<div dir="ltr">*Museums Without Walls*<br>Conference and Exhibition<br>Queen’s University, Kingston, ON<br><div>Aug 15-17</div><div><br></div><div>Check the full program and register at <a href="http://museusemparedes.com/en">museusemparedes.com/en</a><br></div><br>In the spirit of critical and social museology, the Museums Without Walls conference invites us to reclaim notions of virtuality from the technopositivist buzz and revisit the long history of relationships between museums and media.<br><br>The many contributions to the event open space for the discussion and exercise of new configurations for art institutions amidst other information technologies. They propose further ways to dispute ossified narratives and account for overlooked artforms; access and engage with collections; return cultural artifacts to the spheres of circulation; take care of the publics, their histories, circumstances, and modes of expression.<br><br>The conference is accompanied by a week-long exhibition that gathers projects that reimagine our modes of cultural engagement, access, and preservation, using media as diverse as publications, interactive videos, and immersive environments.<br><br>Keynotes by Michael Connor (Rhizome), Sarah Kenderdine (Experimental Museology Lab / University of Lausanne), Pippin Barr (Concordia University), and Sara Diamond (OCAD University).<br><br>The event also counts with the participation of: George Oates (Flickr Foundation); Luisa Ji & Jerrold McGrath (UKAI Projects); Teodora Fartan (CSNI/LSBU); Katharina Niemeyer (UQAM); Blake Fall-Conroy & Nimrod Astarhan (Art Institute of Chicago); Treva Legassie (Concordia University); paula roush (CSNI/LSBU); Aarati Akkapeddi; Brandie MacDonald (Museum of Us); Chao Tayiana Maina (African Digital Heritage); Danuta Sierhuis & Jennifer Nicoll (Agnes Etherington Art Centre); Jennifer Kennedy (Queen’s University); Michael Carter-Arlt (Toronto Metropolitan University); Mikayla Brown (Temple University); Su-Anne Yeo (University of British Columbia); Elina Lex (Concordia University); Diego Rotman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Lea Mauas (Queen’s University); Catalina Alvarez, Liz Flyntz & Leander O’Connell Johnson (Ant Farm Antioch Art Building Creative Preservation Initiative); Bethany Berard (Carleton University); Sarah E.K. Smith (Western University); Ellie Décary-Chen, Lucas LaRochelle & Prakash Krishnan, Heather Mitchell (Things+Time); Jung-Ah Kim, Peggy Fussell, Tia Bankosky, Prerana Das, Drew Burton, Jessa Laframboise, Anna Douglas (Queen’s University); Diogo de Moraes Silva; Gallery 404; Mari Nagem; Michael Lou; Museum of Other Realities; SystemKollectiv; The Broken Timeline; The Zium Society; Velcro Ediciones, andZentrum für Netkunst.<br><br>Museums Without Walls is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Queen’s University, Screen Cultures and Cultural Studies Program, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.<span style="font-size:12pt"><span></span></span>
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