Althea Thauberger belongs to a younger generation of (predominantly female) artists whose quasi-anthropological scrutiny of the life-world of adolescent and teenage girls leans heavily on a critical use of both film and photography - the two visual technologies most closely associated with the scientific enterprise of anthropology or ethnology. Thauberger’s loose connection with the Vancouver art context obviously further complicates her commitment to the cinematographic and/or photographic paradigm.

Althea Thauberger won the Grange Prize; Canada's only public-voted major art prize in 2011 .