As co-curator of MOCA’s current exhibition "Age of You" Obrist will talk about the central themes of the show, the coming publication and the future life of the project.
Through a series of speculative design exercises, we will prototype and discuss what voice technologies might look like if we designed them in line with the central commitments of feminism: participation, agency, embodiment, equity, empowerment, plurality and justice.
Tax season can be a particularly stressful and confusing time for artists, performers and other creatives. This workshop will help you to be prepared for next year! Atbooks Senior Tax Preparer Tova Epp will touch on some of the most important tax topics for artists including: tax preparation, deductions, tax deadlines, HST, how to handle grants, T4s and more. The session is suitable for artists who are new to filing taxes or those who are looking for a refresher.
Think you can outsmart facial recognition? In this workshop, participants will design and construct masks and headpieces inspired by CV Dazzle, a project by artist Adam Harvey that provides information and tips for creating “looks” that can camouflage the face from face detection technology. Using elements such as asymmetry, tonal inverse and the concealment of certain facial features, you will be able to learn and test which design combinations are most effective in hiding from facial recognition technology.
“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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.