{"id":8,"date":"2021-01-29T13:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celestialbodies\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2021-02-04T03:07:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T10:07:58","slug":"research-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celestialbodies\/research-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Team & Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Media Artist and UBC Okanagan faculty Aleksandra\u00a0Dulic\u00a0and Miles Thorogood with UBC Graduate Students Jacen Dennis, Amberley John, and Emerald Holt created a multimedia presentation of animated images.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aleksandra\u00a0Dulic, Ph.D., a media artist, is an Associate Professor in Creative Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology. <\/span>Miles Thorogood, Ph.D., a media artist, is an Assistant Professor, composer-performer, interaction designer, and audio producer. Aleksandra’s and Miles’ collaborative creative practice explores the use of technology to enable media performances and installations rich in aural, visual, and cultural nuances. <\/span><\/p>\n

Artist Jacen Dennis acted as lead animator and coordinator. Indigenous artist Amberley John tells and illustrates the story of the Three Brothers and Giant Bear. <\/span><\/p>\n

Lan Tung told a Chinese tale and composed music for this section. African narrative is told by storyteller Comfort Ero. <\/span>Emerald Holt animated and composed sound for this story. Keith Hamel composed music for Greek Section. <\/span>Frazer Sundown’s composition “Season Change” was used in the Haudenosaunee narrative. <\/span><\/p>\n

The animation and illustration team also included UBCO undergraduate students: Ardanna Semeschuk, illustrating the Greek heroes; Dianne Schnieders, illustrating the Weaver Woman story; Cassidy Mckenzie animated and illustrated African story, Sarah Polak and Charles Landa, providing animation; with additional drawings by Taiwanese artist Li Tung.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Community\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Par<\/span><\/span>tners<\/span><\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Lightup<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Kelown<\/span><\/span>a,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Arts Council of the Central Okanagan,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Museums Society<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Rotary Centre for the Arts<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Ki-Low-Na\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Friendship Society<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Kleos<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Open Learning<\/span><\/span>, UBC Okanagan<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Communication <\/span><\/span>Assistance<\/span><\/span><\/strong>: Rosaleen McAfee,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>&\u00a0<\/span><\/span>April Liu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Media Artist and UBC Okanagan faculty Aleksandra\u00a0Dulic\u00a0and Miles Thorogood with UBC Graduate Students Jacen Dennis, Amberley John, and Emerald Holt created a multimedia presentation of animated images. Aleksandra\u00a0Dulic, Ph.D., a media artist, is an Associate Professor in Creative Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology. Miles Thorogood, Ph.D., a media artist, is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22145,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celestialbodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celestialbodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celestialbodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celestialbodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celestialbodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celestialbodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celestialbodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celestialbodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}