This three-day summit is designed to ignite curiosity, confidence, and enthusiasm within Canadian art-making practices, which are facing a rapidly digitizing world. Find the full schedule, divided by day, below.
Digital Exhibition + Welcome Reception
5 p.m. - Virtual Reality Exhibitions and Art Installation Open
6 - 8 p.m. - Opening Reception
Day 1: The Big Horizon
8 a.m. - CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND COFFEE, Kinnear Centre Galleria
8:30 - 9 a.m. - Welcome to Territory and Opening Remarks
9 - 10 am - Calibrating the Disruption Keynote: Ashkan Fardost
10 - 10:45 a.m. - In Conversation: Ashkan Fardost and David Maggs
10:45 - 11:15 a.m. - BREAK
11:15 – Noon - AI, Reality, and Ethics: Valentine Goddard
Noon - 12:30 p.m. - Right and Left Field Questions and Discussion – AI, Reality, and Ethics
12:30 - 2 p.m. - LUNCH, Vistas
2 - 2:45 p.m. - Being Online – identity, digital identity, and the forces that shape (and own) us online: Ana Serrano
2:45 - 3:15 p.m. - Responsive Discussion – Being Online
3:15 – 3:45 p.m. - BREAK
3:45 - 4:45 p.m. - Panel: Valuing Voice a Digitizing World
4:45 - 5:15 p.m. - Responsive Discussion on Valuing Voice in a Digitizing World
5:15 - 6 p.m. - Ideas into Practice: Artists Presentations
6 - 7:30 p.m. - RECEPTION, Jeanne & Peter Lougheed Building
7:30 - 9 p.m. - Performance: asses.masses
7:30 - 9 p.m. Performance: Clinker, Sound Frequency Painting
Day 2: The Practical Work
8 a.m. CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND COFFEE, Kinnear Centre Galleria
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. - Banff – The Third Space, with Susan Kennard
9:30 – 10 a.m. - Launchpad Discussion
10 - 10:30 a.m. - BREAK
10:30 - 11:15 a.m. - Understanding it, Affording it, Building it, and Getting it to Work – Best Practices and Worst Nightmares: Sharon Clark
11:15 - 11:45 a.m. - Right and Left Field Questions and Discussion – Best Practices, Worst Nightmares
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. - LUNCH, Vistas
1:15 - 2:15 p.m. - Panel: Systems Change – Digital Disruption and Funding Development
3:15 - 4:15 p.m. - Responsive Discussion on Systems Change
2:45 - 3:15 p.m. - BREAK
3:15 - 4:15 p.m. - Industries Colliding or Cross Sector Collaboration?
4:15 - 4:45 p.m. - Right and Left Field Questions and Discussion – Industries Colliding
4:45 - 5:45 p.m. - Incubating Infrastructure
5:45 - 6 p.m. - Open Floor Discussion on Incubating Infrastructure
6 - 7:30 p.m. - FREE TIME
7 p.m. - RECEPTION, Max Bell Foyer
7:30 - 8:15 p.m. Ideas into Practice: Artist and Practioner Pecha Kucha
Day 3: Great (AX)pectations
8 a.m. - CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND COFFEE, Kinnear Centre Galleria
8:30 - 9 a.m. - Great (AX)pectations and the Shifting Pact Between Art and Audience: David Maggs
9 - 9:30 a.m. - Staging Mixed Reality Experiences in Public Spaces: Dr. Patrick Pennefather
9:30 - 10 a.m. - Launchpad Discussion
10 - 10:30 a.m. - BREAK
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. - Panel: The Interacting Audience
11:30 a.m. – Noon - Right and Left Field Questions and Discussion – The Interacting Audience
Noon - 1:30 p.m. - LUNCH, Vistas
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. - Panel: Creative Technologies Beyond the Screen
2:30 - 3 p.m. - Right and Left Field Questions and Discussion – Creative Technologies Beyond the Screen
2:30 - 3 p.m. - BREAK
3:30 - 4:30 p.m. - Radical Collaboration in a Linked Digital World: Frederick Julien and Akoulina Connell
4:30 - 5 p.m. - Responsive Discussion - Radical Collaboration in a Linked Digital World
5:00 - 6 p.m. - The Way Forward: Jamie Gamble