15TH ANNUAL STUDENT GRADUATE CONFERENCE GRADUATE STUDENTASSOCIATION PRESENTS YORK-RYERSON COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE [march 11 + 12, 2016] [march 11+12,

re: turns intersections /cross-sections re: turnsculture, politics and policy, and technology in practice. Intersections | Cross-Sections (IS|CS) is a yearly conference and art exhibition organized by graduate students in the Joint This commitment allows us to explore the possibilities of Communication and Culture program of Ryerson and York interdisciplinary research, inclusivity, and the development Universities. The conference carries a ffteen year legacy of graduate students and artists in their respective pursuits. of showcasing graduate work from across North America. In collaboration with the program’s Graduate Students’ // CONFERENCE THEME Association and senior academics and administrators, the conference has helped foster intellectual exchanges between The event is guided by the theme of Re: Turns, a double undergraduate and graduate students, faculty members, concept that explores the signifcance of philosophical and exhibited artworks from artists. In its association with turns within academia as well as the artistic importance of Communication & Culture, the event adopts the philosophy departures and returns that animate creative expression. and focus of our program in the three areas of media and

2016 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE // SUPPORTERS // The conference is run by a dedicated team of graduate The organizing committee would like to recognize and students in the Communication & Culture program. We acknowledge the generous support of the following sponsors, would like to recognize those who have offered their time which include external funding sources, as well as and effort to ensure that this year’s conference is a success. organizations within both York and Ryerson respectively.

// LOGISTICS // DESIGN Mary Grace Lao, Co-Chair Alice Wang, Web Specialist Steve Jankowski, Co-Chair Ana Rita Morais, Co-Chair Walter Lai, Co-Chair Joshua Moore, Web Specialist Steve Jankowski, Co-Chair // VENUE & FOOD Andrea Luc, Co-Chair // ART & EDITORIAL Chris Alton, Co-Chair Alysse Kushinski, Programming Mohammad Aldhahri, Co-Chair Emma Sharpe, Art Co-Chair Kait Kribs, Journal Liaison // BUDGET & FUNDING Kate Moore, Editorial Co-Chair Mary Grace Lao, Co-Chair Kyler Zeleny, Art Co-Chair Ryan Phillips, Co-Chair Samantha Hogg, Editorial Co-Chair

// MEDIA & PR Amy Poon Carmen Victor Amanda Oye, Co-Chair Mohammad Aldhahri Milena Stanoeva, Co-Chair Shelagh Pizey-Allen Jesse Cumming

// HOSPITALITY & VOLUNTEERS Amanda Piche, Co-Chair Kris Bertram, Co-Chair

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CONFERENCE CODE OF CONDUCT will be happy to assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the conference. We value your Intersections | Cross-Sections (IS | CS) provides a space attendance. for attendees to receive continuing education, collaborate with colleagues, and to build professional networks. To Conference participants seek to learn, network and have provide all participants – members and other attendees, fun. Please do so responsibly and with respect for the right speakers, exhibitors, staff and volunteers – the opportunity of others to do likewise. to beneft from this event, we are committed to providing a harassment-free environment for everyone, regardless To report an incident, problem or concern during the 2016 of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender Intersections | Cross-Sections conference: expression, disability, physical appearance, ethnicity, religion or other group identity. 1. Find one of our conference volunteers – volunteer name tags feature a yellow “V”. The IS|CS committee seeks to provide a space in which diverse participants may learn, network and enjoy the 2. In the event of a serious incident, please dial 911. company of colleagues in an environment of mutual human respect. We recognize the shared responsibility to create and hold the environment for the beneft of all. Some behaviours are, therefore, specifcally prohibited: OTHER CONTACT INFORMATION Harassment or intimidation based on race, religion, • York University Security language, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, General Phone: 416.650.8000 or ex. 58000 gender expression, disability, appearance, or other Urgent Phone: 416.736.5333 or ex. 33333 group status. TTY: 416-736-5470 Sexual harassment or intimidation, including unwelcome • Ryerson University Security sexual attention, stalking (physical or virtual), or General Phone: 416-979-5040 unsolicited physical contact. Dial 80 on any Ryerson Campus landline Yelling at or threatening speakers (verbally or physically). • On all Bell Canada pay telephones there are two buttons that are directly linked to the main Security and Emergency All participants are expected to observe these rules and Services desk. The RED “EMERGENCY” button located under behaviours in all conference venues, including online the telephone receiver is an 80 Emergency line to Security and venues, and conference social events. Participants asked to Emergency Services. The YELLOW button is for the Ryerson stop hostile, or harassing behaviour are expected to comply Security Walk and Watch program. immediately.

