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Workshop with Stephanie Spray

Stephanie Spray is a visiting fellow with the Intermedia Workshop (with support from the South Asia Institute). She is an award winning documentary filmmaker, currently finishing her PhD through the Sensory Ethnography Laboratory in Anthropology at Harvard University. Her latest … Continue reading

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Imagining Manipur

Installation by Jogendro Singh Kshetrimayum. There are 387 photo images all together, 273 of which were generated by the image search of “Manipur” on Google (generated during the months of April and May 2014). The remaining 114 images are from my … Continue reading

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Ex-Situ Workshop in UK

Ex-Situ co-organizer and Dept. of Anthropology affiliate, Yoke Sum Wong (Lancaster University) has organized a symposium and writing salon for this May. Download programme.pdf STRUCTURES OF FEELINGS A SYMPOSIUM AND WRITING SALON 15 MAY 2015 The title of this meeting … Continue reading

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Director Joshua Oppenheimer in Discussion

Joshua Oppenheimer, Oscar nominated director of The Act of Killing (2012) and Look of Silence (2014), will be at the University of Texas, Austin for a public discussion on his practice as a documentary filmmaker.  This discussion will cover a … Continue reading

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Intermedia Fellows

The Intermedia Workshop is pleased to introduce two fellows for January 2015. Stephanie Spray (visiting from Harvard University) and Samuel Cepeda (visiting from Tecnológico de Monterrey).  Stephanie and Sam will be making use of the workshop, attending departmental activities, and sharing their … Continue reading

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Intermedia fellow: Samuel Cepeda

Samuel Cepeda [samcepeda.com] was born in Nuevo León, México. He’s a media artist and has been doing research and teaching since 2000 in private and public universities in México. He is currently a full time artist and researcher working on his dissertation at Tecnológico … Continue reading

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Multispecies Tailgate

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Multispecies Tailgate party at Monkeywrench Books. Images courtesy of Jimmy Beveridge.

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Multispecies Tailgate

A Discussion On Survival & Syncretic Biocultural Lifeways Monkey Wrench Books 110 East North Loop. Austin, TX. Sunday, October 5th 6:30-8:30 pm. 2014 Featuring readings and discussions of four just released books: Aesop’s Anthropology: A Multispecies Approach, by John Hartigan Agitating … Continue reading

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New affiliate

The Intermedia Workshop is pleased to introduce a new affiliate visiting from Pakistan: Baroosh Ahsan. Baroosh Ahsan born in Pakistan, has done her MFA in Photography and video production from Fatima Jinnah Women University. She is currently working at Fatima … Continue reading

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Slow Ethnography

Artist-ethnographer Zoe Bray will demonstrate her ethnographic-painting technique over three days while she creates a portrait of Anthropologist Kathleen Stewart at the Blanton Museum of Art. The demonstration will be followed by a round-table discussion of time and duration, as … Continue reading

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