🎂🖍️🚬 What did your childhood smell like? Birthday candles, crayons, or cigarettes around the house?
I spoke with artist Vanessa Haguel about her work on combining #art #sensory materials, #smells, #music, #creativewriting and imagination to recount our #nostalgia for #childhood!!
🍰 What did your first birthday smell like? Sweet wax, dull candles, or the fear of growing up?
Vanessa Haguel from UQAM explored this in her workshop, “Nostalgia Scent: Past and Future Lives”.
#nostalgia #birthday #childhood #memory #memories #perfume #art #candles #nostalgic
📗🗃️📙 Emilie Kvist collects photobooks and slides — THE VIEW FROM THIS SIDE
🔗 Watch the full talk at nostagain.ca/symposium2026
You’re too cool for school Michael 😎 We loved having you at Nostagain.
A café where you get a sketch from the past (e.g., #2000s #CartoonNetwork style, 80s #comicbook style) by a live and professional #artist
Folks also exchanged stories, adding a second layer of #nostalgia in the air — and making that present moment a future nostalgic thing to look back to.
🧶🧵🦀 At Nostagain 2026, @elliotskiesstuff.bsky.social shared their work — COLD COMFORT WARM GRIEF
A multilayering of what we call #nostalgia via:
1. #memory map of #home via #crochet and weaving
2. hand carved wooden tokens representing social memories #art
3. film embodying “rose tinted glasses”
🌲❄️📺 @michaeliantorno.com shared “Endless Winters” with us at NOSTAGAIN 2026
#romhack #earthbound #nintendo #supernes #retro #hacking #gamedev
🍿See the full interview using the link on our bio
As always, I had a wonderful time at @nostagain.bsky.social this year!
Thanks to Ana Isabel Duque for the double-winter shot of my game hack, Endless Winters.
michaeliantorno.itch.io/endless-wint...
A group of 10 people smile and pose around a sign with the letter 'N' that reads 'Nostagain' at the bottom.
A wrap of #nostagain 2026. We united 13 presenters & 11 artists to reflect on how their #history, #memory, and biographies operate as the 'FRAMES OF REFERENCE' they use to make sense of #nostalgia 🎉
🍿 The full recording of our symposium is now up: nostagain.ca/2026/02/14/s...
Richy speaks into a microphone in front of a projector screen at a symposium
Here at @nostagain.bsky.social's Frames of Reference, @srirachanikorn.bsky.social is kicking off an exciting afternoon of talks and art.
Finishing touches for our #nostalgia symposium and #research #creation expo TODAY!
🎟️ Virtual tickets (free): nostagain.ca/symposium
Tomorrow! Starting from 10 EST — lounge and latch onto @michaeliantorno.com ENDLESS WINTERS!
#ROM Hack of #Earthbound by #Nintendo that captures the nostalgic essence of Michael’s game memories.
🖼️ The RESEARCH CREATION EXPO at « Frames of Reference » Nostalgia Symposium and RC expo!
🎟️ Get in-person or virtual tickets at: nostagain.ca/symposium/
📌 February 13, 2026 from 10:00-18:00 (EST)
#nostagain #nostalgia #researchcreation #art #montreal #artist
PANELS 3-4 of #nostagain « Frames of Reference » symposium and research creation expo
February 13, 2026 — Concordia University, Montreal
🎟️ Get your In-person OR Virtual tickets here:
shorturl.at/LBIuC
Come join me at Nostagain, where I'll be showing off my ROM hack Endless Winters: michaeliantorno.itch.io/endless-wint...
A poster for the the Frames of Reference symposium with the type "RC Expo" and pictures of several artistic pieces.
The @nostagain.bsky.social "Frames of Reference" symposium line-up has been released!
Join me at the Research-Creation Expo where I'll be showing off my ROM hack Endless Winters (michaeliantorno.itch.io/endless-wint...)
