Visions Newsletter - Winter 2009 - Emily Carr University of Art +

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Winter 2009
published by emily carr’s university advancement office
Students
Create Winning
Design for Visa
Beverly Cramp
When faced with the challenge of creating the local
marketing campaign for the upcoming 2010 Olympic
and Paralympic games, Visa wanted to embrace both
the excitement of the games and the unique identity of
the host region. They looked no further than tapping
into the talent of one of Canada’s oldest art and design
universities. Students from both the communication
and industrial design programs were asked to create
something that would capture this for its worldwide
sponsorship of the games.
For the students, this represented a rare opportunity to
experience the high-energy domain of super-branding
on a world stage. In return, Visa benefited from the
fresh views of art and design students well practiced in
thinking outside-the-box.
“Real world projects give students an understanding of
the entrenched and the flexible parameters inherent in
an assignment that has wide-reaching ramifications in
terms of cultural meaning, cost of production and
purpose, to name a few,” says Casey Hrynkow,
sessional design instructor.
The Client + The Campaign
Visa is the world’s largest retail electronic payments
network with products including consumer credit, debit,
prepaid and commercial payments that are accepted in
more than 200 countries and territories. Since 1986,
Visa’s sponsorship of the Olympic Games has supported
thousands of Olympic and Paralympic athletes, resulting
in marketing exposure to a worldwide audience.
Visa’s global Olympic-themed marketing campaign, Go
World, celebrates athleticism and human triumph
through the unique stories of Visa-sponsored athletes. It
enables Visa to connect with both cardholders and
Olympic fans by customizing the campaign to maximize
local relevance.
“We are looking at it in a celebratory way, with images of
the athletes and the spectators in the stands who are
jubilant about their team winning,” says Tom Corbeth,
who’s responsible for managing Visa’s Brand Presence
and Merchant Activation for the 2010 Olympic and
Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
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Students an update from the
Create Winning president + vice-Chancellor
design for visa
Dr. Ron Burnett, RCA
Climate Change Research
// Continued From page 1 A new policy on emily Carr has done well attracting research funds to
sustainability recently support innovation and research in our areas of expertise.
passed by emily Carr’s The national Sciences and engineering Research Council
“We also have to focus our sponsorship on Senate, further reinforces recently awarded us 2.8 million dollars, the first nSeRC
local relevance and leverage it in such a way our commitment to grant ever to a creative institution. We also signed an
that embraces the host region. Go World is a sustainable practices in all agreement with the former George Lucas company,
global campaign; our aim is to incorporate the aspects of the university’s Industrial Light and Magic, now known as Kerner, to create
host region by including imagery and themes operations. Climate change a centre of excellence in 3D research and development at
that are typically British Columbian.” is a very serious issue at emily Carr. We are the Canadian leaders in developing 3D
emily Carr and is both technology for entertainment and health applications.
The Brief taught and reflected upon
Corbeth presented this design challenge to six in many of our courses. We Visual Arts
student teams in emily Carr’s Design 323 are a creative community and it is our responsibility to Our successes in the visual arts particularly in painting
course, specially titled Go. Design! each team of use our collective talents to tackle this issue for the are well known. To win the RBC painting competition for
three students worked to develop their own benefit of British Columbians and Canadians. We will the third year in a row is simply amazing. This Canada-
interpretation of Visa’s global campaign. Teams foster enquiry into sustainability through teaching, wide competition attracts hundreds of entries. We are
consisted of two industrial design and one research, creative practices and the university very proud of Brenda Draney, one of our Masters grads
communication design student. experience. Our intention is to stimulate debate both in for winning this award. The visual arts are central to the
our own community and among our peers at the success of emily Carr.
“The brief was to look at Go World, understand university level as well as with communities in BC. We
the local market and bring the two together. intend to lead by example and link innovation to Royal Society of Canada
They needed to combine athletic imagery, sustainable ideas and practices. emily Carr is privileged to be part of the Royal Society of
celebratory imagery and the look and feel that Canada. Recently, we hosted a Governor General’s
is British Columbia,” says Corbeth. Campbell River lecture on behalf of the Royal Society by Supreme Court
I was recently invited to speak to the Chamber of Justice, Rosalie Abella. It was a wonderful event with an
In particular, Corbeth wanted an eye catching Commerce in Campbell River. An overflow audience extraordinary speech from Madame Justice. It is our
point of sale (POS) piece that would sit next to listened to my presentation about the Creative Industries hope that we will soon have Fellows elected to the
the till in retail environments ranging from and the Creative sector in Canada and BC. They were Royal Society.
