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  • Activist Listening: Insurgent Decoloniality in Times and Spaces of Violence by Freya Zinovieff

    Many Congratulations to Freya Zinovieff who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation “Activist Listening: Insurgent Decoloniality in Times and Spaces of Violence,” a reflection on the potential of listening in our turbulent times.  The thesis will be available soon through SFU libraries but for now, here is her abstract: “Activist Listening: Insurgent Decoloniality in Times and…

    December 10, 2024
    News
  • Mitochondrial Ontologies at Mónica Reyes Gallery Nov 24 to Nov 30, 2024

    Join us for a drive-by, drive-in screening of Mitochondrial Ontologies: Deep Time and the Digital (a 15-minute video installation with sound) directed and produced by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda in collaboration with Freya Zinovieff, prOphecy Sun and Steve DiPaola with the participation of Salome Nieto, Matilda Aslizadeh, Maira Cristina Castro, Lois Klassen, Alessandra Santos, Sarah Shamash,…

    November 17, 2024
    News
  • Feminist Sonographies of Situated Listening / sono(soro)ridades collective

    Feminist Sonographies of Situated Listening is an immersive audio installation that maps out the research connections between the multidisciplinary individual practices of the sono(soro)ridades collective. This project is part of our process to enact our approach to what we call “decolonial feminist methodologies in sound” as a contribution to the field of research-creation. The installation…

    June 10, 2023
    Exhibitions and Screenings, Symposium and Workshops

    Red Sono(soro)ridades @ LASA 2023 The Right to Listen

    Victoria Polti, Freya Zinovieff, Amanda Guitiérrez, and Laura Balboa members of the RED SONO(SORO)RIDADES presented in LASA 2023 as part of the panel THE RIGHT TO LISTEN: COLONIALITY, AURAL REGIMES AND TECHNOPOLITICAL ACTIVISMS organized by AMANDA GUTIERREZ, chaired by VICTORIA POLTI with GABRIELA ACEVES SEPULVEDA as discussant The presenters discussed various engagements with sound methodologies,…

    June 1, 2023
    News
  • sono(soro)ridades at The Institute of Knowledge, U of A, May 16 – June 10, 2023

    Really excited to be part of the exhibition at The Institute of Knowledge at The University of Alberta from May 16- June 20, 2023.  Our collective sono(soro)ridades will present the audio installation Feminist Sonographies of Situated Listening. sono(soro)ridades is an ad-hoc group of feminist sound artists, activists and scholars interested in investigating the affective and…

    May 12, 2023
    Exhibitions and Screenings
  • 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…

    October 7, 2022
    News
  • 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…

    July 1, 2022
    News
  • sono [soro]ridades @ Encuentro de redes sono-sororas / Tecnofeminisms from the South

    Amanda Gutiérrez, Freya Zinovieff, Laura Balboa, and Gabriela Aceves presented their ongoing collaborations and the development of sono(soro)rities, as a theoretical and methodological framework to explore the affective and political dimensions of sound as part of the panel; “With one foot in Academia”. The panel included presentations from various Latin American -based feminist collectives working…

    April 21, 2022
    News
  • Body as Border: Traces and Flows of Connection @ Urban Screen from 6 pm to midnight until May 1st

    The most recent collaboration by prOphecy Sun, Freya Zinovieff, Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda, and Steve DiPaola is on view at the Urban Screen at Chuck Bailey Stadium every weeknight from 6 pm to midnight and until May 1st. Body as Border: Traces and Flows of Connection is a 32 minute immersive, large-scale generative video projection created…

    March 1, 2022
    Exhibitions and Screenings, News
    • Studio, 2022. Hamed Rashtian.
    • White Clouds in the Blue Sky, 2022. Kate Hennessy, Trudi Lynn Smith, and Steve DiPaola
    • Studio, 2022. Hamed Rashtian.
    • Video Tambadoras, 2022. Maira Cristina Castro

    Body as Border preview night and Boundless, a short program of videos curated by prOphecy sun and Freya Zinovieff for the Surrey Urban Screen, Feb 10 @ 6pm

    We are thrilled to invite you to the preview screening of our new site-specific commission, Body as Border: Traces and Flows of Connection,at the UrbanScreen at Chuck Bailey Recreation Center and to introduce Boundless, a program of short videos curated by prOphecy sun and Freya Zinovieff.  The preview screening will take place on Thursday, February…

    February 8, 2022
    Exhibitions and Screenings, News
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  • Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter joins cMAS as a post-doctoral fellow April 30, 2025
  • cMAS and MCL members @ Boundaries and (dis)junctions CALACS Congress 2025 April 27, 2025
  • Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda invited to give a Keynote Talk at Media Arts Conference, Manizales, Colombia, May 2025 April 25, 2025
  • Women in AI and New Media: Living with two brains symposium February 25, 2025

About cMAS

The criticalmediartstudio (cMAS) explores how old and new technologies have and continue to shape historical narratives and practices of media arts and design.

cMAS is directed by Dr. Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda.

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School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT)
Simon Fraser University Surrey
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