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Indigenous artists, curators, Knowledge Keepers, Elders, and memory workers gather with scholars from across Canada to discuss Indigenous media art archives.

Jamie Robinson and Marlis Schweitzer bring together artists, academics, students, and educators to discuss intersectional, inclusive casting practices within Shakespeare with (Re)casting Shakespeare in Canada: A Symposium. 

Inspired by radical new poetic methods of digital and intermedial performance storytelling, Transiting the Queer Uncommons: Queer Summer Institute in Research Creation (TQU) is dissecting the current queer/trans digital moment.  

Over the course of the 3-year grant, Fisher and Hayashi explore the power of art and interdisciplinary storytelling to address global health issues alongside co-primary investigator Steven Hoffman. 

Th 41-foot Corten steel sculpture “The Heights” towers over the Keele and Finch gateway evoking how the history of a place informs its present and the future. 

With re-situating: more-than-human, Jane Tingley asks audiences to rethink their relationship with the world of plants and other vegetal life – also referred to as the “vegetal more-than-human Other”. From panel discussions to projection mapping poetry nights, Tingley and Dr. Roberta Buiani (ArtSci Salon, University of Toronto) developed the program to foster dialogues across disciplines and world views. 

Marissa Largo is creating space for change-making emerging and established artists to curate cultural conversations about identity and equity with X Marks the Spot at Filipinx and the 2022 Ontario Galleries (GOG) award-winning exhibition, Elusive Desires. 

Many key art historians, artists, curators, and others thinking with the visual do so through anti-colonial discourse and critical race theory to disturb the White, colonial, Eurocentric roots that undergird the field and the residues that remain in the discipline. Consider for example, the region-specific genealogies so foundational to art history. What would it mean to trespass such borders? Where is the line? And by extension, how are the formal characteristics of a border generative in art making and art thinking? By emphasizing Black and Brown art histories that reorder and disorder the bordered logics of the discipline and that imagine possibilities for the visual beyond surveillance regimes, this intensive graduate seminar in Visual Art and Art History elaborates on the border as a political tool, a conceptual device, and an aesthetic gesture.

York University leads groundbreaking research to ensure the technology revolution leaves no one behind. 36 AMPD researchers join the $318-million Connected Minds initiative to bring equity and inclusion to the murky waters of AI.

Designed by Brandon Vickerd, artist and professor of visual arts at York University, the 41-foot sculpture made out of Corten steel is titled “The Heights” and is meant to evoke how the history of a place informs its present and future.