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Black Optics @ Calling the Conjurers

  • It's Ok* Studios 468 Queen Street West Toronto, ON, M5V 2B2 Canada (map)

This ROUNDTABLE + MEDIA SHOWCASE dives into the vibrant tapestry of Black visual cultures and fugitive, maternal, and other situated lenses and modes for survival. Featuring media studies scholars, culture workers, photographers, filmmakers, will unravel the rich narratives shaping Black life and artistic expression to explore the profound impact of visual storytelling on culture and society, and the joys and challenges that come with visual technologies with special attention to the Black gaze.

Speaker(s): 

  • Roya Del Sol, independent artist & creative director, It’sOk* Studios 

  • Nataleah Hunter-Young, assistant professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western  University; programmer, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF: Africa & Arab West Asia)

  • Ephraim Asili, filmmaker 

  • Maurice Jones, curator, producer, MUTEK programmer, and PhD student at Concordia University

Source: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/calling-the-conjurers-an-otherwise-symposium-for-technologies-of-black-life-and-study-tickets-857161572337?aff=oddtdtcreator
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