Climate Change Across Disciplines will focus on current research exploration by world renowned scientists joined by artists, and emerging scholars. Key researchers will present on related topics: climate change’s implications for forest ecosystems (Damon Matthews, Concordia); Indigenous expressions and connection with land (Leigh Joseph/Styawat, PhD, UVic; Alain Cuerrier, U of Montreal/MBG); duo Sonya Stoeva and Dimo Ivanov (Concordia MFA alumni) coming with the results of their artistic research on motion, nature, and light, and McGill’s 1st Redpath Museum Climate Change resident Milton Riaño presenting his research project. (U of Montréal alumni).  

This panel and discussion co-hosted by Elastic Spaces and the Thinking Allowed Project, will include activists from the Fairy Creek Blockades, with special guest Pacheedaht First Nation Elder Bill Jones, as well as activists and scientists who were involved in rainforest activism and negotiations (e.g. the Carmanah Valley and Walbran Valley Blockades, Clayoquot Sound blockades, and Clayoquot Scientific Panel). This will be a hybrid event, at the LSRC Conference, in 4th Space, moderated by Sarah Turner, with questions from the Thinking Allowed Think Tank.

Remembering Practice & Policy in Production and Distribution  (30 to 40 years ago), in the Media Arts in the UK and Canada, looks back three to four decades in Canadian and British media art history, within production workshops and festival presentations with Indigenous Peoples and People of Color. For example, looking back at Canadian cultural […]

The film Shadow Girl (75mins) will be screened through the CFMDC.TV website and projected at 4th Space, following with a discussion with the filmmaker at 4:30pm. Maria Teresa Larraín, is a Chilean born filmmaker, who studied Law and Drama in her native land. In 1976, Larraín immigrated to Canada where she worked as a legal […]

Climate Change and the Forest  (Real, Imaginary and Virtual) will focus on current research exploration by researchers, artists, and emerging scholars. Key researchers will present on related topics: Art-making with research combining the environmental sciences is the focus for Kathleen Vaughan’s (Concordia) St Lawrence River project; Gisèle Trudel (UQAM) will present on the effect of climate change on soils […]

Decolonizing Spaces, Public Art, Curatorial, Museum and Publication Models will focus on curatorial, critical and artistic projects. Curator Haema Sivanesan (Glenbow Museum) will present notes from her essay, “Unsettling” the Forest as a Canadian Nationalist Imaginary: Consent, Consultation, and (Re)conciliation in Leila Sujir’s “forest! documents”; Sunny Kerr (Queen’s) will offer methodologies of decolonial curatorial practices […]

The film Queer Coolie-tudes (87 mins) will be screened through the CFMDC.TV website and projected at 4th Space, following with a discussion with the filmmaker at 4:30pm. Michelle Mohabeer was born in Guyana/South American and lives in Toronto, she is a multi award-winning filmmaker/media artist, film scholar, academic and writer who earned her PhD from […]

Public Activations, with Visualization in 2D + 3D, with Immersion and New Media will address empathy and point-of-view in current social and environmental issues. Emily Pelstring and Jenn Norton (Queen’s) will discuss their collaborative project, After the Witch of Malleghem, and the political implications of using reflexive humor in expanded animation to create alternative spaces […]

Public Activations, with Visualization in 2D + 3D, with Immersion and New Media will address empathy and point-of-view in current social and environmental issues. From UQAM, Romeo Gongora will present his collaborative AR project, a reconstruction of a social club that Guatemalan immigrants ran in Montreal, built from extensive interviews and archival documents; Philippe-Aubert Gauthier […]

Learn about the current studies being done by researchers and affiliates of the Transnational IMAX project. Panelists Janine Marchessault (York), Allison Whitney (Texas Tech), Jessica Mulvogue (York), Monika Kin Gagnon (Concordia), Chip Limeburner (Concordia) and Jordan Strom (Surrey Art Gallery / SFU) will discuss the architecture, design, and technology of key early IMAX sites. Topics range from the first IMAX screenings […]

Join us for a curator panel with artists and filmmakers from the Outer Worlds project (IMAX screening) and beyond. Artists will discuss their experiences of working with IMAX as a medium -- the wonders, the challenges and the possible futures of this immersive experience. Panelists include Oliver Husain, Leila Sujir, Mani Mazinani, and Munro Ferguson. Moderated by Janine Marchessault. […]

Outer Worlds is an extra-ordinary film program that features five, experimental IMAX films by Canada’s leading artists: Oliver Husain, Lisa Jackson, Kelly Richardson, Michael Snow, and Leila Sujir. The theme of the commissioned program is in keeping with the cinematic genre typical of IMAX films—the larger-than-life landscape that forms an outer world beyond the limits […]