My own preparation for choosing what presentations I want to prioritize.
Strikethroughs are proposals I could not find.
- Abstract
- Contents of thesis – body of artwork, written paper, exhibition. (format, medium, formal+aesthetic considerations, presentation/exhibition setting).
- Research questions.
- Project objectives.
- Theoretical/critical background and framework. (Key terminologies, concepts, related artistic+bibliographic references).
- Research methodologies. (methodology, methods, media, rational re: questions and interdisciplinary framework).
- Resources+facilities.
- Potential challenges and limitations.
- Significance of project. (field of study, goals, place of work in field).
- Other issues
- Bibliography
9:00 AM
1a
Karly McCloskey (IAMD) Chimera: Queering the Myth of the One
Primary Advisor: Judith Doyle
- Research Questions: In what ways can organic materials inform the Speculative Fabulation world-building process? How can speculative writing provide a lens to the natural world in its damaged contemporary condition? How can I address truths through the imagination?
- Resources: The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (editor Anna Tsing). Ursula K. Le Guin, Donna Haraway, Margaret McFall-Ngai, Karen Barad. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa. Queer Phenomenology Sara Ahmed.
- Framework+mediums: Speculative Fabulation(Donna Haraway), contamination as collaboration, chimera: multiple organisms in one form. Research as ceremony (Sean Wilson). Speculative fabulation poetry book from perspective of chimera. Animation/filmmaking, photography, drawings.
Interested bib:
Barad, Karen. What is the Measure of Nothingness: Infinity, Virtuality, Justice. Hatje Cantz, 2012.
Bellacasa, Maria Puig de la. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Tsing, Anna, et al. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Tsing, Anna. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, 2015.
Tuck, Eve, and C. Ree. “A Glossary of Haunting.” Handbook of Autoethnography, edited by Stacey Holman Jones, et al. Left Coast Press, Inc., 2013, pp. 639-658.
Wilson, Shawn. Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods. Fernwood Pub., 2008
Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2012.
Butler, Octavia. Dawn. Warner Books, 1997.
Guin, Ursula K. Le. The Left Hand of Darkness. Penguin Books, 2000.
Ovid. Metamorphoses. Translated by Charles Martin, W.W. Norton, 2010.
Duran, Franci. “It Matters What.” Vimeo, uploaded by Franci Duran, 2019. https://vimeo.com/318309832
Haraway, Donna. “Speculative Fabulation.” Youtube, uploaded by Pill Me Druggin’ You, 1 September 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1atjLfbNxE.
Kelley, Mike, and John C. Welchman. Foul Perfection: Essays and Criticism. MIT Press, 2003.
Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez. Columbia University Press, 1982.
1b
Sebastian Pines (IAMD) Penning the Ghosts of Ourselves: An Exploration Into Spectral Play
Primary advisor:
- Research questions: How can game design use affect theory to create an introspective emotional experience through play and evoke an embodied experience of memory? How can the creation of artifacts of play through gameplay become pieces of hauntological media? What is the hauntological potential of autobiography in the creation of spectral selves through guided writing as well as meditations on trauma and lost futures?
- Framework+Mediums: Hauntology – Michał Krzykawski’s analysis of Jacques Derrida, Affect Theory, Phenomenology – Gaston Bachelard. Queer Game Design. Feminist Autobiography as Research – Informed and applied through my lens as a queer feminist. Creation as Research – Iterative Design. Analogue game text w/ illustrations. Single-player autobiographical journalling role-playing game that has players connecting their bodies to the structure of a haunted house, using their emotions and memories to populate the house with spectres.
Interested bib:
Davis, Colin. “E´tat Pre´sent: Hauntology, Spectres and Phantoms.” French Studies, vol. LIX, no. 3, 2005, pp 373 – 379.
