. My video and multimedia works investigate documentary methodologies to...
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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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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....
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...
[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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