Factory Media Centre is excited to announce its new digital residency program: Alt-Futures!
Alt-Futures is a summer residency program for emerging BIPOC artists and creators. From May to August, residents will be offered the opportunity to build technical skills and work collaboratively with other folks interested in digital media.
To facilitate this program, our former Programming Assistants John Hill and Tee Kundu have returned to FMC as Alt-Futures’ Programming Residents. They are both available throughout the residency to provide ongoing support and participate alongside.
A note from our programming residents:
Through Alt-Futures, we hope to encourage collaboration & co-learning for BIPOC creatives who work outside centres like Toronto. We want to build connections and learn new things together. Creativity can be a lonely process. We hope that this residency can support you in your journey to make cool things.
Through this residency, we want to explore how we can be active participants in our collective futures. How might we thrive together? As creatives, as individuals, as a community?
FMC is thrilled to announce our cohort of residents for 2022: Hanan Abbas, Emkay Adjei-Manu, Abby Adjekum, Czarina Mendoza, and Dalia Shalabi. Artists will be working towards an exhibition launching at FMC’s new home in Fall 2022.
Learn More about the artists below:
Hanan Abbas is an Iraqi-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Mississauga and she holds a BFA from McMaster University. Her work is conceptually driven and aims to explore how digital and cultural identity collaborate. Thanks to her grueling screen time, she has been interested in investigating the colloquial nature of the digital and understanding its modes of communication.
Emkay Adjei-Manu (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, community-arts facilitator, and researcher. Their professional work and creative practice are rooted in arts-based research, narrative exchange, and community building as a method of relaying truth as a catalyst for social and political transformation. They have completed their Bachelor of Social Work at X University, and works as Digital Storyteller at the ReVision Centre for Art and Social Justice, and as a Residency Curator for ArtsPond. Emkay is a founding member of the Brampton Black Arts Collective, an emerging arts-based collective focused on showcasing, sustaining, and supporting Black artists within the city of Brampton, Ontario. Through community arts leadership, they are devoted to connect and build spaces outside of the central core that support Black artists and cultural workers who are under-resourced and multiply marginalized.
Abby Adjekum Hamilton-based artist, Abby Adjekum has been creating paintings for several years that exist as both a visual diary and a collection of stories. With a few years of studying at OCAD U, she is predominantly self taught.
Czarina Mendoza is an artist and musician currently based in Windsor, ON. Originally from Alberta, she moved to Ontario and received her Honours Bachelor’s Degree in Media Art History & Visual Culture at the University of Windsor in 2019. She has assisted in multiple areas such as panel moderating, programming, and archival research with organizations Centre[3] (Hamilton), Artcite Inc. Arts Council Windsor & Region and the public library. Alongside her practice she enjoys working in audio, in field and music recordings, contributing as audio technician for the 25th Anniversary of Media City Film Festival. Her work has been shown at the Art Gallery of Windsor and Artcite. Inc.
Dalia Shalabi is Moroccan Palestinian multi-disciplinary artist. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia where she coupled her interest in film production and performance arts. Her work focuses on the lasting impact of colonization. She uses performance and other visual media to explore the intersectional nature of her identity. With a focus on healing, she approaches topics of armed conflict, and unspoken intergenerational trauma by exploring oral histories.
Please check back soon for program updates!
About the Programming Residents
John Hill (he/they) is an Oneida poet, writer, and artist from Hamilton, Ontario. He is Turtle Clan from Six Nations of the Grand River. His works have taken the form of sound art, video, poetry, zines, and collage. They believe that art can give people the tools to imagine new, exciting, and hopeful worlds.
Tee Kundu is an interdisciplinary artist, illustrator & designer. They mostly draw things. In addition, they often work in social practice, performance, zines, facilitation, etc. They want to be a storyteller, and they want to be helpful. A DIY dabbler, you can find them on Instagram @lukitstee.
About the Factory Media Centre
The Factory Media Centre is a not-for-profit artist-driven resource centre dedicated to the production and promotion of creatively diverse forms of independent films, videos, and other streaming multimedia art forms. Our mission is to develop and support a vibrant, sustainable, creative, and diverse community of Members within Hamilton and its surrounding region, who are involved or interested in the art, the craft, and the technologies, of motion picture media. In addition to our mission, we also provide access to facilities, equipment, peer resources and educational initiatives to the community of time-based visual artists, as well as to the community at large. Through our programming we hope to encourage the development and appreciation of all related visual art forms through an ongoing program of screenings and events.
Factory Media Centre would like to acknowledge funding provided by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts towards Alt-Futures:
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