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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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A screenshot of a work of digital art that shows a digital drawing of a bonfire with a computer mouse icon in the shape of a hand hovering over it. There is also a circular image floating above the fire with the text "go" inside of it and two shapes on the right that resemble foot prints. The background of this image is black and the drawings are cyan.

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

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

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.

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

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

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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