This includes still and moving images, theatre, performance, multimedia arts, exhibits, soundscapes, digital platforms, multisensorial engagements, curatorial practices, and more. From material practices to smartphones, social media, and digital software experimentations (VR, AI), we engage with the challenges and opportunities opened by contemporary artistic forms and new media for anthropological thinking and outreach possibilities.
We are interested in cultivating and including different aesthetic sensibilities in the ways in which we design and conduct our work. In doing so, we develop new ways to communicate and coproduce knowledge.
We include in this exercise various theoretical and political approaches for thinking with artistic expressions that expand our understanding of the relation between arts and science. We pay close attention to how different forms of expression are unequally situated within the artistic world and our discipline.
We rely on ethnography as a method of experience and participation that documents the changing circumstances of daily life. In this endeavour we see the arts, media, and multimodality as modes of thinking and apprehension that can create more equal and pluralistic forms of knowing and expressing our world
Researchers working on arts, media and multimodality
Research projects within arts, media and multimodality
Epidemic Traces - What remains after epidemics have been controlled?
Private Lives - Embedding sociality at digital "kitchen-tables"