Temporal Anchorings: National Media Arts Gathering 2024
Temporal Anchorings, IMAA’s 2024 National Media Arts Gathering, brought together over 70 cultural workers from across the country to connect, share, and build solidarity across the media arts sector. From June 11th to 13th, the IMAA team and the conference attendees were honoured to gather and learn from one another in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), the ancestral and traditional lands of the Mi’kmaq people.
A wholehearted thank you to everyone who made this year’s National Media Arts Gathering possible and successful. Thank you to the Conference organizing committee and all partner organizations, Bus Stop Theatre for hosting us, the roundtable and caucus facilitators, Elder Catherine Martin, Isaac Jeddore-Gould, James MacSwain and Eryn Foster, Lucas Morneau for curating the Dykelands screening, St John’s International Women’s Film Festival and the Halifax Independent Film Festival for screening their programs, the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition (NIMAC), Tori and the team at Centre for Art Tapes (CFAT), Everyseeker for having us partner on their Opening Night, and all the artist centres who participated in our walking tour!
IMAA is assessing the points of action that arose during the conference and will engage with these items over the next year, alongside its ongoing advocacy work. A renewed Strategic Plan will be launched and presented to members later this fall: it will incorporate the action items raised at the conference respective of capacity of the organization.
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Temporal Anchorings was organized by the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA) in partnership with the Centre for Art Tapes (CFAT) and the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition (NIMAC), and in collaboration with Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP), Struts Gallery, St John’s International Women’s Film Festival (SJIWFF), Media Arts Alliance of the Pacific (MAAP), Cinevolution Media Arts Society and Everyseeker.