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3 // 16 3FRIDAY 11 friday

9:00 am registration and cofee [TEL 1004 Foyer] 9:30 am P1: seeing ourselves P2: critcal making P3: what does afect on screens: television, [ACE 013] theory do? [TEL 1004] flms, games and gender [ACW 307] 10:30 am break 10:45 am student keynote // travis hay; the science of canadian colonialism: nutrition experiments, federal indian policy, and the settler state, 1939-1999 [ACW 005] 11:45 am light lunch and refreshments [TEL 1004 Foyer] 13:00 pm P4: revisiting the P5: explorations of WS1: the material black atlantic gender within science turn in creative [ACW 307] fction television practices [TEL 1004]

york university [ACE 013] 14:00 pm P6: critical theory and the turn: philosophical 14:15 pm implications [ACW 307] P7: institutions, WS2: terra incognita:

/ indigeneity, identity explorations in the [ACE 013] performative turn [ACW 005] 15:15 pm break

15:30 pm P8: the virtual, the P9: the new authentic: interface, the body performing the real in [ACW 307] culture and media [ACE 013] 19:30 pm cross-sections: opening reception [Ryerson IMA, Third Floor Foyer, Student (at a glance) Art Gallery & New Media Gallery] program day one

5 // 16 intersections // what does affect theory do? day one: york ROOM // TEL 1004 TURN // Affective / CHAIR // Natalja Chestopalova, York University Maija Duncan // PhD, York University What Fighting Back Feels Like: Affect, Aesthetics, and OPENING Protest in 2012 Québec Hiba Alhomoud // PhD, York University 9:00 / What Does Affect Theory Do? Or, How to Pay Attention to the Possibilities of Attending // REGISTRATION AND COFFEE ROOM // TEL 1004 Foyer Sara Shamdani // PhD, York University Subject to Change: An Affective3 Approach to Critical Analysis panels 15 minute break 9:30 / 10:30 // Seeing Ourselves on Screens: Television, Film, Games and Gender student keynote ROOM // Accolade West 307 TURN // Cultural, Postmodern CHAIR // Chris Alton, York University 10:45 / 11:45 Jade Guthrie // MA, York University Dismembering the Threat of Female Sexuality: The Invasion travis hay // PhD, YORK UNIVERSITY of Female Bodies in American Horror Story: Asylum The Science of Canadian Colonialism: Nutrition Experiments, Federal Indian Policy, and the Settler Vanessa Ciccone // MA, York University State, 1939-1999 R-Rated According to Who? A Feminist Political Economic ROOM // Accolade West 005 TURN // Scientifc Analysis of Film Rating Systems in the U.S. and Canada This talk will share the story of the ‘scientifc turn’ of federal Sarah Stang // MA, York University Indian policy in mid-20th century Canada and unveil the Role-Playing and Performance:1 Identifcation with the linkages that emerged between the Canadian academy, the Avatar in Video Games scientifc enterprise, and settler colonialism in the decades that followed. Broadly speaking, he explains how the scientist replaced the priest as the key fgure who informed, // CRITICAL MAKING administered, and gave meaning to colonial policies concerning ‘Indians’ in the 20th century. This doctoral project has been ROOM // Accolade East 013 TURN // Material funded by the SSHRC graduate scholarship in honour of CHAIR // Shila Khayambashi, York University Nelson Mandela and further supported by the Ramsey Cooke Fellowship for Scholarship in Canadian History. Anastasia Copeland // MA, York University Among the Airwaves: The Exploration of Canadian Amateur Radio Through Making and Connecting in the Internet Era

Kirsten Schaefer // PhD, York University Holistic Zero Waste: A Return to Environmentally Considered Apparel Design BREAK

Gabrielle Doiron // MA, Concordia University 11:45 / 13:00 Building Blocks in the Toy2 Closet: Queering Early Childhood Play with MyFamilyBuilders and BILU Clan // light lunch and refreshments ROOM // TEL 1004 Foyer

