Media Room
Ideas Digital Forum 2018: Opening remarks and setting the agenda
Monday, December 17, 2018
Ideas Digital Forum nurtures new frameworks for engaging contemporary Canadian Art. In the context of an ever evolving digital ecology, this forum provides an opportunity to pause, pivot and reimagine how artists and galleries respond more effectively to the challenges, issues and opportunities of the digital era. Held on October 12 and 13, 2018 at The…
Ideas Digital Forum 2018: Keynote Speaker Mohammed Salemy
Monday, December 17, 2018
Mohammad Salemy is a Berlin and New York -based Canadian artist, critic, and curator who holds an MA in critical curatorial studies from the University of British Columbia. He has shown his works in Ashkal Alwan’s Home Works 7 (Beirut) and Witte de With (Rotterdam).
Ideas Digital Forum 2018: Participant Break up
Monday, December 17, 2018
Following the Opening Note, Participants will be divided into smaller groups to facilitate the process of raising collectively questions in four categories: Artist Practices, Audiences- communication, storytelling, and engagement, Collections & Exhibitions Digital Competencies
Ideas Digital Forum 2018: Scott Benesiinaabandan
Monday, December 17, 2018
Scott Benesiinaabandan is an Anishinabe intermedia artist who works primarily in photography, printmaking and video. Scott has recently completed international residencies at Parramatta Artist Studios in Australia (2012), Context Gallery in Derry, North of Ireland (2010) and was awarded the University Lethbridge/Royal Institute of Technology iAIR residency 2013, along with international collaborative projects in both…
Ideas Digital Forum 2018: Responsive Keynote – Niranjan Rajah
Monday, December 17, 2018
Niranjan Rajah holds a BSC Economics from Queen Mary College, London, a Post-graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Westminster and an MFA from Goldsmiths College, London. Niranjan has served as associate dean of the Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts at the University Malaysia Sarawak. He has been visiting faculty at the Cyberarts/Cyberculture…
Ideas Digital Forum 2018: Art Now & Art Next Panel Talk
Monday, December 17, 2018
Art Now / Art Next Panel: Caroline Langill, Niranjan Rajah, Faisal Anwar, Jessica Thompson, Nell Tenhaaf (Moderator). Bringing together over a dozen artists, scholars, inventors, curators and thinkers, the forum provides an opportunity to gain insights on the intersection of art and digital technologies and how we meaningfully integrate them into our spaces.