International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation - IICSI

Improvising Futures Full Team Meeting

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Schedule is LIVE! The 2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium

September 11–14, 2024

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Revisit IF 2024: Watch the Festival Archive Online!

Available now on the Festival Website

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Big News! IICSI Announces Dr. Eric Fillion as its new Director

Effective July 1, 2024

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ImprovLab Now Available for Booking!

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The Hand You Are Dealt: Improvising the Archive

Play IICSI's New Video Game Online

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Call for Papers Emergent and Convergent Scholar-Practitioner Worlds:

Improvisation and Social (In)Justice

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ImprovNotes IICSI's monthly newsletter

CfPs, features on IICSI projects, news related to improvisation research and performance & more!

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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

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

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The ImprovLab

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

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AUMI

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

AUMI - Adaptive Use Musical Instrument

IICSI Presents a Series of Public Concerts and Events as part of Musical Improvisation at Land’s End (MILE) Summer Camp in the Gaspésie Region.

The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) at the University of Guelph, presents another…

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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

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Guelph, ON,
N1H 1M8
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Guelph, Ontario
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