36 AMPD researchers join the $318-million Connected Minds initiative to bring equity and inclusion to the murky waters of AI A massive seven-year interdisciplinary research initiative led by York University – backed by substantial federal research funding — is setting out to tame the unruly world of AI and other disruptive technologies, so humans can benefit …
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Brenda Longfellow’s immersive audio experience takes listeners into the drug overdose crisis
Immersive audio experience takes listeners into the drug overdose crisis Brenda Longfellow worked with Darkfield, a U.K. theatre company specializing in immersive audio, and Crackdown, a monthly podcast covering the drug war through the eyes of drug user activists, to produce Intravene to plunge listeners into the heart of the overdose crisis in Vancouver. Intravene, which …
Goldfarb Summer Institute explores contemporary painting, curatorial practices
The 14th annual Goldfarb Summer Institute took place from May 3 to 17, and was presented by the Department of Visual Art and Art History at York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD).
Ian Garrett awarded Developing Strategic Research Frameworks for Sustainability and the Arts Scholarship
Ian Garrett awarded Developing Strategic Research Frameworks for Sustainability and the Arts Scholarship AMPD’s Ian Garrett, in partnership with Tarah Wright from Dalhousie University, has successfully received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through the No Culture, No Future: Developing Strategic Research Frameworks for Sustainability and the Arts Scholarship. The …
Call for Proposals: The Helen Carswell Community Engaged Research in the Arts
AMPD to launch inaugural Queer Summer Institute
Inspired by radical new poetic methods of digital and intermedial performance storytelling, transgressive visual techniques emerging from new media platforms, and new activisms engaging with theories of homonationalism, pinkwashing and the global queer (un)commons, the TQU courses offer students insight and participation in the debates, voices, ideas and images of the current queer/trans digital moment.
Prof. Hudson leads major research project supporting Inuit culture, art and ways of life
Lunchtime with the Sensorium: Winter Seminar Series
Dance Professor Patrick Alcedo’s documentary wins at Cannes Indies Cinema Awards
Dance Professor Patrick Alcedo’s documentary wins at Cannes Indies Cinema Awards A film by York University Associate Professor Patrick Alcedo earned the Best Short Documentary award at the Cannes Indies Cinema Awards on July 10. The film, titled They Call Me Dax, tells the story of 15-year-old Dorothy Echipare who struggles to survive as a high-school student and ballet dancer …
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Helen Carswell Call for Proposals – 2021
Call for Proposals – 2021 The Helen Carswell Chair in Community Engaged Research in the Arts welcomes the submission of research proposals that can inform the practice, programming, or curricula of a community music school. In a continued partnership between York University and Regent Park School of Music (RPSM) – Jane and Finch, we support …
