Calling the Conjurers: An Otherwise Symposium for Technologies of Black Life and Study (Day 2)

Join us at Calling the Conjurers: An Otherwise Symposium for Technologies of Black Life and Study co-hosted by The Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis and Logic(s) magazine at Toronto's It's Ok* Studios, UofT's Rare Books Library, and other venues for four days of music performance, thought-provoking discussions, arts showcases, and creative workshops centered around the necessary technologies and creative techniques rooted in Black life and community. Mark your calendars and join us in the conjuring as we gather across the material and aesthetics concepts that challenge and nourish us: “algorithms,” as we gather across the material and aesthetics concepts that challenge and nourish us: “privacy,” “algorithms,” “archives,” “data,” “technoculture,” “community,” “belonging," and more.

Calling all community engineers and visionaries, witnesses, tinkerers, dreamers, preservers, weavers, alchemists of the digital, tillers of the grounds. Calling all maroon technologists, cultural meteorologists, grief doulas, fugitive innovators in the undercommons, keepers of the recipes, memory workers, tastemakers, digital alchemists. Calling in all on the fence waiting out the winds of revolution, and calling those who always pick up the phone when possibility calls, all who are committed to collective nourishment and infrastructure and generating deeper capacity and skill-sharing towards resourcing our manifold “we” and all our collective freedom dreams. Calling on the curious, the seekers of preparation, calling up the troubled, the joyously mad scientists, the invocators of kin to ask: What is our calling? And what technologies must we conjure, compose, and corral to meet and make these calls?

10:00 a.m. A0. Opening / Welcome Land Acknowledgment

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. A1. Memory Work, Mediated Technologies & Make Believe - Roundtable

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. A2. Network Gatherings

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. A3. Technologies for Breathing - Workshop

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. A4. Tinkerers, Tailors & Tectonics - Panel

A5. Algorithms & Atmospherics - Panel

3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. A6. Poetics & Practice - Workshop

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. A7. Black Optics - Roundtable

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. A8. Zines, Printmaking & Collage - Workshop

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. A9. Performance Night Aural : Ascendence :: Text : Tether

This event will be hosted at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

This event series is supported in part by the JHI Program for the Arts.