CivicBright: 3rd Seminar of the SYNCRETIC TRANSCODINGS Series
Friday February 22nd, 2-5PM and Saturday February 23rd, 2013, 10AM-5PM
Salle polyvalente, Coeur des sciences, Université du Québec à
Montréal (UQAM)
Sherbrooke Building
200 Sherbrooke West
room SH-4800
Free admission
http://www.hexagramciam.org/syncretic.php
BrillanteCité-CivicBright, the third edition of Hexagram | CIAM's
SYNCRETIC TRANSCODINGS international seminar series, will reflect on
urban creativity. It is presented in association with the Lumières de
la ville symposium, organized by the 5th Toronto/Montreal/Lille
Biennial (http://www.torontomontreallille.org)
The projects presented during the seminar focus on the force of urban
citizens' creative actions, both aesthetic and political. The
seminar's theme engages with the etymology of the word aesthetic,
which signifies "sensibility, sensations", by which "aesthetic acts
generate new modes of sensing and give rise to new forms of political
subjectivity?" (Rancière, Le partage du sensible, La Fabrique, 2000
[our translation]). Thus, creativity generates multiple opportunities
for renewed aesthetic configurations as acts of emancipation.
The seminar discusses the "sensible" links created between people,
places, and technologies, bringing together participants from
Vancouver, Montreal, Buenos Aires, while connecting with Juba and
Berlin. Specific situations, combined with a wide range of
technological resources, open up a new distribution of the sensible,
linking citizens' creative media interventions and communities.
Participants
Stephen Kovats (Berlin) r0g-media.org
André Éric Létourneau (Montréal) hexagram.uqam.ca/node/515
Bernardo Piñero (Buenos Aires) iqlab.com.ar
Ana Rewakowicz (Montréal) rewana.com
Kim Sawchuk (Montréal) mobilities.ca/projects/virtual-day-lighting
Jesse Scott (Vancouver) graffitiresearchlab.ca
Moderators
Jean-Maxime Dufresne and Jean-François Prost (Montréal)
amarrages.com adaptiveactions.net
Organised by Ricardo Dal Farra (Concordia University) and Gisèle
Trudel (Université du Québec à Montréal), Co-directors Hexagram | CIAM
Coordinated by Natalie Lafortune and Sophie Le-Phat Ho
For more than a decade, Hexagram | CIAM has been fostering an
internationally recognized model of research-creation. It has over
eighty members from its two main research centres, based at the
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Concordia University. The
centre also has agreements with researchers from the Université de
Montréal (U de M) and École de technologie supérieure (ETS).
Favouring a transdisciplinary approach, member researchers at
Hexagram | CIAM initiate collaborative projects with researchers
working in related and complementary disciplines. The centre also
works with private arts and culture organizations in Quebec, in
Canada and around the world.
http://www.hexagramciam.org
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