Expanding the Boundaries of Writing | Animation and Coding as Composition
Join June Tang, Chhaya Naran, and Taryn Shepherd as they expand the boundaries of writing by exploring animation and coding as compositional practices. Moderated by Jacqueline Turner.
Expanding the Boundaries of Writing: Animation and Coding as Composition
Join June Tang, Chhaya Naran, and Taryn Shepherd as they explore how coding and animation can be uniquely positioned to highlight the materiality of language in ways that invite multilingual approaches and give space for gender and identity to be explored in new ways. How can insight and empathy be generated through seemingly technical processes? Writing in flux, writing to get somewhere, these innovative forms of composition offer new spaces of play, experimentation, and resistance. Moderated by Jacqueline Turner.
Event Type: Panel
Event Code: GAL/SAT-4
Venue: Gallery, Emily Carr University
Date: Saturday, March 14, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Cost: Pay What You Can (recommended: $12.50)
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“The new guard of CanLit has arrived, and it is young, diverse, wired—and passionately political.”—The Toronto Star
Growing Room is Room magazine’s annual literary and arts festival, a celebration of diverse Canadian writers and artists which takes place every March on the traditional, unceded, and ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish peoples (Vancouver, British Columbia). The festival started in 2017 by Room collective member Arielle Spence, was continued in 2018 and 2019 with Chelene Knight, and is now directed by current managing editor Jessica Johns. The festival is made possible through all the love, labour, and vision of the Room staff and volunteers and the community of which the organization hopes to represent and reflect.
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