Current 2.0 Engagements Friday

DREAM OF A NEW FUTURE

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Engagements: Panels & Presentations

[Fri July 27, Sat July 28 & Sun July 29]

Co-presented by Emily Carr University of Art + Design / New Media + Sound Arts (NMSA)

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FRIDAY JULY 27: at Emily Carr University of Art + Design / NMSA

Rennie Hall, Room B2160 (between cafeteria and entrance information counter/bookstore)

✔️1:00pm-5:00pm Workshop: Intro to Gear, with Girls Rock Camp

✔️6:30pm Keynote: Stud1nt

stud1nt is a multi-instrumental artist and DJ from Queens. Their original compositions and rapid-fire mixes sit in-between the spontaneity of jazz improvisation and meticulous approaches to arrangement . They create across genres, nodding to the pulsating, hypnosis of experimental electronic music and the euphoria of ambient loops and psychedelic riffs. Also a member of the queer media collective #kunq, their work is attentive to the politics of queerness in relation to sound and space. stud1nt has presented their workshops on creative production at Vassar College, the New School, Recess Art, Pioneer Works, and Ableton Loop. They have been featured in the New Yorker, Resident Advisor, Pitchfork, the Fader, FACT Magazine, and MixMag. Notable performances include sets for Boiler Room New York, RBMA NY Festival, GHE20G0TH1K, the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, Ableton Loop x CDR Klubnacht, and 3hd Festival.

http://stud1nt.nyc/

✔️7:00pm Panel: Intersectionality in Electronic Music & Art

Panelists: stud1nt, Alanna Ho, Cease Wyss, Caroline Park

Moderator: Jen Sungshine

Bios here >> https://currentsymposium.com/public/program.html

The intention of this panel is to highlight the importance of understanding electronic music and art practices through an intersectional lens. How does vectors of oppression and privilege (gender, race, age, class, ability, language, ethnicity, education, family status, history, culture, etc) affect one’s opportunity to participate in electronic music & art?

✔️8:30pm Panel: On Producing Safer Spaces: Accountable Culture Creation

Panelists: Gabi Dao, Ana Rose Carrico, Karla Cruz, Reverend Dollars

Moderator: Jen Sungshine

Bios here >> https://currentsymposium.com/public/program.html

The intention of this panel is to discuss how cultural organizers and organizations can be more accountable when creating culture through organizing events, curating, managing spaces, navigating gentrification, hiring representational staff, and creating partnerships.

SATURDAY JULY 28

✔️1:00pm-5:00pm Workshop: Intro to MaxMSP, with Kiran Bhumber [waitlist]

Students will gain insight into essential audio programming in Max/MSP; including techniques in sound synthesis, sample creation and playback, filtering and live processing. This workshop will culminate to a final performance in which students will collaboratively compose a piece. The ensemble will perform using game controllers to manipulate sound parameters that they have programmed onto these interfaces.

✔️5:00pm Presentation: Creating Social Media Content for a Global Audience with Vanessa Tam

In her social media workshop, Vanessa will be sharing techniques creatives can use to reach new people and customize their projects for a global audience. Vanessa Tam is a freelance creative and digital marketing professional that specializes in content creation and social media marketing. Working on projects with global brands like Red Bull and Perrier, Vanessa merges cultural nuance with digital storytelling to create engaging campaigns taking place all around the world.

✔️6:00pm Presentation: Grant Funding 101 with CreativeBC, MusicBC, and FACTOR

This presentation will teach you about what funding programs exist for music through CreativeBC, MusicBC and FACTOR and how to be a successful grant funding applicant.

SUNDAY JULY 29: at Subculture at Creative Coworkers

✔️1:00pm Panel: Post-”me too”: On prevention and Support with Good Night Out and BWSS

The intention of this presentation is to connect our audience to organizations offering services for sexual harassment and assault survivors, and to provide valuable information and a pragmatic “toolkit” on how to look out for each other and offer support for survivors in your community.

Good Night Out was founded out of an awareness of the links between alcohol consumption and sexual aggression and initiated from community concerns that staff and patrons in Vancouver’s nightlife could benefit from education around how to recognize, interrupt and prevent sexual harassment and assault on nights out. Good Night Out uses recent research on gendered violence, bystander intervention, and anti-oppressive techniques to create a variety of original educational tools, interventions and messaging aimed at reducing gendered and homophobic harassment and violence in our city’s arts, culture and entertainment scene. They are committed to engaging our community with these issues in ways that are authentic, meaningful and interactive. The work that Good Night Out has done in Vancouver has been presented on a local and international scale, with their team being looked to as experts in the field of violence against women.

Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) is a feminist voice against violence and oppression. BWSS is a strong, dynamic organization that provides support and advocacy for women who have experienced abuse, as well as community education and training about violence against women. Part of a global feminist anti-violence movement, our long-term goal is the elimination of all violence against women and girls.

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EVENT BY DONATION.

RSVP: https://current2018.eventbrite.ca

Part of Current: Feminist Electronic Art Symposium 2.0

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CURRENT is a multidisciplinary, intersectional, music and electronic art symposium working with women and non-binary artists in Vancouver, BC and beyond. This second iteration will take place July 25th-29th in Vancouver and will feature music and art showcases as well as workshops, panels, and youth mentorships.

The goal of this symposium is to foster and disseminate feminist content through the cross-pollination of ideas, and intergenerational knowledge sharing. By offering free, public, all ages panels and accessible workshops, we wish to cultivate growth within the local community, and create a more equal landscape within the growing Electronic Arts ecology.

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We acknowledge that CURRENT: Feminist Electronic Art Symposium is located in Vancouver on unceded Indigenous land belonging to the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations on whose territory we work, live and play.

We thank the Province of British Columbia, City of Vancouver - Cultural Services, Creative BC, and The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR) for funding this initiative.

We also thank our 2018 partners B.W.S.S.: Battered Women's Support Services Association, Chapel Sound, Contrast Collective, Diversity: Arts Music & Entertainment, Elastic Collective, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, FIELD Contemporary, GENA, Girls Rock Camp Vancouver, Good Night Out Vancouver, Intersessions, Moniker Press, New Forms Media Society, the NFB, Nimbus School of Recording & Media, NuZi Collective, Subculture at Creative Coworkers, Sound Girls, TUF, the Vancouver Art Book Fair, VIVO Media Arts Centre and the Warehouse at Eastside Studios for supporting this initiative.

This initiative is supported by: Aurora Cannabis, Merchant Advance Capital and Red Bull

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