York University Department of Film, Norman Jewison Series 2010/11 in collaboration with Greenpeace Canada and Faculty of Art, OCAD University present:

The Yes Men Fix Canada
A How-To-Hoax Clinic with Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum
Wednesday, May 11th at 8pm
OCADU Auditorium, 100 McCaul St., Toronto, ON
$10/sliding scale

This illustrated presentation will explore the tactical strategies behind some of the Yes Men’s greatest triumphs: from their legendary “identity corrections” of Dow, Enbridge, HUD, Exxon, and WTO, to their brilliant punking of Environment Minister Jim Prentice in Copenhagen, to their recent hijinks during this month’s federal election.

The Yes Men are a fearless (genderless) collective of digital artists and activists, determined to culturejam the global forces of environmental evil. Brilliantly blending hilarity, surrealism and outrage, their hoaxes, pranks and “tactical media interventions” have resulted in international headlines, award winning exhibitions and features (including The Yes Men Fix the World, Audience Award winner at the Berlin International Film Festival 2009) and genuine social change.

This lecture is part of York Film Department’s 2011 Summer Institute: Digital Activism and the Environment, which also includes the following public lectures:

May 16, 2pm at Nat Taylor Cinema, 102 Ross Building, York University
Patricia Zimmerman
Open Space Documentary 2.0

Patricia Zimmerman, a professor in Ithaca College’s Dept. of Cinema, Photography & Media Arts, is author of Public Domains: Cinemas, Histories & Visualities and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies.

May 17, 2pm at Nat Taylor Cinema, 102 Ross Building, York University
Megan Boler
Networking Dissent: Digital Publics Taking the Streets

Megan Boler, a professor in OISE’s Dept. of Theory & Policy Studies, is editor of Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times and author of Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silences.