The Emily Carr University of Art + Design provides opportunities to invite world-renowned experts in their field to the University, exposing students to an extraordinary range of knowledge across the spectrum of art + design.
Sessional Faculty Sarah Van Borek talks about the advantage of using iPads as a tool in her media arts classroom and why she gives her students her cell phone number. Sarah Van Borek is a filmmaker, musician and educator dedicated to global citizenship through the arts. Sarah has been excitedly teaching a unique media arts-based Community Projects course in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation since 2012. Student work was from this course was featured in the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (New York), "Rewilding Vancouver" (exhibit at Museum of Vancouver), "Natural Capital" (exhibit at Gulf of Georgia Cannery) and "CULTIVATE" (group exhibition at the Roundhouse). Sarah also teaches Foundation Core Media Studio I. Sarah has an MFA in Film & TV from the University of Cape Town. Her media works have been featured in film festivals and on TV in Canada and abroad, and by high profile organizations including Radio Canada International and the National Film Board. Sarah has designed and implemented innovative media strategies in North America and Africa for over 10 years, engaging communities in creating solutions together. Educators on Educating is an Emily Carr University of Art + Design Teaching and Learning Centre video series on faculty talking about their approaches to pedagogy in the classroom, online and with incorporating new media and technologies in their practice. Filming began in August 2014 and will continue through to the end of the Spring semester in 2015. For more information please send an email to tlc@ecuad.ca
Associate Professor, Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media "The Classroom, Mobility, Technology and the Teaching Environment" Maxe Fisher is an educator, industrial designer and artist. Maxe combines an expertise in industrial and multi-disciplinary design theory and studio teaching. Recently, Maxe was the Founding Programme Director of the Context+Culture specialization and is a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University's School of Design, Wellington, New Zealand. Currently, Maxe is a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Cross-Cultural Research at RSH at the Australian National University, Canberra. Maxe’s research examines the relationship between the aesthetics of experience, corporeal culture and our relationship to the technologies of making. Her interest in this area developed over the course of a 25 year investigation into abandoned industry largely in Canada, while simultaneously involved in design for contemporary high-tech industry, specifically, the world’s first virtual reality helmet. These polarities are central to Maxe’s exploration of design, allowing her to interpret the silent continuity of culture as an expression of the meaning of things. Educators on Educating is an Emily Carr University of Art + Design Teaching and Learning Centre video series on faculty talking about their approaches to pedagogy in the classroom, online and with incorporating new media and technologies in their practice. Filming began in August 2014 and will continue through to the end of the Spring semester in 2015. For more information please send an email to tlc@ecuad.ca
Sessional Faculty "Student Engagement and the Use of PowerPoint" Ph.D. Media & Cultural Studies, Department of Communication, U. of Pittsburgh, M.A. Media & Film Theory, Department of Communication Studies, U. of Iowa, B.A. Film Studies & English, Carleton U. Educators on Educating is an Emily Carr University of Art + Design Teaching and Learning Centre video series on faculty talking about their approaches to pedagogy in the classroom, online and with incorporating new media and technologies in their practice. Filming began in August 2014 and will continue through to the end of the Spring semester in 2015. For more information please send an email to tlc@ecuad.ca
Assistant Professor, Interaction Design, Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media "Blended Learning and Students using the WordPress Blogging content management system" For over 15 years Haig Armen has been producing award-winning design. Haig was a key figure behind the concept, strategic and design development for CBC Radio 3, a project that earned over 20 international awards. Furthermore, his interactive design boutique, LiFT studios has become a prominent design force in the Vancouver industry over the past two years. As a designer, Haig has designed corporate identities, book covers, ads, promotional items and cd covers for prestigious clients like bmw, Chanel & Nokia. Haig has taught Design and Web Strategy courses at Emily Carr and Simon Fraser Universities & Langara College. Armen's background is as a professional musician and he continues to create music for film and art projects. Educators on Educating is an Emily Carr University of Art + Design Teaching and Learning Centre video series on faculty talking about their approaches to pedagogy in the classroom, online and with incorporating new media and technologies in their practice. Filming began in August 2014 and will continue through to the end of the Spring semester in 2015. For more information please send an email to tlc@ecuad.ca
An-My Le’s work explores the American military. She presents photographs of landscapes transformed by war or other military activities, blurring the boundaries between Hollywood portrayals and photojournalistic documentation. Much of her work is inspired by her own experiences of war and dislocation. Lê was born in Saigon and moved to the United States as a political refugee when she was fifteen. She received her Bachelor of Applied Science and Master of Science degrees in biology from Stanford University and her Master of Fine Arts in photography from Yale University. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally. Le has had solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum annde Stroom, Antwerp; Dia:Beacon, New York; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and MoMA PS1, New York. Le is the recipient of numerous awards including fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. She is a Professor of Photography at Bard College. Lê is represented by Murray Guy Gallery in New York. The Audain Distinguished Artist-in-Residence Program has a mandate to bring internationally renowned contemporary artists to Vancouver, create curriculum specific to each individual visiting artist and support the creation of new works. The residency program is generously funded by Michael Audain.
