The Nostagain Network

Exploring Generative Nostalgia since 2022. @tag_news student collective, founded at @Milieux_news

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[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

🚨New Symposium Season! We are accepting short abstracts from artists, researchers, scholars, and enthusiasts whose works engage with #nostalgia under the theme "Love & Loss."

Learn more: https://t.co/dKMR7gFT1e

[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

Did you/Do you miss the #nostalgia symposium we organized in Montreal this year?

Let's go back to the past with a 9 min recap clip we made... and let's head towards the symposium in 2025!

https://t.co/einU0ZBPKq

[Milieux Institute @Milieux_news]

Check this out! Essential work ✨
@Nostagain @srirachanikorn @Concordia @mcgillu @Milieux_news

[richy @srirachanikorn]

Interested in what nostalgia research & creation looks like?

📢Work with our team @Nostagain, founded at the @Milieux_news Institute since 2022.

Now: 40 international members, 2 symposiums, 1 workshop with McGill neuroscientist-artist. 2025 incoming...

https://t.co/8rxM3rEYiN

[richy @srirachanikorn]

🕹️New Paper Out on #nostalgia!

Nostalgia is not always about loss. Video game nostalgia GENERATES things for the present and the future -- we are not just dwelling in the past and playing with loss.

I draw on #Clubpenguin, #Minecraft, & #ROBLOX

Read at: https://t.co/T1AKKFqhrK

[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

Did you/Do you miss the #nostalgia symposium we organized in Montreal this year?

Let's go back to the past with a 9 min recap clip we made... and let's head towards the symposium in 2025!

https://t.co/einU0ZBPKq

[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

We are looking for nostalgic people who would like to work as a #socialmediamanager or #eventcoordinator in a research collective setting.

Applications reviewed until positions filled: https://t.co/TIWLXqA6Um

[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

Dr. @el_insalvable: ROJO uses Francoist objects of nostalgia, but online forums still debate its neofrancoist or left wing propaganda stance.

We don’t just play a past to understand it, the past also plays with us in how we make presumptions about it even w/o having played it!

[richy @srirachanikorn]

It has been a joy putting this together, having learnt the new ways to reflect on a past (our panels) or reuse it materially (research creationists).

Nostalgia is just so, so generative!

[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

Time's Up!

We want to thank EVERYONE who made possible "Time in a Bottle 2024": presenters, research creationists, the @cu4thspace, @Milieux_news, the Concordia Council on Student Life, and @TAG_News.

To learn more about our network:
https://t.co/TqQ4Z387lq

See you next year!

[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

Thank you so much for your dynamic panel on nostalgic disjuncture and podcast with the wonderful Andrei Zanescu!

New junctures — friendships, ideas, and meaning — were made today :)

We can’t wait to have you back!

[Dr. Marc-André Lajeunesse @MarcLaje]

Had a great time at @Nostagain Symposium today. Thanks to all the organizers, presenters, the audience, and the wonderful crew of the 4th space for being such rad folks. More of this in life. I'm already nostalgic for today. <3.

[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

Nostalgic about our Time in a Bottle symposium? Re-experience it with @cu4thspace's livestream:

https://t.co/lJ5S6k40lp

[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

Dr. Morgan Bimm concludes by saying “we’ve always borrowed from the past”—

how we choose to use it as a way to divert or repeat the past is generative.

For ex, an insta page that says #Airpods are “functional and forced on us by Apple” but they are “not cool”. Being wired is.

[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

Dr. Morgan Bimm says the iPod is a #boundaryobject that conjoins, converges, and diverges time.

It gets its users to interact with the old, the now, and the new.

Social historic groups relay their past through new mediums: publishing old songs for us to hear and return to.

[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

Dr. Morgan Bimm closes our last panel from St. Francis Xavier University with the #iPod.

How has this object of nostalgia evolved to become the nostalgic objective we all yearn to get back to?

To scroll through music by the wheel like in the past— not swiping screens today

[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

Dr. Diego Mejía-Alandia from the University of Seville talks about how Soviet nostalgia and the Soviet nostalgia for #Space allows for us to (re)play #nostalgia in relation to post-communism.

[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

What objects for nostalgia capture Tamil culture? Conversely, what about Tamil culture captures our nostalgia?

Identifying this is key to creating nostalgic game experiences but also games that allow one to play with nostalgia.

- Shashvat Singh and colleagues.

[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

Opening the last panel COMFORT & COMPLICATION with how the cooking game, Venba, can evoke #Tamil culture.

Presented by Shashvat Singh, Hariharan S., Siddharth Rawat, Vaishakh Marar, and Adil Jacob.

[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

Kelly Day’s research creation of FAIRYTALE, A TRUE STORY 2023.

Each page is a layer of skin, tissue, fat, muscle, etc. to have a deep dive into the stressful past that this story embodies and tells. Piece by piece.

[The Nostagain Network @Nostagain]

RESEARCH CREATION HOUR!!!

Join us in one hour for our next panel… COMFORT AND COMPLICATION.