Join us for LINES AND NODES: Media, Infrastructure, and Aesthetics, a one-day event gathering scholars and artists who study the politics and effects of human-made infrastructures.

This symposium and screening event brings together artists and scholars to examine the political, aesthetic and affective dimensions of extraction, infrastructure and logistics. We will interrogate the relationships between the representations of such dynamics and the larger forces that they condense: globalization, digitization, territorialisation, labour migration, displacement, sustainability, security, accumulation and colonialism.

Schedule:
 
Midday Session, 12:00 PM
Brenda Longfellow, York University, “OFFSHORE Interactive Web Documentary”
Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto, “Chemical Infrastructures”
Followed by a discussion moderated by Shiri Pasternak
 
Film and Video Screening, 1:45 PM
Len Lye, Trade Tattoo
CAMP, CCTV Social: Capital Circus
Larilyn Sanchez, Balikbayan
Ralph Keene, Persian Story
Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, An Italian Film (Africa Addio)
Followed by a discussion moderated by cheyanne turions
 
Afternoon Session, 3:30 PM
Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto “The Logistics of Life and Death”
Followed by a discussion moderated by Weiqiang Lin
 
Evening Session, 5:30 PM
Ursula Biemann, Filmmaker and Researcher
“On the Ecologies of Oil and Water”
 
Video Screening, 6:30 PM
Ursula Biemann, “Black Sea Files”
Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares, “Forest Law/Selva jurídica”
Followed by a discussion moderated by Charles Stankievech

This is a fully accessible venue; please enter from Huron Street. Attendance is free, with donations being collected for The Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund. For more on this social justice initiative, please visit www.groundswellfund.ca

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This event is sponsored by: Intersections Speaker Series: Department of Geography and Planning at University of Toronto, Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto, Department of Film at York University, Pleasure Dome, and John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.