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A/CA Members at the 2024 Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Conference, December 4–6
Congratulations to A/CA members Almudena Escobar López, Laura Horak, and Michael Marlatt, who are presenting their research at the upcoming 2024 ASSOCIATION OF MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVISTS (AMIA) Conference being held December
November 29–30: Viral Interventions Conference and Screening
Viral Interventions is a York University research-creation project led by John Greyson and Sarah Flicker that, since 2020, has commissioned artists, activists, and scholars to collaborate on making new films about living with HIV today.
Working Paper Series: Cate Alexander | Zoom, Nov 28
Join us for another iteration of the online Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series, which brings together PhD students from different universities to hear about exciting academic research in the area of archival studies.
Working Papers Series: Noor Bhangu | Zoom, Feb 28, 2023
Join us for another online iteration of the Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series, which brings together PhD students from different universities to hear about exciting doctoral research in the area of archival studies. Our next speaker is Noor Bhangu, who is a PhD Candidate in Communication and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University. Noor’s talk will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by our student organizers, Emily Barton and Elina Lex.
Publication | Indigenous Media Arts in Canada Making, Caring, Sharing
This exciting new book which is releasing in April 2023 and is now available for pre-order, includes chapters written by A/CA members Claudia Sicondolfo, Karine Bertrand, Julie Nagam, Carla Taunton, and Brenda Longfellow.
Exhibition | more-than-human, Onsite Gallery, OCAD, Feb 1 - May 13
199 Richmond Street West
Toronto ON M5V 0H4
Canada
Publication | Canadian Cinema in the New Millenium
This volume, co-edited by Lee Carruthers and Charles Tepperman and published by McGill-Queen's University Press, features several essays written by A/CA members about Canadian films, filmmakers, and film contexts since the year 2000.
Archive/Counter-Archive Concordia Student Research Showcase and Social
VCR Seminar Room, EV Building, 3-754
1515 Saint-Catherine Street West
Montreal QC H3G1S6
Canada
Workshop | Accessibility and the Archivist with A/CA Student Researcher Michael Marlatt
Disabled film archivist and archival accessibility advocate Michael Marlatt leads this Zoom-hosted collaborative workshop that examines the current state of accessibility within the archive for those who have a disability, chronic illness, or are neurodivergent.
Publication | Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After
We are very excited to announce that Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After, the book A/CA Project Manager Antoine Damiens recently co-edited with Marijke de Valck on the impact of Covid-19 on international film festivals, has just been published in open access with Palgrave Macmillan.
Publication | A Leap in the Dark 30th Anniversary Digitized Reissue
A newly digitized open-access version of Allan Klusaček and Ken Morrison's 1992 edited collection, A Leap in the Dark: AIDS, Art and Contemporary Cultures, has been rereleased alongside World AIDS Day / Day With(out) Art. The book originally came out of the cultural interventions at the 1989 Montreal International AIDS Conference and significantly contributed to the literature about cultural resistance and HIV/AIDS activism within Canada.
Video Recording | Working Paper Series | Johanna Laub: Archives In/As Ruins
Archive/Counter-Archive is delighted to share the recording of Johanna Laub's Working Papers Series talk, Archives In/As Ruins: Moving Image Art And The Anarchaeology Of Archival Debris, which took place on Tuesday, November 29, 2022.
A/CA Call for Papers for FMSAC 2023
Are you planning on presenting research related to A/CA at the Annual Conference of the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (May 27-29th, 2023, York University, Toronto)? Please let us know by December 16th! We would love to coordinate groups of individual paper proposals into pre-constituted A/CA-related panels.
Screening | Day With(out) Art 2022: Being & Belonging | Dec 1st, Vtape
Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space (Fourth Floor)
401 Richmond St. West
Toronto ON M5V 3A8
Canada
Moving On | Reel Asian Film Festival Short Film Screening | Nov 10, 6:30 PM, TIFF
TIFF Bell Lightbox
350 King St W
Toronto ON M5V 3X5
Canada