Mission
ASTERIX supports the research and creation of objects, narratives, and experiences that investigate the intersections of the arts and technology.
ASTERIX provides the infrastructure (space, equipment, training, collaborative opportunities, residencies, exhibitions, performances, workshops) to make ULethbridge an internationally recognized destination for those (academics, artists, industry, general public) interested in critically and creatively exploring, through a transdisciplinary research-creation lens, the ramifications of emergent technologies.
ASTERIX brings together educators, researchers, students, artists, and the community at large to work across disciplines, fostering training/mentorship and collaborative research opportunities which will be transformational for Southern Alberta.
Vision
Generating necessary dialogues around pressing concerns of our time, ASTERIX will invite communities to participate in rethinking what is possible. ASTERIX’s speculative approach is not about a rigid methodology with expected outcomes. Rather, we are interested in what emerges in the process of thinking through, of constructing “critical fabulations” of what might be. The collaborations, conversations, as well as the construction of the “results,” can lead to real social change.