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 Koffler Gallery Off-Site at 80 Spadina Ave, 5th floor Guest Curator: Evelyn Tauben OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, September 22, 7 - 10 PM Melissa Shiff's JAMS will be exhibited in group show with Aya Ben Ron (Israel), Mircea Cantor (France/Romania), Vandana Jain (USA), Gary James Joynes/Clinker (Canada), Jennifer Zackin (USA) September 22 to December 4, 2011 |
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 July 1st, 2011 Melissa Shiff has been appointed to a three year term in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto. Her title is Assistant Professor. During her tenure, her research will be focused on the SSHRC Insight Development Grant "Mapping Ararat." |
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 SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) has awarded Melissa Shiff a major grant for the research and creation of her collaborative project: Mapping Ararat: An Imaginary Jewish Homelands Project. This project will utilize the cutting edge technology of augmented reality to imagine an alternative history for Grand Island New York creating an on site walking tour for this Jewish homeland originally proposed by Major Mordecai Noah in 1825. Shiff's collaborators are new media artist, Professor John Craig Freeman of Emerson College in Boston and photography and new media historian, Professor Louis Kaplan of University of Toronto. Stay tuned as the project progresses... |
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 "From Access to Integration: Digital Technologies and the Study of Jewish Historyâ at Center for Jewish History, New York Digital Demonstration of Mapping Ararat (work in progress) November 9, 2011 |
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 ARK: An Artist's Account of the Jewish Museum in Prague and its Turbulent History Lecture for 31st Annual Holocaust Education Week Sponsored by Oraynu Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Toronto DATE OF PROGRAM: Thursday November 3rd 2011 |