Happy second birthday Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF)! 🎉🎈🎂
It’s hard to believe we have already finished two years of projects, partnerships, podcasts, policy reports, and public talks! (And those are just the outputs that start with “p”!)
To mark the occasion, we’re taking a moment to appreciate the incredible activities from the past year.
Year Two by the Numbers
If you thought our first year was busy, wait until you see our Year Two outputs! Here are some highlights:
Community Building
Knowledge Creation
Public Engagement
Critical Futures: What’s Next?
As we head into our final year, we’re thinking critically about the future: finding ways to sustain our ongoing localized projects and international networks, investing in knowledge dissemination, and imagining inspiring paths forward. To that end, several researchers and community partners are building plans for what a constellation of ongoing CLCF-style research will look like. This includes grant applications, of course, as well as projects hosted in community as well as in the academy.
Here’s to another year of creativity, critique, and collective imagination! Keep following our blog for weekly updates, check out our events, and join us as we continue exploring the futures of creative labour in the era of generative AI.
You can read our full CLCF Year 2 Report below.
CLCF Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Cate Cleo Alexander is a graduate of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Cate employs a wide variety of methodologies in her research, including autoethnography, digital ethnography, media historiographies, sampling/scraping, qualitative coding,& artistic autoethnographic experiments with genAI
CLCF Co-Director & Assistant Professor
Dr. Daphne Rena Idiz (she/her) is Assistant Professor in Film and Media Industries at York University. Her research investigates how media industries, cultural policy frameworks, and production cultures respond to and shape technological change, with a particular focus onstreaming and generative AI (GenAI).
CLCF Co-Director & Assistant Professor
Rafael Grohmann is a Co-lead and Co-Director of the Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) cluster and an Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) at the University of Toronto. Rafael is the leader of the DigiLabour initiative and founding editor of the Platforms & Society journal.
CLCF Co-Director & Associate Professor
Dr. MaryElizabeth (“M.E.”) Luka is PI and Co-Director of the Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) cluster and Associate Professor, Arts & Media Management, at University of Toronto, where they examine modes and meanings of co-creative production and distribution in the digital age for arts, culture, and media.
