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<span style="font-weight: var(--font-weight-400);">Visit Fine Arts professor Matthew Carver's solo exhibition at Christopher Cutts Gallery in Toronto, featuring art from his first graphic novel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;">Hyperstition - Exhibition</span></div>
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Hyperstition is the idea that imagination and belief are active forces, where fictional or speculative narratives can shape and even create their own reality. It’s a feedback loop in which the line between fiction and fact blurs, with stories and myths influencing
the world in unexpected, often unsettling ways. Blending science fiction, conspiracy, and philosophy, hyperstition shows that the narratives we tell are not just reflections of the present, but forces shaping the future.</div>
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“Hyperstition can save us.” -Alice</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;">Koi Cafe Time Slip - Graphic Novel</span></div>
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A small group of friends gather in a coffee shop set within an alternative, cyberpunk Toronto to take stock of recent adventures that were meant to save the life of John Lennon and help coax Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” into existence. In the short span
of 60 pages, we are introduced to a world of possible time travel, AI, and alternate realities. Despite its seemingly light, pulpy tone, the story subtly references a range of influential and often controversial cultural figures and theorists – such as the
Riot grrrl movement, Andrea Dworkin, Carol Adams, Sigmund Freud, Edward Said, Al-Khwarazmi, Nick Land, and the CCRU.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;">When:</span> February 1-22, 2025</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;">Where: </span>Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto</div>
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