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Posts and happenings from around the A/CA network.

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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.

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Friday, March 24th, 2023 at 4:00 PM

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.

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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

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Tuesday, March 28th, 2023 at 6:00 PM

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!

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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!

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Screening | Sisters in the Struggle (16mm) | Feb 28th, 5:30pm, Concordia University

Tuesday, February 28th, 2023 at 5:30 PM

1515 Ste. Catherine St. West
Visual Collections Repository (VCR), Room EV. 3.703
Montreal QC H3G 2W1
Canada

For all analog film lovers, the Archive/Counter-Archive student researchers will present a 16mm film print of 𝙎𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙡𝙚 this Tuesday, February 28th. Come join us for this very special screening! This event is organized by Archive/Counter-Archive and supported by the VCR film collection.

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Book Launch | Imagining Futures of Experimental Media | Mar 8th, 6pm EST, Zoom

Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 at 6:00 AM

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!

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Movie Night at the Visual Collections Repository | Feb 23rd, 5-7pm, Concordia Unversity

Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 at 5:00 PM

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.

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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.

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Working Papers Series: Noor Bhangu | Zoom, Feb 28, 2023

Tuesday, February 28th, 2023 at 4:30 PM

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.

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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.

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Exhibition | more-than-human, Onsite Gallery, OCAD, Feb 1 - May 13

Wednesday, February 1st, 2023 at 6:00 PM

199 Richmond Street West 
Toronto ON M5V 0H4
Canada

This interdisciplinary exhibition of media artworks features work from several A/CA members, including Suzanne Morrissette, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, and Mary Bunch. In addition to the exhibition itself, there are also a number of events scheduled over the course of its duration.

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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.

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Archive/Counter-Archive Concordia Student Research Showcase and Social

Friday, January 27th, 2023 at 2:00 PM

VCR Seminar Room, EV Building, 3-754
1515 Saint-Catherine Street West
Montreal QC H3G1S6
Canada

Archive/Counter-Archive Concordia is excited to announce our upcoming Student Research Showcase and Social on Friday, January 27th!

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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.

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