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The 2020 (Re)Collection
In the Spring of 2021, students in LIBR 588: Theory and Practice of Oral History developed an online oral history exhibit of people’s experiences during the year 2020 entitled the 2020 (Re)Collection. The COVID-19 pandemic massively impacted the lives of people around the globe, from essential service workers and artists to home cooks, families, and…
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Listening to the Earth: Student Oral History Projects
In the Spring of 2020, I taught the course The Theory and Practice of Oral History, and tasked my students to create an audio based exhibit using a Museum in a Box – a great tool I’ve worked with before. The task was – how would we preserve stories about the earth? What kinds of…
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Amagugu Ethu/ Our Treasures
For the past two years I have been working collaboratively with Dr. Laura Gibson (Kings College London) on a Wenner-Gren funded project called Amagugu-Ethu/ Our Treasures; which sought to document stories from KwaZulu-Natal experts about some of the Zulu collections in the Iziko Museum in Cape Town, South Africa. We worked closely with Museum in…
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Wrapped in the Cloud: A Digital Collaboration
Image Credit: From Wrapped in the Cloud, Meghann O’Brien, 2018. Produced in collaboration with Conrad Sly, Hannah Turner, Reese Muntean, and Kate Hennessy. I am happy to share some of the collaboration I’ve been working on with Meghann O’Brien (Jaad Kuujus), Conrad Sly, and Kate Hennessy at the Making Culture Lab at SFU. Over the past 6 months, we…
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Memory Institutions in a Digital Age: Interviews
I’m happy to share that my students from the Spring 2018 Centre for Digital Media class, “Museums and Art Galleries in a Digital Age” will be presenting their video interviews as part of their final projects for the Museums and the Web Conference, happening April 18-21 here in Vancouver, BC. As part of the Museums…
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Witnessing
Conceived of as a response to the 2016 exhibit ““Witness” at New Westminster’s New Media Gallery. this project, “Witnessing” is a series of three processing artworks developed by students at the Critical Media Arts Studio at SFU’s School of Interactive Art and Technology (SIAT) in the IAT 810 New Media Class. Witnessing is exhibited at the…
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Unbelievable Exhibit at Museum of Vancouver
Co-curated (with Gregory Dreicer and Sharon Fortney) and designed in collaboration with HCMA Architecture, this new exhibit that examines our ideas of truth and believability on exhibit now at the Museum of Vancouver (MOV). Every museum object has multiple stories, and in many cases these histories have yet to be told. The exhibit looks at key…
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I Made This! Children’s Participatory Learning with 3D Printing
In 2015, I was a research partner with the project “I made this: Children’s Participatory Learning with 3D Printing”. This research advanced a comprehensive scholarly understanding of children’s participatory learning in informal learning environments. We held workshops in a museum setting encourage children to acquire and create knowledge about the individual, cultural and institutional values underpinning…
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