15 June
Location: Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts, 149 W Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC
Room: Cinema, 3rd floor
18:30-21:00 Film screening: Jalal Toufic, The Matrix for Realists (aka Reviewing The Matrix in Terms of One Cypher)—A Time-saving, Perception-Taxing Version (138 minutes, 2018)
The screening will be preceded with introductory remarks by the artist.
Jalal Toufic’s second and third instalments of The Matrix for AI et Al. will screen in the lobby of School for the Contemporary Arts (149 East Hastings) from 16-29 June during opening hours:
Monday-Friday 8:30am–6:00pm; Saturday 12–5pm
The Matrix for Realists (aka Reviewing The Matrix in Terms of One Cypher) (50 hours and 48 minutes, 2018)
The Matrix for Radical Simulationists (aka How to Read The Matrix as a Cypher) (72 hours and 36 minutes, 2018)
16 June
Location: Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts, 149 W Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC
Room: World Art Centre, 2nd floor
08:30am–9:00 Milling about and lounging…(coffee, etc.)
09:00-9:30 Introduction
09:30-11:15 SESSION 1
Dave Biddle (Simon Fraser University)
Novopoiesis [video]
Emily Scherzinger (McMaster University)
Ghosting My Body: On the Power of Disassociating [video]
Diana Lengua (University of Essex)
From Collective Hallucination to Neosomnambulistic Perceptual Act: Being Half Awake in Virtual Reality
11:15–11:30 Break
11:30-12:45 SESSION 2
David Cecchetto (York University)
Napping Technics [video]
Sharon Sliwinski (Western University)
The Politics of Reverie [video]
12:45–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:45 SESSION 3
Mena El Shazly (Simon Fraser University)
Bring Thirst: On the Poetry of Wine in the Pre-Islamic Era [video]
Ted Hiebert (University of Washington, Bothell)
On As-ifs and What-ifs and Imaginaries and Data and Bats [video]
Gabrielle Moser (York University)
Ego Deathtrip: Three episodes in 1970s feminist daydreaming [video]
15:45–16:00 Break
16:00–17:15 SESSION 4
Eldritch Priest (Simon Fraser University)
On Musement and C.S. Peirce’s Hol(e)y Science of Imaginary Solutions [video]
Erin Manning (Concordia University)
Hears in Red, Sees in Wet [video]
17 June
09:00–09:30 More milling about and lounging…(coffee, etc.)
09:30-11:15 SESSION 5
Peter Morin (OCAD University)
This is what the Dreaming made [video]
Zachary C. Irving (University of Virginia)
Spontaneity in the Age of Distraction [video]
Tania Willard (University of British Columbia, Okanagan)
Daydreamer’s Tea Service [video]
11:15–11:30 Break
11:30-12:45 SESSION 6
Sylwia Chrostowska (York University)
Effective Social Dreaming
Kalina Christoff (University of British Columbia)
Decolonizing the Mind Through Spontaneous Thought
12:45–14:15 Lunch.
14:15–15:30 SESSION 7
Kendall Grady (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Un/tamed Love: Daydreaming in the Museum of Broken Relationships [video]
Ania Malinowska (University of Silesia)
Cutting Up Books: Daydreams of Automated Writing [video]
15:30–15:45 Break
15:45–17:00 SESSION 8
Am Johal (Simon Fraser University)
The Politics of Idleness and Inoperativity [video]
Felicity Callard (University of Glasgow)
Daydream Archive [video]
17:30–19:30 RECEPTION.
Lobby, main floor (outside the Audain Gallery).