Games as activism and advocacy: A DHSI Reflection
By Lauren St. Clair (UBCO SpokenWeb Research Technician) TL;DR, personal takeaways from the class:
By Lauren St. Clair (UBCO SpokenWeb Research Technician) TL;DR, personal takeaways from the class:
When I was first asked to curate the light box in the AMP Lab at UBCO, my reaction was ‘no’. I am not an artist*. *My supervisor, Dr. Karis Shearer, reminded me that curation does not require one […]
PRESS PLAY! Lightbox Exhibition Call Open Call to Undergrad Students at UBC Okanagan| DEADLINE: Jan 12, 2024 CALL TO CURATE: An exhibition call for the AMP Lab’s lightbox exhibition space. Students will receive an undergraduate research assistant (URA) stipend* for research […]
By Karis Shearer (AMP Lab Principal Investigator) It’s with mixed emotions that I’m wrapping up The AMP Lab’s Tech Talk Series (2018-23), the longest running research series in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies. The series brought together UBC […]
Call for Submissions // Press Play How do you do art and research in public? The Press Play! Project seeks 4 undergraduate students to participate in paid, mentored research-creation internships that translate visual or sound-based digital-humanities research projects into public […]
By Matthew Kenney (Bachelor of Media Studies; Press Play URA) Working on this project over the course of the last few months has truly been an amazing experience. On top of allowing me to work with extremely interesting archival material […]
On March 21st, a group of eager game players joined Dr. Fiona P. MacDonald for an interactive game test of her ongoing project titled “Gaming the Anthropocene” during our seventh Tech Talk of the 2022/23 school year. This exciting and […]
By Rachel Pickard Rachel Pickard is a settler student living on the unceded territories of the Syilx/Okanagan Peoples and a SpokenWeb Research Assistant. Below are her thoughts and considerations after attending the Equity for Indigenous Research and Innovation Coordinating Hub’s […]
Call for Submissions // Press Play How do you do art and research in public? The Press Play! Project seeks 4 undergraduate students (2 teams of 2 students) to participate in a paid, mentored project that translates visual or sound-based […]
Mind the Gap, It’s There on Purpose: The Exclusion of Sound & Oral Histories in Western Academia Written by Rachel Pickard, Undergraduate student and SpokenWeb RA at UBCO. This series of blog posts has been written in reflection to the […]