restaurants and hotels to apparel stores. surprised to learn that taking into account the
Typically, POS promotional materials include substantial direct, indirect, and induced contributions of Part of the excitement of being a member of the emily
items such as posters, decals or cardboard- the arts and culture industries, the Conference Board of Carr community is that we host many events and
engineered displays. However, the emily Carr Canada estimates that the culture sector’s economic speakers every month. Readers of Visions are invited to
teams designed solutions that met Visa’s needs footprint was $84.6 billion in 2007, constituting 7.4 per visit www.ecuad.ca for a list of events, most of which are
in far more creative ways. cent of Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP). They open to the public.
were also surprised to learn that there are 1.8 million
“The students were given very thorough people in Canada working in the creative sector. At emily
briefings and guidance from Tom Corbeth at Carr, this does not surprise us at all. For nearly 85 years
Visa,” says Hrynkow. “The changes and we have witnessed the incredible contributions our
adaptations which the students needed to graduates have been making to the world of the arts, to
make were quite realistic and gave them a design and to media.
much better understanding of the ‘messiness’
of the real world of communication design.”
A Winning Design
The student design teams each chose different
adam Lupton designs
visual aspects that uniquely defined British
Columbia. Themes included mountains, the
natural beauty of the region, aboriginal
for holt renfrew
heritage and some of the instantly recognizable
architectural icons of Vancouver.
The innovative and inspired winning design Amanda Connor
was a snow globe designed by students Adrien
Guenette, Isabel Lau and Scott Piekema. This Walking into a major department store and seeing one of Lupton, whose passion lies in t-shirt design, said he was
interactive piece stood out from the standard your creations for sale must be the epitome of glamour for delighted with the win and the associated exposure it has
POS form and offered an engaging visual to the any young designer. created for him. He plans to travel after graduation and to
viewer. It celebrates West Coast culture by pursue a career in design.
replacing the traditional base of the globe with Fourth-year emily Carr student, Adam Lupton, has already
a rock cast from an original found on Stanley realized this dream — having had one of his designs In Vancouver, Lupton’s t-shirts can be purchased from
Park beaches. The overarching theme was the recently win a national t-shirt design contest. The coup Planet Claire, in Gastown, as well as Holt Renfrew. To see
exhilaration of ‘movement’, which is saw him secure sought-after shelf space at high-end more of Lupton’s work, visit www.alupton.com.
represented by the water motion and free- retailer, Holt Renfrew for men’s and women’s versions of
floating snowflakes. The imaginative play on the limited edition shirt.
the snow theme for the Winter Olympic games
was a stroke of genius. The competition was hosted by Los
Angeles-based fashion label, Modern
The globe not only reflects BC, the Olympic Amusement in association with Holt
Games and Visa, it is playful. “I was surprised at Renfrew, which carries the line across
what the students came up with,” says Canada. Inspired by hand-drawn design
Corbeth, who found the experience invaluable. and typography, Lupton constructed his
“The whole process for me was absolutely prose to a Bob Dylan song’s tempo for
glorious. I had an amazing time and found the his creation, the words of which he
students incredibly engaging.” wrapped around a profile sketch of a
crow — the brand’s logo.
Let the Games begin!
His design beat 475 others across
Canada to be publicly voted as one of
the top three selections presented to
Modern Amusement, who then went
on to choose Lupton’s submission as
the winning entry. adam Lupton and hiS Winning t-Shirt deSign
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designing for better healthcare
emily Carr’s Collaboration with bC Children’s hospital
Lola Augustine Brown
A chance encounter between Dr. Ron Burnett, emily
Carr’s President + Vice-Chancellor, and Dr niranjan
Kissoon, VP Medical Affairs at BC Children’s Hospital,
has led to an exciting collaborative project that is sure
to have positive outcomes for both institutions. The
pair were seated together on a flight from europe, and
by the time the plane landed, had decided to try and
work together.
