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The
School Of Media and Visual Arts at the University of Quebec in
Montreal in cooperation with the School of Image Arts at Ryerson
University and a number of institutions, artist-run centres and
arts administrators
in Toronto and Montreal, is hosting a conference: Toronto/Montreal
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The proliferation of screens. This interdisciplinary conference,
in it’s second edition, will take place from February 9-11, 2006.
It has the overall aim of presenting new work in a variety of
forms to the Toronto and Montreal arts communities, encouraging
interaction between academic and artist-run organizations in
both cities.
Invading the urban landscape, screens in proliferation are taking
on increasingly complex and diverse functions in society, raising
many questions. Screens render the imagination visible; they become
cultural windows. Multi-channels propose a myriad of visual and informational
transactions
- a fragmented discourse that engenders cognitive shifts. This conference
will feature presentations by specialists coming from varied backgrounds
in the Arts and Sciences to examine the infiltration of multi-screens
in public and private spaces.
This conference will be focused on 4
main
areas :
History (keywords: multiple-perspective,
Cubism, Picasso, David Hockney, Nam Jun Paik, multi-channel
video, multi-screen …) |
Perception
: The New Brain (keywords:
multi-processing, cognitive psychology, neurology,
attention span, data overload, glimpse, new brain,
new mode of reading, new tools for learning, reconfiguration
of neuronal structures…) |
Challenges (keywords:
fragmentation, real-time theory, proliferation of the screen
in our urban environment, Time Square N.Y. sampling, …) |
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