Craig Campbell

Biography

Fascinations

My research has most recently been concerned with the realm of ethnographic and documentary images. The research and visual experiments that I undertake explore the possibility for failed, defaced, degraded, manipulated, and damaged photographs to activate interpretive fields typically unacknowledged in conventional ethnographies and histories. This intermedia and aesthetic approach pushes the sensuousness of the world back into an intellectual and scholarly understanding of it.

Ethnographic and regional interests:  Siberia, Central Siberia, Indigenous Siberians, Evenki, Evenkiia, Reindeer hunting and herding, Travel and mobility, Socialist colonialism, early forms of Sovietization.

For more information about my projects, publications, and other activities please visit my website:

www.metafactory.ca

Assistant Professor Craig Campbell received his Ph.D. in Theory and Culture from the University of Alberta where he was also the Co-ordinator and manager of the Intermedia Research Studio [www.intermedia.ualberta.ca].  He is currently developing an Intermedia Ethnography Lab in f0lkl0r3 & Public Culture.