Join your Board of Trustees at Factory’s Annual General Meeting!
Monday December 13, 2021 at 6PM. All are welcome.
Members Party and Screening will follow the AGM.
This year’s AGM will begin with a musical live-coding performance by Alejandro Franco Briones.
AGM Agenda
Minutes from 2020 AGM
2021 Annual Report
The AGM is an excellent opportunity to learn about all the activities, accomplishments, funding announcements, workshops, exhibitions and events from the past year. It is also a great time for you, our members, to exercise your voice in the future governance of Factory, and to let us know what you want to see from the organization.
Volunteers will be on hand to accept membership dues. All new and renewing members at the AGM will be able to vote immediately:
All current new and renewing Full and Organizational Members are allowed to vote at any General meeting of the Membership. All member privileges are available immediately to all Members upon registration. (2009) — Factory By-Law
All current Factory members are eligible to nominate another member to the Board of Trustees, to be elected at the AGM. You can download the nomination form as a Word Document or PDF if you would like to make a nomination.
In addition, any member unable to attend the AGM may appoint another member or the Secretary of the Board to vote on their behalf as proxy. You can download the proxy form as a Word Document or PDF.
If you are able to assist with the AGM in any way please let us know. Do not hesitate to email Kristina Durka, at info@factorymediacentre.ca if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you at our AGM + Online Members Party on Monday, December 13 at 6PM!
16th Annual Members Screening Link will be posted shortly.
About the artist:
Alejandro Franco Briones is a composer, live coder and sound artist from Mexico City. Some of his major interests are: time-oriented music, network art ecologies and musical/technological notational systems. Alejandro is also a PhD student at McMaster University in the department of Communications, New Media and Cultural Studies. He is interested in struggles for resistance and autonomy and artistic forms of community organisation that are emancipatory. Alejandro has been awarded with Prince Claus Mobility Fund, Sony Forward Creativity Award and the CONACYT-FONCA scholarship for post-graduate studies abroad. He has presented papers and performances in the International Conference on Live Coding in its third, fourth and fifth iteration, the Electroacoustic Music Seminar in Mexico City, participated in independent experimental music festivals and concerts like the Network Music Festival (2020), Umbral Concert Series among many others. Alejandro is currently a teacher assistant in McMaster University teaching Digital Audio and New Media Arts, and a Research Assistant in the Network Imagination Laboratory (NIL) developing the online music platform Estuary.
Election Procedure
By-Law 27.
The Board shall be elected by the Full Members of the Corporation as follows:
a) at least 6 weeks before the annual general meeting, the Secretary shall send a list of nominees to each Full Member and ask that the member provide to the Board, within 2 weeks, the name of any additional persons that member wishes to nominate, together with a completed nomination form.
b) at least 10 days before the annual general meeting, the Board shall send a list consisting of the slate of candidates together with a form of proxy by which each Full Member can appoint either another Full Member or the Secretary of the Corporation to vote for specific candidates.
c) at the annual general meeting, a poll vote shall be held and a Scrutineer appointed by the Chair of the meeting shall tabulate the results of the votes of those voting Members voting in person or by proxy.
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