Converge: Toronto Creative Conference

11/21/2020

Converge 2020 is in progress, but it's not too late to join, message us for details!

11/20/2020

So many incredible presenters to check out! Register now at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/converge-toronto-creative-conference-2020-tickets-129024885907?fbclid=IwAR1QTWY7e3wb5KZFOsl1LqFMtnMPEL8IkvnU8St3vx9Y5jzWriT8d_5mG90

11/20/2020

Converge 2020 is online this weekend, come experience art, discuss life as a modern creative, and learn something unexpected

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Converge Toronto Creative Conference 2020

09/22/2019

Were back in room 120 today

09/21/2019

Today’s the day! Minor change of plans, the conference will start in RJB rm 330 now. See you there!

09/20/2019

Cross-Sensory
Art is for everyone – but not everyone appreciates it in the same way. Some museums are shifting toward an approach that aims to engage other sense such as touch, hearing, smell, and taste, increasing access and independence for individuals with visual impairments. The Art Gallery of Ontario and OCAD University’s Inclusive Design program have worked to co-design interpretive cross-sensory translations of visual artworks. A Cross-Sensory Translation of the AGO’s Jar of Apricots will explore how, in collaboration with blind and low-vision museum attendees, a cross-sensory translation of the oil painting was developed using 3D tactile objects and aural cues related to objects in the original work. If you are interested in experiencing visual art through all your sense, please join us Sunday at 12:00pm.

09/20/2019

Sound Synthesis
Sound Synthesis is an immersive, interactive installation that allows its users to use repurposed board of children's blocks to create different and unique melodic iterations based on their configurations. These unique melodies have been created especially for this experience by a sound artist and can accompanied by two clear spheres which stand in for a tambourine or shaker when shaken. If you would like to shake things up and explore this sound world, join us Sunday at 11:00am!

09/20/2019

Is music art or science - or both? In Composing for Humans, Jason Mile explores the relationship between cognitive studies of rhythmic entrainment - the synchronizing of neural activity to rhythmic stimuli - and compositional choices in writing Entrainment, a 20-minute work in seven movements for six percussionists. He will also explain how movement explores a different aspect of how the human brain processes rhythmic and metric information. If you'd like to learn more about how you listen to rhythm, join us Sunday at 10:00am!

09/18/2019

Our Keynote presentation will be this Saturday, September 21st at 5:30.

Sri Lankan-born Canadian Dinuk Wijeratne is a JUNO and multi-award-winning composer, conductor, and pianist who has been described by the Toronto Star as ‘an artist who reflects a positive vision of our cultural future’, and by the New York Times as ‘exuberantly creative’. His boundary-crossing work sees him equally at home in collaborations with symphony orchestras and string quartets, tabla players and DJs, and takes him to international venues as poles apart as the Berlin Philharmonie and the North Sea Jazz Festival. Dinuk trained at the RNCM (UK), at the Juilliard School under John Corigliano, and later earned a doctorate at UofT under Christos Hatzis. He was featured as a main character in 'What would Beethoven do?' - the documentary about innovation in Classical music featuring Eric Whitacre, Bobby McFerrin and Ben Zander. His music and collaborative work embrace the great diversity of his international background and influences.

09/18/2019

In a Q***r Time and Space is a collection of sound works-in-progress that assembles memories, places, and acoustic abstractions while grappling with the impermanence and fluidity of q***r geographies. Presented by
Sherry Ostapovitch, it engages with space through and beyond the resonances and reverberations of architectures, foregrounding the stories, sounds, and relations that forge q***r-feminist social and political space.

Come experience articulations of q***r space and time through the work’s playback in a 360 degree 3D diffusion using ambisonic technology this Saturday at 4:15pm!