Inissaliortut (The People that Make Room) Performance & Throat Singing: Taqralik Partridge and Laakkuluk Williamson

The Goldfarb Summer Institute is pleased to present a Performance and Throat Singing by Taqralik Partridge and Laakkuluk Williamson. Date: Tuesday, May 12 Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Location: McLean Performance Studio Free Admission Register HERE Inissaliortut (The People that Make Room) is a performance by Taqralik Partridge and Laakkuluk Williamson in which they tell each other stories of […]

Love Songs to End Colonization Performance by Peter Morin, Jimmie Kilpatrick, and Tomas Jonsson

The Goldfarb Summer Institute at York University is pleased to present a Performance by Peter Morin, Jimmie Kilpatrick, and Tomas  Jonsson Date: Friday, May 15 Time: 7:00 – 9:00 PM Location: Blood Brothers Brewing, Sound Garage Free Admission Register HERE Artists Peter Morin, Jimmie Kilpatrick and Tomas Jonsson are friends who share an abiding love […]

Thinking with Black Ecologies: Creative interruptions and anticolonial refusals Talk by Dr. Fikile Nxumalo  

The Goldfarb Summer Institute presents a Talk by Dr. Fikile Nxumalo Date: Tuesday, May 19 Time: 2:30 – 3:30 PM Location: The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery Free Register HERE Black ecologies are filled with possibilities for affirmative inquiry. This talk engages with potentials for creative engagements with situated Black ecologies that are anti-colonial, affirm […]

I ❤️ Lunaapahkiing: Vanessa Dion Fletcher Artist Talk 

The Goldfarb Summer Institute presents an Artist Talk by Vanessa Dion Fletcher. Date: Thursday, May 7, 2026 Time: 2:30 – 3:30 PM Location: The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery Free Admission Register HERE Taking Milton Glaser’s 1976, I ❤️ NY logo as an example, Vanessa Dion Fletcher will discuss land, language, obscured histories, and ancestral […]

Transforming Interdisciplinary Collaboration Through Game Design Workshop

Join Gillian Smith (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and Anne Sullivan (York U) for two days of conversation, hands-on activities, and meals! Interdisciplinary collaboration is essential—but often challenging. Institutional structures, disciplinary boundaries, and competing systems cause ongoing friction in partnerships. Game design, however, is fundamentally about orchestrating complex systems to work together in meaningful and constructive ways. […]

Unsafe Space Roundtable + Motion Capture Workshop

Former Connected Minds Artist-in-Residence Ar Ducao and research collaborator Bryné Hadnott will be back at York to host a roundtable and workshop on Thursday, April 2 presented by Sensorium: Centre for Digital Art and Technology. Unsafe Space Roundtable April 2, 2026 Sensorium Loft (326 CFA) 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Sensorium and Connected Minds researchers […]

Webs of Connectivity 2026 AMDP-Sensorium Graduate Symposium

The School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD) and Sensorium are pleased to present the 2026 Graduate Symposium Webs of Connectivity on Friday, March 20 at Nat Taylor Cinema. Join us to hear from 12 graduate students who will share their research to peers and faculty and showcase the interconnectedness of arts-based research and […]

IP Innovation Clinic x Sensorium: Intellectual Property in Digital Arts Workshop

Sensorium welcomes back the IP Innovation to present a digital art and technology focused workshop where participants can learn about the intellectual property (IP) issues surrounding collaborative creative practice in digital art and technology. Topics covered will include the fundamentals of copyright and trademark law, how IP affects artists, in particular artists working in digital […]

SOLAR SESSION 2026

Join 2026 Connected Minds Artist-in-Residence Mani Mazinani and the SOLAR lab team as they introduce the Solar Organ project and lead an experimental improvisation session. In a mixed symposium/workshop format, SOLAR Team members will each give a brief introduction to their own work and research, followed by a Q&A. Next we’ll form an ad hoc […]

Music Mirrors Minds: Neuroaesthetics and Neuro-Music with Gene Coleman

On December 3, composer and director Gene Coleman will give a talk on Neuroaesthetics and Neuro-Music, introducing his research-informed compositional methods and exploring how perception, cognition, and creativity intersect in this emerging field. Coleman’s work, which he describes as “Neuro-Music,” is shaped by insights from auditory neuroscience and examines how artistic practice and brain science […]