Kemper, Jonaya. “Wyrding the Self.” What We Do When We Play? , edited by Eleanor Saitta, Johanna Koljonen, Jukka Särkijärvi, Anne Serup Grove, Pauliina Männistö, & Mia Makkonen. Solmukohta, 2020.
Krzykawski, Michał. “J’accepte: Jacques Derrida’s Cryptic Love by Unsealed Writing.” AVANT, vol VIII, no 2, 2017, pp 39-50.
9:55am
2a
Elyse Longair (IAMD) In Defense of the Simple Image (2020 Vision)
Primary Advisor: Julian Jason Haladyn
- Research questions: In our hyper-saturated post-produced world, what is the function of the simple image? Can fragmented images of the past, constructed through collage, question our notions of time and shape our thinking of the future?
- Framework+Mediums: Collage as methodology, sampling and remix, archive, appropriaton. Busch and Klanaten, Levine. “In Defense of The Poor Image,” Martha Rosler’s compositions, Max Ernst materiality of collage, Gerhard Richter’s Atlas. 50 images, science-fiction collage, electro-acoustic soundtrack.
Interested bib:
Candy, S. (2010). The Futures of Everyday Life: Politics and the Design of Experiential Scenarios. Retrieved from
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305280378_The_Futures_of_Everyday_Life_Politics_and_the_Design_of_Experiential_Scenarios
Evans, David (ed.). Appropriation. Whitechapel, London; Cambridge, Mass;, 2009.
Steyerl, Hito. “In Defense of the Poor Image.” E-Flux, no.10,2009, pp.1-9. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/
Busch, Dennis, and Robert Klanten. The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art. Gestalten, Berlin, 2016.
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. “Gerhard Richter’s ‘Atlas’: The Anomic Archive.” October , vol. 88, 1999, pp. 117–145. JSTOR , www.jstor.org/stable/779227. Accessed 10 Aug. 2020.
Elizegi, Rebeka, and Blanca Ortiga. Collage by Women 50 Essential Contemporary Artists. Promopress, 2019.
2b
Nina Bakan (CCP) Making Kin in Collaboration: Subverting Alterity Through Art as Social Practice
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10:55am
3a
Jenna Chasse (CCP) realfucking–fuckingreal
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Nadine Valcin (DF) Our Home and Haunted Land: A Meditation on Space and Public Memory
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1:10pm
4a
Nicole Melnicky (IAMD) My Imaginary Queer Utopia: A Manifesto
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- Research questions: What does an imaginary Queer Utopia look like? How does the feminine body politic shape queer utopia? How does the metaphorical phoenix allow us to rise up from our unjust LGTBQ2S+ pasts, histories and politics; to enact better and more liberated ways of living, in world that is free? How does queer time, place, and space allow us to discover and define our identities? How does the queer body move through phenomenological space towards future paradigms?
- Framework+Mediums: autoethnographic writing, camp/kitsch/pride, Susan Sontag, Sara Ahmed, Artists: Saya Woolfalk, Nick Cave, Jeffrey Gibson, Jade Yumang, Athi-Patra Ruga, Lady Gaga, Betsey Johnson. Haruki Murakami. Garment creation+design.
Interested bib:
Ahmed, Sara. Living a Feminist Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
Ahmed, Sara. Willful Subjects. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014
Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Berlant, Lauren. Desire / Love. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2012.
Berlant, Lauren. Edelman, Lee. Sex, or The Unbearable. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014
Freeman, Elizabeth. Beside You in Time: Sense Methods & Queer Socialbilities in the American 19th Century. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
Halberstam, Judith. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Leibovitz, Annie. Sontag, Susan. Women. New York: Random House, 1999.
Sontag, Susan. Notes on “Camp.” London: Penguin Modern, 1964.
Tongson, Karen. Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. New York: New York University Press, 2011.
