Imaginary Landscapes 7
16-18 December 2019
The 7th Imaginary Landscapes festival at McMaster from - featuring exhibitions, concerts, and discussions of media art and more! All events are free and open to the public, and all venues are wheel-chair accessible.
The 7th Imaginary Landscapes festival at McMaster from - featuring exhibitions, concerts, and discussions of media art and more! All events are free and open to the public, and all venues are wheel-chair accessible.
1. Exhibition: A Hairy Subjectivity; Tuesday 16 April, 11 AM - 1 PM - Black Box Theatre in L.R. Wilson Hall
This pair of works (3D puzzle and sound installation) explores hair at the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality, allowing audiences to interact with different ways of perceiving cultural, social, and personal hairy situations. Created by J. Burbage, Alejandro Franco, Emmanuel (Manny) Appiah, Raquel Arcenio, Jasmin Sessler, Theresa Lin, and Gil Niessen.
2. Exhibition: Enmeshed; Tuesday 16 April, 2:30 - 6:30 PM, Wednesday 17 April, 12 - 4:30 PM, TSH-114 “New Space”
Graduate students enrolled in CMSTMM 708 “Cultural Production and the Environment” present their final research/creation projects in an exhibition titled Enmeshed. Contributing artists: Tala Al-Ramahi, Jennifer Bedford, Liam Floyd, Kristine Germann, Nick Hoskin, Nic Lazzarato, Theresa Lin, Timon Moolman, Joey Ness, Gil Niessen, Bud Roach, Jessica Rodriguez, Jasmin Sessler, Sumi Voora, Professor Chris Myhr.
3. Concert: Code, Music, Video; Tuesday 16 April, 7 PM; Black Box Theatre in L.R. Wilson Hall
Featuring works combining music with video (Timon Moolman, Bud Roach), acousmatic art diffused on multiple loudspeakers (Sarah Good, Julian Karolidis, Victoria Wojciechowska), solo live sonification performance (Jessica Rodriguez) and collective live coding performance (the Cybernetic Orchestra, performing using the latest version of the Estuary platform as well as a “hacked” version of fragment shader programming environment, The Force).
4. Sound Studies Reading Group (open meeting); Thursday 18 April, 10 AM - 12 noon; Networked Imagination Laboratory, TSH-B108
The Sound Studies Reading Group will continue its investigation of topics that have been silenced in mainstream sound studies — specifically, racialized and Deaf identities. At this meeting, we will discuss an except from Nina Eidsheim’s new book The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music.
5. Collision Courses - Galloway, Myhr, Surlin; Thursday 18 April, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM; Black Box Theatre in L.R. Wilson Hall
The launch of CNMAP’s Collision Courses series, bringing together artist and CNMAP faculty researcher Chris Myhr, invited guest Dr. Kate Galloway, and PhD candidate Stephen Surlin for three talks followed by open discussion and a reception. Surlin will focus on historical models of racial segregation and how they correlate with the distribution of digital network infrastructure, leading to the design of networks to subvert or circumvent current information sharing platform paradigms. Myhr will outline his ongoing body of work “Point-Line-Intersection”, exploring the complex interrelationships between humans, non-humans, and the medium of water. Galloway will listen to the wave of North American Indigenous video games that encourage Indigenous cultural expression, ecological awareness, and combat the misrepresentation and appropriation of Indigenous communities and culture in the mainstream game industry through the combination of activist play, design, code, art, and sound.