Marginal Futurisms: Media Exhibition at the University Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Conference October 16th-18th, 2025

 Free Admission Monday, November 14th, 2025, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST (10:00am – 11:00 am MST)

 York University School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto.

Event Description

In “Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness,” bell hooks writes, “Understanding marginality as position and place of resistance is crucial for oppressed, exploited, colonised people” (1989, p. 21). hooks sees marginality as “a site one stays in, clings to even, because it nourishes one’s capacity to resist. It offers to one the possibility of a radical perspective from which to see and create, to imagine alternatives, new worlds”. This roundtable and media exhibition will explore the following questions: How can community-based research-creation can be genuinely led by marginalized groups? What new forms of storytelling and knowledge exchange can emerge through research in new technology creation with a marginal lens? The exhibition component will present recent artworks that engage with anti-oppressive, anti-colonial concepts through interactive/immersive media.

Featuring artworks from Alex de las Heras, Ar Ducao, The Peripheral Visions Co-Lab (Mary Bunch, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, Christina Dovolis, Jorge De Oliveira, Luka Kuplowsky), and the Sari-Sari Xchange Project (Carmela Laganse, Taien Ng-Chan).