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Does Information Make Us Safer or More Secure?
Get PDFOn October 19th, 2023, Dr. Patrick Neal, Chief Social Scientist at AQ-IQ, presented Does Information Make Us Safer or More Secure? The presentation was followed by a question-and-answer period with questions from the audience and CASIS Vancouver executives. The key points discussed were data protection responsibilities and obligations, and management of excessive data for future-proofing projects and security
The composition of Impressioni In-Naturali
No full textIn this paper the processes that led to the composition of the piece Impressioni In-Naturali (for digital support and live performer) will be exposed. Special attention is given to the performance practice as a construction of the listening experience in an electroacoustically config- ured space and as a form of ecological awareness. It was also necessary to define an acousmatic form not fixed but adaptive to the context, underlining an active attitude highlighted mainly in live electronics. An analysis is provided of the choices of selection and structuring of the material at the microscopic level (realization of the synthesis sounds) and macroscopic (structuring of the generated material) and the practice of diffusion in relation to an informatic performance environment
Magazzino Brancaccio: Sound, Participatory Performance and Auditory Resistance in Confiscated Properties in Palermo, Sicily
Get PDFThe paper presents and explores a series of sonic activities, maneuvers and approaches, which were co-devised and developed by the author for Magazzino Brancaccio, in Palermo, Sicily. This project, originated and presented by curator Valentina Sansone, aimed at the accessing and appropriation of properties confiscated from organized crime, and the repositioning of these as sites for the curatorial, as well as for community-based and experimental sound and music activations, and other forms of contemporary arts intervention. In 2018, the first of these initiatives took place, within a 2000 square meter confiscated warehouse, located in the Brancaccio area of the city. Through the efforts of the project, the space was opened and ultimately returned to its community.
The paper reflects upon the central role that sound played in this process of taking possession and infiltrating the space, and the ways in which the inter-connected practices of listening, sound-making and musicking, were of central importance to encouraging members of the local community to re-discover, interact with and inhabit the space anew. It is therefore suggested that the call to creative action, through sound, and engagement with the local environment and materials to hand, contributes to the social transformations that ensue, not only conceptually, but as a dynamic, embodied and lived condition
Place as Potential: queer futurity in the recorded landscape
Get PDFWhen thinking about the natural environment in the Anthropocene it can be hard to see beyond the present as we constantly try to defend that which remains. Some days it is hard to feel anything but despair. Informed by my experience of being queer in a straight society, I believe that a psychedelic audiovisual art practice derived from soundscape composition and shaped by queerness can offer a glimpse into a concrete utopian future and beyond a seemingly inevitable climate collapse.
Beginning with an analysis of the sonic art of Hildegard Westerkamp and Phil Elverum I will explore two existing approaches to the representation of place through sound. Using examples from my creative practice I will demonstrate how abstraction, contradiction, and failure can come together to create a distinct affective, psychedelic future-facing experience, rooted in lived reality. I will show how these techniques can be deployed to transform field recordings and photographs of space into atmospheric evocations of a future place.
These transcendent spaces have the potential to form a part of a wider cultural and political move towards meaningful action on climate change that is more than conservation; action that moves us towards the concrete utopia of a sustainable future
Instructions have been Provided: Actioning Foundational Commitments to Indigenous Peoples in the BC Office of the Provincial Health Officer
Get PDFIntroduction/Background:
We have been given clear direction on steps needed to address Indigenous-specific racism. Foundational Commitments to Indigenous Peoples include the testimonies from thousands of survivors of colonial harms who informed recommendations laid out in Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Calls to Action and National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls (MMIWG) Calls for Justice. Other Foundational Commitments include the recommendations on upholding inherent rights provided through the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the BC Declaration Act and Action Plan, and In Plain Sight.
Methods:
As part of our two-year “Unlearning & Undoing White Supremacy Project” within the BC Office of the Provincial Health Officer (OPHO), we have begun to monitor progress towards implementing these Foundational Commitments. We have developed a mixed-method tool that focuses on measuring and understanding action that has been taken by the Government of British Columbia towards the Foundational Commitments to Indigenous peoples, particularly those related to anti-racism in health.
Results:
Findings from OPHO’s "Action on Foundational Commitments Self-Assessment” indicated variability in awareness of Foundational Commitments. We initiated “OPHO Foundational Commitments to Indigenous Peoples Series” to ensure all team members are familiar with each set of instructions and have required tools and direction to uphold them in day-to-day work. The workshop series includes 4 sessions: 1) UNDRIP, 2) TRC & MMIWG, 3) In Plain Sight, 4) Accountability. We provide a framework to begin engaging health leaders with these Foundational Commitments. Life-saving instructions have been provided; now it is the work of public health systems to enact them
Restful Reflection: Collaborative, Arts-Based Rest Practices as Decolonial Resistance
Get PDFFollowing the calls from many anti-colonial scholars to reorient ourselves towards community and engage in decolonization, I seek to position rest as a mode of decolonial resistance to the biopolitical state built upon Indigenous genocide. Positioning rest as a way to respond to colonial biopower acknowledges the deeply exhausting ways the settler state has (historically and presently) attempted to subdue and annihilate our communities. From a Métis-feminist perspective, I will consider how collaborative, arts-based practices of rest can be a method of turning away from settler recognition to prioritize community needs and well-being.
I will begin with a brief analysis of how I see biopower as settler colonialism while bringing in anti-colonial critiques of biopower. Then, I will consider the call from these anti-colonial critiques to turn towards community as a way to resist biopower. Finally, utilizing Métis community sources alongside texts that theorize on rest, I shape how collaborative, arts-based practices of building community can be a method of resisting biopower through rest. Engaging in community acts of rest can unsettle the compulsion to appeal to settler desires because it provides room for regenerative reflection and reckoning. Symposium attendees will be invited to participate in a collaborative arts-based intervention into this presentation to see this argument in action and to reimagine what engagement means in a presentation about rest
How Housing Influences the Decisions of Indigenous Learners to Pursue and Complete Higher Education: A Case Study at Western University
Get PDFThis session shared the Author’s ongoing research study exploring the unique student housing experiences and needs of Indigenous learners pursuing higher education in Ontario. The research study is connected to two national conversations seeking to address the disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples in the areas of postsecondary education attainment and housing access. General research studies examining the benefits of postsecondary student housing have demonstrated a strong consensus that access to student housing is beneficial to students in areas of retention, completion, and nurturing a sense of belonging on campus (1-3). However, lacking Indigenous-specific data general studies do not sufficiently disentangle the unique student housing needs of Indigenous learners. Research specific to Indigenous learners pursuing higher education in Canada reveals that their housing experiences and needs are socially, culturally, and economically distinct (4-7). Although there has been a significant increase in the development and offering of Indigenous-specific supports and resources at Canadian universities (8), the role of housing in enhancing access and success in higher education for Indigenous learners has not yet been meaningfully brought forward in these conversations.
[1] University of Toronto (2018). University of Toronto Student Housing Case Study: Institutional picture. Retrieved from: https://files.cargocollective.com/c269960/4.3-University-of-Toronto-Student-Housing-Policy-and-Views---Ceara-Marcelo-Ashish--2019--copy.pdf
[2] Garvey, J. C., Ballysing, T. A., Dow, L. B., Howard, B. L., Ingram, A. N., & Carlson, M. (2020). Where I Sleep: The Relationship with Residential Environments and First-Generation Belongingness. College Student Affairs Journal, 38(1), 16-33.
[3] Silva, M. R., Kleinert, W. L., Sheppard, A. V., Cantrell, K. A., Freeman-Coppadge, D. J., Tsoy, E., . . . Pearrow, M. (2017). The Relationship Between Food Insecurity, Housing Stability, and School Performance Among College Students in an Urban University. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 19(3), 284-299.
[4] Archibald, J., Pidgeon, M., Hare, J., van der Woerd, K., Janvier, S., & Sam, C. (2004). The Role of Housing in Aboriginal Student Success: Post-Secondary institutions in Vancouver. Ottawa: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
[5] Currie, C. L., Motz, T., & Copeland, J. L. (2020). The Impact of Racially Motivated Housing Discrimination on Allostatic Load among Indigenous University Students. Journal of Urban Health, 97, 365-376.
[6] Wallace, B., Maire, B., & Lachance, A. (2004). Aboriginal post-secondary student housing: Research summary. Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing. Retrieved from http://datalib.usask.ca/iportal/2005.07.14/WallaceAboriginalStudentHousingAssessmentrevisedfinal.pdf
[7] Pidgeon, M., & Rogerson, C. (2017). Lessons Learned from Aboriginal Students' Housing Experiences: Supporting Aboriginal Student Success. The Journal of College and University Student Housing, 44(1), 48-73.
[8] Gaudry, A., & Lorenz, D. (2018). Indigenization as inclusion, reconciliation, and decolonization: navigating the different visions for indigenizing the Canadian Academy. ALTERNATIVE, 14(3), 218-227. doi:10.1177/1177180118785382
