Ethnographic Terminalia New Orleans was an exhibition of over 20 local, national and international artists and anthropologists who work at the intersection of art and anthropology. From November 11 – December 3, 2010, Ethnographic Terminalia was on exhibit at the Du Mois Gallery in Uptown New Orleans in the Freret commercial corridor with an extension space Barrister’s Gallery in the St. Claude Arts District.

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Contributors

Curator: Craig Campbell

[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...

Curator: University of Texas, Austin

https://www.utexas.edu/about/overview

Technician: JS Rousseau

[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.

Curator: Maria T. Brodine

[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...

Curator: Kate Hennessy

[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...

Curator: Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology

http://www.sfu.ca/siat.html

Curator: Trudi Lynn Smith

[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...

Curator: University of Victoria

https://www.uvic.ca/home/about/about/

Curator: Fiona P. McDonald

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....

Curator: Stephanie Takaragawa

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...

Artist: Candy Chang

[Bio c. 2010] Candy Chang is an artist who likes to make cities more comfortable for people. She combines architecture, graphic design, and urban planning to make thoughtful public spaces and communication tools for everyday issues of city life. She’s the co-founder of urban design studio Civic Center and has worked in Nairobi, New Orleans, Vancouver, Johannesburg, and New York City on collaborative projects with residents, community organizations, and local government. She’s a TED Fellow and was an art director at The New York Times and a design researcher at Nokia. Her work has been featured at the National Design...

Artist: Stephanie Keith

[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...

Artist: Travis Shaffer

[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...

Artist: Simon Rattigan

[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...

Artist: Ian Kirkpatrick

[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...

Artist: Trudi Lynn Smith

[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...

Artist: University of Victoria

https://www.uvic.ca/home/about/about/

Anthropologist: Nicola Levell

[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/...

Anthropologist: University of British Columbia

https://www.ubc.ca/about/

Artist: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

[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...

Artist: Robert Willim

[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...

Artist: Anders Weberg

[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.

Artist: Juan Orrantia

[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...

Artist: Ahmad Hosni

[Bio c. 2010] Ahmad Hosni was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1974. He studied medicine and worked for three years before switching to photography. Since 2004 he has been working as a professional photographer. His work spans a variety of photography fields; from documentary to editorial to art. He has worked for a variety of national and international publications. Hosni’s work blends many of the photographic genres to the point that makes his work hard to classify. He adopts a critical realism that is socially concerned with a subtle, yet astute, political tone. Lately Hosni has been adopting a cross-disciplinary...

Artist: Fiamma Montezemolo

[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...

Artist: Dada Docot

[Bio c. 2010] Dada Docot explores issues of the personal and of space within the different contexts of international mobility. Looking at migration as an arena where citizenships and identities are performed, re/defined and re/asserted, her photography and film works focus on the intricate and the intimate. The stories that she seeks to share arise from self-reflection, herself being a member of a rural-to-urban family of migrants, who later moved to various countries across the globe. Originally from the Philippines, Dada obtained her MA in Human Security Studies/ Anthropology from the University of Tokyo in 2008. She recently moved to...

Artist: Roderick Coover

[Bio c. 2010] Roderick Coover is Associate Professor at Temple University, where he teaches courses in visual research and documentary methods. He specializes in multimedia forms of representation. His works include, among others, Cultures in Webs: Working In Hypermedia With The Documentary Image (www.culturesinwebs.com), From Verite To Virtual: Conversations On The Frontier Of Documentary Film And Visual Anthropology (www.der. org), The Theory Of Time Here (www.vdb.org), The Language Of Wine: An Ethnography Of Work, Wine And The Senses (www.languageofwine.com), Unknown Territories (www.unknownterritories.org), and the forthcoming book project Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technologies In The Humanities And Arts (University of...

Artist: Kate Hennessy

[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...

Artist: Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology

http://www.sfu.ca/siat.html

Artist: Richard Wilson

[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...

Artist: Susan Hiller

[Bio c. 2019] Susan Hiller Susan Hiller was born in 1940 and grew up in and around Cleveland, Ohio until 1952 when her family moved to South Florida where she attended local schools and Coral Gables High School. She was awarded a scholarship to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1961. After a year in New York studying film and photography at The Cooper Union and archaeology and linguistics at Hunter College, Hiller went on to do postgraduate work at Tulane University in New Orleans with a National Science Foundation fellowship in anthropology. She conducted fieldwork in Mexico,...

Artist: Thomas Ross Miller

[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...

Artist: Trish Scott

[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...

Artist: Dona Schwartz

[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...

Artist: Jan Lemitz

[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.

Artist: Ryan Burns

[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...

Artist: Stephanie Spray

[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...

Artist: Anthony Callaway

[Bio c. 2010] An enrolled member of the Karuk Tribe of California, Anthony was born and raised in the Seattle area and earned a Design BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. He has also studied at Pilchuck Glass School, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and Crow’s Shadow Institute. He was selected in 2009 as the first Emerging College Artist by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and has received grants and awards from a variety of organizations including Worldstudio/American Institute of Graphic Arts, Potlatch Fund, and the National Native Development Program at the Longhouse at Evergreen...

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