Our event starts at 11 am on the 2nd floor of the Koffler House (569 Spadina Avenue). Social 10:45am – 11:00am.
“Multiform Grammar” (MFG) is a grammatical system for the combination of words and images. It illuminates and conceptualizes the ways in which users of both words and images integrate them into cohesive and coherent verbal-visual representations. This grammatical system is timely as it enables us to better understand and apply a mode of communication that is ubiquitous in the digital era. In this talk our featured speaker, Noa Yaari, will show how she is using the MFG in her current art project in the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS) at the university of Toronto focusing on how art can illuminate sensorial and cognitive processes with broad implications.
Noa Yaari, PhD, is a Fellow at the CRRS, artist, curator, and the developer of “Multiform Grammar.” In her scholarship and artwork, she explores verbal-visual or “multiform” rhetoric, especially in the creation and communication of knowledge. She is currently creating an art installation titled “Image-Text Relationships at the CRRS Library,” and preparing a monograph about the MFG for publication. She has earned a PhD in History and an MA in Humanities from York University, an MA in the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas from the Cohn Institute at Tel Aviv University (magna cum laude), and a B.Ed. from Hamidrasha, Beit Berl College, School of Art, Israel. You are welcome to see and follow her work in her monthly blog “The Multiform Grammar Lab.”
Our guest musician will be Cassie Norton, a Toronto-based violinist/singer-songwriter and the music director of Toronto Oasis. Cassie’s music is, at times friendly, familiar, and simple, examining ordinary characters with an extraordinary level of depth. Other times it is more adventurous, rumbling with dissonant and irreverent sounds and epic themes.
Cassie and her band have been performing at Toronto venues such as Burdock Hall, Arrayspace, and The Supermarket since January 2018, and released their first EP: Lullaby for the End of Time in February 2019. In addition, Cassie has recorded two full length albums as a solo artist, Little Strength (2009) and Quiet Wilderness (2010).
When she isn’t busy making her own music, Cassie shares her love of music with others through teaching. She teaches a variety of private and ensemble classes at Regent Park School of Music, and through her private studio. Check out her website: https://www.cassienorton.com/
You can RSVP for this on our Meetup page at:
https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/khgwkrybcdbfc/