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Public Lecture: In Small Things Designed

Posted on March 12, 2019 by metafactory

In Small Things Designed: Value, Form, and the Everyday World in Sweden Keith MurphyApril 18, 4pmJulius Glickman Conference Center (Patton Hall. RLP 1.302D) In this presentation I will discuss several different attempts to use design to render Sweden and Swedish … Continue reading →

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Map as Method and Medium: A Teaching Workshop

Posted on March 12, 2019 by metafactory

Shannon Mattern (April 12, 3-5, DWRL) The prevalence of smartphones, the rise of Google, and the widespread availability of open geographic data have made maps an everyday, everywhere medium. Within the academy, these same developments, compounded with greater access to … Continue reading →

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Anthropology and conceptualism

Posted on March 12, 2019 by metafactory

Jesse Shipley (April 1, 4-6pm, DWRL) Producing work as scholars and artists is a form of both creating and contesting materialities and socialities. This workshop engages connections between archives, ethnography, and conceptualism. We will explore practices of research and art-making … Continue reading →

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Spring 2019 Happenings

Posted on March 12, 2019 by metafactory

Events Summary April 17-19: Anthropology and design (Keith Murphy) April 18. In Small Things Designed: Value, Form, and the Everyday World in Sweden. April 19: Workshop, “Greeting Cards for the Anthropocene” April 23-25: Nosotros Las Piedras (Alvaro Torres-Crespo) April 23. … Continue reading →

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Bureau for Experimental Ethnography

Posted on March 12, 2019 by metafactory

The Bureau for Experimental Ethnography is concerned with ethnographic and ethnographically adjacent practices of being in, thinking with, and remediating the world. The bureau produces and coordinates creative academic activities (lectures, workshops, field trips, etc.) at UT Austin. It is … Continue reading →

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Writing with Light – Closing reception.

Posted on August 24, 2018 by metafactory

Closing Reception Friday, September 7 2018 – 6-9pm Spellerberg Projects’ Masur Gallery Lockhart, TX (25 min. drive, south of Austin) Free and Open to the Public | Refreshments CARPOOL INFORMATION: LINK   This exhibition in two parts features a survey … Continue reading →

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Writing with Light Exhibition

Posted on June 2, 2018 by metafactory

This exhibition in two parts features a survey of work from from ethnographic photographers: Liz Hingley (England), Martin Saxer (Germany), Christian Vium (Denkmark), and Alejandro Flores(Guatemala).The second part of the exhibition features prototype photo-essays on gallery walls. The photographers will be present for the reception on Wednesday, … Continue reading →

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Writing with Light Symposium

Posted on May 26, 2018 by metafactory

Theorizing Photography and Writing in Contemporary Ethnographic Practice This symposium features an international group of anthropologists and photographers presenting their work. This symposium is organized by the Writing with Light collective and funded by the Wenner-Gren foundation. Presentations from photographers … Continue reading →

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Basic digital security workshop for Anthropologists

Posted on April 25, 2018 by metafactory

Presented by Tim Honker. This is a workshop that walks regular people through things they should be doing to secure their data and identity with special focus on those preparing to travel outside the USA. The target audience for this … Continue reading →

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Live Streaming of Talks/Collective viewing parties

Posted on April 16, 2018 by metafactory

The Intermedia Workshop (SAC 5.162) will livestream the DISPLACEMENTS virtual conference, beginning at 11am on Thursday, April 19th and ending at 6pm on Saturday, April 21st. The Intermedia Workshop will be available on a drop-in basis during this time (though after … Continue reading →

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