art-based knowledge mobilization

Painting on People in Groups

I started a new painting on the chapter “Burning and Unburning” by Elizabeth A. R. Brown in the book People in Groups, edited by Richard Trexler (1985). If you had a group of three dinosaurs, how would you call them?

Forever!

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A Visual Multi-Choice Question in an Online Quiz

I recently gave my students, in the course Digital History (U of T), an online quiz that includes ten multiple-choice questions. One of the questions is about a video game titled Tag Attack, which was submitted by Antonio to the British Library Labs Crowdsourcing Game Jam. This project took place in 2015 utilizing gamingContinue reading “A Visual Multi-Choice Question in an Online Quiz”

Using Visuals in a Course Syllabus

During the academic winter break, I’ve been developing the course Digital History, which takes place in the upcoming term at the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Mostly, I prepared the syllabus, which includes the description and structure of the course, learning outcomes, assignments, marking scheme, assigned readings, schedule of guest talks, asContinue reading “Using Visuals in a Course Syllabus”

Why do artists create art? And what circumstances influence their work?

Art historian Michael Baxandall suggested seeing art as a solution to a problem, where necessities of different kinds “charge” the urge to create it. Accordingly, he saw art historians’ role as giving an account of the factors which brought forth and shaped the finished artwork. I painted on pages 30-31 in Jan von Bonsdorff’s articleContinue reading “Why do artists create art? And what circumstances influence their work? “

CRRS Fellows Workshop April 12: William Barker & Noa Yaari

Please join me at the Fellows Workshop at the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, the University of Toronto on Tuesday, April 12, 4:00-5:30 pm (EDT). Follow this link for details and registration to the live zoom session: https://crrs.ca/event/fellows22/ William Barker – Inglis Professor, University of Kings College, and Professor Emeritus, English, Dalhousie University; CRRSContinue reading “CRRS Fellows Workshop April 12: William Barker & Noa Yaari”