Alexander Rondeau (CCP) From the Bush: QT2S Cultural Production in Northeastern Ontario
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2:55pm
5a
Shunrong Cao (IAMD) Diagnosing yourself: A Celebration of Stolen Memories and Forgotten Daydreams
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- Research questions: how to build connections between the audiences and visualizations using cognitive engagement? how to use art and technology to unpack an immersive and interactive space for social dreaming and influence people’s experience of living? How can we use cognitive engagement to build connections between the audiences (/participants) and the visualizations? How can art and technology together unpack an immersive and interactive space for social dreaming and influence people’s experience of living? How can sculptural devices and digital interfaces to detect and translate the invisible biological signals into visualizations in an effective way?
- Framework+Mediums: Info Visualization, Cognitive Science, Immersive and Interactive System, Magic-Realism and Social Dreaming. Practice based research, research through creation. Case studies Miwa Matreyek, Charlotte Davies, Chris Milk. Prototyping. interactive installation that projects viewer’s body as visualization w/ layers and responds to viewer input (finger pressure, breath, heart rate). Fiction narratives.
Interested bib:
Zlatev, J. (2012). Cognitive semiotics: An emerging field for the transdisciplinary study of meaning. Public Journal of Semiotics, 4 (1), 2–24.
Oulasvirta, A., Kurvinen, E. & Kankainen, T. (2003, July). Understanding contexts by being there: case studies in bodystorming. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 7 (2), 125–134.
Mika, Satomi and Hannah, Perner-Wilson. How to get what you want (website https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/ ).
Huhtamo, Erkki. Seven ways of misunderstanding interactive art. 2008, [Online; accessed Dec 2018].
Maria-Elena, Angulo. Magic Realism: Social Context and Discourse. Routledge. October 24, 2018.
Anthony, Dunne and Fiona, Raby. Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. MIT, 2014.
Judith, Halberstam. “Dude, Where’s My Phallus? Forgetting, Losing, Looping”. The Queer Art of Failure. Duke University Press, 2011.
Sara, Ahmed. “The Orient and Other Others”. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Duke University Press, 2006.
5b
Lilian Leung (DF) Future Through Memory: Virtual Storytelling in Chinatown
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9:55am
8a
Noa Billick (IAMD) THIS PAPER IS MADE OF BOOKS: The Extendible Nature of Books, Humour, and Narratives
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- Research questions: How does the artist, as form of book, make existence more extendable? Am I a book? Is anything I make a book because I say it is? What are the limits of a book – are there limits at all? How does the book object act as symbol and archive? How is the print book object culturally important – would we care if they disappeared? Are books a symbol of memory? What’s so funny about a book?
- Framework+Mediums: … discover the difference between intentional and messy archival practices; display and “tie-up” loose-ends, fragments, and unfinished things; frame, with the help of books, the togetherness of sentimentality and memory. affect theory, archive theory, narrative theory, humour. Study/practice of reading/making books. Balance, care, mend, storytelling, archive, memory, collecting, sentimentality, humour, book, affect, symbol, extension.
Interested bib:
Aldama, Frederick Luis, Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts. University of Texas Press, 2010.
Barad, Karen, et al. What is the Measure of Nothingness?: Infinity, Virtuality, Justice. vol. no. 99.;no. 099;, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2012.
Bellacasa, María Puig de La. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds. University of Minnesota Press., 2017.
Farrelly, Liz, Zines, 1st Edition. Booth-Clibborn, 2001.
Klanten, Robert, Adeline Mollard, and Matthias Hubner, Behind the Zines: Self-Publishing Culture. Gestalten Verlag, 2011.
Adamson, Glenn, The Invention Of Craft. Berg Publishers, 2013.
Derrida, Jacques. Arhive Fever : a Freudian Impression. Translated by Eric Prenowitz, The
University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Singh, Julietta. No Archive Will Restore You. Punctum books, Earth, Milky Way, 2018.
Books, Lark, Masters: Book Arts: Major Works by Leading Artists. Lark Crafts, 2011.
Castleman, Riva, and Museum of Modern Art, A Century of Artists Books. New York, Museum
of Modern Art, 1994.
Drucker, Johanna, The Century of Artists’ Books, 2nd ed. New York: Granary Books, 2004.
Pryor, Mark, The Book Artist. Amherst, Seventh Street Books, 2019.
Salamony, Sandra, and Peter and Donna Thomas, 1,000 Artists’ Books: A Showcase of Fine
Hand-Bound Structures. Quarry Books, 2012.
Grosswiler, Paul, The Method Is the Message: Rethinking McLuhan Through Critical Theory. Montréal, Black Rose Books, 1998.
McLuhan, Marshall, Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews. MIT Press, 2005.
Ivana Radman-Livaja (IAMD) Exploring Narratives Among Interspecific and Anthropocentric Tendencies
Primary Advisor: Jason Baerg
- Research questions:How can book design be used to create a narrative and dialogue about the consequences of the Anthropocene? How can we create a stronger relationship with ourselves and the land by understanding the full extent of our normalized, negative actions?
- Framework+Mediums: past/present, natural/artificial. Singh (mastery – human dominance over others), Puig de la Bellacasa (care pos/neg), Tsing et al (Ghosts, ruined landscapes), Yates (multispecies).
Interested bib:
Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: a Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Press, 2010.
Desnos, Rebecca. Plants Are Magic. Vol. 1, Rebecca Desnos, 2017.
Franklin, Kate, and Caroline Till. Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future. Thames & Hudson, 2018.
Halberstam, Judith. The Queer Art of Failure. Duke University Press, 2011.
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016.
Logan, Jason. Make Ink: A Forager’s Guide to Natural Inkmaking. Abrams, 2018.
Puig de la Bellacasa, María. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds. University of Minnesota Press., 2017.
Singh, Julietta. No Archive Will Restore You. Punctum Books, 2018.
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, 2015
Wilson, Shawn. Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods. Fernwood Publishing, 2008.
Yanagi, Soetsu. The Beauty of Everyday Things. Penguin Books, 2018.
Yates, Julian. Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: a Multispecies Impression. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Deborah Barnett (IAMD) Leaf Love Leaves Love
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10:55 am
9b
Aisulu Baibolova (IAMD) The Post-Soviet: Mankurt’s Way Home
Primary Advisor:Immony Mèn, S) Peter Morin
- Research questions:Can lived experiences be used as counter to existing and/or former policies within colonial systems? In what ways did the Soviet Union change Indigenous Central Asian peoples’ cultures and perspectives? What does it mean to reflect that in my work? Can a mankurt come back to their roots and finally remember their past and what will it take? What does it mean to remember the past?
- Framework+Mediums: Postcolonial critique of soviet approach to indigenous peoples in central asia, modernization, ethnic nationalism. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan formerly known as Frunze, Kirghizia (Central Asia), ghosts of Soviet Past. Chinghiz Aitmatov’s novel The Day Lasts Longer Than A Hundred Years (Mankurt, person who has lost touch with background and kinship). Immersive tech, ar/vr. speculate, contextualize. Displacement, colonial structures, transnationalism. Glen Coulthard: Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recongition, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Other Asias, Can the Subaltern Speak? Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies. Artists: Lisa Reihana, Talant Ogobayev, Gulnur Mukazhanova, Asel Kadyrkhanova, Said Atabekov, Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev, Slavs and Tatars (art collective), Lab C (Kyrgyzstan research space, urban history etc).
Interested bib:
Coulthard, Glen Sean, and Taiaiake Alfred. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Accessed August 12, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt9qh3cv.
Madina Tlostanova. 2012. Postsocialist ≠ postcolonial? On post- Soviet imaginary and global coloniality, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 48:2, 130-142, DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2012.658244
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, 1950. Decolonizing Methodologies : Research and Indigenous Peoples. London ; New York : Dunedin : New York : Zed Books ; University of Otago Press ; distributed in the USA exclusively by St Martin’s Press, 1999.
