About this Event
Please join us at the Centre's Coach House for a Monday Night Seminar led by CCT Faculty Research Fellow Lauren Cramer (Cinema Studies Institute):
“So, You’ve Been Told Your Writing is Difficult”
"A (somewhat) self-aware talk on the pleasures non-replicable research and revision in my current project, A Black Joint: Hip-Hop Visual Culture & the Architecture of Blackness."
About the speaker:
Lauren Mcleod Cramer is an Assistant Professor in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Her work focuses on the aesthetics of blackness and popular culture. She is currently writing a book on hip-hop, architecture, and black spatial practice. Lauren is a founding member of , a research project on blackness and aesthetics, and is the co-Editor of . Her writing has appeared in The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, The Black Scholar, Black Camera, Film Criticism, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
About the Centre for Culture and Technology:
The Centre for Culture & Technology is dedicated to theoretical, aesthetic, and critical inquiry into the impacts of contemporary media on our interconnected world. This project is informed by the Centre’s location in the Coach House, a multi-use heritage building that was once Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s office and salon on the University of Toronto campus. The Centre draws inspiration from McLuhan’s humanistic intellectual and institutional legacy, continuing his stated goal of “investigation into the psychic and social consequences of technologies”.
The Centre promotes the study of media aesthetics in an expanded sense, examining the ways technological media shape contemporary experience by elaborating its histories, its problems, its infrastructures, and its politics. Offering both a setting and a framework, the Centre provides space and programming for scholars working in humanistic media studies across the three campuses of the University of Toronto and in the GTA. The Centre also supports the production of and conversation about contemporary media art, fostering aesthetic experimentation as a mode of inquiry.
Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto
39A Queens Park Crescent East
Toronto, ON M5S 2C3
www.cultureandtech.utoronto.ca
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Centre for Culture and Technology - University of Toronto, 39A Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Canada
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