Coffee Chats w/ Rea McNamara
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Coffee Chats is a series of virtual casual gatherings with the CEAD team with industry guests.
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Coffee Chats is a series of virtual casual gatherings with the CEAD team with industry guests. Hosted virtually in small intimate groups, these gatherings will provide a space for group conversations with practitioners who are interested in supporting OCAD U students and grads to offer mentorship, and share their professional insights and journey, while collectively creating an online community.
Rea McNamara is a writer, curator, and public programmer based in Toronto. Informed by a long-standing engagement with media fandom’s collaborative processes, her research focuses on the emergence of otherness and hybridity within digital identity formations.
McNamara has curated and programmed on/offline public projects for The Gardiner Museum, The Drake Hotel, and The Wrong Digital Art Biennale. In 2011, she founded the art party series Sheroes, widely recognized for its innovative presentation of internet-based art. Her work has been presented at The Art Gallery of Ontario and is in the Whitney Museum of American Art collection.
Additionally, McNamara has written on art, culture, and the internet for frieze, Art in America, Canadian Art, The Globe and Mail, Art F City, and more. From 2020-2021, she was the Emily H. Tremaine Journalism Fellow for Curators with Hyperallergic.
Rea is open to talking about:
On/offline curation and community organizing, digital feminisms, open source ethics, balancing interdisciplinary creative and professional practices, critical engagement with pandemic networked publics, navigating and capacity building inclusion and cultural equity initiatives within institutional and cultural non-profit environments, virtual boundary setting.
Interested in joining our next Coffee Chat? RSVP here.
Ten Thousand Coffees is an online mentoring and networking platform that’s used by emerging talent and professionals around the globe.
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