Full schedule here: nostagain.ca/symposium/
The annual #NOSTALGIA SYMPOSIUM is here — Feb 13.
Join us to learn how we can use nostalgia for the future, together!
🎟️ Register now at: www.concordia.ca/cuevents/off...
@nostagain.bsky.social
Calling all #artist and #researchers #scholars on #nostalgia — submit to our ANNUAL NOSTALGIA SYMPOSIUM FOR 2026.
📌 nostagain.ca/cfp2026
🧷 Due Jan 6, 2026
Follow us on @nostagain.bsky.social
Had a chance to visit the fantastic #nostalgia collection of Christopher Moore, #artist and Professor in Computation and Design Arts who “ #designs out of the present ”.
Happening this Wednesday 3rd December, open to EVERYONE and 🔴LIVE!
#collectors #collecting #thrifting #thrift #auction #videosphere #space #thejetsons #artdeco #muzak #60s #1960s #retrofuturism #nostagainnetwork #nostagain #memorabiliamp4 #memorabilia #artists #artist #montreal #mtl #liveevents
Messy, abstract, & overly politicized ideas like #nostalgia and #home — can it be an #art #workshop?
24 folks in #Montreal explored this with #burlap by reweaving intentionally.
My home was tied up by red/white 🇨🇦 and blue strings 🇹🇭. I reimagined my past more honestly, truthfully, & creatively.
On Nov 25, we'll be Weaving Stories of Home. If you are in #montreal then, come join me at the Milieux Institute, where you will:
- Learn to unweave & reweave with two #textiles specialists
- Share and create a "material home" for your #nostalgia
- Drink hot choc during a snow day :-)
TMR!! « Nostalgia, code, & the End of the World » a 🔴LIVE talk with Alex Klexber.
Solo #gamedev who made a #nostalgia game wishlisted over 10,000 times.
HAPENNING NOV 5
🕰️ 11:00 PST
🕰️ 14:00 EST
🕰️ 21:00 IST
🎟️ Save your spot: shorturl.at/lMyj6
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#videogames #videogame #retro #gameart #gameartist
[New time confirmed!] The #nostalgia game with over 10,000 wishlists on Steam.
On Wednesday 5 Nov, we’ll chat with ALEX KLEXBER, the solo #indie #gamedev behind it.
Join us for a 🔴LIVE talk and Q&A… use the link in our bio!
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#gamedevs #gameart #videogames #indiegames #gamedesign #nostagain
The #cfp for our symposium 2026 — Frames of Reference — is out!
🖼️ Inviting #artist #researcher #PhD MA BA students, #professor of #nostalgia to submit works that engage with the theme
🧠 Submissions due 19 Dec
📍 Find the call here: nostagain.ca/cfp2026
🏡 “What should’ve been a return home turns into a visit of someone else’s house”
👾 The rise of #retrogaming is indicative of our relationship with #nostalgia as a #collector #consumer and #researcher
👉 Read the #news story at: richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home/post/no...
Nancy Long, an #art #educator of over 20 years, shared with us how #nostalgia helped her better formulate ideas as an #artist working with memorabilia, memories, & candies!
Our webseries memorabilia.mp4 is now in its SECOND SEASON! Stay tuned..
🍿Watch Nancy's talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0EM...
🌟 Happening Now! 1pm (EST) / 5pm (BST)
🎨 a LIVE talk and Q&A with Nancy Long, an #art #educator of over 20 years!
🙋♀️ How does #nostalgia help Nancy better connect, or learn from, her #students? How does nostalgia help Nancy’s own #creative process?
🍿 GET THE LINK HERE: tv.nostagain.ca
‼️ TODAY — Friday 26 at 1PM (EST) / 6PM (BST)
👩🏼🎨 Nancy Long, an #art #educator of 20 years, reflect on how #nostalgia helps her teach students and create artwork better.
🍿 RSVP here: tv.nostagain.ca
