| Date | 03/19/2025 |
| Time | 17:30 |
| Location | Research Station |
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| Affiliated research project |
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Two visiting professors from Montreal’s Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts will give artist talks on
Wednesday, March 19
17:30 to 19:00 in the Research Station
Jaret Vadera
Double Negatives, False Positives, and Unreliable Narrators
In this artist talk, Jaret Vadera will discuss key arcs, propositions, and questions guiding his artistic-research practice.
Jaret Vadera’s transdisciplinary work examines the ways that images, ideologies, and technologies colonize our vision. Vadera hacks different visual systems, and rewires them to glitch, rupture, and open up parallel ways of seeing. His work is influenced by decolonial theory, science fiction, and the study of impossible objects.
Vadera’s prints, collages, sculptures, videos, and installations have been exhibited and screened internationally at venues such as: Queens Museum in New York, Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, and Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai. In parallel, Vadera has worked as a curator, organizer, and writer on projects that focus on art as a catalyst for cultural change.
Vadera completed his undergraduate education at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto and the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. He received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. He has taught and lectured at: MIT; Cornell University; Pratt Institute; Yale University, and the Indian Institute of Technology, among others. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Intersectional, Feminist, and Decolonial 2D and 4D Practices in Studio Arts, and the Area Head of the Intermedia (Video, Performance, and Electronic Arts) Program at Concordia University in Montreal. Vadera lives and works between Montreal, New York, and New Delhi.
Pippin Barr
It is as if I make games
Pippin Barr is an experimental game designer and Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Victoria University of Wellington/Te Herenga Waka and is a prolific maker of videogames, producing work addressing everything from airplane safety instructions to the nature of videogames and videogame technologies. He is a well-known figure in the independent and artistic videogame scenes and makes his games, source code and process documentation publicly available via his website pippinbarr.com. Pippin cohosts the podcast GAMETHING and his latest book, The Stuff Games Are Made Of, discusses videogame design in terms of its materials.
