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The Political Aesthetics of Light
w/ Brian Larkin (Barnard College, Columbia University) //November 4th, 2024 //5:30 PM //Raah Lab, FB 630.17 //1250 rue Guy Co-presented...

GEM LAB
Oct 1, 20241 min read


GEM Lab Open House 2024-25
//Oct. 2nd, 2024 //5:00-6:30 PM //GEM Lab, FB 630.15 //1250 rue Guy Join us at the GEM Lab Open House —an exciting opportunity to...

GEM LAB
Sep 20, 20241 min read


Radu Jude, Paul Thomas Anderson and the problem of the commodity form in contemporary cinema
w/ Pietro Bianchi (University of Florida) //November 11th, 2024 //5:30 PM //GEM Lab, FB 630.15 //1250 rue Guy As a sensuous supersensible...

GEM LAB
Sep 19, 20242 min read


Tales of Speculative Energies
Screening and talk with Mia Yu (Beijing-based artist, curator, researcher) //October 24th, 2024 //5:30 PM //GEM Lab, FB 630.15 //1250 rue...

GEM LAB
Sep 10, 20242 min read


Colonial Cinema in the Open Air: Ambient Governmentality and “Atmosphere of Mind”
w/ Dr. Nadine Chan (University of Toronto) //September 26th, 2024 //5:30-7:30 PM //GEM Lab, FB 630.15 //1250 rue Guy Abstract: In the...

GEM LAB
Sep 5, 20242 min read


Special Issue of Discourse, "Media and Paranoia," out now!
We are thrilled to finally share our special issue of Discourse on “Media and Paranoia: New Attentional Forms,” edited by Clemens Apprich...

GEM LAB
Apr 10, 20241 min read


Suspension and Refusal: Revisiting Two Essays by Eve Tuck
GEM Lab Reading Workshop led by Patrick Smith (University of Salford) //March 28th, 2024 //5:15-7:30 PM //GEM Lab //FB 630.15 This...

GEM LAB
Mar 12, 20241 min read


Film Handling & Digitization Workshop
Instructors Brian Virostek (Archivist, Library and Archives Canada) Teagan Lance (Independent filmmaker and video editor) This three-day...

GEM LAB
Feb 22, 20241 min read


Artist Talk w/ Giacomo Abbruzzese
//February 6th, 2024 //2:00-4:00 PM //GEM Lab //FB 630.15 Giacomo Abbruzzese is in Montreal to present his award-winning film Disco...

GEM LAB
Jan 25, 20241 min read


Indian Cinema and the Caribbean: Media in the Wake of Enslavement and Indenture w/ Usha Iyer
This talk is co-sponsored by the GEM Lab, Southern Asia Studies, Department of Religions and Cultures, Centre for Interdisciplinary...

GEM LAB
Sep 5, 20232 min read


Strange Objects: The Ateliers Varan and the Archives of the 1983 Bolivian Miners’ Super 8 Workshop
w/ Miguel Errazu (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Co-sponsored by the GEM Lab and the Concordia Media History Research Centre //September...

GEM LAB
Sep 5, 20231 min read


Italian Cinema Travels w/ Valerio Coladonato & Alberto Zambenedetti
//May 5, 2023 //2:00-4:00 PM //GEM Lab //FB 630.15 Abstract: Valerio Coladonato and Alberto Zambenedetti’s research engages with XX...

GEM LAB
Apr 21, 20232 min read


Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project: To Imagine Queer Mnemonics w/ siren eun young jung
A presentation co-hosted by Conversations in Contemporary Art (CiCA), the Global Emergent Media Lab (GEM Lab), MOMENTA Biennale de...

GEM LAB
Mar 31, 20233 min read


The Boob Tube: Tracking Pornhub's Emergence w/ Susanna Paasonen, Heather Berg, and Becky Holt
As part of the GEM Lab’s seminar on Video/Art/TV: Digital Aesthetics and Politics, we are holding a virtual workshop focused on online...

GEM LAB
Mar 6, 20234 min read


Self-Images and the “Ethic of Reviewing” w/ Kate Rennebohm
Part of the GEM Lab's 2022-2023 Works-in-Progress series Self-Images and the “Ethic of Reviewing” in Global Film, Art, Activism, and...

GEM LAB
Mar 2, 20232 min read


Latin American Digital Politics and Culture Workshop
with Dr. Colette Perold, Dr. Juan Llamas-Rodríguez, and Joaquín Serpe //March 17, 2023 //2:00-5:00 PM //GEM Lab //1250 Guy, FB 630.15...

GEM LAB
Mar 2, 20235 min read


Preliminary Materials on Science and Educational Films in Socialist China w/ Xin Zhou
Part of the GEM Lab's 2022-203 Works-in-Progress series //Feb. 23, 2023 //5:00-7:00 PM //GEM Lab //1250 Guy, FB 630.15 This talk will...

GEM LAB
Feb 14, 20232 min read


Video/Art and Seriality: reading group and screening
As part of the GEM Lab’s seminar on Video/Art/TV: Digital Aesthetics and Politics, we are holding a reading group and screening focused...

GEM LAB
Feb 3, 20232 min read


Sanaz Sohrabi's new film, Scenes of Extraction, premiering at Berlinale's Film Expanded programme
Sanaz Sohrabi’s new documentary, Scenes of Extraction, will have its World premiere at Berlinale’s Forum Expanded programme, one of 33...

GEM LAB
Jan 30, 20231 min read


Becky Holt publishes new piece in Flow
GEM Lab coordinator Becky Holt has recently published an essay in the online journal Flow, “A Porn Studies Scholar’s Plea to...

GEM LAB
Jan 25, 20231 min read
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