YorkU - Sensorium

Sensorium: Centre for Digital Art & Technology and Connected Minds: Neural & Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society, invites applications for the Connected Minds Artist-in-Residence. Applications are due Friday, July 4 at 4:00 PM. Visit our website to read the full call🌀

Ritual of Reuse: Reimagining Game Controller Lifecycles + Games Jam. Join us for a hands-on workshop featuring role-playing, controller disassembly & recycling. Then, stay for the Game Jam—a weekend of rapid game-making! 🎨🎲 📅 March 14–16, 2025 📍 Transmedia Lab, 102 & 103 ACW

Sensorium & the IP Innovation Clinic are hosting a IP seminar for artists, writers & designers! Topics include: Copyright & Trademark Basics, How IP Affects Artists, Key Considerations & Best Practices. 📅 March 11 | 1:00-2:30 PM 📍 Sensorium Loft, 4th Floor Goldfarb

Join us for Video Game Preservation with Chris J. Young! 📅 Tues, Feb 25 | 🕔 3-4:30 PM 📍 Sensorium Loft, York U Chris, Head of Collections at UTM Libraries, explores game preservation & Canada’s largest collection—The Syd Bolton Collection!

Join us for the AMPD-Sensorium Graduate Symposium on Dec. 13 (9:15 AM–3 PM) at York University! Explore innovative research, collaboration, and dialogue, followed by the Wendy Michener Lecture with danah boyd. Details: events.yorku.ca/events/ampd-se…

Sensorium is thrilled to announce the first Connected Minds Artists-in-Residence: Ar Ducao and Gala Hernández López! Starting this winter, they’ll begin six-month residencies, creating new projects and hosting workshops at York. Welcome, Ar and Gala, to our community!

Next Friday, December 13, is the Wendy Michener Memorial Lecture, featuring leading technology and social media researcher danah boyd. Join us at 3pm in the Joe Green Theatre, reception to follow. RSVP online!

CFP Connected Minds Artist-in-Residence 2024-2025: Sensorium and Connected Minds seeks applications for our inaugural Artist-in-Residence. The application deadline is June 28, 2024. Visit this link to read the full call and learn how to apply: sensorium.ampd.yorku.ca/artist-in-resi…

2024 Vector Fest Call for Submissions: Current Sensorium members are invited to submit proposals for new media projects as part of Vector Fest. Proposals may be for performances, screenings, exhibitions or installations. Visit vectorfestival.org/vf24-applicati… to learn more and submit.

2024 Wendy Michener Memorial Lecture March 22: Join us at Friends House (60 Lowther Avenue) for a dynamic lecture by Cory Doctorow, “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It.” Talk 5:30-6:45pm, followed by book reception until 8:00 pm.

Sensorium + Digital Media presents Video Game Preservation, a talk by Chris J. Young from UTM Library. Following the talk there will be a screening of Tetris (2023). Join us on Feb 29 in the Flex Space at 2:30 for this great event! RSVP to helen2@yorku.ca

Call for Submissions: We invite submissions for the feminist film festival (fff) featuring recent audio-visual productions created by York U grad students and postdocs with a feminist and/or 2SLGBTQ+ theme. See our website for the full call. The deadline for submission is Mar 1.

Call for Proposals: Webs of Connectivity AMPD-Sensorium Graduate Symposium: PhD students are invited to submit a proposal for the inaugural edition of the AMPD-Sensorium Grad Symposium. Abstracts are due Feb 25. Visit our website to see the full call.

PhD Colloquium February 9: What to do with your Degree: Introducing the non-Academic Job Market, jointly led by Dean Sarah Bay-Cheng, Dr. Aimée Mitchell and Prof. Laura Levin held in the Sensorium Loft.

PhD Colloquium January 26: Conferences and Publishing with Prof. Sarah Parsons. Thinking about how you’re going to share your research and connect with academic peers? Join Sensorium Research Associate Prof. Sarah Parsons this Friday from 10-11:30 AM in the Sensorium Loft.

The first Writing Club of 2024 will be Thursday, Jan 18 from 1-3pm in the Sensorium Loft. Our bi-monthly writing sessions allow students, faculty, and visiting researchers to come together and achieve their writing goals. There will be snacks and hot beverages provided.

PhD Colloquium: Archives and Archival Research. Join Prof. Michael Zryd this Friday, January 12th for the next session of our colloquium. We will meet in the Archives of Ontario lobby and visit the Clara Thomas Archives later in the session. 10 AM-12 PM. #SensoriumYork

Happy Holidays from Sensorium! The university will be closed from December 22 to January 2. There is lots to be excited about at Sensorium in the new year, including the re-installation of Sensorium Writing Club and the next session of our PhD Colloquium series on January 12.

Happening now -> Music perception and Cognition symposium Day 2, with David Armstrong, Patrick Errington, Irene Markoff and Patrick Savage Join Zoom Meeting ow.ly/VuFP50Luox8... Meeting ID: 975 4962 9992 Passcode: 982368

Nuit Blanche tonight at York University! Experience interactive VR and a variety of smell and sound installations from 7pm–7am at Gales Gallery and all across Keele campus. Pictured here is World Sensorium by Gayil Nalls.