In May 2024, 25 York University students travelled to Costa Rica to take part in the PANF 3030/5030 Global Eco-Arts Residency Course. This 10-day intensive course comprised a series of workshops, gallery tours, creative class-based exercises, and participation in a local community festival at York University’s Las Nubes Eco-Campus and surrounding areas. Through these experiences, […]
We invite you to attend the 40th anniversary Robarts Lecture, featuring the poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist M. NourebeSe Philip, who is launching a new edition of her acclaimed book-length poem Zong! M. NourebeSe Philip is known for experimenting with literary form and their commitment to social justice, notably in Ontario. Through the innovative use of fugal and counterpointed repetition, Zong! becomes […]
Sensorium: Centre for Digital Art and Technology is proud to partner with InterAccess as an exhibition site for the 2024 Vector Festival. Resonant Futures showcases work by Sensorium members that explores the intersection of technology and new media artwork, focusing on disintegration, decomposition and obsolete technology. The works featured include: 𝘚𝘶𝘯 (𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯) | Sana Akram […]
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It with author Cory Doctorow The Wendy Michener Memorial Lecture, named in commemoration of the Canadian arts critic and journalist, was established at York University in 1986 to provide a forum for discussion of vital issues and developments in culture and the arts. Some […]
Sensorium: Centre for Digital Art and Technology, in partnership with Yifat Shaik and Digital Media at YorkU, is pleased to present Video Game Preservation, a talk by Chris J. Young, Head of Collections & Digital Scholarship at UTM Library. Young will discuss the complexities and importance of preservation for video games with specific reference to the Syd Bolton […]
Want to join a writing group with other researchers to fight procrastination and make consistent progress? Sensorium is partnering with the Graduate Film Student Association to host bi-monthly writing sessions every other Wednesday. These sessions provide a structured and focused environment in the Sensorium Loft where Graduate students, faculty, and visiting researchers can come together, set aside […]
Want to join a writing group with other researchers to fight procrastination and make consistent progress? Sensorium is partnering with the Graduate Film Student Association to host bi-monthly writing sessions every other Wednesday. These sessions provide a structured and focused environment in the Sensorium Loft where Graduate students, faculty, and visiting researchers can come together, set aside […]
Want to join a writing group with other researchers to fight procrastination and make consistent progress? Sensorium is partnering with the Graduate Film Student Association to host bi-monthly writing sessions every other Wednesday. These sessions provide a structured and focused environment in the Sensorium Loft where Graduate students, faculty, and visiting researchers can come together, set aside […]
York University Department of Dance faculty member Syreeta Hector will present new choreography entitled Beast A la Mode at the Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre between Nov 2-5th as part of the ProArteDance Fall Season. Beast A La Mode by Syreeta Hector examines the powerful influence the environment has over identity, aspects of ourselves that […]
Media innovator Nyla Innuksuk presents her debut feature Slash/Back, a teen horror film, set in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, featuring local actors and a host of slithery aliens. Starring Tasiana Shirley, Alexis Wolf, Chelsea Prusky, Frankie Vincent-Wolfe and Nalajoss Ellsworth, the film centres around a group of pre-teen girls who fight off an alien invasion in the remote Arctic […]