Critical Distance DIRECTORY Aislinn Thomas

Saturday, 26 Nov 2022, 2:00 PM EST

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Join us for an online panel discussion with the artists and curators of The Equivalence of Alloyed Gold on November 26th at 2pm EST. Artists Ashna Jacob, Andy Slater, Dayna Danger, Tamyka Bullen, Stephanie E. Creaghan, Aislinn Thomas, Gillian Dykeman, Chandra Melting Tallow and Anne Macmillan will introduce their artworks in the exhibition, and curators Megan Gnanasihamany and Morgan Melenka will moderate a conversation around the structure of the exhibition, touching on themes of collaboration, trust, and access.

Featuring works by Stephanie E Creaghan, Andy Slater, Gillian Dykeman, Chandra Melting Tallow, Ashna Jacob, Aislinn Thomas, Anne Macmillan, Tamyka Bullen, and Dayna Danger
Curated by Megan Gnanasihamany and Morgan Melenka

On view: October 6 – November 26, 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 6th, 7 to 9 pm

The making of art history is a process of translation. It flattens and unfolds through digital interfaces and methodologies of internet conservation, allowing exhibitions to spread through a temporal daisy chain of image, text, catalog, and critique. This chain of distillation — from material art object or experience to description and flat image—disseminates cultural themes, concepts, and conclusions across artistic landscapes, allowing for particular figures, galleries, and publications to become authoritative texts on contemporary work. Taking the 2018 Art Gallery of Ontario exhibition Anthropocene as its starting point, The Equivalence of Alloyed Gold is a year-long experimental commissioning and exhibition process hosted by Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) incorporating ideas of communication and sensory translation.

PDA: Alt-Text Time
Sunday, October 18, 2020 | 2pm

Alt-Text Time
Led by Bojana Coklyat, Shannon Finnegan, and Aislinn Thomas, with Ramya Amuthan

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This event will take place over Zoom. Please register via Eventbrite (link above) to receive the Zoom link closer to the event date.

Alt-text and image description are important access measures, especially for blind and low vision communities and others who use screen readers. Alt-text is a written description of an image posted online. It provides access to the image for those who can’t see it. It is not visually displayed on a website or app, so if you aren’t a web developer or a screen reader user, you mostly interact with alt-text by writing it and adding it to your images through designated form fields during the image upload process. Yet so many images are posted and circulated online without accompanying alt-text, leaving many people out of what could be a shared experience.

PDA: Case Study: A distinct aggregation / A dynamic equivalent / A generous ethic of invention
Sunday, October 4 | 2pm

Case Study: A distinct aggregation / A dynamic equivalent / A generous ethic of invention
Conversation with Aislinn Thomas, Shannon Finnegan, and Ramya Amuthan

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This event will take place over Zoom. Please register via Eventbrite (link above) to receive the Zoom link closer to the event date.

In August 2019, artists Aislinn Thomas and Shannon Finnegan published a broadsheet and accessible PDF for A distinct aggregation / A dynamic equivalent / A generous ethic of invention: Six writers respond to six sculptures through the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre. Also presented as a series of sound works, the project invited writers and poets across Canada to produce creative audio descriptions for a range of public sculptures installed throughout the Banff Centre.

For this case study session, Thomas and Finnegan will be in discussion, reflecting on the project and the challenges and opportunities of creative audio description in both accessible publishing and gallery/museum practices. They will be joined by Ramya Amuthan, host and producer at Accessible Media Inc, for further reflection.

Panel discussion with Sean Lee, Elizabeth Sweeney, Andy Slater, Wy Joung Kou and Aislinn Thomas
Moderated by Emily Cook

Artist Aislinn Thomas’ billboard Mountainburger is on view at 180 Shaw Street through April to August 2017.