Networked Imagination Laboratory

11/13/2020

Dear all,

McMaster’s PhD program in Communication, New Media and Cultural Studies will begin accepting applications on November 15th for September 2021 admission. This program is one of the ways to engage with the Networked Imagination Laboratory!

The PhD in Communication, New Media, and Cultural Studies (CNMCS) is a joint program between McMaster’s Departments of Communication Studies and Multimedia (CSMM) and the Department of English and Cultural Studies (ECS). The program draws faculty members from CSMM and ECS as well as other departments in the Humanities to act as supervisors of CNMCS doctoral students.

Our many complementary strengths are in areas including new media arts, performance, communications governance, policy, and law, visual culture, digital culture, music/sound, gender and sexuality, critical race studies, Indigenous studies, postcolonial and diasporic studies, transnational culture and international communications, critical environmental studies, political economy, professional communication, and media analysis and strategy. Our program has the faculty and the facilities to support multiple media production practices, as well as more traditional dissertations.

Application deadline: January 15, 2021 (portal opens November 15th)

More information about the program: http://csmm.humanities.mcmaster.ca/graduate-programs/phd-communication/

For a list of graduate courses (not all of these are offered every year): https://csmm.humanities.mcmaster.ca/graduate-programs/phd-communication/course-listings/

Admission requirements: http://csmm.humanities.mcmaster.ca/graduate-programs/phd-communication/admission-to-the-program/

Application procedure: http://csmm.humanities.mcmaster.ca/graduate-programs/phd-communication/application-procedure/

If you have any questions, please join us for a drop-in Q & A on Thursday, December 3rd, 3:00 - 4:00 pm

Topic: McMaster CNMCS PhD Q&A - Thursday, December 3rd
Time: Dec 3, 2020 15:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://mcmaster.zoom.us/j/95646404097?pwd=N1hCa1pUWGhlVW9HYTVraW5PVDIxdz09

Meeting ID: 956 4640 4097
Passcode: 422683

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06/15/2020

The fromZero online Estuary jam sessions continue this week with a little change - the Thursday 19:00 UTC session will be reserved for women & non-binary people only, while all (including women & non-binary people, of course) are welcome to participate in the other 4 weekly sessions. The current schedule and free sign-up is at the following URL - come and learn/practice/play with live coding with us! https://fromzero.eventbrite.ca

04/17/2020

The Network Music Festival is back!

The main theme for 2020 is "communities near and far". As many people find themselves socially distant, the importance of community is not diminished, but rather transformed. People rely on sound to bridge physical gaps, from singing or applauding out their windows, to connecting with others online. Our connections, then, are either intensely local, or virtually borderless. We stay in touch with friends and neighbours, but also find that collaborating across the world is not harder than collaborating across town. In this year’s festival, we want to celebrate and strengthen the musical communities people have built with networking tools, as well as exploring the aesthetics, performance practice and technologies around topics such as web-streaming, multi-location performance, collaborative music making environments, accessible and sustainable performance practice and more.

02/27/2020

We've chosen the dates for this year's live coding intensive in the NIL at McMaster: It will be June 8 - 19, 2020, Monday-Friday (both weeks) with a break in the middle for the weekend. All welcome - more official details soon - but feel free to get in touch with informal queries before then!

01/22/2020

A VR work created last semester in the Networked Imagination Laboratory...

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12/16/2019

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