About this Event
It’s familiar to say that art “moves” us, implying an experience in the realm of personal, private mood and emotion. What more can we understand about the force and direction of art - it’s power to hone awareness, sustain curiosity, deepen emotional capacity, carry histories, foster sincere connection, and mobilize community-building? We’ll use discussion, skill-building exercises, and even a bit of role play to explore the transformative nature of art through the lenses (and scopes) of personal practice and Museum Studies.
About the Facilitators
Rebekka Parker is a museum educator, arts programmer, and interdisciplinary artist, serving as Adult Program and Tour Manager at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado.
Jason Burton is a Toronto based artist and educator, and current Luddite in Residence at the Centre for Culture and Technology.
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
[email protected]
Instagram @uoftculturetech
___________________________________
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Centre for Culture and Technology - University of Toronto, 39A Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Canada
CAD 0.00
