THEN/NOW/NEXT: 4 full days of investigations and discussions on the past, present and future of McLuhan’s work and influence, both in Toronto and around the global village. Featuring world-renowned scholars and lecturers. Film screenings, concerts and visual art happening all across the city. Hosted by the University of Toronto Faculty of Information together with Ryerson, York and OCAD Universities and dozens of Toronto cultural institutions.
The CFC Media Lab has a number of alumni contributing to this amazing event (details below)! Be sure to see their talks or see their work in action!
Speakers:
Deiren Masterson Presents InSights into “then”: McLuhan Way In Search of Truth. Watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZqyXjTStvk. Monday November 7th, 2011 at 2:15pm – 3:15pm in the St. Patrick Room
Shawn Micallef is a panelist on Artefacts, Outerings and Utterings: Place in Space
Mediator: Randy McLean (Economic Development, City of Toronto, Canada), Rob Bliss (Urban Experimentalist, Grand Rapids, USA), Shawn Micallef (Massey Fellow 2012; Editor, Spacing Magazine, Canada). Thursday November 10h, 2011 1:15pm – 2:15pm
Projects:
+CITY (DEW LINE FESTIVAL DOWNLOADABLE APP)+city is a tweet curation app for iPhone and iPad that visualizes tweet streams following specific hashtags. In its beta release, Twitter activity can be viewed by countries, cities, hashtag streams & individual tweets. Touch on tweet flowers to see what’s being said in real time. +city is launching in tandem with the McLuhan 100 Conference and +city’s data visualization will provide a dynamic view of a global network of communications and content generated around the McLuhan centenary. The +city app has been generously supported by the McLuhan 100 Conference and is a production of +citydesign. +citydesign develops and explores projects that can provide insights into social good, social change, art, innovation that change how we perceive the interaction of our physical and digital lives. +citydesign was cofounded by Faisal Anwar & Siobhan O’Flynn. +city is one component of a larger research project analyzing the impact of exchanges via the social web during Nuit Blanche.
URBAN SCREENS INSTALLATIONS ABOVE GROUND and BELOW GROUND as we mentioned in a previous post.
