[ecrea] CFP: Activist Media Archives: De/Materializing Bodies

*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*Please circulate widely*

*Activist Media Archives: De/Materializing Bodies*
A 1-day Symposium November 12, 2016

The Studio for Media Activism & Critical Thought at *Ryerson University, 
Toronto,* is seeking abstracts and proposals for its November 12 2016 
day-long symposium on the media activist archive. *Deadline for 
submission of abstracts & proposals is September 9 2016.*

“Activist Media Archives: De/Materializing Bodies” will bring together 
artistic, scholarly, and activist communities to discuss the archive 
across 3 intersecting streams: national media archives, Indigenous media 
archives, and feminist/queer/LGBT media archives, to interrogate the 
affective relationship between materiality, archives, and Canadian 
cultural practice.

Within Canada, much archival material documenting the voices of 
marginalized groups is dematerial(iz-ed/ing); we hope to consider both 
why this is occurring and how we can create/have created new archival 
practices to reincorporate lost records, voices, affects and bodies. 
What does the way we engage with conventional national archives, 
ostensibly records of a perceived national identity, contribute to 
colonizing practices? At the intersection of preservation, neo-liberal 
regimes, and (new) materialism, this will be a space to explore how and 
why the works of instigators of social change (activists and artists) 
are often unpreserved. It will also be an opportunity to explore 
affective and ephemeral archives, and the possibilities for new forms of 
media activist archivization across both digital and analogue platforms.

This conference is open to both scholarly and artistic presentations (or 
a combination of both): please indicate this, as well as the appropriate 
stream, in your proposal. Presentations should propose to be no longer 
than 20 minutes, although in some instances a longer artistic 
presentation or performance could be facilitated.

Graduate papers will be considered for publication in the inaugural 
issue of a forthcoming online graduate journal on social justice media, 
Spring 2017.

*Possible topics for papers include but are not limited to:*
-Official and unofficial archives and histories of LGBT2S, disability, 
anti-poverty, feminist, Indigenous and racialized media activism. This 
could include: video, radio, digital media,photography & social media.
-The praxis of scholarly archival research, particularly in relation to 
to activist media, or to activist scholarship.
-Considerations of the changing function of the media activist archive 
in the digital realm.
-The relation of digital and/or analog archives to national feeling.
-Best practices on collection and preservation of Indigenous, feminist & 
LGBTQ2S, disability, anti-poverty, racialized media activist archives.
-Media art practices foregrounding critical engagement with theories and 
practices of the archive.
-Media archive as site of both memorialization and loss.
-Accounts, stories, theorization by Indigenous scholars/artists 
regarding the media archive in relation to memory, trauma, oral histories,
-Collaborations and other initiatives that transform unofficial and 
incomplete analog archives into socially share-able art installations, 
exhibitions, and digital initiatives.

*Abstracts and proposals should be no longer than 400 words.
Please send, along with a short bio to: 
(thestudioformediaactivism /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(thestudioformediaactivism /at/ gmail.com)>*



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