Monday Night Seminar: Patrick Keilty

The Centre for Culture and Technology (UofT)

“Provenanced Aesthetics: Archival Contrivance in Dawson City: Frozen Time”, a talk by Patrick Keilty (Faculty of Information)

The Centre for Culture and Technology - University of Toronto

Monday Night Seminars

Carrying on the tradition of public seminars at the Centre for Culture and Technology, Monday Night Seminars bring together thinkers, academics, activists, scientists, artists, designers and planners to challenge cultural notions about technology.

Join us at the Centre for Culture and Technology's Coach House for a Monday Night Seminar with CCT Faculty Fellow Patrick Keilty (U of T, Faculty of Information): <h4>“Provenanced Aesthetics: Archival Contrivance in Dawson City: Frozen Time”</h4>Archives are never simply a place where moving images are stored and preserved as a site for historical accumulation, material abeyance, and administrative power. Instead, through a close reading of sound and editing, this talk argues that Dawson City: Frozen Time (Dir. Bill Morrison, 2016) reframes provenance as an aesthetic contrivance and an act of continuous creation that reminds us of history’s instability.

<h4>About the speaker:</h4><a href="https://ischool.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/patrick-keilty/" title="https://ischool.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/patrick-keilty/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Patrick Keilty</a> is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. In addition, he is Archives Director of the Sexual Representation Collection, administered by the Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. Professor Keilty’s research interests can be divided into two areas. The first is the politics of digital infrastructures in the sex industries. The second is the materiality of media in erotohistoriography. He has published on embodiment and technology, data science, the history of information retrieval, design and experience, graphic design, temporality, and sexual taxonomies. His work spans visual culture, sexual politics, science and technology studies, media studies, information studies, political economy, critical theory, and theories of gender, sexuality, and race.

<h4>About the Centre for Culture and Technology:</h4>The Centre for Culture &amp; Technology is dedicated to theoretical, aesthetic, and critical inquiry into the impacts of contemporary media on our interconnected world. This project is informed by the Centre’s location in the Coach House, a multi-use heritage building that was once Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s office and salon on the University of Toronto campus. The Centre draws inspiration from McLuhan’s humanistic intellectual and institutional legacy, continuing his stated goal of “investigation into the psychic and social consequences of technologies”.The Centre promotes the study of media aesthetics in an expanded sense, examining the ways technological media shape contemporary experience by elaborating its histories, its problems, its infrastructures, and its politics. Offering both a setting and a framework, the Centre provides space and programming for scholars working in humanistic media studies across the three campuses of the University of Toronto and in the GTA. The Centre also supports the production of and conversation about contemporary media art, fostering aesthetic experimentation as a mode of inquiry.Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto 39A Queens Park Crescent East Toronto, ON M5S 2C3 <a href="https://www.cultureandtech.utoronto.ca/" title="https://www.cultureandtech.utoronto.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.cultureandtech.utoronto.ca</a> <a href="mailto:cultureandtech@utoronto.ca" title="mailto:cultureandtech@utoronto.ca" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">cultureandtech@utoronto.ca</a> Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/uoftculturetech" title="https://www.instagram.com/uoftculturetech" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@uoftculturetech</a>___________________________________

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