6 // 16 panels WORKSHOP 13:00 / 14:00 13:00 / 14:00 // Revisiting the Black Atlantic the material turn in creative practices // ROOM // Accolade West 307 TURN // Postcolonial, Postmodern emma sharpe, MA & Kyler Zeleny, Phd, York CHAIR // Priya Rehal, York University ROOM // TEL 1004 TURN // Material Cheryl Thompson // PhD, University of Toronto Southern Hospitality in Postmodern Food Advertising: The This practice-based workshop is focused around the material Case of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen and the (Re)Turn of turn and its antagonistic position to prevailing digital modes Mammy of creation. Situated within the turn back to analogue processes and aesthetics, this workshop will explore issues Robyn Verley // MA, York University of nostalgia, the relic, object journey, collaborative creation, The Enslaved Sound of4 Masculinity: An Analysis of the and the interplay between the digital and the analogue. The Culture of Masculinity in Dancehall Music discussion of the above themes will culminate in a fash- fction exercise, using images from The Found Polaroid project (www.foundpolaroids.com). Participants will choose // Explorations of Gender within a Polaroid and create a one or two sentence narrative Science Fiction Television inspired by the image. After the workshop, the collected stories will be compiled into a digital template in preparation ROOM // Accolade East 013 TURN // Future for printing later that day. The booklets will be printed CHAIR // Jon Petrychyn, York University using a risograph, an analogue-based printing process that has seen a recent resurgence in popularity amongst artists and printers.ws Each participant will receive1 a hand-bound Kate Moore // MA, York University Investigating Performances of Masculinity and Heroism in copy of the fnished publication as a ‘tangible takeway’ of 21st Century Doctor Who the workshop. Production time permitting, these will be displayed at the opening reception or will be delivered to Rebecca Foley // MA, York University participants the following day. The completion of this project The Whore, The Mechanic, The Mad, and The Warrior: will require both analogue and digital processes, practically Treatment and Representation of Women on Firefy demonstrating the co-dependent relationship between the analogue and the digital. This workshop hopes to extend Elizabeth Edwards // MA, York University and comment upon cyclical patterns of re-turns in creative John Crichton: Masculinity5 and American Exceptionalism in processes. [*There will be a small materials fee*] Space

14:00 / 15:15 15 minute break // Critical Theory and the Turn: Philosophical Implications ROOM // Accolade West 307 TURN // Philosophy panels CHAIR // Shannon Bell, York University

Vladimir Cristache // PhD, University of Western Ontario 14:15 / 15:15 Turn Asunder: Modernity, Photography, Revolution // Institutions, Indigeneity, Identity Erika Biddle // PhD, York University ROOM // Accolade East 013 TURN // Postcolonial, Institutional Socializing Control: Information, Technology and the Self CHAIR // Travis Hay, York University

Adam Kingsmith // PhD, York University Kris Bertram // MA, York University A Metamaterialist Manifesto Free Entry to the North: Navigating Indigenous Spectrum Rights

Jeremy Arnott // MA, University6 of Western Ontario Eren Cervantes-Altamirano // MA, Carleton University The Return and Retreat of the ‘Origins’ of Critical Theory: International Development and Indigenous Feminism: Adorno, Benjamin and the Question of Immanence Rethinking Gender, Power and the Coloniality

77 // 16 WORKSHOP panels 14:15 / 15:15 15:30 / 17:00 Terra Incognita: Explorations in the // the virtual, the interface, the body Performative Turn // Alexandra simpson, MA, ROOM // Accolade West 307 TURN // Digital Ryerson University & TERRA INCOGNITA COLLECTIVE CHAIR // Aleksandra Kaminska, Simon Fraser University

