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Montreal QC
Crossing/Crosser: Language, Borders and Generations Screening & Talk
Please join Archive/Counter-Archive Concordia, in collaboration with les Archives gaies du Québec, on Friday April 19th for "Crossing/Crosser: Language, Borders and Generations", a screening and conversation between UK-based researcher Conal McStravick and photographer Sunil Gupta about transnational 2SLGBTQ+ and AIDS activism in the UK, Québec and Canada.New issue of Feminist Media Histories featuring the work of several A/CA members
The new Spring/Summer issue of Feminist Media Histories, which is edited by Maggie Hennefeld and Laura Horak, is now available online, and there are several A/CA members with articles published in it.
Chasing Moons: New Digitizations from the WFG Vault, available on VUCAVU until April 8th
If you didn't have a chance to catch the in-person Chasing Moons screening from the Winnipeg Film Group at the Black Lodge Theatre last week, the program is now available to watch online on VUCAVU until April 8th.
Janine Marchessault Awarded Killam Prize
Late last week, Janine Marchessault, Archive/Counter-Archive's Principal Investigator and a distinguished Professor and Tier One Research Chair at York University, was awarded the prestigious Killam Prize.
A/CA Members at the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC) 2023 Conference
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!
Archival Atelier | Hélène Brousseau and Sarah Lake, "Archiving Websites with Webrecorder" 4:30 pm, May 18, Zoom
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.
A/CA Members at the Eye International Conference 2023
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.
Archival Atelier | Pippin Barr, "Documenting Design with the Method for Design Materialization" 4:30 pm, May 4, Zoom
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.
Talking Archives - Episode 7: Archivist and ArQuives Director Raegan Swanson
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.
Video Recordings of In Visible Colours: Remediated 2022
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.
TFVA 2023 Founders Achievement Award Winners - Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak
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!
Archive Fever Friday: TIFF Film Reference Library
TIFF Bell Lightbox
350 King Street West
Toronto ON M5V 3X5
Canada
TFMS virtual panel - Crossing The Finish Line | April 21st, 4pm EST, Zoom
Project Highlight: Satellite Dreaming Revisited
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.
YFile article on Chloë Brushwood Rose's new Vice-Provost position
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!
The Annotated Archive of Archival Resources
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.