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A two day symposium with lectures, exhibitions, and screenings exploring issues of new media art, communications, and culture. Join us as we look into the concepts and processes characteristic of the beginning of the 21st century via the frameworks provided to us by Flusser and McLuhan. Presented at: The Cinematheque Theatre Winnipeg, MB, Canada, on [...]
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January 23, 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS : “Marshall McLuhan’s and Vilém Flusser’s Communication and Aesthetics Theories Revisited” DEADLINE FEB 15, 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS – Video Pool Media Arts Centre, in association with the University of Manitoba, invites paper and presentation proposals for its conference, “Marshall McLuhan’s and Vilém Flusser’s Communication and Aesthetics Theories Revisited” [...]
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Vilém Flusser’s & Marshall McLuhan’s Theories of Communication Revisited, Conference, Winnipeg
“Vilém Flusser’s and Marshall McLuhan’s Theories of Communication Revisited” - International Conference May 30- June 01, 2012 - Cinemateque, Winnipeg, Manitoba Video Pool Media Arts Centre in collaboration with the University of Manitoba, Department of English, Theatre and Film, organizes: “Vilém Flusser’s and Marshall McLuhan’s Theories of Communication Revisited”. This three-day, International Conference and Exhibition juxtaposes [...]
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Out of Nowhere: a group show of Winnipeg artists (selected by Sarah Anne Johnson and Meeka Walsh), December 16-January 28 , 2012 Discussion with artists and curators, Friday, December 16, 5:30- 6:30 pm Opening reception, Friday, December 16, 6:30-8pmFor the exhibition, “Out of Nowhere”, gallery artist Sarah Anne Johnson and Border Crossings editor Meeka Walsh have selected a group [...]
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Shame on Winnipeg for neglecting to remember Marshall McLuhan’s centenary, which, except for Richard Osicki and Howard Engel’s mini-conference at St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba in the spring and a conference at the University of Winnipeg last fall, is the totality of the remembrance Winnipeg’s most famous citizen has received. Even though he spent [...]
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The Marshall McLuhan Initiative - St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada French Priest Receives McLuhan Award from Manitoba, Canada, Winnipeg, 23 Aug 2011 Today, at the Saint‐François d’Assise residence in Lyons, France, Pierre Babin will receive the Medium and the Light Award, “given to a person, group [...]
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Gladstone Elementary School, Winnipeg, Manitoba TELLING TALES OUT OF SCHOOL Winnipeg Free Press – ONLINE EDITION - By: Nick Martin – 08/4/2011 A message from one medium The recent big piece I did on the centenary of Marshall McLuhan’s birth drew one of the largest positive email responses I can remember in quite a while. [...]
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Marshall McLuhan the Manitoban
Having lived in Winnipeg, the capital city of Manitoba, for 5 years, teaching English and Theatre at the University of Manitoba, where McLuhan studied, I can understand how that part of the country must have had an influence on McLuhan during his formative years. Interviewed by Danny Finkleman in 1970, McLuhan spoke of the Canadian West as follows…….Alex [...]
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Shame on the city of Winnipeg, but if the city has done nothing to celebrate one of its most famous former residents, at least some Winnipegers have taken initiatives. See the posting by Richard Osicki at the bottom……AlexK McLuhan’s childhood home at 507 Gertrude (HADAS PARUSH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS) By: Nick Martin, Posted: 07/21/2011 Was the [...]
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A Man for All Media
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Alice Leone Mitchell teaches Marshall McLuhan a thing or two
October 4, 1913 Winnipeg Free Press Wednesday, 14 March, 2012 Born in Nova Scotia, Alice Leone Mitchell graduated from the Emerson College of Oratory in Boston and was head of the oratory department at Mount Allison University for six years. In 1912 came to Winnipeg to establish a school. October 26, 1917, The Voice She first settled at 408 Warwick Apartments from where she [...]
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