After 12 years of dedication to scholarly research, student support and public outreach, Media@McGill will close its doors in April 2019. Throughout these exceptional years as an interdisciplinary hub, Media@McGill has had the privilege of collaborating with diverse scholars, public figures, journalists and artists in the critical inquiry of media, technology and culture. Thank you to all who participated in our many events, publications and projects since the beginning. Please find events for 2018-2019 below.
For this year's Beaverbrook Annual Lecture, Media@McGill has invited two speakers.
Join us on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 6 p.m. as we welcome Alanis Obomsawin & Jarrett Martineau for an intergenerational dialogue on Indigenous media & cultural production.
Moot Court, Faculty of Law, McGill University, 3644 Peel Street, Montreal
Media@McGill is co-sponsoring "She, the many-voiced one of one voice." An evening of readings by M. NourbeSe Philip, Cecily Nicholson, and Mercedes Eng held at the SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, 375 St Catherine West, space 507, Montreal, QC.
Entry is free of charge.
Media@McGill presents a film screening and discussion
with members of KABANE77 and guests:
Ice
A film by Robert Kramer, 1969, 130 minutes
Cultural Studies screening room, 3475 Peel Street, Room 101
A pioneering work that blurred the boundaries between fictional and documentary styles, Ice was hailed by filmmaker and Village Voice critic Jonas Mekas as “the most original and most significant American narrative film” of the late sixties. An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife which threatens its security and stages urban guerrilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States. Interspersed throughout the narrative are rhetorical sequences that explain the philosophy of radical action and serve to restrain the melodrama inherent in the “thriller” genre. Shot in the gray landscape of New York City in a gritty cinema-verité style, the film has been compared to Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville.
As part of their visit to Media@McGill, Dr. Anna Feigenbaum, Minute Works, and Dr. Gavin Grindon will lead a workshop, Infographics for Activism, on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, at 2 p.m. in Arts 160, Faculty of Arts, 853 Sherbrooke West, McGill University, Montreal, QC.
In this hands-on, interactive workshop, participants will be taken through the process of brainstorming, researching, writing, visualizing, publishing and promoting infographics designed for activism and social change. Drawing on our collaborative work for the RiotID project, we discuss how creativity, data literacy and critical readings of power must come together to create effective visualisations. After discussing strategies for how to research past graphics, explore appropriate iconography, engage in data storytelling, and subvert corporate aesthetics, we then turn the workshop over to participants, guiding them through a participatory design project. Using a scenario prompt and associated data and visual materials, participants will work in groups to create drafts of their own infographics for activism.
Charmaine Nelson, Media@McGill member and currently 2017-2018 William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair for Canadian Studies at Harvard University, MA, shares her thoughts on the history of university founder James McGill and what communities can do with racist monuments.
