We are thrilled to announce the schedule and registration information for the 2nd Annual Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference that is taking place at the iconic TIFF Lightbox in downtown Toronto from July 12-14. This year's event promises to be an exceptional gathering of experts, enthusiasts, and innovators in the fields of media archiving and heritage.
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. See these select titles below and/or access the full issue via the following link: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/10/2-3
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.
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.
Congratulations to the many past and present A/CA members who are presenting their research at this year's Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference on March 14-17, 2024, in Boston, Massachusetts! Details about the pre-constituted A/CA panel and individual paper presentations are below.
Archive/Counter-Archive is delighted to share the recording of Lola Rémy's Working Papers Series talk, "Women’s Affective Labour in Experimental Film Archives: At the Margins of the North American Avant-Garde," which took place on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023. See below for Lola's abstract, bio, and the recorded video of her talk!
We are very excited to announce that the plenary roundtable recordings for the 2023 IAMHIST conference are now available to freely stream on YouTube. These roundtables each feature several A/CA researchers speaking about their work with Canadian audiovisual archives.
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 academic research in the area of archival studies. Our next speaker is Lola Rémy, who is a post-doctoral researcher at McGill University. Lola's talk will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by our student organizers, Emily Barton and Elina Lex.
We are pleased to announce that, in collaboration with our partner organization, VIVO Media Arts, we are hosting Roxanne Charles and her son, Easton Arnouse, as two new A/CA Artists in Residence. Throughout the following months, Roxanne and Easton will be working with VIVO to produce a new counter-archival project. Stay tuned over the following months for more details!
Archive/Counter-Archive is delighted to share the recording of Debbie Ebanks Schlums' Working Papers Series talk, "Performance Documentation and the Embodied Jamaican Diasporic Archive," which took place on Tuesday, November 7th, 2023. See below for Debbie's abstract, bio, and the recorded video of her talk!
Join us for another Archival Atelier online workshop on November 14th at 4:30 pm EST on Zoom. This time, we will be hearing from Allison Elliot from The Feminist Institute about their recent Memory Lab events and hear some tips and best practices for producing one of your own.
Read through our CFP for the upcoming 2nd Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices, taking place on July 12-14, 2024 in Toronto.