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 Project ManagerDr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research AssociateDr. Pablo Herrera Veitia, Producer and Postdoctoral Fellow Catherine Grant, PhD Candidate&nbsp; &nbsp; Dr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab Founder Kavone Manning, Research AssistantDr. Lauren McLeod Cramer, Faculty Associate 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, Research AssistantCatherine Grant, PhD Candidate&nbsp; &nbsp; Safia Siad, Curator and Project ManagerDr. Lauren McLeod Cramer, Faculty Associate Dr. Katherine McKittrick, Faculty Associate Dr. Pablo Herrera Veitia, Producer and Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab FounderDr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research 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-Project-Manager Thu, 01 Sep 2022 23:15:55 +0000 afrosonicinnovationlab https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Safia-Siad-Curator-and-Project-Manager Dr. Lauren McLeod Cramer, Faculty Associate Safia Siad, Curator and Project ManagerDr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research AssociateDr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab FounderCatherine Grant, PhD Candidate&nbsp; &nbsp; Dr. Katherine McKittrick, Faculty Associate Dr. Pablo Herrera Veitia, Producer and Postdoctoral Fellow Kavone Manning, Research Assistant Safia Siad, Curator and Project Manager Safia Siad is a curator, scholar, 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 Montreal, 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 and is currently a curatorial fellow with Gallery TPW. $( document ).ready(function() { $('#celMenu').html($('#celMenu a').sort(function () { return Math.random() - 0.5; })); }); https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Dr-Pablo-Herrera-Veitia-Producer-and-Postdoctoral-Fellow Thu, 01 Sep 2022 23:15:09 +0000 afrosonicinnovationlab https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Dr-Pablo-Herrera-Veitia-Producer-and-Postdoctoral-Fellow Catherine Grant, PhD Candidate&nbsp; &nbsp; Kavone Manning, Research AssistantDr. Pablo Herrera Veitia, Producer and Postdoctoral Fellow Safia Siad, Curator and Project ManagerDr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research AssociateDr. Katherine McKittrick, Faculty Associate Dr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab FounderDr. Lauren McLeod Cramer, Faculty Associate Dr. Pablo Herrera Veitia, Producer and Postdoctoral Fellow Pablo D. Herrera Veitia obtained his PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of St. Andrews. He is a scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of Orisa worship, hip hop studies and multimodal ethnography. His research explores what it means to be Afro-Cuban in post-socialist Havana and follows divinatory figures in the Odù Ifá literary corpus as primary conceptual sources. As one of Cuba’s pioneering Afro-Cuban rap music producers, Herrera Veitia proposes that understanding Afro-Cubaneity today may require a focus on recent shifts in the audible character of Havana and how the city’s sonorous dimension presents itself as a site where citizens contest state ideology through loud and discrete amplification practices. Herrera Veitia is a 2018-2019 Nasir Jones Fellowship recipient at the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University. His writing has appeared in Revista Casa de las Americas, Metronome's documenta 12 Magazines issue, and OkayAfrica.com. He has also collaborated on several major academic research projects on rap and reggaeton music in Havana, including Sujatha Fernandez's Cuba Represent and Close to the Edge, Tanya Saunders's Cuban Underground Hiphop; Marc Perry's Negro Soy Yo; and Geoff Baker's Buena Vista in the Club. $( 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 Catherine Grant, PhD CandidateDr. Lauren McLeod Cramer, Faculty Associate Kavone Manning, Research AssistantSafia Siad, Curator and Project ManagerDr. Pablo Herrera Veitia, Producer and Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Katherine McKittrick, Faculty Associate Dr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab FounderDr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research 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. Katherine McKittrick, Faculty Associate Catherine Grant, PhD Candidate&nbsp; &nbsp; Safia Siad, Curator and Project ManagerDr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research AssociateDr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab Founder Dr. Lauren McLeod Cramer, Faculty Associate Dr. Pablo Herrera Veitia, Producer and Postdoctoral Fellow Kavone Manning, Research Assistant 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 Kavone Manning, Research AssistantDr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research AssociateDr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab Founder Catherine Grant, PhD CandidateDr. Lauren McLeod Cramer, Faculty Associate Dr. Katherine McKittrick, Faculty Associate Safia Siad, Curator and Project ManagerDr. Pablo Herrera Veitia, Producer and Postdoctoral Fellow 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-Research-Assistant Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:02:16 +0000 afrosonicinnovationlab https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/Kavone-Manning-Research-Assistant Safia Siad, Curator and Project ManagerDr. Myrtle D. Millares, Research AssociateDr. Lauren McLeod Cramer, Faculty AssociateKavone Manning, Research AssistantDr. Pablo Herrera Veitia, Producer and Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Mark V. Campbell, DJ, Curator and Lab Founder Dr. Katherine McKittrick, Faculty Associate Catherine Grant, PhD Candidate Kavone Manning, Research Assistant 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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