Associate Professor Jim Budd and the design faculty,
along with three graduate and two undergraduate
students, took on the task of exploring how design
could be used in hospitals, particularly children’s
hospitals. The subsequent report lists a variety of
multi-disciplinary projects that could be carried out
over several years. “This has led to a five-year
collaborative research agreement between Children’s
Hospital and ourselves,” says Dr. Rob Inkster, emily
Carr’s Director of Research and Industry Liaison.
Several projects have already begun; for the first
project, students are teaming up with local company
GuardRFID, to develop a tagging system using radio bCCh viSuaL Summary
frequency identification (RFID). This system will track
patients through the emergency Room, from the time system. The system could also be used to give instant “It’s an opportunity to link the university with the
they enter triage to when they are seen by a clinician— access to vital information—for example, physicians could outside world and the community around us. This
the idea is to reduce paperwork for caregivers, and view a triage list on their iPhone. project has the potential to achieve enormous results,
improve the experience for children and families. “Our to be a great learning opportunity for the students, and
faculty and students are mocking up different scenarios Another project includes the use of a computer gaming to expand the contribution that emily Carr makes to a
in the eR with these tags, and then we’ll make engine to simulate the processes in the hospital, new area of design and design research,” says Inkster.
recommendations to the hospital on how to move allowing researchers at the hospital and the university
forward.” says Inkster. to study the system without the direct involvement of Kara Pecknold, one of the grad students who worked
patients or caregivers. on the initial report, says that she loves the idea that
The second project concerns the design of a hospital design can move into arenas of very large and complex
communications system based on a mobile platform such Industrial design students and faculty at emily Carr have problems. “When I am pushed to look at the relevance
as the iPhone. Such a system could be used to connect had a long history of passionate engagement with of my field and discipline as it relates to public spaces,
users to a central messaging system, which currently healthcare (they have worked with the GF Strong such as with this project, that to me is really exciting.
doesn’t exist. This could improve communications within Rehabilitation centre for the past 14 years). Projects It is an incredible opportunity,” says Pecknold.
the hospital in various ways—one example being that such as these give students the opportunity to put their
people could be paged silently, according to who was on design skills to work in practical settings, work with
duty and closest at the time, using a georeferencing clients and become better designers.
alumni receive bC Creative achievement awards Sam Carter + the Carter
Wosk bC Creative
Robin Laurence
achievement award
A big crowd was on hand this fall to honour the winners
of the 2009 British Columbia Creative Achievement
Awards and—no surprise, really, given the immense Robin Laurence
talent that is nurtured within our walls—emily Carr
alumni stood tall at the event. Furniture designer Judson Among those honoured at the BC Creative
Beaumont (85) and industrial designer Robert Johnston Achievement Awards ceremony on September 21 was
(98) each won awards that honour the best of applied art emily Carr Associate Professor Sam Carter. Carter
and design in the province. wasn’t given an award, exactly, but Carter’s name
will be included on the juried awards for the next five
Beaumont, owner and designer of Straight Line Designs years . BC Achievement Foundation chair Keith
Inc., has gained wide acclaim for his inventive limited- Mitchell announced that philanthropist Dr. Yosef
edition furniture and custom-built environments. Their Wosk will fund the awards, now called ‘The Carter
whimsical shapes and colours reveal the inspiration of Wosk British Columbia Creative Achievement Award
everything from Dr. Seuss drawings to Frank Gehry L-r: Sam Carter, JudSon beaumont, robert JohnSton for Applied Art and Design.”
architecture. At a time before furniture design was
taught at emily Carr, Beaumont studied sculpture with ran the model shop for the industrial design department,” Dr. Wosk was applauded for his generous and visionary
Rick Ross, Mike Banwell and Ruth Beer and cites them, he recalls. “However, he was an incredibly experienced support of the arts, while Carter was cited for his
along with emily Carr Associate Professor Sam Carter, as industrial designer and had lots of great stories and exceptional contribution to creativity, education and
important influences. advice.” Immediately after graduating, Johnston landed a curation in the design field. “I was surprised and
job with a medical company, then went to work for Karo honoured that Dr. Wosk selected me to be part of the
“Art school taught me to think differently,” he says. “I Design, becoming Senior Industrial Designer there before name of this prestigious award,” Carter says.
always try to create designs that no one has ever seen forming his own company, Tangram Design, in 2006.
