trinity square education
London
Founded in 1971, it is one of Canada’s first artist-run centres and its oldest
media arts centre. We are a not-for-profit, charitable organization. For 50
years, Trinity Square has been a champion of media arts practices. Our
activities are guided by a goal to increase our members’ and audiences’
understanding and imagination of what media arts practices can be. Trinity
Square strives to create supportive environments, encouraging artistic and
curatorial experimentation that challenge medium specificity through education,
production and presentation supports. As video-based practices have become
increasingly present across disciplines, Trinity Square engages artists and
curators in critical investigations into the changing conditions of perception,
materiality and the virtual. We consider all of our artistic activities and
structures through a process of critical self-reflection, continuously
evaluating the ethical positioning of our programming, jury structures,
inter-organizational relationships, et cetera. In addition to holding aesthetic
worth in its own right, our artistic programming extends our education and
production activities in order to generate new knowledges. Trinity Square’s
programming is guided by three priorities: 1) promoting an expanded definition
of media arts; 2) promoting the meaningful engagement of diverse voices in all
levels of our operations; and 3) supporting and nurturing the production of new
works by artists and curators. Our membership represents the diversity of the
city and honours the original mandate of the organization—seeking to reduce
barriers to access related to race, gender, sexual orientation, and socio-
economic and physical ability.