Tuck, Eve and K. Wayne Yang. 2012. Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, vol.1, no. 1, , pp. 1-40.
Priya Bandodkar (DF) Activating Indofuturism: Applying a lens adapted from Afro-and-Indigenous Futurism
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1:10pm
10a
Leeay Aikawa (IAMD) Still small voice – in search for Authenticity
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10b
Rebecca Casalino (CCP) “Proud Deviants and Queer Multiples”
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Primary Advisor: Maria-Belen Ordonez, S) Kathy Kiloh
- Research questions: How do tropes in American romcom films from the mid-to-late 20th century assert heteronormative standards and expectations of real-world intimate attachments? Is storytelling through invisible bodies, in this case playwriting and audio recital, an effective way to communicate alternative forms of intimacy? How do techniques from fictionalized ordinary encounters, such as those presented in romantic comedy narratives, elicit embedded reflexive responses about intimacy from an audience? How can these techniques be subverted and recycled to address intimacy between non-heteronormative and non-white bodies?
- Framework+Mediums: explore fictionalized forms of intimacy in the urban setting of Toronto, critiquing the ways that Western media’s representations over the last fifty years have created a mold for the concepts of love and intimacy. 6 audio episodes (play-script w/ short digial animation) narrating ex of intimate relationships, narration influenced by romcom and softcore porn tropes. Aim to subvert normative tropes. Kipnis (desire), Gandolfo (transgression), Berlant (attachments). Released online, staggered, live listen-ins via zoom. Storytelling, scrip writing, vignetttes, auto-ethnography.
Bellacasa, M. P. (2017). Matters of care: Speculative ethics in more than human worlds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Berlant, L. G. (2012). Cruel optimism . Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Berlant, L., & Warner, M. (1998). Sex in Public. Critical Inquiry, 24 (2), 547-566.
Ferens, D., & Sikora, T. (2016). Ugly Bodies: Queer Perspectives on Illness, Disability and Aging. InterAlia, 11 .
Gandolfo, D. (2009). The City at Its Limits.
Halberstam, J. (2011). The Queer art of failure . Durham: Duke University Press.
Kipnis, L. (2004). Against love: A polemic . New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
Kipnis, L. (2014). Men: Notes from an ongoing investigation . New York: Picador.
Stewart, K. (2007). Ordinary Affects . Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Tuck, E. (2009). Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities. Harvard Educational Review, 79 (3), 409-428.
1:55pm
11b
Matana Geraghty (IAMD) The Need to Convey Experience
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Generated reading list:
Anthony, Dunne and Fiona, Raby. Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. MIT, 2014.
Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
Barad, Karen, et al. What is the Measure of Nothingness?: Infinity, Virtuality, Justice. vol. no. 99.;no. 099;, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2012.
Bellacasa, María Puig de La. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds. University of Minnesota Press., 2017.
Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Desnos, Rebecca. Plants Are Magic. Vol. 1, Rebecca Desnos, 2017.
Farrelly, Liz, Zines, 1st Edition. Booth-Clibborn, 2001.
Ferens, D., & Sikora, T. (2016). Ugly Bodies: Queer Perspectives on Illness, Disability and Aging. InterAlia, 11 .
Franklin, Kate, and Caroline Till. Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future. Thames & Hudson, 2018.
Kelley, Mike, and John C. Welchman. Foul Perfection: Essays and Criticism. MIT Press, 2003.
Kipnis, L. (2004). Against love: A polemic . New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
Kipnis, L. (2014). Men: Notes from an ongoing investigation . New York: Picador.
Klanten, Robert, Adeline Mollard, and Matthias Hubner, Behind the Zines: Self-Publishing Culture. Gestalten Verlag, 2011.
Halberstam, Judith. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016.
Stewart, K. (2007). Ordinary Affects . Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, 2015
Yates, Julian. Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: a Multispecies Impression. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.