Emerging Art Writers Program 3 - Art + Technology

The Emerging Art Writers Program (EAWP) is an art writing program organized through the Illingworth Kerr Gallery (IKG) and facilitated by Dr. Ashley Scarlett.

EAWP is a non-credit series of writing workshops, led by Scarlett and guest mentor Stephanie Wong Ken. The program is open to current AUArts students with up to 12 being accepted into the program annually. Upon completion of the program, each of the participants produce a final piece of writing to be published in a printed catalogue.

Printed and digital publication forthcoming. Designed by our AUArts student designer Harrison Sirois.

EMERGING ART WRITERS PROGRAM 3 ART+ TECHNOLOGY

The Emerging Art Writers Program took place via MSTeams between September 2021 and June 2022. The program launched on September 29th with the publication launch of EAWP 1 and 2 with Mark Clintberg. Then an introduction session with Ashley Scarlett and Stephanie Ken Wong. The session covered topics such as freelance art writing, contracts, communicating with editors, copyediting, financial management and more. The seminar was open to AUArts students as well as the general public, however applications to the program were limited to AUArts students in any year or area of study. Applications are now closed for EAWP 3.

Learn more about EAWP 1 and EAWP 2

PARTICIPANTS

Jonathan Creese
Jules Donner
Baillie Fayda
Angela Lee
Natalie Cesnaro Melara
Nadia Perna
Luigi Pulido
Portia Scabar

FACULTY MENTOR

Ashley Scarlett

Dr. Ashley Scarlett is an assistant professor in the School of Critical and Creative Studies, where she contributes expertise across the fields of media studies, media art and moving image histories, and research methods. Dr. Scarlett’s research interests lie at the intersection of art, technology and critical thought. Her writing has been published in a number of venues, including Media Theory, Parallax, Digital Culture & Society, The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory, and Computational Arts in Canada 1967 – 1974. Recently, Dr. Scarlett was the co-curator of Contingent Systems: Art and/as Algorithmic Critique, an exhibition and symposium at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery with proceedings published as a forthcoming special issue of Afterimage. 

COMMUNITY MENTOR

Stephanie Wong Ken, photo credit Kaitlin Moerman.

Raised in Florida, Stephanie Wong Ken is a writer currently based in Tkaronto, the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. Her writing has appeared in Canadian Art, C-Magazine, Rungh, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, LUMA Quarterly, and other publications. She's a contributing editor to Colonial Imports, a risograph publication with Yolkless Press, and sits on the board of The Bows.

WORKSHOPS

CMagazine’s Editor Jaclyn Bruneau and Associate Editor Maya Wilson-Sanchez will each present workshops: Pitch to Publish and DIY Publishing for the participants.

Jaclyn Bruneau

Jaclyn Bruneau is a critic, writer, editor, and currently the Editor of C Magazine. Queer sensibilities, methodologies, and (il)logics permeate her practice. Her work can be read in The Brooklyn Rail, Canadian Art, Cinemascope, Momus, and in the form of accompanying texts for Charlotte Prodger (LUX, London), Erdem Taşdelen (Mercer Union, Toronto), and Karen Kraven (Latitude 53, Edmonton), among others. It can also be found in the books Mourning Anthology (Art Metropole, Toronto, 2019), Ressources Humaines (FRAC Lorraine, Metz, 2019), Lay It On Thick (self-published by Natascha Nanji and Palin Ansusinha, Bangkok, 2019), and Responses (Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, 2018). She’s given talks on exhibitions and projects by more than 20 artists.

Maya Wilson-Sanchez

Maya Wilson-Sanchez is an Ecuadorian-born and Toronto-based independent curator and writer of Kichwa, Spanish, and Euro-Canadian descent. Her texts can be found in various publications including The Senses and Society Journal, Canadian Art, Contemporary HUM, and the book Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada (PUBLIC Books, 2019). Wilson-Sanchez has worked in collections, research, programming, and curatorial research roles at Gallery TPW, the Royal Ontario Museum, Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, MKG127, and the Art Gallery of Ontario. In 2019, she was an Editorial Resident at Canadian Art and a Curatorial Resident at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. The 2020 recipient of the Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators, Wilson-Sanchez will be a 2021 participant at the Tate Intensive in London, UK. She is currently Associate Editor at C Magazine and curating a year-long public arts program and exhibition for the City of Toronto’s Year of Public Art.