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Feedback Loop Critical Studies in Improvisation Student Exhibition

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Thinking Spaces The improvisation reading group and speaker series

Watch recordings of our 2020-21 Thinking Spaces lectures in our research library!

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ImprovNotes IICSI's monthly newsletter

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Visit our online Research Library of films, interviews, think pieces, articles, and more!

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Critical Studies in Improvisation

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The ImprovLab

Designed by Diamond-Schmitt Architects The ImprovLab will be our Institute’s research and performance facility at the…

ImprovLab rendering designed by Diamond-Schmitt Architects

AUMI

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

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Feedback Loop: Critical Studies in Improvisation Student Exhibition

Beginning April 9th, Silence will be locked in a Feedback Loop, a two-month installation and soundscape created in…

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.

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International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation
IICSI House, 9 University Avenue East, Guelph, ON, N1H 1M8
Tel: 519-824-4120 Ext. 53885 | [email protected]

Send mail to: 042 MacKinnon Building
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
improv@uoguelph.ca