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Congratulations Jo Shin on your MA thesis defense!
Last Monday, Feb 25 Jo Shin successfully defended her thesis “Collective Wisdom”: Inquiring into Collective Homes as a Site for HCI Design at SFU Surrey Campus. In this research, Jo engages with emergent Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) scholarship that expands the traditional characterization of ‘the home’. Jo’s thesis contributes to HCI studies of domestic environments through…
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Lab Updates: Conferences to keep in mind
Dear all in MCL and cMAS, after our lab meeting yesterday we decided to start a list with some useful resources for all to share. To initiate this trend we decide to do a series of blog posts, but we are open to other ways of sharing this info. Our first entry is on conferences…
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Excited to announce the first meeting of the Anthropocene Reading Group
Freya Zinovieff is organizing the Anthropocene Reading Group hosted by MCL/cMAS at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology in SFU Surrey Campus The group will meet once a month in room 3910 at SFU Surrey campus, and you are welcome to join in person or via Skype. Our first session is scheduled on Wednesday October…
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Welcome Sasha Kleinplatz to MCL/cMAS
We are really excited to welcome Sasha Kleinplatz to the critical media arts studio and making culture lab in SIAT. Sasha Kleinplatz http://criticalmediartstudio.com/index.php/2018/09/welcome-sasha-kl…platz-to-mclcmas/
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International Colloquium of Graphic Notation, Mexico City, September 12-14, 2018
Thanks to Cinthya García Leyva(ACT/UNAM), Susana González Aktories (FFyL/UNAM), Barbara Ventarola (FU Berlin), Georg Witte (FU Berlin) and everyone at ACT arte, cienciay tecnología for inviting me to present the work of Uruguayan composer Carmen Barradas at the Colloquio Internacional de Notación. It was an honor to present with Llorenç Barber, Patricio F. Calatayud and Carlos…
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Freya Zinovieff at the 2018 RGB-IBG Annual International Conference in Cardiff
Freya Zinovieff just returned from Cardiff where she presented the paper “Confluence of Relations: An Auto-Ethnographic Account of Field Recording in the Anthropocene Age” as part of the panel Landscape Becoming and Time. Past, present and future: dwelling in Human Geography and beyond at the 2018 Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference. Freya…
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cMAS at SIGGRAPH 2018
Thanks to Andrés Burbano and Erica Hruby for the invitation to present at Leonardo Birds of Feathers session in SIGGRAPH to celebrate Leonardo’s 50th Anniversary. It was a great honor to share and listen to Ernest Edmonds and Philippe Pasquier and celebrate Mirjana Prpa and Nicole L’Huillier on their “the future of the field on…
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Congratulations Jo Shin on your scholarship to attend the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration !
With this scholarship Jo will have the opportunituy to attend the world’s largest gathering of women technologists. The Grace Hopper Celebration is produced by AnitaB.org and presented in partnership with ACM. GHC 18 will be Sep. 26–28 in Houston, TX. https://ghc.anitab.org/calendar/2018-grace-hopper-celebration/
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Congratulations to Jo Shin on her LOUD foundation scholarship!
criticalmediartstudio (cMAS) Masters’ student, Jo Shin, has been awarded a LOUD Scholarship from the LOUD Foundation for her contribution to the LGBTQ+ community in British Columbia. The LOUD Foundation invests in future leaders of the Canadian LGBTQ+ community by supporting the development of students who work to improve society and increase awareness of our…
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Manifesting Resistance. Conversations on Intergenerational Memory across the “Americas”
This March 7-10,2018, we are thrilled to be gathering in Nogojiwanong (Peterborough), on Michi Saagiig Anishinaabeg territory, for an exciting symposium and multi-day workshop, Manifesting Resistance: Conversations about Intergenerational Memory Work across ‘the Americas.’ This project has come together as a collaboration between Aging Activisms (based at Trent University, led by May Chazan) and Critical MediArtStudio (cMAS, based at Simon Fraser…
