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New Member Spotlight: Almudena Escobar LĂłpez

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.

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Digital graphic in bright yellow with black text "Book Launch. Peter A. Hall and Patricio DĂĄvila in conversation with Tess Takahashi and Marc Ngui. Tuesday, March 28th, 2023. 6-8PM. Burdock Brewery. 1184 Bloor St. West, Toronto."

Book Launch | Critical Visualization: Rethinking the Representation of Data | Mar 28th

Burdock Brewery
1184 Bloor St W
Toronto ON M6H 1N2
Canada

Congratulations to A/CA member Patricio DĂĄvila 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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Working Papers Series: Postdoc Roundtable | Zoom, March 30, 2023

Join us for another online iteration of the Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series, which brings together PhD students and graduate researchers from different Universities to hear about exciting work in the area of archival studies. Our next event is a roundtable featuring A/CA post-doctoral researchers Andrew Bailey, Anjo-marí Gouws, and Julia Polyck-O’Neill. Their presentations will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by our student organizers, Emily Barton and Elina Lex.

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A/CA Panel at the International Film Festival of Ottawa | March 9th, Ottawa Art Gallery

Ottawa Art Gallery’s Alma Duncan Salon
10 Daly Avenue
Ottawa ON K1N 6E2
Canada

We are excited to announce that there will be a panel featuring several A/CA members at SAVE AS, a day-long conference on Canadian cinematic heritage that is being organized alongside this year's International Film Festival of Ottawa (IFFO). 

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New book chapter from A/CA member Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte

Congratulations to A/CA member Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte for their chapter in the newly released edited anthology Virtual Identities and Digital Culture (2023). This book is published by Taylor & Francis Group and edited by Victoria Kannen and Aaron Langille.

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Media Cosmologies: an intergenerational conversation on art, technology, and transmission with Cheryl L’Hirondelle and Callum Beckford

The Agnes Etherington Art Centre
36 University Avenue
Kingston ON K7L 3N6
Canada

This upcoming public program is being organized by the Vulnerable Media Lab and the Digital Born Artworks Restoration Project and will be taking place on March 10th, between 3-5 pm at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen's University.
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Registration now open for Analogue Resilience: A Film Labs Gathering | May 25-30, 2023

The Liason of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto
1137 Dupont Street
Toronto ON M6H 2A3
Canada

The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is excited to announce that they will be hosting a gathering of analogue film labs and filmmakers here in Toronto, Canada, taking place May 25–30, 2023. Our intention for this gathering is to create spaces and situations for artist-run labs, collectives, and filmmakers to share with and learn from each other through collaboration and conversation.
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