9am – 4:30pm

Research Exhibition
Publications, visual materials, recordings etc. showcasing the range and diversity of research and creative work being done by faculty members and graduate students in the Faculty of Fine Arts will be on view throughout the day.

Faculty Common Room
214 Joan & Martin Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts

9 – 10am

Interdisciplinary Speed Research Dating Event
Participants have the opportunity for two “dates” with fellow researchers with whom they develop an interdisciplinary research proposal.
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Refreshments provided & Prizes
RSVP: ffares@yorku.ca (for catering purposes)

Faculty Common Room
214 Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts

10:15 – 11:15 am

Caitlin Fisher, Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture; Assistant Professor, Department of Film
“Poetry generators, Fogscreens and Augmented Reality Tools for Artists”

A tour of the Augmented Reality Lab, part of York’s Future Cinema Lab, a CFI-supported initiative that explores various screen technologies and how they enable, impact and interact with the development of new narrative forms.
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Future Cinema Lab
309 Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts

11:30am – 12:30pm

Brandon Vickerd, Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts
“Machines, The New Studio Slaves”

A tour and talk in the new, CFI-supported 3D digital sculpture laboratory.
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Sculpture Resource Centre
195A Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts

12:45 – 1:45pm

Shirley Ann Brown, Professor, Department of Visual Arts
“Deciphering Operation Matilda: The Bayeux Tapestry, Germanic Nationalism, and the Nazi Project, 1939-1944”

An exploration of the Nazi appropriation of the Bayeux Tapestry and its potential as nationalist propaganda.
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Light lunch provided
Faculty Common Room
214 Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts

1:45 – 2:15pm

Michael Longford, Associate Professor, Department of Design
“The Mobile Media Lab - New Projects & Collaborations”

Longford will discuss new projects and collaborations recently undertaken in the lab: the Marconi Galaxy and application development for the Apple iPhone.
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Light lunch provided
Faculty Common Room
214 Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts

2 – 3:30pm

Darcey Callison, Associate Professor and Director, MFA Program, Department of Dance
Da Collision: “(Re)Tracing Fred” - world premiere performance and post-performance talk

(Re)Tracing Fred reinterprets Hollywood film’s choreography for males, exploring the ever-present assumption that there is something inherently masculine within the danced languages that Hollywood constructs for men.
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Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre
110 Accolade East Building

3:45 – 4:30pm

Film Screening: “Rex vs Singh” (2008, 30 min.) co-directed by John Greyson, Assistant Professor and Ali Kazimi, Associate Professor, Department of Film, with Richard Fung.

This experimental video explores an historical event in Canadian history and human rights, and presents it in an innovative, hybrid form: part period drama, part documentary, part musical agit-prop.
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Price Family Cinema
102 Accolade East

4:30 – 6pm

Reception

RSVP: ffares@yorku.ca (for catering purposes)

CIBC Lobby
Accolade East