Material memories: A 3D Exhibition of THINGS
Date: April 11, 10:30am-4:30pm PST

Location:

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

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

From the tangible to the digital. Using research-creation, ethnography, and photogrammetry, this exhibition reflects the ethics and stories of objects that reveal the power of material memories. The objects each carry embodied and ranging meanings. These meanings evoke connections of the materiality to concepts of family, tradition, change, freedom, female connection, friendship, gift, love, culture, effort, utility, and grief. This exhibition captures the complexity and ethics of making things digital and exploring how objects become things as they move through our everyday lives.  

The poems and concepts reflect their value to the makers and the unique biographies of objects. You are invited to find your own connections to the social lives of things.

Note: 3D glasses will be provided for all visitors. We will also have a visitor book available and invite people to share their anonymous reflections. After the exhibition, a virtual version will be available here.

Supported by: UBC Studios, Okanagan, ALT-2040 (2022), Collaborative + Experimental Ethnography Lab

Acknowledgements

An immense amount of gratitude to Joel Thiessen, Senior Emerging Media Specialist, and the Visualization and Emerging Media Studio with UBC Studios for their exceptional leadership and support in experimental and applied learning, teaching methods, and rendering models. And a very special thanks to Matt Radar, Canadian poet extraordinaire, who mentored all students to write original free-form poems that created mini-biographies of each 3D model.

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 to be made of their object for the Anthropology of Things (327) course and this exhibition both in person and online.

• Belinda Hardy (Pip and Bean Pottery)

• Caitlin Callahan

• Caryse McCartney

• Christina Hart

• Ethan Eisenhauer

• Elizabeth “Betty” Waddell (Kirsten Marshall)

• Gabrielle Legault

• Hilary Neumann

3D Model Makers, Co-Curators, Poets, and Voice Actors