Date: March 4–5, 2026
Location: University of Toronto Mississauga and St. George
Overview
Join us at the third annual ICCIT graduate-faculty research symposium as we consider human relationships to technologies of altered perception. At Trip Out!, we'll think with and through the trip—a timespace marked by a stumble, a tip into vertigo, a virtual reality, augmented perception, drug consumption, madness, misperception, and/or hallucination. The trip is a shift in “affective attentiveness” (Cichosz, 2014) or a “journey to new realms of consciousness” (Leary, 1963), and the technologies of tripping include airplanes, acid tabs, trance-inducing meditation, white rabbits, and VR headsets, to name only a few. Trip Out! brings together scholars and students whose work focuses on perception as technological affordance and reality as already-altered, mediated experience.
Speakers & Activities
Trip Out! will feature presentations from a diverse roster of invited speakers. These include Aleena Chia (Goldsmiths, University of London), Neşe Devenot (Johns Hopkins University), Justin Jennings (Royal Ontario Museum), Larissa Soares Carneiro (Duke University), Maria Cichosz (University of Toronto), Jeremy Tirrell (University of North Carolina Wilmington), and Kate Maddalena (University of Toronto Mississauga).
University of Toronto PhD students will deliver 5-minute "theory pill" talks that target a number of concepts relevant to the symposium theme. These students will include Alice Nahyeon Kim, Grayson Lee, Kaushar Mahetaji, Julia Parke, Mathew Iantorno, Darsana Vijay, Julia Costanzo, Upasana Bhattacharjee, Andrew Wiebe, Ayla Morland, and Seungwoo Baek.
Registration
Pre-Conference Evening
Date: Wednesday, March 4
Time: 6:00pm–8:00pm
Location: Centre for Culture and Technology, 39A Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, ON
Register for Curating Psychedelic Media.
Curating Psychedelic Media, an evening discussion with curator Justin Jennings of the Royal Ontario Museum, with a screen tour of the museum's upcoming exhibition, Psychedelics.
Trip Out! Symposium
Date: Thursday, March 5
Time: 9:30am–4:20pm
Location: Collaborative Digital Research Space (MN3230), University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Toronto, ON
Register for the Trip Out! Symposium.
See full schedule below. Lunch will be served.
Full Symposium Schedule (March 5)
9:30am–9:45am: Coffee & Snacks
9:50am–10:00am: Opening Words & Land Acknowledgement
Presented by Tero Karppi
10:00am–11:30pm: Session 1 (Tripping Out)
Moderated by Sam Pizelo
Faculty Presentations
- Aleena Chia
Theory Pills
- Alice Nahyeon Kim (Hallucination)
- Grayson Lee (Bullshido)
- Kaushar Mahetaji (Drift)
- Julia Parke (Grind)
11:30am–12:45pm: Lunch
1:00pm–2:30pm: Session 2 (Touching Grass)
Moderated by Anjali Nath
Faculty Presentations
- Maria Cichosz
- Jeremy Tirrell & Kate Maddalena
Theory Pills
- Mathew Iantorno (Foraging)
- Darsana Vijay (Tolerance)
- Julia Costanzo (Withdrawal)
- Upasana Bhattacharjee (Pleasure)
2:30pm–2:45pm: Snack Break
2:45pm–4:10pm: Session 3 (Guided Trips)
Moderated by Leon Lu
Faculty Presentations
- Neşe Devenot
- Larissa Carneiro
Theory Pills
- Andrew Wiebe (Ungrounding)
- Ayla Morland (Roadblock)
- Seungwoo Baek (Danger)