Multisensory Art Gallery (ROOM EV-6.720).The Gallery opens at 13h00 and will close at 15h00 on Wednesday

In Pink Light is a ritual performance generated through vision, play, and sensory impulse. This multisensory ritual-performance is a choreography for two dancers that explores themes of transformation through a neurodivergent lens. Through movement, we articulate heightened fusion with (and as) nature. It follows earlier work centered around the Underworld; this phase of research shifts into a Middle Earth exploration—an imagined container of lush, shape-...

Organizer: Firat Erdim ∆ (Architecture, Iowa State University, USA)The Field Harp is an ensemble of 16-25 single-string electric aeolian (wind-activated) harps. Aeolian harps are usually considered passive instruments, akin to wind-chimes. The Field Harp is instead designed to be held, oriented, and played in active collaboration with the wind. Each string is a point in the field. The wind blows differently across each point. The subtle differences across the field of sound enables us ...

Organizer: Rennie Tang ∆ (California State Polytechnic University Pomona, USA) • Eleni-Ira Panourgia ∆ (Gustave Eiffel University, France);• Lisa Sandlos ∆ (Brock University, Canada)• Jackie Martin ∆ (Biodiversity Coordinator, Office of Sustainability, Concordia University, Canada)• Rebecca Tittler ∆ (Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, Concordia University, Canada)• Maya Lach-Aidelbaum ∆ (Communication Studies, Concordia University, Canada)• Li...

Jessica Chapman ∆ (Communication, Carleton University, Canada)Seeing Space: Astronomical Imaging and the Production of Cosmic VisionsThe relationship between photography and space is a longstanding one. Louis Daguerre, for example, invented the Daguerreotype in 1837, and by 1839 Daguerre himself is thought to have produced the first photograph of the moon (TIME, 2024). Today, space organizations like NASA mobilize all manner of imaging technology to generate visual repres...

Organizer: Lida Zeitlin-Wu ∆ (Communication & Theatre Arts/ Institute for the Humanities, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA)The five-part division of the senses—sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch—might seem selfevident. Yet this framework, along with the prioritization of sight (sometimes termed "ocularcentrism"), reflects imperialist hierarchies of perception rooted in Enlightenment thinking. In media studies and TS, emerging technologies frequently reinforce dominant s...

Organizer: Sheliza Ladhani √ (Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science, University of Calgary) • Stephanie Tyler √ (Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Canada)• Sophia Marlow √ (Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Canada)• Mairi McDermott √ (Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada)• Jennifer D. Adams √ (Canada Research Chair, University of Calgary, Canada)• Kathleen C. Sitter ∆ (Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Social Work, Un...

Organizer: Warsame Isse ∆ (Communication Studies, Concordia University, Canada)Black technopoetics is a term coined by Louis Chude-Sokei that refers to the intersection between creative expression, technology and Blackness according to Louise Chude-Sokei. I am implementing this concept as I utilize guitar pedals and haptic transducers to hear, feel and distort the sonic media that is a part of my Somali intangible cultural heritage. Intangible cultural heritage (here after referred to ...