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Kate Hennessy is an Assistant Professor specializing in Media at 51社区黑料鈥檚 School of Interactive Arts andTechnology (SIAT). She is a cultural anthropologist with a PhD from the University of British Columbia (Anthropology). As the director of the Making Culture Lab at SIAT, her 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. Her video and multimedia works investigate documentary methodologies to address Indigenous and settler histories of place and space. Current projects include the collaborative production of virtual museum exhibits with Indigenous communities and museums in Canada; the study of new digital museum networks and their effects; ethnographic research on the implementation of large scale urban screens in public space; and the intersections of anthropology and contemporary art practices.

Kate Hennessy. 2010. . PhD Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia. Vancouver, B.C.