This Week at Agnes

Agnes Bytes: Archiving the Internet

What can we learn from the Internet’s past, and how might it guide us toward more inclusive digital futures? That’s the question at the heart of our latest Agnes Bytes conversation.

Agnes Bytes is our four-part online speaker series featuring conversations between Canadian and international artists, media scholars and software engineers. Together, we’re exploring critical themes in digital art and culture, asking audiences to think across disciplines and imagine digital futures that are liberatory, communally responsive, and expansively inclusive.

On 23 October, digital artist and researcher Kaloyan Kolev joins digital preservationist and software developer Tessa Walsh to discuss their work with community-based, open-source web archives.

Register for this free talk today!

Agnes Bytes is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

November Creation Station registration opens today!

Join us for this free studio program designed to give families and children ages 2 and up an exploratory artmaking experience. Art educators kindle curiosity through painting, drawing, mixed media activities and more!

Providing new activities each month,  Art Educators are on hand to offer guidance and encouragement as families create together. All required materials are provided.

Can’t wait for November? Drop into our fall Creation Station on 18 October  from 11–2pm at the Fall Harvest Gathering at Agnes Benidickson Field, no registration necessary.

This program is made possible with the support of the Birks Family Foundation.

Fluorescent Beige podcast now out!

Go behind-the-scenes of Fluorescent Beige with this conversation between artist Janice Reid and exhibition co-curator Tianna Edwards.

In this stand-alone podcast Brampton-based photographer Reid and Kingston community leader Edwards reflect on their friendship, the impact of their exhibition Fluorescent Beige and the future of Black representation in colonial spaces.

Listen today on Digital Agnes!

This podcast and exhibition are supported by the Ontario Arts Council.

With Opened Mouths new episode out now!

Sadiqa de Meijer writes between two languages. She has a keen emotional awareness of both Dutch (her mother tongue) and English (the language of her adoptive country). In this conversation with Qanita Lilla, Sadiqa talks about writing “between” these two languages and of having to balance their stylistic tendencies. Interspersed with readings from Sadiqa, we learn about her life enriched by the pain and joy of cultural pluralism.

Sadiqa is a Governor General Award-winning author and current Poet Laureate of Katarokwi/Kingston.

Listen now on Digital Agnes or wherever you get your podcasts.

Season three of With Opened Mouths: The Podcast is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts; the Ontario Arts Council; the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund, Queen’s University; and the Justin and Elisabeth Lang Fund.

Isabel and Alfred Bader Lecture on European Art

AGNES loves a mystery and this year’s Bader lecture does not disappoint!

A painter now only known by the initials “I.S.” produced a small but significant body of work in seventeenth-century Northern Europe. For the first time, an international research and exhibition project has now shed more light on this mysterious artist, who has long been linked to the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669). Renowned specialist in the history of dress Dr. Marieke de Winkel discusses what clues can be found about the artist’s possible identity when carefully observing the clothing depicted in I.S.’s work.

Register for this free talk today and join us in-person or online.

This program is supported by the Bader Legacy Fund and presented in partnership with the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts.