Mary Elizabeth (ME) Luka is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media and University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), holds a graduate appointment at Faculty of Information, University of Toronto founding co-lead for the UTSC Critical Digital Methods Institute (https://criticaldigitalmethods.ca/). They use research-creation, arts-based, and walking methods across disciplines, examining modes and meanings of co-creative production and distribution in the digital age for arts, culture, and media.
Prompts for a psychogeographic perambulation in PEC – Mary Elizabeth (ME) Luka and Mél Hogan (Friday October 18, 10.30-11.30)
In this virtual session, Mary Elizabeth (ME) Luka (see below) and Mél Hogan will take attendees on a psychogeographic perambulation on the shores of Lake Ontario in Prince Edward County (PEC) in Ontario. The peninsula sticks out like an arrow pointing into the lake, and its limestone base is an ideal habitat for migrating bats, birds, and butterflies. It is also a popular site for wineries, craft cideries, and breweries. But its increasing reincarnation as a gentrified retirement and retreat zone for weary urbanites within a three-hour drive provides plenty of points of tension. And the more that people disembark in the country to perambulate and contemplate, it seems, the less that the birds, butterflies, and other living cohabitants might.