Regards, Ishtiaque

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Aakash Solanki aakash.solanki@mail.utoronto.ca Date: Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 5:00 PM Subject: Talk of interest: Artist Morehsin Allahyri lecture, and performance on Tactics 4 Digital Colonialisms at the Mcluhan Center on December 3, 2018 To: DEVSEMEVENTS-L@listserv.utoronto.ca

Hi all,

Our friends at the Mcluhan Center is hosting artist Morehsin Allahyri on December 3, 2018. It promises to be a productive conversation for the development seminar audiences in line with the seminar theme this year on Infrastructures and Development. I plan to go, and I hope some of you will be able to join in.

The details of the event are below. RSVP to the event via this link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/monday-night-seminar-refiguration-digital-tactic...

DESCRIPTION The “Monday Night Seminar” carries on the tradition of Marshall McLuhan's public seminars at the University of Toronto. All seminars take place within the same intimate Coach House setting where McLuhan once held court. In this up-close and personal environment, a range of thinkers – academics, activists, scientists, artists, designers and planners – will explore digital culture from a feminist perspective. The Monday Night Seminars are designed to challenge prevailing cultural notions about technology and provoke new insight on the possibilities for a more equitable technological future. Join us! ------------------- Re/Figuration: Digital Tactics 4 Digital Colonialism Featuring a lecturue and performance, followed by discussion. Morehshin Allahyari (b. 1985 in Tehran, Iran) is a media artist, activist, educator, and curator who uses computer modeling, 3D scanning and digital fabrication techniques to explore the intersection of art and activism. Inspired by concepts of collective archiving, memory, and cultural contradiction, Allahyari’s 3D printed sculptures and videos challenge social and gender norms. “I want my work to respond to, resist and criticize the current political and cultural situation that we experience on a daily basis,” she explains. She is developing a new body of work on digital colonialism and ‘re-figuring’ as a feminist and de- colonialist practice, titled She Who Sees the Unknown. Allahyari's recent accolades include a research residency at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (2016-17), a sculpture award from the Institute of Digital Art (2016), and Foreign Policy Magazine named her a Leading Global Thinker of 2016. Other outlets featuring her work include Huffington Post, Wired, NPR, National Geographic, Rhizome, Hyperallergic and Dazed Digital. Her work has been part of numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops at venues throughout the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Pompidou in Paris, France; Venice Biennale di Archittectura; Pori Museum, Finland and Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Germany. Allahyari received her MFA at the University of North Texas, MA at University of Denver and her BA at the University of Tehran, Iran. She is co-creator of the 3D Additivist Manifesto and subsequent 3D Additivist Cookbook.

Sincerely, Aakash —

Aakash Solanki PhD Student, Collaborative Program in Anthropology and South Asian Studies Co-ordinator, Development Seminar https://utdevsem.wordpress.comUniversity of Toronto