EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Journée d’étude / Workshop
Culture, Creativity and Urban Space / Culture, créativité et espace urbain
A McGill Institute for the Study of Canada Research Workshop / Un atelier de recherche de l’Institut d’études canadiennes de McGill
Friday September 23/vendredi 23 septembre 2011
2:00 – 5:00 pm/14h – 17h
3463 rue Peel, 2ème étage
Please note that the discussion will be bilingual.
Veuillez noter que l’atelier sera bilingue.
Participant(e)s
Anouk Bélanger (Professeure, Département de sociologie, UQAM, membre de l’équipe Média et vie urbaine)
Georgina Born (Professor of Music and Anthropology, Oxford University)
Nathalie Casemajor (Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill)
Damien Charrieras (Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill)
Alexandrine Fournier (Ethnographer and Video Maker)
Line Grenier (Professeure, Départment de communication, Université de Montréal)
Patti Schmidt (Broadcaster, MUTEK)
Patrick Valiquet (Doctoral Student, Oxford University)
Organizer: Will Straw (Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, Director, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada)
The Pop Montreal Symposium presents: Cultural Scenes, Creative Communities, and Innovation Agendas
Co-sponsored and organized by the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and the Media and Urban Life Research Team (Will Straw and Amy Macdonald)
Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Time: 12:00 – 5:00
Location: L'École des beaux-arts de Montréal
3450 St. Urbain
Montreal, QC
H2X 2N5
See map: Google Maps
Admission: free
Program
12: :00 – 1:45 : Panel - Creative Neighbourhoods/Quartiers créatifs
Caroline Andrieux (Artistic director, Darling Foundry)
Alex Cowan (musician)
Catherine Lalonde (artist, L’Écho d’un fleuve)
Amy Macdonald (musician, communications scholar)
2:00 – 2:45: Artists’ Presentation - Collaborating with Creative Communities: Using DIY & Web-based practices to investigate a city's emotional landscape
Artists: Immony Men and Maegan Broadhurst
Immony Men and Maegan Broadhurst have collaborated and developed several different multimedia productions and installations in Montreal. The main focus in their artistic practice together is to setup social/creative structures to collect malleable data and assemble a database to better understand their current surroundings.
Immony Men is a Canadian visual artist currently based in Montreal. He is a recent University of Windsor MFA graduate, prior to he has completed his BFA at Concordia University majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies. During his stay in Windsor Immony has joined the Broken City Lab research group; an initiative that tactically disrupts and engages the city.
Maegan Broadhurst is currently an MFA candidate studying Documentary Media at Ryerson University, prior to she has completed her BA Specializing in Communication Studies at Concordia University. She is currently developing In plain sight, a work in progress that explores and investigates the spaces that make up the Montreal city structure, particularly the ones that are abandoned or in a state of decay.
3:00 – 4:30: Panel - Cultural Scenes/Scènes culturelles
Peter Burton (organizer, Suoni del Popolo festival)
Charity Chan (musician)
Tina Piper (Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill)
Will Straw (Professor, McGill, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada)
Journées d’étude / Jornadas de estudio / Workshop
Intimacy and public space in contemporary metropolises: the state of urban medialities in Montreal and Mexico city
Intimité et espace public dans les métropoles contemporaines : état des médialités urbaines à Montréal et Mexico
Intimidad y espacio público en las metrópolis contemporáneas: Estado de las formas de la medialidad urbana en Montreal y en la ciudad de México
28/02 – 1/03 2011
Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm, Ciudad de México
Programme / Program
Conference / Colloque
Montreal, Festival City / Montréal, Ville de Festivals
Colloque organisé par le groupe de recherche Médias et vie urbaine à Montréal
Symposium organized by the Media and Urban Life in Montreal research team
November 26 novembre 2010
9h30-17h00
DS-R525,Pavillon J.-A.-DeSève
320, rue Sainte-Catherine Est.
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