University of Toronto, Missisauga Campus, Deerfield Hall 2060

A return shuttle bus will be available between downtown Toronto and the symposium venue. Please register for the shuttle when registering for the symposium. These seats will operate on a first come, first served basis.

9:00am – 9:30am – Morning coffee and Introductory Address

9:30 – 11:00am Panel I

New Media Art as a Tool for Preservation, Research, and History Production

Professor Louis Kaplan, Professor Julie Nagam, Professor Siobhan O'Flynn

11:15 – 12:15: Roundtable

Digital Art as Experimental Research Tool/Method

Professor Linda Lauro-Lazin, David Rokeby, Professor Christopher Salter, David Han

12:15pm – 1:30pm: Lunch

1:30 – 3:00: – Panel II

From Ephemeral Engagements to Collectible Experiences

Giovanna Casimiro, Ian Garrett, Professor Isabel Pedersen

3:15 – 4:30 : Keynote Address

Professor Christine Ross

4:30pm: Reception

Keynote

Christine Ross is Professor and James McGill Chair in Contemporary Art History in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Her areas of research include contemporary media arts; vision and visuality; transformations of spectatorship in contemporary art; participatory media and art; artistic redefinitions of the public sphere; and reconfigurations of time and temporality in recent media art practices. Her books include: The Past is the Present; It’s the Future too: The Temporal Turn in Contemporary Art (Continuum, 2012); The Aesthetics of Disengagement:Contemporary Art and Depression (University of Minnesota Press, 2006); and Images de surface: l’art vidéo reconsidéré (Artextes, 1996). She has coedited The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) with Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Jonathan Sterne and Tamar Tembeck; Conflict[ed] Reporting: War and Photojournalism in the Digital Age[special issue of Photography & Culture, 8 (2), November 2015] with Tamar Tembeck and Theodora Tsentas; and Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008) with Olivier Asselin and Johanne Lamoureux.