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Same Old Story at ISEA 2023
We are excited to share that Hamed Rashtian will be presenting a paper based on his research on the embodied realities of different colonial histories. In Same Old Story: Agential Realism in the Study of Colonial Histories, Rashtian asks: What are the possibilities of accessing the reality of history? How can we read history and…
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Thursday Talk: Hamed Rashtian, “Same Old Story” @ Surrey Art Gallery – May 4, 7 :30 pm
Visual artist and Ph.D. student Hamed Rashtian will talk about his research on the embodied realities of different colonial histories. Rashtian will provide an overview of his art practice and then elaborate on his recent project Same Old Story. This multimedia installation reflects on the possibilities and limits of image, text, and sound to find creative forms…
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Homenaje a Carmen Barradas, Ateneo de Madrid, May 13th @ 6:00 pm
So excited and honoured to be part of this symposium/concert in commemoration of the 100-year anniversary of Carmen Barrada’s premier of “Fabricación” at the Ateneo de Madrid along with Carmen Cecilia Piñero Gil, Juan Manuel Bonet, Miguel Molina Alarcón, Adriana Santos Melgarejo and Patricia Lluberas If you are in Madrid or Barcelona, please join us:…
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Latinx-Canadian Visual and Media Arts as Decolonial Efforts: Mapping and Questioning Initiatives Across Canada
Who said there is no Latin/Latinx art in Canada? Yesterday, I had the pleasure to chair an amazing discussion on Latin/Latinx Art in Canada with four amazing scholars of Latin/x- Canadian Art, Analays Alvarez, Zaira Zarza, Tamara Toledo and Sarah Shamash at UAAC/AAUC 2022 Stay tuned for our upcoming book on the topic! Here is…
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XII Reunión del Seminario Permanente CIESAS-INAH-UBC Memoria Ciudadana
This past October 20 and 21 Gabriela participated in the XII Meeting of the Permanent Seminar CIESAS-INAH-UBC Citizen Memory “Personal documents and life stories, continuation” organized by Dr. Julia Preciado. I presented some advances on a research project that uses autobiography as a method and the personal archive of my mother, the artist Gabriela Sepúlveda…
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Reading the Diaspora/Reading Migration an interactive response to poetry from the Ghanaian diaspora – Oct 30 2022 10 am PST
October 30, 2022 (10am PT) ~ Online Art Book Month launch of “Reading the Diaspora / Reading Migration”, an interactive response to poetry from the Ghanaian diaspora by Catherine Pearce in collaboration with Rose Rouhani. These project emerged in response to the partnership with Reading the Migration Library (led by cMAS post-doctoral fellow Lois Klassen)…
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Situated Listening: a collective and hybrid panel with The Listening Academy in the UK. Tuesday 11th Oct at 4pm (UK) / 5pm (CET) / 11am (ET) / 8am (PT)
Freya Zinovieff is working closely with a community of ten researchers with sound-based practices, located in Canada, the USA, the UK, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, to propose the practice of Situated Listening; an evolving interdisciplinary method for evidencing the networks of hidden, unheard and non-human residues, that weave through the increasing political, social and environmental…
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Latin American Visual Histories: Paradigms/Aporias/Methods, organized by Jessica Stites-Mor and Ernesto Capello this weekend at the Banff Centre, October 7-8, 2022.
Members of cMAS are excited to participate in Latin American Visual Histories: Paradigms/Aporias/Methods, organized by Jessica Stites-Mor and Ernesto Capello, this weekend at the Banff Centre from October 7-8, 2022. Gabriel Juliano Mora will present advances in his doctoral research on Brazilian rappers. His talk “‘Contemporary Media Arts Epistemologies: Brazilian Rappers’ Practice as Knowledge-making” will…
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Activating the Archive: An Overview of Media-Based Research-Creation projects across the Americas
On Wednesday August 24 I will be chairing a panel on media-based research-creation projects with colleagues, collaborators and members of cMAS. If you are participating in CALACS this year, please join us. Sarah Shamash, Catherine Pearce, Maira Cristina Castro Mina, Daisy Quezada, Lois Klassen and Gabriel Juliano will present various creative engagements with Latin American…
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The Making Culture Lab and CriticalMediartStudio (cMAS) was excited to present new work at the Royal Anthropological Institute Conference Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society.
Critical Research-Creation Engagements with Artificial Intelligence: New Works from the Making Culture Lab (MCL) and CriticalMediaArtStudio (cMAS), June 8, 6:30 am PST/ 2:30 pm UK Our session “Critical Research-Creation Engagements with Artificial Intelligence: New Works from the Making Culture Lab and CriticalMediaArtStudio” includes presentations by Dr. Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda, Dr. Kate Hennessy, Steve DiPaola, Trudi Lynn…
