This workshop takes a holistic approach to digital security, investigating what it means to find practices to protect yourself in a digital environment. This workshop, led by Digital Justice Lab’s Director, Nasma Ahmed, will explore how we relate to our virtual bodies, and what we can do to navigate and counteract components of hyper-surveillance through digital practices.
Shirin Fathi is an Iranian-Canadian artist whose work focuses on cultural changes in relation to gender identity. Through role-play and the use of cosmetics, masks and prosthetics, Fathi uses her own body as a subject to stage ambiguous and often marginalized identities. Fathi will lead a tour and discussion of "Age of You", with refreshments to follow.
MOCA’s Artists on Artists series is a programme where local artists are invited to discuss MOCA’s current exhibitions, or a single artwork, in any format or direction of their choosing.
Artist Shezad Dawood is joined by researcher Alice Xia Zhu for a conversation that addresses the fate of microplastics in marine and freshwater contexts, from the San Francisco Bay to the Arctic. This programme is organised in dialogue with Shezad Dawood’s exhibition "Leviathan", presented on MOCA’s Floor 4. "Leviathan" is an ambitious “episodic monster” consisting of ten filmic episodes that envisage a future, uncannily much like our present, to consider possible links between borders, mental health, and marine welfare.
What does the internet look like to you? MOCA invites you to consider this question as you explore the exhibition "Age of You", which highlights themes like data, artificial intelligence, surveillance and the limitless capabilities of the internet. Then, visit the Art Hub on Floor 1 and draw how you imagine the internet in your mind’s eye. You can add your drawing to a cumulative piece that will reveal, over the course of the day, how our visitors see the internet — as an infinite, sprawling collective of images and ideas.
Join us on Thursday, October 3 from 5 to 8 pm as we stay open late for an exclusive members'-only evening at MOCA. This is the perfect opportunity for you to experience the recently opened exhibition "Age of You", as well as Shezad Dawood's "Leviathan", part of the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art.
Stephanie Comilang creates a video, light, scent and textile installation for Nuit Blanche. "It All Makes Sense" recreates a memory of the first time Comilang saw "Perfumed Nightmare" by Kidlat Tahimik — a figure who, like Comilang’s father, comes from Baguio, a mountain city and old American airbase in the Philippines. This teen moment in a basement changed Comilang’s perspective on life.
Hannah Epstein works at the cross-section of textiles, experimental games and video art to reimagine the iconography of popular culture, highlighting the cultural negotiation between bottom-up (folk) and top-down (institutional) storytelling. By blurring the lines between traditional craft, popular culture and contemporary art, she aims to isolate and eliminate notions of hierarchy as archaic relics. Epstein will lead a tour and discussion of "Age of You", with refreshments to follow.
In this workshop, we will reimagine the digital future of Toronto and what it could look like in 2040. Together we will build narratives about the future and map out local policy recommendations in relation to the city's Smart City plans.
Mapping Digital Futures is part of a series of workshops presented in partnership with Digital Justice Lab for "Age of You".
Join us for one of our engaging Column Conversations — free, drop-in tours that shine a light on different parts of the museum from week to week.
“Fall” into MOCA on Sunday, October 27 and join Sterling Rd. in a community free day at the museum!
Bring your whole family out to taste delicious delights from local vendors, peruse our locally sourced pumpkin patch, and decorate the perfect pumpkin (or your face) in one of our Akin artist led workshops.