(Artist Talk - Nov 27, 2014) Originally from Quebec City, Samuel Roy-Bois currently resides in Vancouver. He acquired his BFA from Université Laval in Quebec (1996) and a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montréal (2001). His work has been presented at SFU Gallery, Carleton University Gallery, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Contemporary Art Gallery, Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec and Point éphémère in Paris. He is Assistant Professor in Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan. Roy-Bois is interested in the complex dynamics defining our relationship to the built environment. His multifarious practice draws on the everyday, the history of architecture, and the critique of different modes of cultural production. For more information on his practice, go to samuelroybois.com. This talk is part of the Visual Art Forums, presented by the Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice and the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
February 2, 2015. Elspeth Pratt’s sculptures demonstrate her interest in architecture and social spaces. She uses a variety of prosaic materials, from plywood to beverage containers, to comment on how architecture structures our lives. Throughout her career, she has shown an interest in public spaces such as shopping malls, gardens and train stations, as well as “pseudo-escapist” spaces such as spas, casinos and resorts. She has also explored airports and is interested in how they control our actions as we navigate them. Her most recent sculptures, made of common building and impoverished materials, are precariously perched, sometimes leaning on a wall for support. These collage-like constructions include the space that surrounds them. Through a physical and involved working process, Pratt balances materials, ideas and space to formulate her work through a constant flow and accumulation of ideas. In addition, her use of common and readily available materials is contrasted with the permanence that is traditionally associated with sculpture. In this way, Pratt challenges assumptions about the inherent nature of her medium. Pratt has shown nationally and internationally for three decades and her works are part of collections all over Canada. Recent exhibitions include Nonetheless at the Cooley Art Gallery in Portland, OR (2011) and Second Date, a large-scale public art project at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Offsite (2011). This talk is part of the Visual Art Forums, presented by the Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice and the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Presented by the Charles H. Scott Gallery In conjunction with the exhibition Aspen Magazine: 1965– 1971, Gwen Allen discusses Aspen within the context of art history, exploring its important function as an alternative exhibition space in the 1960s and 70s. She also explores the history of artists’ magazines more generally, both during this earlier period and today. Allen is the author of Artists’ Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art (MIT, 2011) and is a Professor of Art History at San Francisco State University.
(Artist Talk - Nov 24, 2014) Emily Carr University is pleased to welcome David Zink Yi, who will join us in early 2015 as the Audain Distinguished Artist-in-Residence. The Audain Distinguished Artist-in-Residence Program, funded by Michael Audain and the Audain Foundation for the Visual Arts, enables the University to bring the world’s leading contemporary artists to live and work in Vancouver for a one to three month period. Guest artists and visiting lecturers are an integral part of the Emily Carr community – artists complement students’ education, work with existing faculty and bringing new opportunities for collaboration and engagement. David Zink Yi a Peruvian artist based in Berlin. He works primarily with photography, video, and sculpture. In 2013 Zink Yi participated in the 55th Venice Biennale. Zink Yi has exhibited at Hauser&Wirth in Zurich and Kunstverein Braunschweig in Germany. He has also taken part in group exhibitions at the Tate Modern, London, the Museo Sala de arte, Mexico and the Ludwig Forum im Aachen, Germany. His work is included in collections at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the MUDAM, Luxemburg and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
Janet Cardiff and George Bures provide an overview of their works and practice, focusing on the exhibition Lost in the Memory Palace, a selected survey exhibition which opened June 20, 2014 at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Lost in the Memory Palace takes as its focus ‘the room,’ with a selection of Cardiff and Miller's work from the mid-1990s to today, presenting key early installations such as The Dark Pool (1995) and The Muriel Lake Incident (1999) and recent works including The Killing Machine (2007) and Experiment in F# Minor (2013). The exhibition offers an opportunity to consider the room as a metaphor in Cardiff and Miller’s work, as an offering shelter from a stormy world, a place to withdraw and to convalesce; or a site of mystery and danger, and in some instances, of death.
This lecture is presented by: Material Matters CME British Columbia The Ministry of Advanced Education Rayne Longboards Precision NanoSystems CME British Columbia's next Innovation Insights event takes place at Emily Carr University. Topics covered by this event include a 3D imaging and printing overview, technical update and overview, background on 3D printing and imaging technology, local 3D printed case studies and current applications, advanced manufacturing and introduction to the Manufacturing Community. Presentations: Material Matters - Keith Doyle, ECU - IDS Research 3DP Overview and Applications - Philip Robbins, ECU - IDS Research Case Study: Rayne Longboards - Graham Buksa, Rayne Longboards Case Study: Precision NanoSystems - Tim Leaver, Precision NanoSystems Local Engagement Opportunities - Kevin Davis Director, Membership & Strategic Partnerships, CME British Columbia Case Study Backgrounds: Rayne Longboards | At Rayne Longboards, we’re committed to a single goal: to be the premium longboard maker, exceeding every expectation. We’re the golden standard for professionals and amateurs worldwide. Rayne Longboards is the world’s premier longboard manufacturer. The business was founded in 2004 and is situated at the base of the beautiful North Shore mountains in an unsuspecting alley near the harbour at 167 B East 1st Street. Our products are wholly designed and manufactured in Canada based on cornerstones of Quality, Progression and Authenticity. Precision NanoSystems | The NanoAssemblr enable the simple manufacture of novel nanoparticles that are used in medicine (nanomedicine). Nanomedicines are the “FedEx” of the health-care industry and are used for cell-specific delivery of research tools, diagnostic imaging agents and drugs to study, diagnose and treat disease. PNI’s technology allows scientists to identify the genetic cause of disease and to develop new types of nanomedicines faster and at lower cost.
This lecture is presented in partnership with Presentation House Gallery and Dream Location, curated by Stephen Waddell. David Campany (b. 1967) is a writer, curator and artist living in London. His writing focuses on subjects of photojournalism, conceptual art, cinema and the archive. His publications include Art and Photography (Phaidon, 2002), The Cinematic: Documents of Contemporary Art (Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press, 2007) Jeff Wall: Picture for Women (Afterall, 2010), Gasoline (MACK, 2013) and his forthcoming Walker Evans: The Magazine Work (Steidl, 2014). In 2012, Campany received the International Centre of Photography (ICP) Infinity Award for his writing. He is Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster, London where he teaches all levels of studio photography and theory. *Please note that the introduction and the first minute of the lecture is missing due to technical difficulties. We apologize for the inconvenient.
