Application Details

The program is offered through the Experience Ventures program. Students are eligible to apply if they:

1. Are a Queen’s student enrolled in any full- or part-time program (including certificate students) in years 2–4,
2. Have not participated in a prior Experience Ventures program during the current calendar year.
3. Are legally entitled to work in Canada.
4. Are a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person who has refugee status.

Participating students receive 3.0 course credits towards their degree (or a micro-credential if their course load is full). Thanks to the Experience Ventures program, eligible students receive a stipend ($825) upon completion of the program.

Eligible students are encouraged to apply by sending a short letter of interest (200-300 words), a CV, a transcript, and a link to an optional portfolio to gabriel.menotti@queensu.ca by 19 November 2022.

The selection of participants is committed to the principles of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, & Indigeneity, and means to foster equitable participation among BIPOC and other ethnic and gender minorities, as well as under-represented student communities.

Students interested in participating are encouraged to contact gabriel.menotti@queensu.ca.

Course Outline

Imagining Digital Futures for the Art Museum is a special course that get the students engaged with Agnes in a pivotal year of change as the new, future-oriented vision for the museum, Agnes Reimagined is mobilized to set a new paradigm for museological practices. The museum of the 21st century can no longer simply be a container of history as if history has no bearing on our changing contemporary world. Agnes Reimagined is a dynamic culture-making hub and an active civic and social force—mobilizing the transformative power of art to create more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable worlds. It asks: what needs to be done now to ensure Canada’s future museums no longer look like those of Canada’s colonial past?

Guided by Agnes Reimagined, participating students explore how a contemporary art institution works from the inside, delving into areas such as curatorial, collections and public programs through a digital lens. They become acquainted with different ways in which museums, galleries and art spaces have been adapting to and expanding their operations within the digital realm in more accessible and inclusive ways. In close dialogue with Agnes’s team, students form multidisciplinary groups to identify areas of development for the digital museum of the 21st-century.

Students research online collections portals as co-creative spaces, reimagining how, what, why and for whom information about the collection is shared and displayed online. They produce research reports, and prototype interfaces and activities for Digital AGNES to inform a new cutting-edge collections portal being implemented by the museum.