GOING DIGITAL?
December 2, 2019 – January 17, 2020
Going Digital?
The omnipresence of digital culture and information technologies in contemporary life is rapidly changing the way we live, work, and learn. At Concordia, digital scholars, researchers, and artists are investigating the multifaceted impact of the digital turn across cultures, economies and societies.
From December 2, 2019 to January 17, 2020, 4TH SPACE engaged with Concordians who are asking provocative questions about our increasingly digital world. Visitors learned how the Digital Strategy team is paving the way for Concordia to become a Next-Gen University, participated in a workshop with Concordia’s Wikipedian in residence, discovered how the Living Archives project is bringing the stories of Rwandan genocide survivors to life, and visited our student-in-residence to learn how digital technology is transforming the way art is made and received.
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The Talk Back Wall
For the duration of the Going Digital? programming, 4TH SPACE asked the most pertinent questions concerning the societal digital turn. Visitors were able to voice their opinions, comments, and suggestions surrounding the ethics, possibilities, and downfalls of our collective digital future.
Wikipedia 101 Workshops
Rachel Black and Amber Berson, Concordia's Wikipedian-in-residence, hosted workshops at 4TH SPACE to expand our Wikipedia literacy and answer some of the ethical questions surrounding WikiData.
Virtual Reality Experiences
KnowledgeOne and Ubisoft partnered to create an VR experience of the Notre-Dame de Paris, showcasing their approach to tackling the challenges of success in digital learning experiences. Experts were on-hand to guide visitors through the Gothic cathedral.
Woven Histories
The research-creation project, Woven Histories by artist Patil Tchilinguirian and researcher and curator Marie Lavorel, is an experiment of sensitive listening, creating links and relations along the sound wire. This installation is the first phase of the project, and was created in the context of the Living Archives project.
Living Archives
The Living Archives project is a digital repository of life stories that enables researchers and community members to follow threads, identify patterns, track changes, map, and listen in new ways to the survivors of the Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda. During the Going Digital? programming, Living Archives launched their digital platform with an in-situ exhibition and community events.
Living Archives
The Living Archives project is a digital repository of life stories that enables researchers and community members to follow threads, identify patterns, track changes, map, and listen in new ways to the survivors of the Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda. During the Going Digital? programming, Living Archives launched their digital platform with an in-situ exhibition and community events.
Digital Art and Finitude
Joëlle Dubé, the student-in-residence during the Going Digital? programming, created a collaborative digital art project investigating the anxiety-producing effect of digital technology with a group of M.A. and M.F.A students from Concordia. Here, Alexis Bellavance's video and sculptural device from the project ‘Ốps, floating eye/Ốps, oeil flottant’ (2019) is shown.