Material Matters is excited about cohosting the next Hardware Startups Vancouver meetup. We will hear informative and exciting stories from three local founders of hardware and embedded systems startups. Our feature talk will be presented by Paul Banwatt, author of the 3D printing law blog – Law in the Making. Presenters: Dr. Brad Quinton | Invionics,, Co-Founder and COO | past:Veridae Systems, Co-Founder and Tech/Product/Marketing Lead, which was successfully sold to Tektronix Dr. Brad Quinton has been working in the high technology industry for 15 years. He has successfully straddled academia and industry, working in parallel with much of his academic research, he received his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia in October 2008. His research lead to the formation in 2009 of Veridae Systems where he was the technical, product management and marketing lead. The venture developed a world class EDA debug product, sold it to leading semiconductor companies and was acquired by Tektronix in 20 months. Brad later led Tektronix’s Embedded Instruments Group, as Chief Architect, until May 2013. Between 2006 and 2008, he was a Consultant and Senior Design Engineer at Teradici Corporation where he designed new circuits and debugged new devices. Before this time, Brad worked for Altera, helping resolve key issues with a new product that they had introduced. From 1998 to 2003, Dr. Quinton was at PMC-Sierra where as Project Lead he directly managed 10 engineers and a multi-million dollar IC development. This project was successfully released into the market. During this period, Brad was instrumental in the successful technical integration of two of PMC’s acquisitions, HyperCore (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) and Toucan (Galway, Ireland), into the company. Gonzalo Tudela | Vandrico Solutions Inc., Co-Founder and CEO, @vandrico_inc, @GonzaloTudela Subject Matter: The Importance of Workplace Wearables Vandrico Solutions Inc. researches and deploys wearable technologies to generate ROIs for industrial companies. Co-Founder and CEO Gonzalo Tudela will discuss the importance of developing wearable devices for the workplace and how the next evolution of the wearables market is posed for B2B clientele.
Emily Carr Twilight Hour Speaker Series T’ai Smith is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia. Her forthcoming book, entitled *Writing on Weaving: a Bauhaus Craft, a Bauhaus Medium*, looks at how Bauhaus weavers articulated, through essays, the specific dimensions of their craft. That book will be out from University of Minnesota Press in late 2014. Her articles and reviews have appeared in various periodicals, including Art Journal, Grey Room, Journal of Modern Craft, and Texte zur Kunst. She is currently developing a new book project, provisionally titled “Textile Media and Philosophy," which will examine the use of textile metaphors in media theory and philosophy since the 19th-century. Next summer she will be a fellow at IKKM, a media studies institute at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany.
Going Public: Art, Urbanism, and Civic Engagement in the 21st Century At Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Janine Marchessault, professor of cinema and media studies at York University and a 2012 fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, will deliver a Trudeau Lecture on her experience curating a 30-artist show on the role of artists in urban planning. What if artists were to create new forms of urban planning, using their own language to address broader issues where traditional forms of political engagement, city planning, and policy development have fallen short? Can an art exhibition with a range of interdisciplinary activities foster productive conversations about our cities? These are some of the questions Marchessault sought to answer in September and October 2013 with the public art intervention Land|Slide: Possible Futures. Located at Markham Museum, an open-air historic village in southern Ontario, the show ran in one of Canada’s most culturally diverse and fastest-growing cities, which spreads across one of the most agriculturally rich regions in North America and sits on the edge of Ontario’s massive, 1.8 million-acre Greenbelt, created to preserve farmland and vital natural resources. For three weeks, Land|Slide artists transformed the museum’s well-preserved historical buildings, opening them up to contemporary dialogue through surreal, utopian, and haunting artworks. They augmented the past in often humorous and always ingenious ways to suggest interwoven lines of human culture, wildlife, migration, and sustainability that must be considered as we plan and develop future landscapes. Land|Slide presently represents Canada at the 2013-14 Hong Kong-Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. The lecture is presented as a part of Imagining Our Future, an expansive, experimental and provocativethree year series of events and activities that explore the geographical, historical, and cultural context of our anticipated move to the False Creek Flats (Senákw). At this seminal moment in our institution’s history, the series brings together practitioners from across a range of practices and fields of inquiry, evoking both radical and practical propositions for how we inhabit our new campus, and how we imagine the art, media and design university of the 21st century. Through various platforms, the series will explore the relationship between the proposed campus and the land on which it will be built, the communities that surround it, and the historical and urban context of the site, and its promise to become a central element in a new creative and cultural district in the City of Vancouver.
This lecture is presented in partnership with the PuSh Festival; January 18 - February 6, 2011. Volker Gerling’s flip-book cinema has quietly become legendary. Having walked some 3000 kilometres through Germany on foot, Gerling took photographs of people he met during his wanderings, creating portraits in the form of photographic flip-books. He met an old man who wanted to improve the world and almost starved in the process, a homeless woman who wished for nothing more than to see her children once again and a young woman who decided to change her life while on holiday. Gerling describes great, small, serious and quirky accidental encounters and, for a moment, brings his protagonists to life on the screen. They appear so life-like in fact, that the observer feels as if they have known the subject for years. On stage, Gerling flips through the photos underneath a video camera lens and projects the images onto a screen – recounting the stories of those who let themselves be photographed. These magical studies inspire gentle but profound reflection upon the transitory nature of the moment and the significance of interpersonal encounters. The piece, “Images move, when carried around/ Portraits in Motion”, has attracted a cult-following in Berlin and has been invited to participate at numerous international theatre festivals throughout Europe.
