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Digital Humanities brown bag talk: “Digitizing and exhibiting the archives of artist-run centres in Halifax, Nova Scotia”

Creighton Barrett, Digital Archivist in the University Archives, will give a digital humanities brown bag talk this Friday.

Title: Digitizing and exhibiting the archives of artist-run centres in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Date and Time: Friday, 20 November, 12:00 p.m.

Location: McCain Building, Room 2130

Creighton will discuss some of the theoretical and practical challenges associated with preparing archival material for an upcoming exhibition at the Dalhousie Art Gallery.

Exhibition Title: “Why are we saving All these artist publications + Other Galleries stuffs? The Emergence of Artist-Run Culture in Halifax.

"Why are we saving All these artist publications + Other Galleries stuffs?"

Excerpt of roll call for Eye Level Gallery meeting, ca. 1979, Eyelevel Gallery fonds, MS‐3‐35, Box 18, Folder 12, Item 2, Dalhousie University Archives.

Tentative Dates: 15 January to 17 April 2016

Curated By: Creighton Barrett, Digital Archivist, Dalhousie University Archives and Peter Dykhuis, Director/Curator, Dalhousie Art Gallery

Artist talk with William Robinson

Detail from Young Prayer (2011), Nocturne

Detail from Young Prayer (2011), Nocturne

Artist talk with William Robinson: Wed., Feb. 6/5 p.m.
MacMechan Auditorium, Killam Library, 6225 University Avenue
All are welcome.

William Robinson, the recently named artist-in-residence at the Killam Memorial Library, is a Halifax-based interdisciplinary artist and graduate of NSCAD (2004). He employs video, performance, sculpture, drawing and other media to investigate the culture of sound and social architecture. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, having shown in New York, Bergen and Berlin, as well as in Toronto at Nuit Blanche and in Halifax at Nocturne. His practice is conceptually based, often rooted in intimate encounters and immediate experiences.

William’s residency at the Killam Library is presented in partnership with the Dalhousie Art Gallery and runs from January 28-March 1, 2013. The residency is funded through HRM’s residency initiative, which benefits artists by providing them with resources including space, time, critical discourse and financial support to deepen their practices, create works, investigate ideas and experiment with materials.

Please join us next Wednesday to learn more about William’s work and his residency in the Killam Library. More information is also available here.