https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com afrosonicinnovationlab Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:02:16 +0000 https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com en https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/lab-members-1 Thu, 01 Sep 2022 23:24:49 +0000 afrosonicinnovationlab https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/lab-members-1 Dr. Katherine McKittrick, Faculty Associate Safia Siad, Curator and Lab Co-FounderDr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research AssociateCatherine Grant, PhD Candidate&nbsp; &nbsp; Dr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab Founder Dr. Darren Hamilton, Faculty Associate Kavone Manning, Project Manager Media/Web, Celeste Ovita Cole https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Dr-Mark-V-Campbell-DJ-Curator-and-Lab-Founder Thu, 01 Sep 2022 23:16:40 +0000 afrosonicinnovationlab https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Dr-Mark-V-Campbell-DJ-Curator-and-Lab-Founder Kavone Manning, Project ManagerDr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab FounderDr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research Associate Dr. Katherine McKittrick, Faculty Associate Safia Siad, Curator and Lab Co-FounderCatherine Grant, PhD Candidate&nbsp;Dr. Darren Hamilton, Faculty Associate Dr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab Founder Dr. Mark V. Campbell is a DJ, scholar and curator. His research explores the relationships between Afrosonic innovations and notions of the human. Dr. Campbell is Associate Chair in the Arts, Culture and Media department, the 2020-21 Jackman Humanities Institute UTSC Fellow and a Connaught Early Career Fellow at the University of Toronto. In 2015 Mark was appointed Member of the Board at the Ontario Arts Council and has served on juries for the Toronto Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, The United Way Peel, Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada and the City of Toronto. Dr. Campbell is Principal Investigator in the SSHRC funded research project, Hip Hop Archives: The Poetics and Potentials of Knowledge Production. As co-founder of the Bigger than Hip Hop radio show in 1997 and founder at Northside Hip Hop Archive in 2010, Mark has spent two decades embedded within the Toronto hip hop scene operating from community engaged praxis as both a DJ and a Curator. His books include; We Still Here: Hip Hop in North of the 49th Parallel with Dr. Charity Marsh (2020) and …Everything Remains Raw: Photographing Toronto hip hop Culture from Analogue to Digital as part of the 2018 Contact Festival exhibition at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. $( document ).ready(function() { $('#celMenu').html($('#celMenu a').sort(function () { return Math.random() - 0.5; })); }); https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Safia-Siad-Curator-and-Lab-Co-Founder Thu, 01 Sep 2022 23:15:55 +0000 afrosonicinnovationlab https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Safia-Siad-Curator-and-Lab-Co-Founder Dr. Katherine McKittrick, Faculty Associate Dr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research Associate Catherine Grant, PhD Candidate&nbsp; &nbsp; Kavone Manning, Project ManagerDr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab FounderSafia Siad, Curator and Lab Co-FounderDr. Darren Hamilton, Faculty Associate Safia Siad, Curator and Lab Co-Founder Safia Siad is a curator, art historian, and DJ with a practice centered in deep listening. As a founding member of the Afrosonic Innovation Lab, Siad operates at the intersections of the visual and audio poetics of the African diaspora. Her deep listening sessions have taken place in Montréal, Florence, Toronto, and Banff, while her writing has appeared in C Magazine and in multiple exhibition catalogues. She recently completed her SSHRC funded Master of Arts (Art History) at Concordia University in Montréal and is currently working on several upcoming curatorial projects. $( document ).ready(function() { $('#celMenu').html($('#celMenu a').sort(function () { return Math.random() - 0.5; })); }); https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Catherine-Grant-PhD-Candidate Tue, 30 Aug 2022 23:21:47 +0000 afrosonicinnovationlab https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Catherine-Grant-PhD-Candidate Dr. Katherine McKittrick, Faculty Associate Dr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research AssociateDr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab FounderSafia Siad, Curator and Project ManagerKavone Manning, Project Manager Catherine Grant, PhD CandidateDr. Darren Hamilton, Faculty Associate Catherine Grant, PhD Candidate Catherine Grant-Wata