International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation - IICSI

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We now offer MA and PhD degrees in Critical Studies in Improvisation

Come research & practice arts-based community-making with us in Fall 2019!

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Calls For Papers & participation

upcoming deadlines

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Stories of Impact: Heather a new video series

exploring IICSI’s research and the wide-ranging impacts

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Musical Improvisation at Land’s End/ Coin-du-Banc en Folie A short documentary.

Watch it in our online Research Library.

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Visit the IICSI's Online Research Library

films, articles, think pieces, and interviews...

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Stories of Impact: Katy a new series

exploring IICSI’s research and the wide-ranging impacts

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Stories of Impact: Talia a new series

exploring IICSI’s research and the wide-ranging impacts

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Feedback and Reflections Improviser-in-Residence 2015-16 Douglas R. Ewart

Crepuscule 2016

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IICSI Tweets

We have CFPs on our website! Residencies, calls for chapters, papers and participation! https://t.co/Gou7QBbV7Y3 hours ago
Inside the January 2019 edition of ImprovNotes: Night at the Museum, CFPs, Issue 12.2 of Critical Studies in Improv… https://t.co/k35pPouDTH4 hours ago
Tomorrow night Thinking Spaces happens at the College of Arts 50th Anniversary: Night at the Museum! Come & enjoy… https://t.co/Ib78E1TgTv6 hours ago

Critical Studies in Improvisation

CSI-ECI is an open-access, peer-reviewed, electronic, academic journal.

Critical Studies in Improvisation

Search the Research Library

– and find a range of pieces including films, articles, think pieces, and interviews...

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AUMI

Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) software interface and iOS App are new musical instruments that enable…

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Night at the Museum

Join us Friday, January 18, for Night at the Museum, at the Art Gallery of Guelph. …

Night at the Museum

The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) is a central source for the collection and dissemination of research on improvised creative practices.

The Institute's mandate is to create positive social change through the confluence of improvisational arts, innovative scholarship, and collaborative action.

Research Partners

International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation
Room 042 MacKinnon Building, University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
Tel: 519-824-4120 Ext. 53885
improv@uoguelph.ca