Remembering Practice & Policy (30 to 40 years ago), in the Media Arts in the UK and Canada, looks back three to four decades in Canadian and British media art history, within production workshops and festival presentations with Indigenous Peoples and People of Color. For example, looking back at Canadian cultural activism then and now […]

The film Shadow Girl (75mins) will be screened through the CFMDC website and projected at 4th Space, following with a discussion with the filmmaker at 4:30pm. Maria Teresa Larraín is a Chilean born filmmaker, who studied Law and Drama in her native land. In 1976, Larraín immigrated to Canada where she worked as a legal […]

Climate Change and the Forest  (Real, Imaginary and Virtual) will focus on current research exploration by world renowned scientists joined by artists, and emerging scholars. Key researchers will present on related topics:Art-making with research combining the environmental sciences is the focus for Kathleen Vaughan’s (Concordia) St Lawrence River project; Gisèle Trudel (UQÀM) will present on […]

Decolonizing Spaces, Curatorial, Museum and Publication Models will focus on curatorial, critical and artistic projects. Curator Haema Sivanesan (Glenbow Museum) will present notes from her essay, “Unsettling” the Forest as a Canadian Nationalist Imaginary: Consent, Consultation, and (Re)conciliation in Leila Sujir’s “forest! documents”; Sunny Kerr (Queen’s) will offer methodologies of decolonial curatorial practices at the […]

The film Queer Coolie-tudes (87 mins) will be screened through the CFMDC website and projected at 4th Space, following with a discussion with the filmmaker at 4:30pm. Michelle Mohabeer was born in Guyana/South American and lives in Toronto, she is a multi award-winning filmmaker/media artist, film scholar, academic and writer who earned her PhD from […]

Public Activations, with Visualization in 2D + 3D, with Immersion and New Media (including Drawing, Photography and Drone Animation) will address empathy and point-of-view in current social and environmental issues. Emily Pelstring and Jenn Norton (Queen’s) will discuss their collaborative project, After the Witch of Malleghem, and the political implications of using reflexive humor in […]

Public Activations, with Visualization in 2D + 3D, with Immersion and New Media (including Drawing, Photography and Drone Animation) will address empathy and point-of-view in current social and environmental issues. Maria Lantin (ECUAD) will present possible ways to build empathy through VR and other technologies. Romeo Gongora (UQAM) will present his collaborative AR project, a […]