ROOM // Accolade West 005 TURN // Performative Miranda Corcoran // BA, OCAD University Discursive Design and Digital Environments Terra Incognita is a collectively created performance documentary that seeks to challenge the need to “grow or die” Alexandra Berceanu // MA, York University within consumer cultures through a degrowth lens. Degrowth The Affective Turn: New Confgurations in Virtual/Augmented is a social movement that involves the downscaling of Reality Cinema production and consumption that increases human well-being and enhances ecological conditions and equity on the planet. Kyle Mcnamee // MA, York University Using the degrowth discourse as a theoretical framework in Technological Mediations of Lived Experience: New Implications combination with collective creation methods of theatre, Terra Incognita explores in what ways performance can contribute Nick White // MA, York8 University to social change and community mobilization within the : Intimate Encounters from Body to lives of high-metabolics: those who live in high-waste, high- Screen and Back Again (Artist Talk) consumption paradoxes with little time to contribute to the social fabric of their community. The work uses interviews from researchers at Research and Degrowth, the collective’s // The New Authentic: own experiencesws creating the piece, community 2 partnerships Performing the Real in Culture and Media with independent organisations such as 350.org Toronto and Greenpeace Canada, and documentation of acts of social ROOM // Accolade East 013 TURN // Postmodern acupuncture around the city of Toronto. Theatre masks, CHAIR // Natalja Chestopalova, York University because of their heightened reality, will be used as a way to expand the current crisis of imagination and allow artists and Hilary Bergen // PhD, Concordia University audience alike to think and act without cultural restrictions Insta-Authentic: The Commodifcation of Slow Living or expectations. Terra Incognita seeks to challenge the current cultural imaginary through performance as a form of Sarah Brown // MA, Concordia University habituation. Arousing ‘Realities’: Approximations of Authenticity in Sexnology

Sandra Huber // PhD, Concordia University The Body of the Illusory: Affect and Authenticity in the Revival of the Séance 15 minute break Eileen Mary Holowka 9// MA, Concordia University Between Artifce and Emotion: The “Sad Girls” of Instagram

8 // 16 03. 11 // 1:00 PM – 9:30 PM (Reception: 7:30 – 9:30 PM) cross-sections HOURS03. 12 // 9:00 AM – 6:00 Pm

co-chair curatorial statement // Anna Frey // MA, Ryerson University “hi, your friend raped me.” (2016) // Needlepoint on Fabric, The 2016 Cross-Sections collection contains a variety Audio Recording – 14”x57” (PR) of peer-reviewed and curated works, all exploring the theme of ‘Re:Turns.’ Through creative approaches, the Emilie St. Hilaire // PhD, Concordia University conference’s theme expands beyond the academic, creating Operating System (2015) // Single Channel Video + Audio (PR) a new space for fresh considerations and imaginative interpretations. The theme is manifested in different forms, // third floor foyer and transformed through a variety of media. Within this show we see returns to old memories, reconsiderations Emma Sharpe // MA, Ryerson University of old technologies and ways of making, cultural turns Grasping Sound: Touch and Materiality in the Digital Age within considerations of identity, turns of thought, (2016) // Plywood, Chains, Makey Makey Circuit Board, reinterpretations. All of these explorations touch on the Alligator Wires, Speakers) // Built in Collaboration with wider movement of backward or forward momentum, Noah Earle (PR) changes in evolutions, and patterns in human growth. Priya Rehal & Amanda Wong // MA, York University Emma Sharpe & Kyler Zeleny 2Ludic: Re-Negotiating Relationships with the Adolescent Self (2016) // Curated Arcade // Featuring Works by

art exhibition Gabriela Aveiro-Ojeda, Meagan Byrne and Tanya Kan (PR)

// main gallery, IMA 310 Grayson Richards // MFA, Ryerson University Kyler Zeleny // PhD, York University Lotophagi (2012) // Inkjet Prints, 10cm x 15cm (C) Found Polaroids (2011-Ongoing) // Inkjet Print on Foamcore – 16” x 20” (PR) Crown Ditch and the Prairie Castle (2015–Ongoing) // Inkjet // NEW MEDIA GALLERY, IMA 323 Print–Various Sizes (PR) Nicole Clouston // PhD, York University Quintin Teszeri // MFA, Western University Natalie Hunter // MFA, University of Waterloo Turn (2016) // Marker on Drywall – 4’ x 8’ (C) Rosy Pictures (2016) // Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper, 24” x 24” (PR) Lauren Cullen // PhD, Ryerson University Lost in the Rug (2016) // Industrial Felt, Hooks, Bricks, Andrew Merrill // PhD, University of Toronto Burlap, Found Footage, Video Documentation // Project in Grexit (2015) // Digital C-Prints, 12”x18” (C) collaboration with Panya Clark Espinal (C)

Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas // MFA, York University Kristen Schaefer // PhD, York University Knot/Not (2014) // Mixed Media on Panel, 8” x 10” (C) Inside/Outside – Outside/Inside (2015) // Inkjet Print on Cotton; Inkjet Print on Foamcore – 36” x 24” (PR) WWCG 1986 (Relation) (2014) // Mixed Media on Panel, 8” x 10” Ride (2015) / Mixed Media on Panel, 24” x 16” (C) House (2014/Unknown Date) // Archival Pigment Print/ // SCREENING ROOM, IMA 307 Gelatin Silver Plate – 15” x 17” + 15” x 13” (C) Tamar Mankassarian // MFA, Ryerson University Hyphenate (2016) // Digital Video (C) Anna Soper // MLIS, Western University Withdrawn (2015) // Mixed Media – 18” x 60” (PR)

Nick White // MA, Ryerson University (2016) // Inkjet Print – 36” x 12” (PR) * (PR) = Peer-Reviewed // (C) = Curated

9 // 16 3 SATURDAY12 saturday

9:00 am registration and cofee [ENG, Lower Ground Floor] 9:30 am P10: technology in P11: reconsidering WS3: thinking the global world: materiality: tech, through making resistance and images, and dance [SLC DME] advocacy[ENG-LG12] [ENG-LG13] 10:30 am break 10:45 am faculty roundtable // enduring re: turns: disciplinary implications of perpetual shifts in theory and research [ENG-LG2] 11:45 am light lunch and refreshments [IMA Third Floor Foyer] 12:45 pm P12: cultural property P13: cultural WS4: smelling in and the global turn mediations of gender the present tense [ENG-LG12] and love [ENG-LG13] [IMA 323] 14:00 pm break 14:15 pm P14: critical P15: 2ludic: WS5: lost in the rug ryerson university ryerson engagements with re-negotiating [IMA 323] space [ENG-LG12] relationships with 15:30 pm the adolescent self break [ENG-LG13]

/ 15:45 pm P16: musical practice P17: marketing, WS5: lost in the rug and the auditory turn practice, and [IMA 323] [ENG-LG12] institutions 17:00 pm [ENG-LG13] networking [Ryerson IMA, Third Floor Foyer, Student Art Gallery & New Media Gallery] 18:00 pm keynote address // will straw; twists and turns: splits, reboots, and dead-ends in cultural theory [IMA 307] 19:00 pm closing remarks [IMA 307] (at a glance) program day two 11 // 16 intersections WORKSHOP /day two: ryerson 9:30 / 11:30 THINKING THROUGH MAKING // Nene Brode & amir Ahmed, RyersoN OPENING ROOM // Student Learning Centre DME TURN // Digital 9:00 / With respect to turns to analogue technologies and ways of // REGISTRATION AND COFFEE making, an ongoing departure and return is from digital to ROOM // George Vari Engineering, Lower Ground Floor paper. Drawing as a fundamental communications tool has vascillated between digital and paper. While digital drawings are essential for production, developing ideas is generally panels done by putting pen to paper. Yet, there are new digital tools emerging for even this analogue activity. For example, 3D 9:30 / 10:30 printers can have a pen installed in place of the extruder to draw a 3D object in 2D. On the other end of the spectrum, 3D // Technology in the Global World: printing pens allow the person to draw in 3D and drawing bots Resistance and Advocacy can easilyws be constructed using simple tools.3 Participants in the workshop will be presented with a variety of digital tools ROOM // ENG-LG12 TURN // Postcolonial, (Non)Global by which they can create their own analog selfe. CHAIR // Mary Elizabeth Luka, York University

Catalina Arango // MA, University of Ottawa Floating Narratives: Digital Storytelling and Transnational Families FACULTY ROUNDTABLE

Samantha Twietmeyer // PhD, Queen’s University Analyzing the ‘Local Turn’ in Peacebuilding Literature: New 10:45 / 11:45 Paths or Old Debates // Enduring Re: turns: Disciplinary Nickson Museka Bondo // PhD, University of Leipzig Implications of Perpetual Shifts The Eradication of Gender10 Based Violence and its Effect on in Theory and Research Social Growth in Africa’s Great Lakes Region ROOM // ENG-LG2 CHAIR // Greg Elmer, Ryerson University

