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Arts emerge as powerful tool to address climate-driven health risks
An international research team, including faculty and alumni from York University's School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD), has found in a new study that the arts may be...
TIFF positions AMPD filmmakers among Canada’s best
Four AMPD graduate students among Elia Scholars program recipients
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Sensorium and Connected Minds Welcomes 2025 Artists-in-Residence
Over the next six months, these artists will develop new research-creation projects, host public talks and workshops, and engage with students and faculty at AMPD.
Aimée Mitchell Receives the 2023 Gary Brewer Emerging Leader Award
Aimée Mitchell, Research Officer at York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD), has been named the recipient of the 2023 Gary Brewer Emerging Leader Award.
Six AMPD faculty members recognized at 2024 York University Research Awards Ceremony
The York University Research Awards Celebration recognizes the outstanding achievements of York’s esteemed faculty members. Six AMPD researchers have been recognized in the 2024 ceremony.
York University AMPD Researchers Awarded Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grants for 2024
Three researchers from York University’s School of the Arts, Media Performance & Design have been awarded Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grants, which support the development of short-term research projects of up to two years by emerging and established scholars.
Beads of change
York U curator champions Inuit food sovereignty through international collaboration
York-Queen’s art project combines VR with Anishinaabe philosophy to explore water’s hidden depths
A collaborative research-creation project between a pair of York University and Queen’s University artists that asks audiences to rethink their relationship to water is making a splash at exhibitions around the world.
AMPD Professor Janine Marchessault builds international alliances among community-led media archives
Janine Marchessault, a York University professor and York Research Chair in Media Arts and Community Engagement who recently received a prestigious Killam Prize, is building alliances between institutional and community-led media archives from around t ...
AMPD Professor named one of York University's 15 new Research Chairs
Fifteen York University researchers have been named new York Research Chairs (YRC), an internal program that mirrors the national Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program which recognizes world-leading researchers in a variety of fields.
York University receives largest-ever research funding grant
We are thrilled to share with you all that York University – in partnership with Queen’s University – has been awarded a monumental grant of nearly $105.7 million from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF). The funding from the Government of Canada is the largest single federal grant ever awarded to York and is in support of Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society.