Bryce Peake
Anthropologist & Media Consultant
Hi. I'm Bryce, an anthropologist interested in the processes
of meaning-making through technology,cities,
social media,and material culture
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Anthropologist
Visual Anthropology, Museum Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Media Studies, Literary-Philosophical Anthropology, Symbolic-Interpretive Anthropology. Theoretical: Cultural Semiotics, Critical Race Theory, Phenomenology, Psychoanalytics, Postcolonialism. Topical: Aesthetics, Media, Identity, Music, Material Culture, Politics of Representation. Geographic Expertise: Medit-Eur-Africa (Morocco, Gibraltar, Gozo, Malta, Tunisia). Career Goals: Museum Curator of Theory, Technology Consultant, University Professor. Field Research in the US, Gozo, Malta, Toronto, Gibraltar, & Morocco, Museum Research at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Gibraltar Museum.
Media Specialist
MA in Cultural Production _ Brandies University, concentration in museums and visuality. Jazz Director, Commercial Producer, & Manager for HitMix 88.9FM, Award winning (2 Illinois Broadcaster's Association Silver Dome Awards) Jazz Documentary Producer (Artist Profiles and Albums in Context), Independent Recording Technician (8 albums as engineer, 4 as producer). Media Installation Designer (Cellutopia and Portraits of a City exhibited _ Tarble Arts Center), (de)Classified (art action projection _ Brandeis University). Associate Photo Editor, Print Designer, & Principle Graphic Illustrator (Daily Eastern News). Graphic Communication Specialist (Brandeis University). Designed Brandeis University's Technopedagogy Initiative through Dept. of Anthropology. Social Media Assistant (Rose Art Museum). Guest Multimedia Curator (Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation). Given talks on Social Media Theory at George Mason U (w/ Mark Auslander), Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University's International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life, Brandeis University Commencement Address entitled 'Social Media, Democracy, and Critical Literacy'. Social Media consultant for the National Museum of African Art. Publications coming: Will it Blend: Homoerotic Subtexts in Man/Technology Relationships , Dialogic Adventures Through the Looking Glass: YouTube as a Pedagogical Tool (w/ Mark Auslander), Social Media, Social Justice, and the New Participatory Museum.
Musician
Bachelor's degree in music performance/composition, focused on jazz and contemporary music. University ensembles include Eastern Wind Symphony (principle double bassist), Eastern Illinois University Jazz Ensemble 1 (tenor saxophone 2004, upright bass 2005-7) Eastern Chamber Orchestra & Ensembles. Brandeis University Improv Collective. House bassist for The Little Theatre on the Square. Freelance Bassist (w/ Bobby Shew, Dr. Cherilee Wadsworth-Walker, Eddie Mekka, Terence Mayhue, Ian Sheppard, & Mark Colby), Composer (The Marcum Swing Band, the MarcuEake Jazz Orchestra, EIU Jazz Ensemble, EIU Wind Symphony, EIU Jazz Lab Band), and Band Leader (The Jazz Triage, The MarcuEake Jazz Orchestra, and Josh Marcus Quartet). Band member w/ Jennifer Hruska's Underground Forest Ensemble.
SELECT publications
Eating in the Real Gozo: Sound, Authenticity, and Identity in Gozitan Restaurants. OmerTaa Journal of Applied Anthropology, 2008/1.
Celebrating Festa du San Lawrenz: Local Tradition, Glocal Objects. AnthroNews 49/8. November, 2008.
A review of Counterworks: Managing the Diversity of Knowledge. Anthropology Review Database
A review of Banjos, Fiddles, Two Step, and Swing: A Cajun Music Reader. Journal of American Folklife, 2009. (in press).
Research
(some) CURRENT projects
On the Semiotic Construction of a Siouxan Elk Whistle. In conjunction with the National Museum of Natural History's Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology.
Ontologies of Locality in Gibraltar: Postcolonialism Revised. Research in progress, with funding from the Gibraltar Museum and Gibraltarian Institute of Gibraltarian Studies.
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