Evening 1: Crossing Fonds Symposium 2024

VIVO Media Arts - Crossing Fonds Symposium 2024

Evening 1:

6:30 PM Reception and Conference Registration
7:15 PM Welcome and Opening
7:30 PM Case Study 1 Presentation by Sara Diamond (OCAD U), Karen Knights (VIVO), Mia
Chi Vu (SFU)

The researchers will reflect on three decades of labour in the restaurant sector along three themes: work and labour activism, representation, and archival absence. Research draws from fonds at VIVO, SFU, UBC, and VCA, and demonstrates the Crossing Fonds platform/ecosystem.

* VIVO is hosting two evening events as part of the Crossing Fonds Symposium. We are offering separate ticketing for VIVO events for those not registered for the full Symposium. Please note that symposium registrants do not need to purchase a ticket for this event.

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The Crossing Fonds Digital Archives Symposium, April 25-28, 2024 hosted in Metro Vancouver and online, will share two years of collaborative efforts and stimulate reflection on both the Crossing Fonds platform/ecosystem and the opportunities and challenges of digital archives writ large. This gathering unites academic, GLAM (gallery, libraries, archives and museum) and community-based experts who bring knowledge and practice in digital archive platforms and interface design, visualization, critical archival theory and practice, principles of OCAP and CARE, an ethics of care, participatory and co-design methods and expertise with digital records, particularly from media arts and culture. The symposium combines face-to-face and online presentations and dialogues featuring archival projects from IBPOC, queer, disabled, and other equity-deserving communities. Preliminary workshops allow a deep dive into the Crossing Fonds ecosystem, its tools, visualization approaches, and critical archival methods. The symposium includes a call for short papers by students (due February 29) and student presentation sessions that the Crossing Fonds graduate student team will organize.

The symposium has three themes:

A Collaborative Digital Archives Ecosystem, which will critique and disseminate the Crossing Fonds platform and present case studies including micro sites and methods developed through the program of research. Tools and techniques will be discussed from a socio-technological perspective.

Critical Archival Studies in the Digital Context, which will highlight an ethics of care, framed by dialogues regarding Indigenous engagement with digital archives. Indigenous research team members, archivists and librarians, and artists are featured throughout the symposium. We will engage a wide range of equity-deserving communities and individuals from these communities in presentations and research-creation.

Crosspollination, which explores collaboration across boundaries, whether archives or discipline.

The symposium will begin with a series of workshops on visualization, participatory community tools and the Crossing Fonds ecosystem and end with a go-forward planning session that harvests the seeds planted over the four days and encourages application of the ecosystem.

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