is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation focuses on the history of Jamaican culture and placemaking in Toronto, Canada and Birmingham, England 1962-1981. Catherine completed her MA at York University, The Darkside of the Canadian Dream: A History of Housing Discrimination in Toronto 1961-1977 in August 2020. Catherine writes poetry and collects reggae records in her free time. $( document ).ready(function() { $('#celMenu').html($('#celMenu a').sort(function () { return Math.random() - 0.5; })); }); https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Dr-Myrtle-D-Millares-Research-Associate Tue, 30 Aug 2022 23:22:39 +0000 afrosonicinnovationlab https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Dr-Myrtle-D-Millares-Research-Associate Dr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research AssociateDr. Katherine McKittrick, Faculty Associate Catherine Grant, PhD Candidate&nbsp; &nbsp; Kavone Manning, Project ManagerDr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab Founder Safia Siad, Curator and Lab Co-FounderDr. Darren Hamilton, Faculty Associat Dr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research Associate Dr. Myrtle D. Millares is a classical pianist with an Honours BA in Philosophy, Music History/Theory, and French, and a Bachelor of Music. A music educator and researcher, she specializes in narrative inquiry that focuses on hip-hop communities of practice. Her interests include the role of Philippine artists in the development of Toronto hip-hop, the effect of colonial ideologies on institutional music study and musician identity, and the ways that hip-hop creative processes can inform decolonizing, anti-racist pedagogies. She is co-founder of Climate Pledge Collective, which provides tools for individual action and activism to mitigate the effects of our climate crisis through climate justice. $( document ).ready(function() { $('#celMenu').html($('#celMenu a').sort(function () { return Math.random() - 0.5; })); }); https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Dr-Katherine-McKittrick-Faculty-Associate Wed, 07 Sep 2022 18:48:46 +0000 afrosonicinnovationlab https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Dr-Katherine-McKittrick-Faculty-Associate Dr. Katherine McKittrick, Faculty Associate Dr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research AssociateCatherine Grant, PhD CandidateDr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab Founder Safia Siad, Curator and Lab Co-FounderKavone Manning, Project ManagerDr. Darren Hamilton, Faculty Associate Dr. Katherine McKittrick, Faculty Associate Katherine McKittrick is a professor in Gender Studies at Queen’s University. She is an academic and writer whose work focuses on black studies, cultural geography, anti-colonial and diaspora studies, with an emphasis on the ways in which liberation emerges in black creative texts (music, fiction, poetry, visual art). While many scholars have researched the areas of North American, European, Caribbean, and African black geographies, McKittrick was the first scholar to put forth the interdisciplinary possibilities of black and black feminist geography, with an emphasis on embodied, creative and intellectual spaces engendered in the diaspora. $( document ).ready(function() { $('#celMenu').html($('#celMenu a').sort(function () { return Math.random() - 0.5; })); }); https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Kavone-Manning-Project-Manager Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:02:16 +0000 afrosonicinnovationlab https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Kavone-Manning-Project-Manager Safia Siad, Curator and Lab Co-FounderCatherine Grant, PhD CandidateDr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab Founder Dr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research Associate Kavone Manning, Project ManagerDr. Katherine McKittrick, Faculty Associate Dr. Darren Hamilton, Faculty Associate Kavone Manning, Project Manager Kavone Manning (she/her) is an educator, musician and multidisciplinary researcher based in Toronto, ON. Her experience working in underserved communities has led to her continued research, advocacy and resource access to these communities. She is passionate about amplifying Black voices and storytelling in performing arts spaces, social justice and volunteerism, taking a relational and intersectional lens to all her work. She has worked with various arts organisations including Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival, Toronto Fringe Festival and North by Northeast Music Festival. Kavone is currently completing her Master’s in Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto pursuing research in Black Studies and higher music education. 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