On November 2013 Emily Carr University Library, READ Books and Unit/Pitt Projects brought Arnaud Desjardin to Vancouver. During his residency he worked in the library and presented an artist talk, led a workshop at READ, exhibited at Unit/Pitt Projects and launched his "Book on Books on Artists’ Books" at Satellite Gallery. Desjardin is a French artist, curator and publisher currently based in London. He describes his ongoing publication project The Everyday Press as a “channel for collaborations with artists, curators, writers and academics to produce acts of publication to be considered as art works.
All the Things I've Screwed Up So Far Eric Karjaluoto is a founding partner of smashLAB, a Vancouver-based Digital Agency. He concentrates on helping groups communicate effectively through strategic design and brand strategy. Eric is a vocal proponent of pragmatic design and methodology on his blog ideasonideas, where he writes about design, brands, and experience. In 2007 he spearheaded Design Can Change to unite designers and address climate change—an effort recognized in TIME’s Design 100. Eric speaks regularly at industry events for groups including AIGA, SEGD, GDC, and Johnson & Johnson. He received his BFA from Emily Carr ('95) and recently released his first book, Speak Human: Outmarket the Big Guys by Getting Personal. Follow "karj" on Twitter.
Adrian Stimson is a member of the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation in southern Alberta. He is an interdisciplinary artist with a BFA with distinction from the Alberta College of Art & Design and MFA from the University of Saskatchewan. As an interdisciplinary artist, Adrian’s work includes paintings called Tarred & Feathered Bison utilizing tar and feathers as a contemporary material, which speaks to ideas of punishment and identity and Bison Heart a black graphite and white oil paint series of Bison in the winter time. His installation work utilizes residential school fragments as a post-colonial investigation. He has created "Buffalo Boy," a character parody of Buffalo Bill. "Buffalo Boy's Wild West Peep Show", "Buffalo Boy’s Getting it from 4 directions” and “Buffalo Boy’s Battle of Little Big Horny” are performances that re-signify colonial history. Recent exhibits and performances include Brave Seduction, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Beyond Redemption, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Photo Quai, Musee du quai branly, Paris, Unmasking at the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, “Belle Sauvage & Buffalo Boy: Putting the Wild back into the West”, Plug In Institute, Winnipeg. Adrian recently completed the Canadian Forces Artist Program in Afghanistan, an exhibition of this work is scheduled for June 2011 at Neutral Ground in Regina. He is a regular participant at Burning Man and was featured in the 2007 summer issue of Canadian Art: Buffalo Boy at Burning Man and Spring issue of FUSE magazine: Buffalo Boy Then and Now 2009. Adrian was awarded the Blackfoot Visual Arts Award in 2009. The Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003 and the Alberta Centennial Medal in 2005 for his human rights and diversity activism in various communities. He currently lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Thinking in Z-Space: Flatness and Spatial Narrativity Ray Zone is an author, 3D film producer, speaker and award-winning 3D artist. An internationally recognized expert in all things 3D, Zone has a special interest in stereoscopic cinema and Large Format 3D (15/70) filmmaking. Zone has produced or published over 130 3D comic books. Since 1983, he has created stereo conversions and stereoscopic images for a wide variety of clients in publishing, education, advertising, television and motion pictures. Zone's website is viewable in anaglyphic 3D.
David Sherwin is a a Senior Interaction Designer at frog design, a global innovation firm, where he helps to guide the research, strategy, and design of novel products and services for some of today’s leading companies. He has worked at a wide range of creative agencies, from large design consultancies to smaller interactive agencies for Fortune 500 clients such as AT&T, Cingular Wireless, Holland America Line, Onyx, Microsoft, Toshiba, and many others. David is author of the books Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills (2010) and the forthcoming Design Business from A to Z (2012), both published by HOW Design Press. He is a frequent speaker and teacher on topics such as creative ideation, interaction design, and design business. He maintains the blog ChangeOrder: Business + Process of Design.
Emily Carr University of Art + Design proudly presents Liam Gillick, with Langara College Centre for Art in Public Spaces and Westbank & Peterson Group, as the final speaker in the 2009 Fall Speaker Series. Gillick is a New York and London-based artist who emerged in the 1990s in the midst of paradigmatic political and cultural change. In the past two decades, he has developed a highly influential artistic practice around a discursive model that complicates object production and raises key social questions. Solo exhibitions include The Museum of Modern Art, 2003; Palais de Tokyo, 2005; Witte de With, 2008. Group exhibitions include the documenta X 1997; Guggenheim Museum, 2004; 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009.
Lani Maestro is a Canadian artist born in Philippines who now divides her time between France and Canada. Maestro has been a Canadian representative to numerous international exhibitions including The Beppu Project, Beppu, Japan, (2009), 9th Sharjah Biennial Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2009), the Shanghai Biennial , Shanghai, China (2000), 11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (1998), 5th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (1997), Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia (1997) and Traversées/Crossings"at the National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa ,(1998). In 1986 Lani Maestro was awarded the Biennal Prize for her work in the Segunda Bienal de la Habana in Havana, Cuba. Recent solo exhibitiions include, je suis toi, Eglise Saint Nicholas , Wharf, Centre d'art contemporain de Bassse-Normandie, Caen, France (2006), Sing Mother (Twilight eats you), The Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, (2006) and currently,The Forgetting of Air in collaboration with Malcolm Goldstein at The Darling Foundry in Montreal until November 28, 2010. This talk is presented in conjunction with her rain, a new installation by Lani Maestro at Centre A from October 16 - December 4, 2010.
Presented in conjunction with Hot to Cold | Cold to Hot at the Charles H. Scott Gallery. Rubén Ortiz-Torres was born in Mexico City in 1964. Educated within the utopian models of republican Spanish anarchism soon confronted the tragedies and cultural clashes of post colonial third world. Being the son of a couple of Latin American folklore musicians he soon identified more with the noises of urban punk music. After giving up the dream of playing baseball in the major leagues and some architecture training (Harvard Graduate School of Design) he decided to study art. He went first to the oldest and one of the most academic art schools of the Americas (the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City) and later to one of the newest and more experimental (Calarts in Valencia CA). After enduring Mexico City's earthquake and pollution he moved to Los Angeles with a Fullbright grant to survive riots, fires, floods, more earthquakes, shootings and proposition 187. He still hangs around school but now as a Faculty member of the University of California in San Diego. During all this he has been able to produce artwork in the form of paintings, photographs, objects, sculptures, custom cars and machines, installations, videos, films, text and opera.
Emily Carr University of Art + Design proudly presents Alex Schweder, as part of the Fall 2009 Speaker Series. Alex Schweder is the 2005-2006 Rome Prize Fellow in Architecture. Since this time, Schweder has been experimenting with time and performance based architecture including Flatland at New York's Sculpture 2007, This Apple Tastes Like Our Living Room Used to Smell presented at Western Bridge in Seattle 2007, Melting Instructions presented at the Tacoma Art Museum 2007, Homing MacGuffin during New York's Homebase III project 2008, Its Form Will Follow Your Performance at Gallery Magnus Muller in Berlin 2009, Stability at Lawrimore Project 2009, Ours at the Jack Hanley Gallery, A Sac of Rooms All Day Long to be shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2009.
Emily Carr University of Art + Design proudly presents renowned artist Mona Hatoum, as part of the Fall 2009 Speaker Series. Hatoum is a Palestine artist born in Beirut. Her poetic and political oeuvre is realized in a range of media, including installations, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper. She has participated in numerous important group exhibitions including The Turner Prize (1995), Venice Biennale (1995 and 2005). Solo exhibitions include Centre Pompidou, Paris (1994), The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1998), Tate Britain, London (2000), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Magasin 3, Stockholm (2004) and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2005).
Emily Carr's Faculty of Visual Art and Material Practice and Presentation House Gallery are pleased to present an artist talk by Moyra Davey, on the occasion of her exhibition Ornament and Reproach, curated by John Goodwin at Satellite Gallery. Moyra Davey is an acclaimed photographer, writer, and filmmaker based in New York. Through an understated approach to photography and video, as well as her insightful critical writing on photography, she considers the meanings carried in everyday objects. Ornament and Reproach, the artist’s exhibition at Satellite Gallery, was organized by Presentation House Gallery and guest curated by John Goodwin who has worked with the artist since 1993. The exhibition provides an overview of Davey’s practice with early works including the multiple Money Box (1993), published by Shark Editions, New York, photographs from her Newsstand series (1993-94), Bottle Grid series (1996-2000), and video works. For her 2007 exhibition at goodwater in Toronto, she began producing photographic mailers that carry the physical traces of their journeys through the mail system, a practice that has continued for subsequent exhibitions. She has mailed over 1,000 photographs across the world. A new set of mailers – 27 folded photographs taken in Trinity Church Cemetery in upper Manhattan – were featured in the exhibition. Ornament and Reproach was accompanied by a new publication and limited edition titled Empties (2013), a 36-page book featuring images from Davey’s Bottle Grid series.
Culture + Community is an annual gathering of artists, and cultural practitioners, community leaders and citizens addressing and celebrating the current state of social practice and community arts practice. This year, the event was held in dialogue with New York-based Creative Time’s annual summit Art, Place and Dislocation in the 21st Century, which shares a focus on culture and the urban environment. By linking to Creative Time, Culture + Community aims to connect local and global discussions on community engaged arts and social practice as active ingredients in the construction and shaping of the contemporary city. On October 25th, visiting artist and educator Ted Purves delivered a keynote, Endless Occupations: Art, Social Forms and the World-at-Large. Day two of Culture + Community brings the debate to Vancouver, to consider the impact and implications – from gentrification to arts districts, public art space and urban planning – of artistic practices to making and remaking our city.
1024 Architecture work at the forefront of projection mapping to stage urban interventions, ephemeral installations and performances that survey the space between high and low-tech, sound and visuals, and art and architecture. Their practice has included such high-profile projects as Étienne de Crécy’s kaleidoscopic Cube, Vitalic’s VTLZR live show, Nuit Blanche Paris, and Crise at MUTEK 2013. They are the creators of MadMapper, an open source projection and LED mapping software designed to make projection mapping accessible to artists and designers. This talk is presented in conjunction with the Social +Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr and the New Forms Festival, with the support of the French Consulate of Vancouver. At New Forms 2013, 1024 Architecture (Pier Schneider, Francois Wunschel, Fernando Favier, Cinzia Campolese) will launch Live/Work HYPER-Cube, a media installation and performance made in collaboration with Vancouver artists Cedric Bomford, Innes Yates, and Reece Terris. In this work, a 10 metre cube made from scaffolding and construction materials becomes a habitable, experiential site for responsive projections and a live score by Paris-based musician Fernando Favier. Live/Work HYPER-Cube is curated by Kate Armstrong and Malcolm Levy for Revised Projects and will have its world premiere at the New Forms Festival on Friday, September 13, 2013 at 10pm. The talk is presented as part of the Emily Carr University of Art + Design series Communities, Contexts, and Collaborations: Imagining the New Art/Design/Media University.
Academy-Award winning production designer, AMADEUS. With a career spanning more than 40 years join us for an enthralling talk from one of cinema's most accomplished production designers. Patrizia Von Brandenstein began her film career in 1972, with a debut screen credit as a set decorator on the acclaimed drama THE CANDIDATE, and subsequently worked as both a scenic artist and costume designer, with credits including BETWEEN THE LINES and SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. In 1985, Von Brandenstein won the Academy Award for her vividly detailed rendering of the age of Mozart for AMADEUS. In 1987, Von Brandenstein received her third Oscar nomination for Brian De Palma’s THE UNTOUCHABLES, and further distinguished herself with her work on the teen musical BEAT STREET, the high-society drama SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION and a return to the West for THE QUICK AND THE DEAD
The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of London-based artist Zineb Sedira. The show is the only solo exhibition in the multi-part series The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea which explores our relationship to the sea. Born in France to Algerian parents, Sedira explores themes of mobility, transmission, oral history and colonial past through sea-related narratives. The Mediterranean Sea plays a significant role in the artist’s work as the site of historical, cultural and contemporary movement between North Africa and Europe. The exhibition at the Charles H. Scott Gallery will consist of two recent multi-disciplinary projects – Transmettre en abyme, 2012 and Lighthouse in the Sea of Time, 2011. In Lighthouse in the Sea of Time, Sedira turns her attention to lighthouses on the Algerian coastline. Through her exploration of these impressive structures and the objects and archival materials they contain, the artist reveals vestiges of colonial history. She also features interviews with contemporary lighthouse keepers telling their stories and providing insight into their lives on the edge of the sea. In Transmettre en abyme, the artist investigates an immense photographic archive documenting ships arriving and departing from the port of Marseille over a period of sixty years taken by Marcel Baudelaire, a “shipspotter” extraordinaire. The amassed images the archive contains speak of the endless flow of goods and human cargo transported by the vessels Baudelaire depicts. Zineb Sedira has exhibited her work internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. She was awarded the Chevalier des Ordres des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and is the founder of ARIA, an artist residency in Algiers. Her work is featured in collections such as the Tate Collection, Deutsche Bank Collection, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, and the Sharjah Art Museum Collection. She is represented by Galerie Kamel Mennour in Paris. The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part V is curated by Cate Rimmer. Zineb Sedira | The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part V March 13 to April 21, 2013
The TD Speaker Series presents Peter Bil’ak: Depth + Width Slovakian by birth, Peter Bil'ak is based in the Hague, Netherlands, and works in the field of editorial, graphic and type design and teaches at the Royal Academy of Arts. He heads the Typotheque Type Foundry in the Hague and co-founded the Indian Type Foundry in Ahmedabad, India. Bilak has an extensive publication history, including founding, editing and designing the art and design journal Dot Dot Dot. Most recently he has launched Works the Work, a magazine dedicated to practical, unexpected manifestations of creativity. Bil'ak's talk Depth + Width will take a look at the specialized practices that are evident in the current design world, and offer examples of an alternative model where seemingly unrelated disciplines can inform and enrich the work of smaller independent studios.
Spurred by concerns of sustainability, designers have been redefining design. New theories and ways of working have been emerging internationally over the past few years. Professor Anne Chick will discuss these important emerging territories of design and how they address larger societal challenges. Chick, after 10 years in design practice, became an academic to focus upon in the 'Design for Sustainability' agenda. She is author of numerous journal papers, book chapters and two books; The Graphic Designer's Greenbook (1992), and Design for Sustainable Change (2011). She was also an expert advisor to the Design Museum for their Sustainable Futures travelling exhibition (2010). She is currently Professor of Design and Senior Academic at the University of Lincoln (UK) as well as Visiting Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada. In 2009, Design Week magazine identified Chick as one of the most influential advocates of sustainable design in Europe.
Raymond Boisjoly is an aboriginal artist of Haida and Québécois descent based in Vancouver, BC. His practice engages the representation of Aboriginality through vernacular materials, photography and especially text-based work combining contemporary craft, pop references and street art with various cultural signifiers of traditional Northwest Coast imagery. His talk will consider the varied intersections of history, technology, and cultural practice as the central concern of his current work at the beginning of his residency at the Burrard Marina Fieldhouse and in conjunction with the presentation of two new commissions at the Contemporary Art Gallery.
Emily Carr as part of the TD Speaker Series/Designer in Residence Program welcomes Kate Fletcher an international thought leader and researcher on sustainable fashion and textiles. Over the last 15 years, Kate's original thinking and progressive outlook has infused the field of fashion, textiles and sustainability with design thinking, and come to define it. Kate is one of the founders of the ‘slow fashion’ movement and instigator of directional sustainability projects, including Local Wisdom, which has engaged hundreds of people worldwide with the ‘craft of use’ and ‘post-growth’ fashion and was shortlisted for the Observer Ethical Awards in 2010. Join us on for an inspiring talk: Thursday, January 17th, 2013 at 7pm in the South Building, Room 301, Emily Carr 1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island More About Kate Fletcher Urban by birth with an ecological spirit, Kate Fletcher’s work is both rooted in nature’s principles and engaged with the cultural and creative forces of fashion and design. She is also founder of the design for sustainability consultancy Slow Fashion where she works with companies, educational establishments and non-governmental organizations to foster change towards sustainability. Kate has over 50 scholarly and popular publications in the field. She is author of Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys (2008). Readers call it “inspiring,” “the foundation for a radical new perspective” and “a bible” and it is in active use in commercial design studios and is the principal text in academic seminar rooms around the world. She is also co-author of Fashion and Sustainability: Design for Change (2012). Kate is Reader in Sustainable Fashion at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion where she has a broad remit spanning enterprise, education and research. Her strategic leadership permeates the Centre’s activities, including its role as co-secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion at the House of Lords.
