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A 3D Exhibition
Date: December 7, 2022 11:15am -4pm

Location: VISUALIZATION & EMERGING MEDIA STUDIO (COM 107), University of British Columbia, Okanagan

Invitation Poster: Download Poster Here

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

What are the material lives of students? Using research-creation, ethnography, and photogrammetry, this exhibition reflects a concept of jeong 정 that the students collaboratively identified as reflecting their international connection to each other and to objects. Objects they either own or have made that carry embodied and ranging meanings. These meanings connect to ideas of attachment and love, to care and tenderness. This exhibition captures the complexity and ethics of making things digital and exploring how objects become things as they move through our everyday lives.

Organized into three concept categories, the objects all have complex biographies that create relations to concepts such as energy, nature, art, knowledge, identity, person-hood, ancestral property, childhood, home, play, comfort, friendship. You are invited to find your own connections to the social lives of things.

Exhibitors: ANTH 327 “Things: Exploring Material Cultures” 39 undergraduate students from the Fall 2022 cohort

Duration: The full virtual immersive event is 20-30mins in duration.

Note: 3D glasses will be provided for all visitors. We will also have a visitor book available and invited people to share their anonymous reflections.

Supported by: UBC Studios, Okanagan, ALT-2040 (2022), UBCO CONSTELLATION AWARD (2022)

Acknowledgements:

Special thanks to Jeffery Robinson @ Rush Ihas Hardwick Law firm in Kelowna, BC for consulting on matters of copyright, trademark, patent, and intellectual property. A warm thank you to our colleagues in the UBCO Communications Office, UBCO University Relations, and UBCO Alumni Engagement Office for support with signage and way-finding.

Incredible gratitude to Joel Thiessen and the Visualization and Emerging Media Studio for their exceptional leadership and support in experimental and applied learning, teaching methods, and rendering models.

Recognitions:

In many instances, special permissions were secured to create a 3D model of objects where the maker, not the student, owns the intellectual property. Special thanks to the following people, brands, and organizations (in alphabetical order) for their generous permissions to permit models be made of their object for the Anthropology of Things (327) course and this exhibition: