Join us for drinks and discussion, 4:30-6:00 pm at the Centre for Social Innovation
215 Spadina Ave. (north of Queen), 4th floor, Alterna Room. Tel: 416-979-3939

Wednesday, February 6
Presenter: R. POPE
PhD Candidate in the Joint York-Ryerson Communication and Culture Program
“Cinema, City, Character: Scenes of Fantasy and Laying Out of Desire”

This paper explores the ways in which cities (particularly NYC & LA) play a role in the narration of many films. Cities do not simply take on the role of character, but make their presence felt in the play of looks established by the filmic narration.

Wednesday, February 27
Presenter: ANNA FRIZ
PhD Candidate in the Joint York-Ryerson Communication and Culture Program
“You are far from us”

This paper considers the interplay of publicity and intimacy, affective space and affective contagion that characterizes radio art practice; and in this I seek an embodied poetics of transmission.

Wednesday, March 12
Presenter: MICHELLE COYNE
PhD Candidate in the Joint York-Ryerson Communication and Culture Program
“This Paper Can Be Recycled Where Facilities Are Available: Exploring the Meaning of Waste Reclamation and a Shifting Waste Cycle”

This paper explores the rise in alternatives to traditional waste cultures by exploring how alternatives to waste disposal are changing the way contemporary relationships to waste can be understood.

Wednesday, March 26
Presenter: ALEKSANDRA KAMINSKA
PhD Candidate in the Joint York-Ryerson Communication and Culture Program
“Locating Ephemerality: Explorations of Digital Materialities in Artistic Practice”

Through physical, phenomenological, and interpretive frames this paper seeks to understand the concept of ephemerality and the problematic division between the material and immaterial characteristics of digitality.