Call & Response <> Mark Campbell

Presented by the Goethe-Institut Toronto
Part of the CONTACT Photography Festival

Call & Response <> is the Goethe-Institut Toronto's newly framed series of cross-disciplinary gatherings illuminating core programming questions.

Music researcher Mark Campbell will introduce his thinking around equity, fairness, and accountability in the collection, use, and analysis of data, aimed at preventing discrimination and harm in a digitized societies.

Both from its analogue origins within the musical genres of dub and disco to the present day digital tools that simplify remixing, the challenge of remix has been conveniently overburdened by intellectual property concerns in the global north. By turning to innovative sampling techniques and histories within music genres, such as reggaeton, jungle and hip-hop, this presentation explores and elaborates the role of remixing in evading the encroachment of datafication on individual forms of cultural expression and music consumption.

Mark V. Campbell is a DJ, scholar and curator, with exhibitions and dj sets on multiple continents. Mark is founder at Northside Hip-Hop Archive and the Afrosonic Innovation Lab. He is author of Afrosonic Life and co-editor of Hip-Hop Archives & We Still Here. He is Program Director of Music at University of Toronto Scarborough
  
Contextualising program:
Soft Errors, Hard Truths
Opening Reception with artist Lilly Lulay
Collective Cuts
Call & Response: Wilding AI
Call & Response: Vedran Dzebic on Design, Creativity & Empathic AI

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Part of the 2026 program (re)Open Minds: Adapting to the Future

Related Links:
Lilly Lulay   
Mark Campbell
Northside Hip Hop Archives – MOBA
Afrosonic Innovation Lab
CONTACT