before.” Recently, Beaumont has been working with wood With degrees in art, design and landscape architecture,
altered by the mountain pine beetle infestation, “I mostly work on consumer products and equipment that Carter began teaching at the Vancouver School of Art
incorporating aspects of it into a range of furniture pieces. have some sort of technology involved in them,” Johnston (now emily Carr) in 1973. He was originally hired to work
He began by cutting out blue-stained portions from an says of his wide range of accomplishments. His recent on the establishment of the design program, he recalls.
unpromising pile of 2 X 4’s, then putting these odd projects include personal fuel cell products, electric eventually, the interdisciplinary courses he created
extractions into a tumbler. “The end products were like bicycles, medical testing equipment and compostable fruit became the first year Foundation program. Carter has
beautiful river rocks that highlighted the great blue packaging. “I have an interest in connecting people to also spent years energetically organizing exhibitions
colour,” Beaumont explains. “That was the starting point technology through design,” he says. “I’m currently doing and projects showcasing the design and applied art of
for many projects to come.” some research in my spare time on computer-generated BC, Canada and the Pacific Rim. “My commitment to
algorithms, patterns and forms and how they might be design, craft and applied arts,” he says, “has to do with
Johnston, who studied industrial design at emily Carr, cites integrated into a consumer product.” With a smile, using the resources that surround us, both human and
Brian Keane as an important influence. “At that time, Brian Johnston adds, “It’s more interesting than it sounds.” natural, to create a society in harmony.”
emiLy Carr univerSity oF art + deSign 3
high performance Code Live
an exhibition of Amy Clausen
Canadian design emily Carr university of Art + Design is proud to be hosting CODe Live during the 2010 Olympic period. Code Live
is an 18-day, landmark event with visual art exhibitions, music and performances fuelled by digital technology
and audience involvement. Live events are happening between February 4 and 21 at both emily Carr and the
Robin Laurence Great northern Way Campus.
Join us at emily Carr for world-class digital and interactive installations, and arts engagement experiences for
the whole family!
Projects include:
• We Are Stardust (George LeGrady): A two-screen projection installation that juxtaposes deep space as
captured by a nASA telescope and the viewer’s location in the gallery via an infrared camera.
• Electromode: An exploration of electronic fashion focusing on Canada’s pioneer designers in the field. using
microcomputers, sensors and other responsive material, electromode allows audiences to interact with
clothing in a whole new way.
• glisten/Hive (Julie Andreyev, Associate Professor): uses mobile phones to engage in a worldwide discussion
about our modern relationships with animals. Designed to mimic the patterns of a beehive, it creates a
above: parametriC truSS by CampoSLeCkie Studio swarm of ideas about our fascination with furry critters the world over.
beLoW: CerveLo S3 FrameSet by CerveLo CyCLeS
More information, including program schedule, will be available at vancouver2010.com/code.
Code.lab
Amy Clausen
CODe.lab, emily Carr’s inaugural artists-in-residence
project, will be a large-scale participatory artwork
situated in the university’s Intersections Digital
A couple of years ago, Charles H. Scott Gallery director/ Studios. The lab serves as a research and
curator Greg Bellerby was bouncing ideas around with a development centre during the 2009/2010 school
colleague. What gallery-generated exhibition, he year and the project and its contents will inform the
wondered, would best complement the 2010 Winter culture and future curricula of emily Carr degree and
Olympic Games? “Rather than doing a visual art Continuing Studies courses.
exhibition, I was thinking we should do some kind of
design exhibition,” he says. “Then the light bulb went CODe.lab is a space for dialogue around
on: the Olympics, sports—why don’t we do something documentation of the public sphere and the
around sports design?” In that moment, “High relationship between the observer and the
Performance: evolution and Innovation in Canadian observed. The project and its participants will
Design” was conceived. engage with the emily Carr community and visitors
to Granville Island in the larger CODe Live event. A
Organized by Bellerby and scheduled to run at the multi-channel installation will connect with a
Charles H. Scott Gallery from January 19 to March 7, distributed system of live-capture nodes
2010 as part of the Cultural Olympiad, the show draws throughout the island. At these roaming nodes,
from the country’s best products in the sports and visitors will interact with artists/students through a
recreation field. not just good design, Bellerby suite of innovative engagement strategies that will
continues, but design that exemplifies “aesthetic, SkorpionS, Joanna berzoWSka and di mainStone generate dynamic live images captured from the
cultural and economic considerations that are uniquely photo: niCo Stinghe surrounding environment.
Canadian.” These are objects that demonstrate ways in
which Canadian designers have taken sports products, CODe.lab will:
many of them integral to our national conditions and
resources, and boosted them into an international realm • act as a bridge, promoting cross-pollination between diverse practices such as Industrial and
of excellence, endurance and innovation. Communication Design, Integrated Media and Performance, Photography, and Critical Studies;
Bellerby cites some of the show’s stellar and “iconic” • expose a range of new media / interdisciplinary contemporary art practitioners and discourse both globally
works, including GV Showshoes produced by Huron and locally;
nation artisans in Wendake, Quebec; a dog racing sled
designed by Hans Gatt out of Whitehorse, Yukon; and a • provide critical and technological resources for students and faculty;
snow saw created by local designer and emily Carr
sessional instructor ernest McCrank. Bellerby also notes • promote interactivity, participation and contribution to the overall artwork, and create a dialogue around
that not every one of the 13 designs featured in the new creative technologies.
show has to do with winter sports and recreation.
There’s also a world-class racing bike frame by Cervelo CODe.lab is led by new media artists M. Simon Levin and Jer Thorpe.
Cycles of Toronto; a major-league baseball bat made of
eastern Canadian maple wood, designed by Sam
Holman of Ottawa; an award-winning ‘Amphib’
backpack designed by extreme sportsman and emily
Carr grad Andrew Bryden (00); and a folding kayak,
designed by Granville Island-based Doug Simpson for
Feathercraft Kayaks.
“The Feathercraft folding kayak is probably the lightest,
most efficient, and fastest folding kayak in the world,”
Bellerby enthuses. And yes, it is ideally suited to pack
deep into the Canadian wilderness. Still, he likes the idea
of bundling it up, flying it to Venice, and paddling it
down the Grand Canal. “That’s truly an innovation.”
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brenda draney
Winner, rbC Canadian painting Competition
Robin Laurence
When emily Carr graduate Brenda Draney (09) was is based on what is missing, and that absence is
notified last June that she was one of 16 semi-finalists important and present in my work,” she says.
in the eleventh annual RBC Canadian Painting
Competition, her reaction was truly humble. “I was The first Aboriginal student to graduate from emily
really surprised they chose me,” she told the media. Carr’s Master of Applied Arts program, Draney grew up
“Really pleased, but really surprised.” Pleasure and in Slave Lake, Alberta and earned a BA in english
surprise were amplified on October 7 when her painting, literature and a BFA in painting at the university of
Aim Is Important, was chosen as the winning entry, Alberta before arriving in Vancouver in 2007. Since
garnering her a prize of $25,000. graduating, she has returned to edmonton and will be
attending Towards Language, a thematic residency at
Draney’s work, which minimally depicts a dart player the Banff Centre in January 2010.
and his target, was described by one of the
competition jurors as “all about an economy of Draney is the fourth emily Carr graduate—and the
means.” Speaking with Leah Sandals of the national third in the last three years—to carry off top prize in
Post, artist John Kissick added, “It’s not just about a the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Previous
dart player throwing a dart but the placement of paint winners include etienne Zack (00), who won in 2005,
on canvas.” In a recent posting on the ALFA website, Arabella Campbell (02), who won in 2007, and Jeremy
Draney explains that her interest is in memory, how it Hof (07), who won in 2008. Also impressive was that brenda draney, aim iS important
manifests itself within families, communities and two of this year’s semi-finalists, Julie Beugin (04) of
cultures, and how the negative space on the canvas Montreal and Daniel Hutchinson (04) of Halifax, are
may evoke what is forgotten or covered up. “narrative also emily Carr alumni.
emily Carr puts designs on lululemon athletica
Amanda Connor
There is something refreshingly different about the industry partners for the past three years. Two MAA grad Helene Day Fraser is currently developing a
lululemon athletica lab located near the intersection of students each year take on various co-op and sustainability-based curriculum which would make
West Broadway and Cambie. internship opportunities within the company, in the use of the lululemon space. ‘Students have been quick
areas of design assistance, materials management, to register for the class, and there’s a full wait list’,
A colourful array of thread and fabric adorn the front community relations and photography. says Whitworth.
window and rows of sewing machines sit just behind.
