04/05/2016
Conference organizers outtakes and friendly faces
The 2016 Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories Graduate Conference, March 12, 2016
#trending: mobilizing art and culture
The influence of trends is undeniable in contemporary culture, but rarely are its implications fully fleshed out. How can a trend mobilize or call others to action? As scholarship in contemporary art, design and new media becomes increasingly focused on networked lives, the digital platforms through which we communicate, interact, and share information demand academic and social inquiry. This inte
04/05/2016
Conference organizers outtakes and friendly faces
03/14/2016
T A G Y O U R S E L F! Photos of presenters and events for March 12, 2016 graduate CADN coference.
Due to unforeseen circumstances our keynote Janaya Kahn will be presenting remotely.
In addition, LeRoi Newbold is a community organizer, educator and teacher at Canada's first public Africentric Aternative School will be presenting. Leroi is also a core member of BlackLivesMatter Toronto and is currently working with artist Nadijah Robinson, and with parents and youth to vision and program for a BlackLivesMatter Freedom School for children aged 4-10 in the summer of 2016. Leroi's Grade 1/2 class from the Africentric Alternative School will be performing a piece entitled "A is for Activist" about navigating our present day realities while dreaming of the AfroFuture.
03/11/2016
mobilizing art and culture schedule for March 12. Opening Remarks 9:00 am Keynote 6:00pm
03/11/2016
Contributing Artist: Ana Jofre’s creative and research interests include figurative sculpture, the uncanny, puppetry, robotics, embodiment, and data visualization. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at OCAD University in the visual analytics lab. http://onewomancaravan.net/index.html
For more information on her exhibit at conference: http://cadnconferenceocadu.blogspot.ca/
03/04/2016
Get Ready!! is almost upon us!
03/04/2016
Get Ready!! is almost upon us!
02/22/2016
Conference Opening Reception: Artwork by featured artist Sean Martindale
CADN Conference at OCADu: Opening Reception: #nature Artwork by featured artist Sean Martindale
02/22/2016
One of our conference presenters, Merray Gerges, wrote a really cool article in Canadian Art on being a critic of colour. Merray will be presenting in the panel: The Word Made Digital 2:00 - 3:30 pm, March 12 at 100 McCaul.
What's Your Flavour? On Being a Critic of Colour in February Is it advisable for a critic of colour to take Black History Month to task—especially when asked to do so by white editors? Merray Gerges reflects.
02/04/2016
http://canadianart.ca/features/art-at-the-end-of-the-road/
What Can Art Offer the Refugee Crisis? - Canadian Art Benjamin Hunter recently spent a week in Calais, sorting clothing donations and preparing meals. Here, he considers art's role in humanitarian disaster.
01/28/2016
A new exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in London, opening January 29, 2016, attempts to give some historical perspective to how computer and internet technologies have left their imprint on art making in the last 50 years.
Electronic Superhighway... - MutualArt Electronic Superhighway 2016-1966: Digital Art in Historic Context; A new exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in London, opening January 29, 2016,...
Kapsula’s first issue of 2016. "Each of the texts in this issue zero in on the socially embedded practices that inform calculative processes, revealing numerical communication as a form of globalization."http://kapsula.ca/releases/KAPSULA_GOODMEASURE_1of3.pdf