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  • cMAS and MCL members @ Boundaries and (dis)junctions CALACS Congress 2025

    From May 15 to May 17, 2025, members of cMAS and MCL will participate in the Annual Congress of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS), 2025 at York University, Toronto, as part of the panel “Negotiating Representation: Critical Analyses of Media-arts and Cultural Practices across the Americas” organized and chaired by…

    April 27, 2025
    Conference Presentations
  • 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…

    May 10, 2023
    Conference Presentations, Symposium and Workshops
  • 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…

    May 4, 2023
    Public Talks
    • 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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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
250 -13450 102 Avenue
Surrey, BC V3T 0A3
CANADA


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