Convergence Media Fest
second-year media production vernissage at the Communication Studies Department, Concordia University
Intermedia Projects Descriptions
A Monument for Student Activism
by Students from Intermedia II sections 1 & 2
This collective art piece explores three key movements of Concordia's student activism.
- The 1969 Black students' antiracist protests at Concordia's Computer Science Centre
- The 2012 Quebec students' strike against the government's tuition hikes
- The ongoing Concordia food coalition's activism for food justice on campus
Materials: Mixed-media
Elsewhere(s) Here
by Students from Intermedia II sections 1 & 2
“The freedom realized through flight and refusal is the freedom to imagine and create an elsewhere in the here; a present future beyond the imaginative and territorial bounds of colonialism".
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How is storytelling spatial? How are digital spaces 'navigated'? How are physical spaces narrative? How is the digital an extension of the physical and vice versa? How do IRL and URL places appear and disappear certain narratives, bodies, and histories?
Elsewhere(s) Here draws lines of flight that are rooted in place and extend beyond its power structures, "where colonialism no longer makes sense."
Materials: Unity game engine
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1. Jarrett Martineau and Eric Ritskes, "Fugitive indigeneity: Reclaiming the terrain of decolonial struggle through Indigenous art", Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2014, pp. I-XII
Carrier Bag of (Relation)s Making
by Students from Intermedia II sections 1 & 2
In this free-format project, students worked with three different texts as creative prompts and guides in their creative process. They focused on developing different creative processes and friendships to hold them together for the rest of the year, working, learning, and teaching together.
Materials: Craft paper, crayons, MaxMSP Coding, and sound design
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1 Ursula Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986) Suzanne Kite, How to Build Anything Ethically (2020) (p.75-85) ruangrupa's lumbung for documenta fifteen, a glossary (2022)