UAAC-AAUC Conference 2025: Registration Is Now Open

UAAC-AAUC Conference 2025

October 16 – 18, 2025 | Toronto, ON
York University, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design

This Fall join the UAAC-AAUC Conference 2025 Conference hosted by the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design at York University’s Keele Campus, in Toronto, from October 16 to 18, 2025.

We will feature a Publisher’s Hall, 2 student designed events and also host 3 groups of art professionals: the Photography Caucus, the Design Caucus and the Research Creation Caucus. With over 200 speakers and more than 60 sessions, this edition of the Conference will touch a vast array of topics and interests.

We will learn about:

• queer and trans studies, bio art, queer futurism
• digital, data, extended realities, mapping, networks
• decolonization, indigenous methodologies, performance art, ancestral memory, dreamwork, speculative futurism, arts based practices, settler colonialism
• neoliberal politics, capitalism, social reproduction, social justice, resistance, iconography
• textiles research-creation, narrative quilting
• black visual studies, black resistance, popular culture and celebration
• care, solidarity, equity, advocacy, pedagogy, design justice, climate justice, free expression, counter-civilizational practices
• community-based research-creation, emergent technologies
• gender, craft and resistance, gossip, feminist art, retrospective motherhood, artist-parents
• resistance, mobility, migration, activism, cultural translation, diaspora, displacement, hybridity
• community spaces, experimental curatorial forms, exhibition studies, histories of art institutions, institutional critique
• comics, activism, populism, reform, status quo
• digital archives, counter-archives, preservation, digital media art, documentation, collective memory, anticolonial practices
• exhibitions, curatorial studies, cultural and public diplomacy, international relations
• gardens, land, sustenance, plants, eco-art
• reciprocity, creative methodologies, more-than-human, multispecies, collaboration
• transformative justice, prison arts, abolition, incarceration, healing and justice
• mending, amends, Kintsugi, wholeness, fractures
• GenAI, visual art, art history, pedagogy, human machine interactions
• contemporary Korean art, historical trauma, social trauma
• life of objects, itineraries and collections, circulation of artwork
• uncanny, uncanny valley, surrealism, contemporary art, liminal spaces
• Design Studies Caucus: design studies, history, pedagogy, craft
• Photography Caucus: history, theory, materiality
• Research Creation Caucus: research-creation, care, solidarity, equity, decolonization

Learn more about the conference and register by visiting the Conference webpage.

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