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Item Open Access Beyond the Screen: The Integration of XR Media in Canadian Cultural Institutions(2024-07-18) Klimek, Caroline Anne Giroux; Longfellow, BrendaThe integration of Extended Reality (XR), encompassing Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) represents a paradigm shift in contemporary art and media landscapes. While XR permeates sectors ranging from gaming, real estate, advertising to education, its foray into cultural institutions like film festivals and artist-run centres (ARCs) remains an underexplored research area. Furthermore, existing literature often examines the technological facets of XR, overlooking its cultural impact. Addressing this gap, this dissertation is a comprehensive exploration of how Toronto's cultural institutions are embracing XR, their strategic adaptations to it, the challenges encountered, and the ensuing ramifications on audience dynamics and institutional ethos. Through case studies, my research examines film festivals’ use of XR, particularly within TIFF, Hot Docs, and imagineNATIVE, the notable Art Gallery of Ontario, and pivotal ARCs including Trinity Square Video and Inter/Access. Using a sociocultural framework, this dissertation meets and probes at the nexus of technology, artistry, institutional imperatives, access, and audience interactivity with XR. By offering insights into film festivals’ engagement with XR, emphasizing its influence on festival operations, labour and programming. The examination then shifts to the art gallery, with a spotlight on the AGO, unraveling the tensions and trade-offs of blending legacy with XR innovations. The role of ARCs takes center stage as incubators for XR experimentation and platforms for artist empowerment. This dissertation culminates in a critical discussion of the challenges posed by the technological and planned obsolescence of XR artworks in a capitalist market. It advocates for sustainable methodologies to safeguard the longevity and accessibility of such works and uncovers how artists are addressing the concern of obsolescence within their XR artistic practice. Beyond mere technological enhancement, the integration of XR by cultural institutions intertwines with complex sociocultural, economic, and artistic nuances. This dissertation highlights the seminal role of cultural institutions in defining XR’s trajectory in the arts, making it a critical read for cultural curators, artists, scholars, and policymakers grappling with how to manage the pace of change in the emerging media landscape.Item Open Access Programming Process Pedagogy: Towards Meaningful Audience Engagement and Public Participation Models Within Contemporary Canadian Media Arts Festival, 2012-2024(2024-11-07) Sicondolfo, Claudia Francesca; Marchessault, JanineThe 2010s are remembered as a decade of interventionist participative engagements that were led in large part by youth- and collective-oriented forms of meaningful online civic activism. Motivated by affective politics of belonging, these movements also contributed to building lucrative neoliberal participation-based social media platforms, powered by algorithms of misinformation. During this time, the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA) published a formative 2012 Discussion Paper entitled “Public Engagement in the Arts,” which encouraged Canadian cultural programming to consciously engage more public audiences in the social aspects of the arts through programming updates that more readily facilitated co-creation, learning, cultural mediation, and creative self-expression. I engage with this heightened period of participative affect to investigate the social, economic, and civic impacts of “meaningful engagement” programming within the Canadian independent media arts ecosystem from the early 2010s to the mid 2020s. Led in large part by participative curatorial tactics, this dissertation investigates how these directives impacted concentrated groups of identity-based communities and changed a number of programming parameters within Canadian media arts festivals. Demonstrating how participation narratives have become central curatorial tactics within contemporary Canadian media arts film festivals, I posit a theoretical intervention in the Canadian media arts festival ecosystem. It considers the boundaries, stakes, and directives for publics, audiences, and creative ecology ecosystems across these festival initiatives. Working through ethnographic life-story research that is contextualized within discursive cultural policy analysis, this dissertation presents original research from four primary media arts festival case studies to present a contemporary theory of screen engagement called “public process pedagogy.” I argue that this theory of participation is not only found but expected within granting and programming directives for contemporary community-based media-arts festivals within Canada. Importantly, I do not consider or judge this theory of participation from a moral perspective. Rather, I recognize how public process pedagogy is influenced by complicated neoliberal and settler-colonial tensions. In turn, this dissertation presents more sustainable frameworks of evaluation for participation-based programming within this contemporary media arts ecosystem.