The TD Guest Speaker/Designer in Residence Program and Emily Carr are proud to present designer and Project M Founder, John Bielenberg and his featured talk, When Wrong is Right. In 2003, John created an immersive program called Project M that is designed to inspire and educate young designers, writers, photographers, and filmmakers by proving that their work—especially their “wrongest” thinking—can have a significant impact on communities. Since 2003, Project M has developed projects in Alabama, Baltimore, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Detroit, Germany, Ghana, Iceland, Maine, Minneapolis, and New Orleans. In his career, John has won more than 250 design awards, is an AIGA Fellow, has been featured in the ID 50, and teaches at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has acquired six of his projects and staged a solo exhibition in 2000. In 2011, John collaborated with Alex and Ana Bogusky and Rob Schuham to form COMMON, a brand that supports, connects and celebrates those designing a new era of socially minded enterprise. Most recently, John has partnered with long-time collaborator Greg Galle to launch a new firm called FUTURE that engages with organizations, institutions and companies that believe benefiting people, communities, society, and the environment is the new advantage in business.
October 21, 2011 - 4:15pm - 10:00pm Crossing Over: Painting A Critical Conversation is a two-part symposium taking place at both the Richmond Art Gallery and Emily Carr University of Art + Design. PART 1 Professor Landon Mackenzie and Associate Professor Glen Lowry in conversation followed by Associate Professor Dennis Burke with Soundscape to Paintings. Thursday, October 20, 2011 | 7 – 9pm PART 2 Four sets of conversations with Damian Moppett (92), Allan Switzer (92), Vanessa Disler (11), Eli Bornowsky (05), Jesse Garbe (04), Sean Weisgerber (09), current fourth year student Tiffin Breen, Sessional Faculty member Neil Campbell and Associate Professor, Elizabeth McIntosh.
October 21, 2011 - 4:15pm - 10:00pm Crossing Over: Painting A Critical Conversation is a two-part symposium taking place at both the Richmond Art Gallery and Emily Carr University of Art + Design. PART 1 Professor Landon Mackenzie and Associate Professor Glen Lowry in conversation followed by Associate Professor Dennis Burke with Soundscape to Paintings. Thursday, October 20, 2011 | 7 – 9pm PART 2 Four sets of conversations with Damian Moppett (92), Allan Switzer (92), Vanessa Disler (11), Eli Bornowsky (05), Jesse Garbe (04), Sean Weisgerber (09), current fourth year student Tiffin Breen, Sessional Faculty member Neil Campbell and Associate Professor, Elizabeth McIntosh.
October 21, 2011 - 4:15pm - 10:00pm Crossing Over: Painting A Critical Conversation is a two-part symposium taking place at both the Richmond Art Gallery and Emily Carr University of Art + Design. PART 1 Professor Landon Mackenzie and Associate Professor Glen Lowry in conversation followed by Associate Professor Dennis Burke with Soundscape to Paintings. Thursday, October 20, 2011 | 7 – 9pm PART 2 Four sets of conversations with Damian Moppett (92), Allan Switzer (92), Vanessa Disler (11), Eli Bornowsky (05), Jesse Garbe (04), Sean Weisgerber (09), current fourth year student Tiffin Breen, Sessional Faculty member Neil Campbell and Associate Professor, Elizabeth McIntosh.
October 21, 2011 - 4:15pm - 10:00pm Crossing Over: Painting A Critical Conversation is a two-part symposium taking place at both the Richmond Art Gallery and Emily Carr University of Art + Design. PART 1 Professor Landon Mackenzie and Associate Professor Glen Lowry in conversation followed by Associate Professor Dennis Burke with Soundscape to Paintings. Thursday, October 20, 2011 | 7 – 9pm PART 2 Four sets of conversations with Damian Moppett (92), Allan Switzer (92), Vanessa Disler (11), Eli Bornowsky (05), Jesse Garbe (04), Sean Weisgerber (09), current fourth year student Tiffin Breen, Sessional Faculty member Neil Campbell and Associate Professor, Elizabeth McIntosh.
March 7, 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm The TD Guest Speaker/Designer in Residence Program and Emily Carr are proud to present designer, researcher and writer, Maggie Breslin and her featured talk, Smaller Sanities: A Design Practice in Healthcare. Maggie pioneered the role of designer/researcher at the Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation when she joined in 2005, and she leads research, design and development efforts around topics as diverse as decision-making, risk communication, integrated practice models, remote care, caregiving and minimally disruptive medicine. She has published in journals ranging from Design Issues to Archives of Internal Medicine, and holds a Masters of Design from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Mass Communications, Film and Television, from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 The TD Guest Speaker/Designer in Residence Program and Emily Carr are proud to present interactive designer, researcher and writer, Brenda Laurel and her featured talk, Authorship in Interactive Media: Reflections on 35 Years of Change. Brenda Laurel serves as Professor and Chair of the Graduate Program in Design at California College of the Arts and has worked in interactive media since 1976. She chaired the Graduate Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena ('02-'06) and was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Labs ('05-'06). Based on her research in gender and technology at Interval Research ('92-'96), she co-founded Purple Moon in 1996 to create interactive media for girls. Her books include The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design ('90), Computers as Theatre ('91), Utopian Entrepreneur ('01), and Design Research: Methods and Perspectives ('04). Her most recent writing, “Gaian IxD”, was the cover article in the September/October 2011 issue of the journal Interactions. She earned her BA ('72) from DePauw University and her MFA ('75) and PhD ('86) in Theatre from the Ohio State University.Brenda Laurel - TD Guest Speaker / Designer in Residence Program
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 The TD Guest Speaker/Designer in Residence Program and Emily Carr are proud to present designer and Project M Founder, John Bielenberg and his featured talk, When Wrong is Right. In 2003, John created an immersive program called Project M that is designed to inspire and educate young designers, writers, photographers, and filmmakers by proving that their work—especially their “wrongest” thinking—can have a significant impact on communities. Since 2003, Project M has developed projects in Alabama, Baltimore, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Detroit, Germany, Ghana, Iceland, Maine, Minneapolis, and New Orleans. In his career, John has won more than 250 design awards, is an AIGA Fellow, has been featured in the ID 50, and teaches at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has acquired six of his projects and staged a solo exhibition in 2000. In 2011, John collaborated with Alex and Ana Bogusky and Rob Schuham to form COMMON, a brand that supports, connects and celebrates those designing a new era of socially minded enterprise. Most recently, John has partnered with long-time collaborator Greg Galle to launch a new firm called FUTURE that engages with organizations, institutions and companies that believe benefiting people, communities, society, and the environment is the new advantage in business.
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm The TD Guest Speaker/Designer in Residence Program and Emily Carr are proud to present educator, researcher and designer, Cameron Tonkinwise and his featured talk, Redesigning Freedom for Sustainability. Cameron Tonkinwise (Ph.D., University of Sydney) is Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Sustainability at Parsons The New School for Design. He was formerly the co-Chair of the Tishman Environment and Design Center. Before coming to The New School, Tonkinwise was the Director of Design Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, and prior to that, Executive Officer of Change Design, a not-for-profit independent research organization (formerly EcoDesign Foundation). His doctoral research concerned the educational theories of Martin Heidegger and he continues to investigate what the ontological philosophy of Heidegger can teach designers. His current research focuses on 'dematerialization design' - enhancing societal sustainability by facilitating less materials-intense lifestyles through design. This work involves a number of funded research projects exploring service design, design fostering sustainable behavior, and the relation between design and social capital. Tonkinwise is currently researching product sharing, both commercial and non-commercial. In this presentation, Tonkinwise will argue that a more comprehensive understanding of the role of designing, designs and service will affect how freedom is experienced in everyday life. This will afford better ways of defining what it might mean to be free within more sustainable futures.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 The TD Guest Speaker/Designer in Residence Program and Emily Carr are proud to present Todd Falkowsky and his featured talk, Canadian Design in Four Parts. Explore Canadian design today, where it came from and how we can use the distinct advantages of practicing here to hit the global marketplace. Why should we care? Where does it start? What is going on now? 5 advantages for Canadian design Principal of citizen brand, Todd Falkowsky is a renowned design consultant and is an oft-cited source on Canadian design. He was an associate professor at Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU) and has consulted with some of the world's leading agencies and brands, including Wolff Olins, Ferrari and IKEA. His work has spanned continents and mediums from product design to exhibit curation and is co-founder of the Canadian Design Resource. His latest art/design project, PennySmash, was just launched at Vancouver Art Gallery. The TD Guest Speaker/Designer in Residence Program provides opportunities for Emily Carr to invite world-renowned experts in their field to the University, exposing students to an extraordinary range of knowledge across the spectrum of design. TD has generously donated $50,000 over a three-year period as part of their commitment to support education.
Presentation House Gallery and Emily Carr University of Art + Design are pleased to present an artist talk by Paris-born, Berlin-based artist Cyprien Gaillard. Between iconoclasm and minimal aesthetics, romanticism and Land Art, the work of Cyprien Gaillard questions man’s traces in nature with an archeological approach to recent history. Through sculpture, painting, etching, photography, video, performance and large-scale interventions in public space, Gaillard examines the relics of our built environment with an entropic view of destruction as the starting point of renewal. Gaillard’s most recent work Artefact is a film shot on the artist’s iPhone and later transferred to 35mm film. The film traces the ancient city of Babylon (near the current city of Al-Hillah in Iraq) cut with a snippet of David Grey’s song ‘Babylon’ as the score. The work won the 2011 Publikumspreis (people’s choice prize) in Germany’s Young Art Prize exhibition at Berlin’s Hamburgerbahnhof. In The Recovery of Discovery, Gaillard notoriously built a pyramid out of 72,000 bottles of beer at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and invited visitors to contribute to the work by drinking it. As Gaillard states:. “The physical hangover is also an architectural one, from which one has to recover.” Gaillard was recently awarded the 2010 Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s most prestigious award for contemporary visual arts. Cyprien Gaillard’s talk is presented in collaboration with Emily Carr University and with the gracious support of the Consulat général de France à Vancouver. He is represented by Spruth Magers Gallery, Berlin.
The Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice, Emily Carr University of Art and Design and the Canadian Photographic Portfolio Society Present: Through the Lens: Photography and Contemporary Art is a CPPS Panel Discussion featuring Mark Lewis, Liz Magor, Marianne Nicolson, and Ian Wallace, moderated by Kathleen Ritter. One could argue that, out of any technological changes, the advent of photography in the mid-nineteenth century has most fundamentally altered the way we see the world around us. Photography’s influence in our daily lives has been pervasive, and its growing ubiquity and impact over the course of the twentieth century has been intimately tied to systems of belief, power, and ideology. In short, one can no longer help but see the world through a lens. Likewise, photography’s impact on art has been profound. Of particular interest are the ways in which other traditional art forms have responded to the development of photography. How has painting changed to accommodate or reject photography? How does sculpture revision itself in relation to photographic ways of seeing? For artists working across media, what role does photography play in the changing modes of representation? A one-night panel discussion, moderated by Kathleen Ritter (‘00), is structured around a question posed to four artists—Mark Lewis (’11 D.Litt), Liz Magor (’71), Marianne Nicolson (’96), and Ian Wallace (former professor ’72-‘98)—who work across disciplines: What role does photography play in your practice? Tuesday, September 13, 2011 | 7-9pm Emily Carr Lecture Theatre | Room 301, South Building Artists Mark Lewis, Liz Magor, Marianne Nicolson, Ian Wallace
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