In this conversation, members of the panel will discuss // Reconsidering Materiality: what the concept of the ‘turn’ means in the context of their Tech, Images, and Dance research, whether or not they subscribe to a particular turn, the value of the concept of the ‘turn’, or how and when we ROOM // ENG-LG13 TURN // (Non)Material know a turn is occurring at all. The goal is to create a cross- CHAIR // Anne MacLennan, York University disciplinary discussion amongst experienced academics and provide a special opportunity for students and attendees to Jessica Cwynar-Horta // MA, York University consider this theme more deeply. Virtual Spaces of Meaning: The Role of Affective Technologies rt in Mobilizing Communities Will Straw // McGill University Wendy Siuyi Wong // York University Alison Hedley // PhD, Ryerson University Stéphanie Walsh-Matthews // Ryerson University (Re)turning to the Material Archive: Technology and Aesthetics Mary Fogarty // York University in Nineteenth Century Journalism Katharina Schmidt // PhD, BREAK Haunted by Choreographies11 Tracing Quotation as a Figure of Re-Turn in Dance 11:45 / 12:45 15 minute break // light lunch and refreshments ROOM // Image Arts Building, Third Floor Foyer

12 // 16 WORKSHOP // Cultural Mediations of Gender and Love ROOM // ENG-LG13 TURN // Multi 12:45 / 14:00 CHAIR // Grace Lao, York University Smelling in the Present Tense // Nicolette Little // PhD, York University MELANIE MCBRIDE, PHD, YORK University Nova Scotian Beach Rocks as Powerful Media for Change Alison Withers // MA, York University ROOM // Image Arts Building 323 TURN // Multimodal A Return to the Kitchen: Nostalgia, Femininity, and Old- World Aesthetic in Cookbook Rhetoric While there is an increasing interest in the so-called multimodal turn in felds of communication, education, and Lauren Fournier // PhD, York University Human Computer Interaction (HCI), much of the resulting Queering the Antisocial Turn: Sodomitical Maternity in scholarship reduces the senses to ‘instruments of playback’ Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts for semiotic projects of affect, memory, and narrative. Smell, in particular, is often singled out for its symbolic, 13 Rebecca Foley // MA, York University rather than physiological or functional, qualities as a kind of Proustian time machine for past memories, despite the fact There’s a Fine, Fine Line (Between Love and Obsession) that olfactory triggered memories are highly inconsistent, involuntary, and often unpleasant. Drawing on perspectives from sensory ethnography, smellwalking/mapping, olfactory 15 minute break art, and chemosensory science, this workshop offers an introduction to physically embodied practices of sensory place-making along with intersensory documentation strategies for smelling in the present tense. Participants 14:15 / 15:30 will takews an intersensory walk outside 4 of Ryerson that // Critical Engagements With Space will involve listening to, smelling, touching and (perhaps) tasting ambiances of place and (urban) space in relation to ROOM // ENG-LG12 TURN // Spatial, Mobilities, Forensic considerations of bodily state. The walk will conclude with a CHAIR // Nick White, Ryerson University short workshop of DIY strategies for communicating about (and through) invisible ambiances such as smell, sound, Alysse Kushinski // PhD, York University touch, movement. Memory and Place: Mediating Landscape after the Forensic Turn

Rouzbeh Akhbari // BFA, OCAD University Spoliation: From Plinths to Capital

panels Tricia Toso // PhD, Concordia University Soundscapes of Place-Making: The Rhythms and Voices of 12:45 / 14:00 Village des Tanneries // Cultural Property and the Global turn Thomas Szwedska // MA, Western University “Everybody Has Their Own Dream”: Nail-House Protests and ROOM // ENG-LG12 TURN // Cultural 14 Resistance to the Landscape of Globalization in Contemporary CHAIR // Markus Reisenleitner, York University China Dianne Lalonde // PhD, Western University Intangible Cultural Appropriation // 2Ludic: Re-Negotiating Relationships Katie Lawson // MA, University of Toronto with the Adolescent Self Fragments of the Passing Present: Material Memory in the ROOM // ENG-LG13 TURN // Ludic, Gaming Work of Yin Xiuzhen CHAIRS // Priya Rehal & Amanda Wong Andrew Merrill // PhD, University of Toronto // Discussants Featured: Grexit: Tourism, Place, and Crisis (Artist Talk) Priya Rehal & Amanda Wong // MA, York University Gabriela Aveiro-Ojeda // Every1Games Grayson Richards // MFA, Ryerson University 12 Meagan Byrne // BA, Sheridan College Lotophagi: Revolutionary Erasure and the Trace of Confict in Tanya Kan // VividFoundry the Utopic Vacuum (Artist Talk)

