Welcome to Archive/Counterarchive
Archival Atelier: Kim Tomczak, "Tackling VHS Tapes: An Overview of Digitization Workflow"
Artists, archivists, and researchers engage with analog and legacy digital materials, many of which are at-risk. Explore different ways of assessing these media at Archival Atelier, A/CA’s new series of workshops devoted to varied media types and their preservation.
"Tackling VHS Tapes: An Overview of Digitization Workflow"
April 22, 2022. 4:30-6:00 PM EST, on Zoom
Instructors: Kim Tomczak
Archival Atelier: Kelly Egan and Mark Toscano, "Material in the Margins: Experimental Film, the Archive and Ephemerality"
Artists, archivists, and researchers engage with analog and legacy digital materials, many of which are at-risk. Explore different ways of assessing these media at Archival Atelier, A/CA’s new series of workshops devoted to varied media types and their preservation.
"Material in the Margins: Experimental Film, the Archive and Ephemerality"
March 25, 2022. 4:30-6:00 PM EST, on Zoom
Instructors: Kelly Egan and Mark Toscano
Special issue of Frames Cinema Journal on "Sensing the Archive – Exploring the digital (im)materiality of the moving image archive"
A/CA researcher Catherine Russell guest edited the latest issue of Frames Cinema Journal on "Sensing the Archive – Exploring the digital (im)materiality of the moving image archive."
Working Papers Series:Marcus Jack | Peripherality and its Consequences: The Counternarratives of Artists' Filmmaking in Scotland (and elsewhere)
The Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series brings together PhD students from different Universities to hear about exciting doctoral research in the area of archival studies. Our speaker was Marcus Jack, who is a visiting MITACs doctoral researcher from The Glasgow School of Art. Marcus's talk was followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by our student organizers, Emily Barton and Elisa Arca Jarque.
Artist Residency: CFMDC + Archive/Counter-Archive
A call for an Artist in Residence to work with the Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre.
New book: HOLDING GROUND:NUIT BLANCHE AND OTHER RUPTURES
HOLDING GROUND: NUIT BLANCHE AND OTHER RUPTURES
Edited by Julie Nagam and Janine Marchessault
PUBLIC Books, 2022
312 pages, 22 x 28 cm
This edited collection brings together historical, contemporary, and future-oriented ways of understanding public art in, and adjacent to, the development of Nuit Blanche in Canada. Personal reflections, dialogues, and projects generate a multiperspectival and cross-cultural sense of this all-night public exhibition, which has spanned numerous Canadian cities and forged countless community relations. In addition, it weaves international voices into the dialogue on public art and public space. With contributions by Hiba Abdallah, Karen Alexander, Fern Bayer, Honoure Black and Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Carole Boughannam, Karl Chitham, Sara Diamond, Alyssa Fearon, Peggy Gale, GLAM Collective (Heather Igloliorte, Julie Nagam, Carla Taunton), Édouard Glissant and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jenn Goodwin, Maria Hupfield, Umbereen Inayet, Serena Keshavjee, Justin Langlois, Janine Marchessault, Denise Markonish, Ashley McKenzie-Barnes, bpNichol, Leah Sandals, Haema Sivanesan, Synonym Art Consultation (Chloe Chafe and Andrew Eastman), and Jean-Philippe Uzel.
http://www.publicjournal.ca/holding-ground-nuit-blanche-and-other-ruptures/
“Writing Quebec’s feminist and LGBT film history”
“Writing Quebec’s feminist and LGBT film history”
a roundtable organized by the Réseau québécois en études féministes
Bilingual (French/English), Online, Free
A roundtable on “Writing Quebec’s feminist and LGBT film history” will be held on Zoom on March 7, 2022 from 1PM to 2:30PM EST. This event is organized by the RéQEF and Antoine Damiens (postdoctoral fellow at York, recipient of a RéQEF postdoctoral award).