Multimodality is gaining momentum in anthropology: from multimedia approaches to ethnographic representation to collaborative, scenographic, performative, artistic and public forms of engagement, the norms and forms of our discipline seem to be undergoing a vast transformation. Operating on this shifting terrain, the Digital Curatorial Collective of the SCA started working with a simple tenet: Perhaps we don’t know what multimodal means yet. If that is the case, how could we help to capture and discuss its many promises and challenges as something in flight, with changing meanings, as part of ongoing experimentation that might not yet be fixed or settled? We have been addressing our work as a studio: a workshop space to undertake conceptual hands-on work, where things can be discussed and documented as they happen, enabling a media-rich, process-oriented, and generative space to redefine what anthropology can be as we explore its means and modes.
Studio Anthropology: Experiments with Ethnography as a Practice of the Artificial
Ethnographic fieldwork is increasingly becoming (and perhaps has always been) a space of multimodal experimentation. As a number of recent interventions have ma... More
Ethnographic Listening Workshop "Toolkit"
Listening in Toronto Our Ethnographic Listening Workshop was held at 10 a.m. on November 16, 2023, in Toronto as part of the 2023 American Anthropological Assoc... More