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A/CA Nuit Blanche 2022 Online Catalogue
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.

Entangled Media Archeaologies TFMS online panel | Mar 24,4-5:30 pm EST
This upcoming free online panel from the Toronto Film and Media Seminar is being convened by A/CA members Cléo Sallis-Parchet and Em Barton and will be featuring A/CA member Aaron Tucker as one of the speakers.
New Member Spotlight: Almudena Escobar López
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 severa

Burdock Brewery
1184 Bloor St W
Toronto ON
Book Launch | Critical Visualization: Rethinking the Representation of Data | Mar 28th
Congratulations to A/CA member Patricio Dávila for the release of his recently co-authored book Critical Visualization: Rethinking the Representation of Data. Join him and his co-author Peter A. Hall at Burdock Brewery for their book launch on March 28th!New A/CA Artists in Residence at CFMDC and WFG
We are pleased to announce Aaditya Aggarwal and Redsun (Sahgothé) are starting their A/CA artist residencies with CFMDC and WFG respectively. Stay tuned for more details!
Screening | Sisters in the Struggle (16mm) | Feb 28th, 5:30pm, Concordia University
1515 Ste. Catherine St. West
Visual Collections Repository (VCR), Room EV. 3.703
Montreal QC H3G 2W1
Canada
Book Launch | Imagining Futures of Experimental Media | Mar 8th, 6pm EST, Zoom
On Wednesday, March 8th, at 6 pm EST, Pleasure Dome will be holding a virtual book launch for its first e-book publication, Imagining Futures of Experimental Media. This e-book is co-edited by Aaditya Aggarwal, Elida Schogt, and Fan Wu and contains contributions from several A/CA members.
A/CA Members at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) 2023 Conference
Congratulations to many A/CA members who are presenting their research at this year's Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference on April 12-15, 2022 in Denver, Colorado!
Movie Night at the Visual Collections Repository | Feb 23rd, 5-7pm, Concordia Unversity
1515 Ste. Catherine St. West
Visual Collections Repository (VCR), Room EV. 3.703
Montreal QC H3G 2W1
Canada
The Visual Collections Repository (VCR) at Concordia University is organizing a screening event on February 23rd from 5-7 pm EST. The two films being shown are I am Somebody by Madeline Anderson and an excerpt from Public Channel's Attica Interviews. This screening is organized by Archive/Counter-Archive and supported by the VCR film collection.
New A/CA Book Series Announced with Concordia University Press
Earlier this week, Concordia University Press announced "Counter-Archives: Media and Material Practices," a new book series that is being co-edited by Stacy Allison-Cassin, Monika Kin Gagnon, and Janine Marchessault.
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.