Sponsorship Opportunities

A TORCH level Sponsorship contribution of $666.00 means your organization will be supporting the artist fees for one of the programs below. We are splitting the cost of each sponsorship between artist fees and other costs, so in return for your $666 you will get a receipt that indicates you paid $333 in artist fees and $333 in sponsorship and receive the following benefits:

TORCH – Single Program Sponsor $666
Our artists will carry a torch for you!  TORCH recognition:
• Sponsor recognition with logo on website and all print materials including press releases,
ads, signage and 500+ programs.
• Special sponsor thank-you before your selected presentation
• Opportunity to distribute branded materials at all events, screenings, keynotes and
parties.
• 1/8-page, ad in ON.FIRE program.
• Logo by selected program description.
• Verbal mention as venue sponsor at all events where sponsors are thanked.
• 2 ON.FIRE tickets to keynote presentation of your choice.

Contact Cara Williams, coordinator@mano-ramo.ca to learn more about programs and sponsorship benefits.

Each program will have a maximum of 3 Torch Sponsors:

Every Day Starts With Art: To foreground the practices of working media artists, each morning of ON.FIRE starts with art. The program pairs an artist from Ontario with an artist from another region to screen short works and to engage in a moderated conversation about their respective practices.



Program 1:     Jason Baerg presents KC Adams and, Ehren Bear Witness Thomas

Program 2:     Lise Beaudry presents Paul Bossé and Stefan St. Laurent (en français)

Program 3: Deirdre Logue presents, Allyson Mitchell and Rita McKeough

Program 4:   Marie-Hélène Leblanc, presents works by Emanuel Licha and Darsha Hewitt (en français)

Panel Discussions: ON.FIRE will present 5 hot-top panel discussions featuring the below themes and artists.

Panel/Conversation 1: Back To Radical – Now or Never The panel will examine the past, present and future of the media arts as a vehicle for independent thinking about culture, society, politics and the arts.

No Moderator, panel of free radicals: Paul Wong, Anne Golden, Gabriela Golder and Istvan Kantor.

Panel/Conversation 2: Which Ray Is Up? Among the issues that this panel will address how advancing technologies create challenges for artists and organizations, especially those outside of major metropolitan areas, to gain access to these technologies and the implications this creates for identifying the preservation needs of artists, equipment and the setting of standards for the care and protection of our collective media arts heritage.

Moderator:       Kim Tomczak

Panelists:        David Rokeby, Amanda Steggell and Christina Battle

Panel/Conversation 3: New Socialisms – Independence or Co-Dependence: This Panel will look at how the system of media arts production, presentation and distribution centres and the address to audiences in galleries, cinemas, festivals, home theatres and broadcast media combine to create both a diffusion of practices as it also shows how the media arts can be developed as a “collective practice” involving artists and audiences.

Moderator:       Penny McCann

Panelists:        Dana Inkster, Andrea Fatona, Michelle Teran and Midi Onodera

Panel/Conversation 4: The Long Division  – Discipline, Punishment and the Place in Between The panelists will discuss the relationship between the media arts and other disciplines and explore areas where the transgression of boundaries has helped and hindered artistic practices and how multidisciplinary institutions, especially those in regional centres provide models for adapting to community needs in terms of media arts production and presentation.

Moderator: Christof Migone

Panelists:  Michelle Jacques, Paulette Phillips and Jocelyn Robert

Panel/Conversation 5: Black, White and Red all over. The embarrassing lack of diversity in exhibition spaces This panel will examine the proliferation of screens for the presentation of media art works while there continues to be a visible lack of culturally diverse voices alongside a concurrent reduction in exhibition opportunities for artists working outside of the mainstream.

Moderator:       Heather Keung

Panelists:        Steve Loft, Anita Lee, and Ana Serrano

Festival ON.FIRE: a public program featuring 4 curated programmes that will present works that address conference related topics and showcase unique, powerful and interactive media exhibitions. Festival ON.FIRE will take place at various venues around the city, including WARC, A Space and The Gladstone Hotel, in order to connect audiences with the media arts all over Toronto.

1 – Michelle Teran presents The Emotion Organ, installation and performance at WARC Gallery by Norwegian Artist Amanda Steggell

2 – Michelle Jacques presents Audiovision, a screening which brings together eight short films and videos that share an integral relationship between sound and image.

3 – Steve Loft will curate selected works, including artists Dana Claxton, Ho Tam and Paul Wong for an installation at A Space Gallery.

4 – Gabriela Golder will curate REVELACIONES (REVELATIONS), a show that will be mounted in 5 rooms at the Gladstone Hotel, featuring Nelson Henricks, Hernán Khourian, Andrés Denegri, Lucas Bambozzi and Emanuel Licha.

INFERNO Presenting Sponsors -  $5,000+ each

INFERNO Sponsorship for Both Keynote Presentations – $5,000

Keynote Presentations: ON.FIRE gives the first and last words of the conference program to media artists as keynote speakers. We are excited to confirm that our opening keynote speakers this year are Janet Cardiff, George Bures Miller and Raphael Lozano-Hemmer.

Opening Keynote, June 15^th: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

Closing Keynote, June 19^th: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer