Betsey Biggs’ Postcard Project featured in Bettery Magazine

Posted by Ian on Nov 13, 2012 in news, press, reviews

Ayun Halliday & Betsey Biggs 2012 “How can we keep pre-digital communication’s most pleasurable rituals from becoming extinct?” in Bettery Magazine, November. Read it here.

Towards an ethics of oblivion and forgetting: The parallax view

Posted by Ian on Nov 4, 2012 in academic, articles, publications

2012 ‘Towards an ethics of oblivion and forgetting: The parallax view’ in Heritage & Society, Vol. 5, Iss. 2, pp. 249-272. Read it here.

Introduction to the Urban Cultural Heritage & Creative Practice Research Collaborative

Posted by Ian on Feb 13, 2012 in academic, arts, blog, news, publications, video

From the Winter 2012 Symposium held at Brown University. More information here.

Artist Talk by Betsey Biggs on “The Providence Postcard Project”

Posted by Ian on Feb 13, 2012 in arts, news, publications, video

From the Winter 2012 Symposium of the Urban Cultural Heritage & Creative Practice International Research Collaborative. More information here.

Postcard Project featured on Providence Daily Dose

Posted by Ian on Jan 26, 2012 in blog, news

A nice little piece of press on the Postcard Project was recently featured in the Providence Daily Dose: http://providencedailydose.com/2012/01/22/providence-postcard-project/ Head over to the Granoff Center Friday for the opening party of The Providence Postcard Project — 1000 postcards,100 photographs, 22 neighborhoods — you may still have time to participate yourself. The Providence Postcard Project, by artist Betsey Biggs, explores […]

Brown to host International Symposium on Urban Cultural Heritage & Creative Practice

Posted by Ian on Jan 20, 2012 in blog, news

A  Discussion of International Approaches Heritage professionals from around the world converge on Brown’s campus for a day of conversation. Cape Town – Dublin – Hong Kong – Istanbul – Providence – York What is heritage, and what forms does it take in an urban environment?  How are creative practices affected by, and how do they […]

Launch of the Providence Postcard Project

Posted by Ian on Jan 17, 2012 in blog, news

On January 15, 2012, at AS220 in downtown Providence, artist Betsey Biggs launched her Providence Postcard Project. The project explores the familiar souvenir medium of postcards as a source of reflection by the residents of Providence on what meanings the city holds. Beginning this week, the project will be distributing pre-addressed, postage-paid postcards featuring photographs taken […]

Guest at Koç University

Posted by Ian on Dec 27, 2011 in news

This December and January I will be a guest lecturer at Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) in Beyoğlu, Istanbul. Lecturing on curation and leading workshops on exhibition design, the visit has been organized by Prof. Lucienne Thys-Şenocak as a part of the build up to the launch of their new exhibition and museum space at […]

Tracing heritage erasure along I-195

Posted by Ian on Oct 4, 2011 in academic, e-publications, news, publications, video

Video presentation for the “Heritage Erasure: Vandalism and Obliteration in the Historic Environment” session of the “Peoples, places, stories 2011” conference at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Created from the archive of Fiona Hallinan’s artist project “Roadscore | Invisible String”. Thank you to Fiona Hallinan, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, the John Nicholas Brown Center for […]

Brown University features ‘Windshield (2011)’

Posted by Ian on Jul 29, 2011 in news

Brown University News & Events has just featured Dennis McNulty’s ‘Windshield (2011)’. Read the piece here: http://news.brown.edu/features/2011/07/windshield View the project page here: http://ianaldenrussell.com/projects/windshield-2011