The McLuhan Centre’s annual theme, "HotMessAge", explores how media and technology underlie today’s social and environmental crises while at the same time offering us the tools to address these challenges.
In this talk, Matt Russo from SYSTEM Sounds will share some of the ways they've been able to generate sound and music using lunar data and what it means for the people of Earth.
This talk will draw a line between Mommy's Basement to Outer Space and offer a feminist alternative to the technological escapism that pervades our present moment, justly termed the "Age of You".
In this talk, Dreifelds will discuss the ways in which she utilizes handwoven textiles as entry points for her research into affective labour, social geography, duration, and combined sensory experiences such as sight and touch.
Join Coach House Books, Art Metropole, and Canadian Art at the museum to celebrate the launch of Lisa Robertson’s debut novel "The Baudelaire Fractal" and the Winter 2020 issue of Canadian Art.
Clare Butcher will discuss some of the conversations and questions generated following the Toronto Biennial’s first iteration in 2019.
Leone McComas will discuss her journey of addressing the limits of canvas painting, focusing on her project "STUDY", the presentation of mural art in exhibitions, and her experience with live painting.
Register nowOnline pre-registration required Join MOCA’s Executive Director Kathleen Bartels and artist Michael Lin for a discussion that explores a decade of Lin’s monumental painting installations. In 2010 Lin was commissioned by Bartels and her curatorial team to create a significant painting intervention that was installed on the exterior of the Vancouver Art Gallery. The […]
Register nowOnline pre-registration requiredJoin Eriola Pira—curator at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School in a scintillating conversation—with Loreto Garín Guzmán and Federico Zukerfeld of Etcétera on the aesthetics of protest, the politics of performance and what it means to present collective, embodied artistic practice in a globalized—yet fractured—world. In […]
Register nowOnline pre-registration requiredIn the 2010 census, the African American population of San Francisco—a city rich in Black politics, art and creativity—had declined to 3.9 percent. If, as the 3.9 collective mandate states, being "Black" is now synonymous with "vanishing," what does it mean to be Black, creative and in America at this time? In […]