Congratulations to many A/CA members who are presenting their research at this year's Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC) Annual Conference on May 27-29, 2023, at York University in Toronto, Canada, held in conjunction with the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences!
As our collective cultural output becomes increasingly web-based, how can artists and researchers preserve at-risk websites of enduring value? This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to Webrecorder, a suite of free and open-source web archiving tools. Participants will have the opportunity to practice preserving interactive online content like web-based artworks, virtual exhibitions, and digital publications.
Congratulations to all the A/CA members who are presenting their research at the upcoming 8th Eye International Conference that is happening from June 4-7, 2023, in Amsterdam. This year's conference is called "Activating the Archive: Audiovisual Collections and Civic Engagement, Global Collaboration, and Societal Change" and is being co-organized by the Eye Filmmuseum and the University of Amsterdam.
In this upcoming Archival Atelier workshop, game artist and scholar Pippin Barr will introduce the Method for Design Materialization (MDM), an approach to document, track, and recover the history of a software development project.
Watch the seventh episode of Talking Archives where A/CA Primary Investigator Janine Marchessault interviews Raegan Swanson, the Executive Director of the ArQuives and an A/CA Co-Applicant.
We are excited to share that the video documentation of the In Visible Colours: Remediated 2022 symposium, held last year between September 23-24, is now available to watch online at http://archive.vivomediaarts.com/ivc. This website also contains a wealth of other interesting resources, such as PDF publication scans and audio recordings from the original 1989 iteration of the event.
The Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts recently announced the results of their 2023 Founders Achievement Award. Congratulations to Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, who are this year's winners!
We have recently been in contact with the organizers of an extremely exciting project called Satellite Dreaming Revisited and wanted to take some time to briefly highlight it for members of our network, as we feel its goals, in many ways, closely align with ours.
York University's YFile news blog recently published an article outlining the details of A/CA Co-Applicant Chloë Brushwood Rose's new three-year term Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning position at York University. Congratulations, Chloë!
Learn more about the A/CA's ongoing shared Zotero bibliography project, The Annotated Archive of Archival Resources, and how you can submit your own publications and/or new annotations to this ongoing research resource.
Over the last few months, we have been working to collect an assortment of documentation from all the projects that A/CA was involved in for Nuit Blanche Toronto 2022. We are delighted to now share all of this with you via this new online catalogue page.
New A/CA member Almudena Escobar López—a Spanish-born curator, writer, and newly appointed Assistant Professor on Film History, Film Preservation and Collection Management at the School of Image Arts of the Toronto Metropolitan University—has several current and upcoming archivally-resonant projects that we thought would be of interest to our community.