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🎞️ Network dedicated to activating and preserving Canada’s audiovisual heritage through digitization initiatives, artist residencies, symposia, & more 🔍 Works by Indigenous peoples, POCs, women, LGBT2Q+ and immigrant communities - counterarchive.ca
NEW Talking Archives 2 episode available for viewing!
The 5th episode of TA2 features Ghanaian-born artist and filmmaker Obarima Kofi Ofosu-Yeboah in conversation with Monika Kin Gagnon.
On A/CA's Vimeo channel: vimeo.com/counterarchi...
For more information: counterarchive.ca/talking-arch...
Images Festival's 38th Birthday Party Fundraiser. June 26th, 19h - Space Unltd, Toronto expcinema.org/site/en/even...
"Current large language models don’t simply automate tasks previously done by humans; they fundamentally change our relationship with information." - Oluseyi Noah Adebanjo, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
https://loom.ly/4HFfByQ
We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video
New publication: "Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Anthology" - with contributions by Almudena Escobar López, Victor Guimarães, Adam Piron, Raquel Schefer, and Federico Windhausen. Published by ICA expcinema.org/site/en/book...
Congratulations to the A/CA members presenting their research at FMSAC this week! For details about A/CA members’ events, collaborative workshops, panels, and individual paper presentations, click here: counterarchive.ca/aca-members-...
June 4 Tkaronto/Toronto Queer Cinema for Palestine 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Join us June 4 at 7pm at Innis Town Hall
🎟️ Free event! Please consider making a donation to help us cover the venue & speakers fee — remaining funds will be directed to Palestinian mutual aid projects
www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...
We are thrilled to share: Talking Archives 2, episode 4, featuring Cuban filmmaker Marcel Beltrán in conversation with Monika Kin Gagnon about his film Option Zero, which focuses on the struggles of Cuban migrants journeying through Latin America to reach the US. See vimeo.com/counterarchi...
📚 The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) has donated more than 2,200 books on drug use & policy to #InternetArchive. A vital public resource preserved, ensuring continued access for researchers, healthcare providers & advocates working in drug policy.
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/04/22/n...
If you’re at FMSAC this year, you’ll also have the chance to view the program during the “Desire Lines: Intimate Autonomies in 50 years of Groupe Intervention Vidéo” workshop on Thursday, May 29 at 1:00 pm.
More info to come!
To see the full program and to download the guide, visit vucavu.com/en/aca-giv/d...
More information is available on our website, counterarchive.ca/new-groupe-i...
The Desire Lines full video program is available here, New Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) Educational Guide on VUCAVU.com
Here's a preview of Desire Lines: Experimental Video as Social and Spatial Interventions, a collaboration between A/CA, Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), Moving Image Research Lab (MIRL) at McGill U and the independent, artist-driven, Canadian bilingual streaming platform VUCAVU: vimeo.com/1071926927
Discover a NEW! educational guide created by our partners at Archive/Counter-Archive and Groupe Intervention Vidéo - Curated by Alanna Thain and Ylenia Olibet from the Moving Image Research Lab (MIRL)at McGill University - now on @vucavu.bsky.social
@givideo.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social
We are proud to announce the new Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) educational guide by Archive/Counter-Archive. Now available on VUCAVU.com, vucavu.com/en/a-ca/educ...!
Find out more here: counterarchive.ca/new-groupe-i...
@givideo.bsky.social, @vucavu.bsky.social
Nous sommes fièr.es d'annoncer le lancement du nouveau guide pédagogique du Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) par Archive/Counter-Archive maintenant sur VUCAVU.com! @givideo.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social
En savoir plus ici: vucavu.com/fr/aca-giv/l...
If you'll be in London next week, come chat about the (proposed) idea of "archival inquiry" at Mayday Rooms !
Hoping to bring together concepts & practices of "co-research" in relation to both archival labours and methods of historical research:
maydayrooms.org/event/archiv...
Don't miss the world premiere of Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance at the 2025 Toronto Hot Docs Festival, opening on Thursday, April 24th!
This project was an incredible collaborative effort that includes several A/CA members. For more information, counterarchive.ca/parade-queer....
@hotdocs
New issue of JFP hot off the press!!! With a major dossier on "Women, Cinema, and Film Archives" and fab review of THE BAT 🦇📀 by @pamhutch.bsky.social !!! 😍🎞️ www.calameo.com/fiaf/books/0...
From the essay, “Cultural Preservation and Queer History,” by Brooke Palmieri, part of the Vanishing Culture report.
Download the full report now ➡️ archive.org/details/vani...
🕳️ #VanishingCulture
How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole
➡️ spectrum.ieee.org/digital-arch...
Like many others I am dismayed by the effort to end IMLS. I know IMLS matters to so many people. I put together the following site to collect and share stories of how "IMLS matters" to people. Please consider submitting a story.
forms.gle/MAocZZMsoUu7...
imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/
I want to give a quick shout-out to @transgenderarchive.bsky.social for Transgender Day of Visibility. Their work documenting and sharing trans lives through history is incredible and so important. Give them a follow and check out www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net
JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
One of our sponsored panels, Session L6, "Rewinding Tape Across Media: Archives of Ambivalence (A RoundTaple)," Saturday 11am, will be dedicated as a tribute to Jonathan Sterne, a space for SCMS members to reflect on what he has meant to them and to our field.
NEW! "Women, Art, and the Periphery & Latin American Video Art in the VIVO Media Arts Centre Archives", the 3rd of 3 Archive/Counter Archives' Educational Guides with our partners at VIVO! @counterarchive.bsky.social FIND IT HERE: vucavu.com/en/aca-vivo/...
This episode features Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, artistic director of Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst Berlin e.V. [Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art in Berlin], in conversation with Monika.
For more information, please see counterarchive.ca/talking-arch...
Out now: Episode 3 of Talking Archives, Vol. 2, our online interview series featuring film scholar Monika Kin Gagnon in conversation with filmmakers, archivists, and researchers who presented at the 2024 Global Audiovisual Archiving (GAVA) Conference in Toronto in July 2024. vimeo.com/1065880671