Comm Arts Speaks!

Join us on Wednesday, March 4th for Comm Arts Speaks!  Our speakers include Henry Svec and Jennifer Roberts-Smith

Henry Svec

Entangling the archive: string figures as imaginary media

The larger research project here explores ways in which string figures have offered critical theorists, amateur anthropologists, and artists alike a means of reimagining both the meaning and function of media, from film in the early twentieth century to digital networks in the present.

Jennifer Roberts-Smith

Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation (DOHR): Relational design principles for virtual learning environments in restorative pedagogy

Digitial Oral Histories for Reconciliation (DOHR) is a community-driven research project whose objective is to teach youth about the historical harms experienced by former residents of the Nova Scotia Home for Coloured Children as a way of moving towards more just relations between African Nova Scotians and non-African Nova Scotians.