1513 // 16 WORKSHOP // Marketing, Policy, and Institutions ROOM // ENG-LG13 TURN // Institutional 14:15 / 15:15 & 15:45 / 16:45 CHAIR // Paul Moore, Ryerson University

Lost in the Rug // Margaret Reid // PhD, Ryerson University LAUren cullen, PHD, RYERSON UNIVERSITY Bridging the Gaps: Community Television Policy and Practice

ROOM // Image Arts Building 323 TURN // Material Samantha Brown // MA, Wilfrid Laurier University A Turn To Academobilities Lost in the Rug is an on-going project using Panya Clark Espinal’s sculptural installation Lost in the Wood. Lauren’s project evokes Steph Hill // MA, Ryerson University Clark Espinal’s participatory environment to engage with rug Money for Nothing: Commercial Enclosures in the New Media hooking as a research methodology. The technical aspect of Landscape the space invites novices and craft enthusiasts to collectively hook a rug that maps out a surface of Clark Espinal’s optical Daniel Sacco // PhD, Ryerson University camoufage. By invoking a traditional space of gathering, Hard to Swallow:17 Post-Classifcation Censure and Vincent Lauren will facilitate discussions around cultural histories of Gallo’s The Brown Bunny the Canadian hooked rug and engage the following questions: what is the rhetoric that assembles the social history of Canadian hooked rugs and how can we destabilize dominant settler narrativesws through process and making?5 networking 17:00 / 18:00 ROOM // Image Arts Building, Third Floor Foyer and Galleries 15 minute break KEYNOTE address

panels 18:00 / 19:00 Dr. Will Straw // “TWISTS AND TURNS: SPLITS, 15:45 / 17:00 REBOOTS AND DEAD-ENDS IN CULTURAL THEORY” // Musical Practice and the Auditory Turn ROOM // ENG-LG13 ROOM // ENG-LG12 TURN // Auditory CHAIR // Miranda Campbell, Ryerson University CLOSING REMARKS Shelagh Pizey-Allen // MA, York University “Music is Good Noise”: Zoning, Nuisance Legislation, and 19:00 / 19:15 Cultural Policy in Toronto // Conference chair Closing remarks Emilie Hurst // PhD, York University Sampling the North: Northern Discourse in Indie Music ROOM // ENG-LG13

Kait Kribs // PhD, York University (Self) Promoter for Hire! Digital Distribution and the Artist as Intermediary 16 Adam Zendel // PhD, University of Toronto On the Roadie: Home at Work and Other Contradictions on Tour

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Dr. Will STraw // Art History and Communications Studies, McGill University

// “TWISTS AND TURNS: SPLITS, REBOOTS AND DEAD- ENDS IN CULTURAL THEORY”

Theoretical currents within media and cultural studies have taken the form, in recent years, of “turns”. We need only think of the cultural turn, the material turn, the post-human turn, the affectual turn and numerous others. Sometimes dismissed as simply the effects of fashion, these “turns” nevertheless serve to redirect disciplinary attention and to pull along, in their wake, otherwise isolated bits of research and intervention. Some theoretical turns rise, then fade or fragment. Others never acquire traction. The life of turns is sometimes bound to the rise and fall of extra-academic social or political events (like the emergence of digital culture). Just as often, though, the life of turns seems to follow its own logics of intellectual excitement and dissipation. What does it mean, we might ask, to situate our own work within a feld of theoretical turns?

Will Straw is the Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, and a Professor in the Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University in Montreal. CONTACT INFORMATION RECENT AND ONGOING PROJECTS Will Straw The Urban Night as Interdisciplinary Object // SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2012-2014 W: willstraw.com E: [email protected] The Film Extra and its Historical Meanings // SSHRC Insight T: @wstraw Grant, 2012-2015

Media and Urban Life in Montreal // (FQRSC Team Grant), 2010-2014

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