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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…

    August 19, 2022
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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…

    July 1, 2022
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  • Lois Klassen @ INSPIRE Seminar Series: Research and Creation in Sites of Ethical Demand – Models of Conduct and Practice

    If you missed Lois Klassen’s talk on Research and Creation in Sited of Ethical Demand as part of the INSPIRE series you can watch the recording here. Lois addresses important questions that situate the category and production of  “Research-Creation” projects within the Canadian context including decolonizing efforts in research and academia in response to the…

    April 4, 2022
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  • Tertulia: Artist Book Publishing by American, Canadian, and Mexican Artists- March 31 at 6 pm

    Lois Klassen from Light Factory Publications, Vancouver and Post-Doctoral Fellow at cMAS, and VLACC (Vancouver Latin American Cultural Center) are thrilled to invite you to this presentation that brings together American, Canadian, and Mexican creators who have recently produced artist books with Vancouver-based Light Factory Publications (LFP). Artists have been exchanging and collaboratively producing small…

    March 28, 2022
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  • 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
  • Fabricación, Aserradero and Fundición: Reactivating the compositions of Carmen Barradas (1888-1963) @ the Gender and Musicianship conference at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki

    Excited to share this concert-lecture of Carmen Barradas’ compositions for piano Fabricación (1922), Fundición (1921), and Aserradero (1922) interpreted by Patricia Mendoza with analysis by Adriana Santos Melgarejo. We will be presenting this concert lecture as part of the Gender and Musicianship conference at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki on January 25th, 2022 https://vimeo.com/668427447 In this…

    January 20, 2022
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  • Creative Media Responses to Diasporic Writing – Partnership with Reading Migration Library (RML) Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) and SFUs Community Engagement Initative (CEI)

    We are incredibly excited to announce that in partnership with Reading the Migration Library (led by cMAS post-doctoral fellow Lois Klassen) and Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) in Accra, Ghana, we will soon be embarking on an experimental project that will creatively circulate (or migrate) writing and art about diaspora. New funding from SFU’s…

    June 15, 2021
    News, Patrnerships
  • Mitochondrial Echoes @ Art Machines/ 2 – City University, Hong Kong

    Happy to announce that Mitochondrial Echoes: Computational Poetics, an immersive single-channel, AI-driven poetic visual and auditory score fruit of our own going collaboration with Steve DiPaola, PrOphecy Sun, and Freya Zinovieff is part of Constructing Context at Art and Machines/2 curated by Tobias Klein and Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano at City U University Hong Kong, June 10-20,…

    June 7, 2021
    Exhibitions and Screenings, News
  • Research-Creation Seminar with students from Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín Colombia- Dec 7-11, 2020

    As part of cMAS ongoing relationship with the University of Antioquia, Medellín  Colombia we are pleased to announce our seminar on research-creation with graduate students from the Master in Audiovisual Production at UA and cMAS research collaborators Lois Klassen, Sarah Shamash, prOphecy Sun, Carlos Colín and Amanda Gutiérrez. In the seminar, students will explore the…

    November 7, 2020
    News, Patrnerships, Symposium and Workshops
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Recent Posts

  • Situated Listening: Attending the Unheard co-edited by Freya Zinovieff, Stephanie Loveless, Tullis Rennie and Morten Søndergaad May 21, 2025
  • Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda invited to give a Keynote Talk at Media Arts Conference, Manizales, Colombia, May 2025 May 15, 2025
  • 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

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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