Monday Night Seminar: Research-Creation Group
Schedule
Mon Feb 23 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
The Centre for Culture and Technology - University of Toronto | Toronto, ON
About this Event
The Centre for Culture and Technology's Research-Creation Group works at the intersection of creative practice and scholarly research, fostering practice-oriented inquiry among graduate students in different fields. During monthly meetings, they critically engage with work-in-progress presentations, cultivating interdisciplinary exchange and peer feedback-driven collaboration.
In this Monday Night Seminar, group members will present their projects-in-process through a program of talks and video screenings.
Presentations
Haoran Chang: "Making and Playing Games in Daoism: Game Creation As Research in Chinese Worldview"
"My research-creation dissertation explores game creation as research to challenge the Eurocentric worldview in game design and play. Employing ethnographic studies, participatory action research, and somatic approaches to game creation, I conceptualize the notion of a “Daoist Game” through making a meditative idle game inspired by Zhan Zhuang, a practice rooted in the Daoism tradition."
Lauren Knight, "Research Creation in Practice: Soundings & Collaborations"
"Presenting a handful of research-creation projects developed individually and in collaboration with Aline Zara, I reflect on the affordances of research-creation as a method and the possibilities of co-creation."
Video Screening
Petra Totten, [washing tape]
"An experiment in the changing framings within expository nonfiction. This film repeats the same visual track as the voice over changes, offering three distinct perspectives on community and trans+ life: One presentational, one associative, and one political. This is a part of a larger research project seeking to identify nonfiction modes that reflect a trans+ embodiment and way of life."
Aline Zara, "hmm-aa-t"
"This video offers a first attempt to sharing the experimental research-creation audio project hmm-aa-t, which explores speculative AI audio translation through the vocality of culturally specific non-verbal communication."
Kathy Zhou, Florence, Genuine Leather, Made in Italy [212929872]
"My artistic expression is driven by an empathetic connection to the overlooked, neglected, or even forsaken elements of our world. My work delves into the concepts of substance and futility, exploring the deeper meanings beneath seemingly mundane objects. The leather banana peels featured in my artwork are born of my daily routine of eating a banana in my studio, which has taken on symbolic significance."
This video program will screen on the TV in the Coach House foyer for the remainder of the semester.
About the Centre for Culture and Technology:
The Centre for Culture & Technology is dedicated to theoretical, aesthetic, and critical inquiry into the impacts of contemporary media on our interconnected world. This project is informed by the Centre’s location in the Coach House, a multi-use heritage building that was once Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s office and salon on the University of Toronto campus. The Centre draws inspiration from McLuhan’s humanistic intellectual and institutional legacy, continuing his stated goal of “investigation into the psychic and social consequences of technologies”.
The Centre promotes the study of media aesthetics in an expanded sense, examining the ways technological media shape contemporary experience by elaborating its histories, its problems, its infrastructures, and its politics. Offering both a setting and a framework, the Centre provides space and programming for scholars working in humanistic media studies across the three campuses of the University of Toronto and in the GTA. The Centre also supports the production of and conversation about contemporary media art, fostering aesthetic experimentation as a mode of inquiry.
Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto
39A Queens Park Crescent East
Toronto, ON M5S 2C3
www.cultureandtech.utoronto.ca
[email protected]
Instagram @uoftculturetech
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Where is it happening?
The Centre for Culture and Technology - University of Toronto, 39A Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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