And then there is the artwork featured in the tall glass The latest opportunity could not have been made Whitworth adds. “It’s an exciting time for the Research
shopfront, the reason for my visit to the store today. possible without a natural Sciences and engineering + Industry Liaison team at emily Carr and we are very
Research Council (nSeRC) five-year grant of $2.3M. The appreciative of nSeRC and lululemon’s support.”
Thousands of people have walked past Redefining funding is supporting faculty
Relationships, a painting by fourth-year emily Carr research time, class projects
student, Hayley Hunt-Brondwin since it was installed a and student co-ops within the
few months ago. Those who have entered the store will community-focused company
have discovered another three of Hunt-Brondwin’s next year.
pieces hanging inside.
Dawn Whitworth, emily Carr’s
This is not a typical lululemon store. It’s a lab, a design Manager of Research +
studio and a concept store in one. It’s the first of its Industry, says the partnership
kind for the Vancouver yoga apparel manufacturer, with lululemon athletica has
famous for its popular black stretchy pants and other already played a vital role in
workout gear. the professional development
of students and will continue
A small design team, as well as a sewing team are based to do so into the future. “The
here. The idea is that new designs can be sketched, lululemon lab space is very
sampled and then sold in the lab, providing guests with dynamic,” she says. It offers
the opportunity to provide instant feedback. great exposure for students
and their work, as well as
Melissa Content, lululemon lab manager, says the public interaction.”
artwork has provided a real conversation piece for
guests and staff. “It is definitely having an impact. I As well as the Lab project,
would estimate that I have a discussion about the art Whitworth says an emily Carr
with a customer every single day,” she says. student is in the research
phase of designing installations
“The artwork helps to make the Lab an ‘aspiring’ for ivivva athletica, lululemon’s
environment. The space is evolving all the time and the latest brand that has been
mood changes depending on what pieces are created with a younger
exhibited. The lab has been established to celebrate generation in mind.
design concepts and I think the artwork is an
extension of that.” emily Carr students also met
with lululemon designers in
Melissa was personally responsible for selecting november for a Kitchen Table
Hunt-Brondwin’s pieces as the first to be installed. style meeting. eight fourth-
These will be replaced with the work of another student year students gathered in the
later this year and from here on, every two months. Lab and provided feedback on
the design space and how they
While the space may be relatively new, the thought it could be utilized.
relationship between emily Carr and lululemon
athletica is firmly established. In January, lululemon and
emily Carr will partner to
Both are Vancouver institutions, and lululemon teach a senior design class.
hayLey hunt-brondWin’S painting, redeFining reLationShipS aS Seen at the LuLuLemon Lab
athletica has been one of emily Carr’s research and Whitworth notes that recent
photo: Shannon mCkinnon
emiLy Carr univerSity oF art + deSign 5
between Spaces: bringing art to the Community
Amanda Connor
When BC Rapid Transit Company Ltd (BCRTC) began to “Projects such as these convey the mandate of emily
review its philosophy last year, staff were asked how they Carr’s Faculty of Culture and Community—to forge
thought the experience of SkyTrain passengers could be meaningful and mutually beneficial partnerships with
improved upon. The response was overwhelmingly industry and community.”
consistent—Vancouver’s stations needed to be more
welcoming, and inviting of community involvement. “What is important about public art is that it’s
accessible to all, and acts as a platform for artists’
A concept for an exciting public art project was soon born ideas to reach a large audience,” adds Susan Stewart,
and emily Carr university of Art + Design was approached Dean, Faculty of Culture + Community. “In the case of
to be a partner—a perfect choice for its reputation in the Between Spaces project, it means new emerging
developing innovative artists and designers. artists will be introduced to a massive and diverse
audience of both local citizens, and many visitors to
The result is Between Spaces, a selection of works from Vancouver. Public art belongs to the community.”
the 2009 graduating class which share themes of
community, natural environment and transportation. For 2009 graduate, Josan Pinon, the benefits of the
Led by Associate Professor Sandra Semchuk, and added exposure are two-fold. “When Sandra encouraged
chosen by a panel comprising representatives of emily my involvement, I was initially hesitant for fear of my
Carr and BCRTC, the works are on display at Burrard and work being vandalized,” she says. “But in reality, I have
Waterfront Stations and will remain there for one year— heard so many stories from people who have seen my
with an opportunity for a one-year extension. efforts work and I really feel like I am playing a small part in the
are also underway to secure funding from a third party eradication of graffiti from our stations.”
to expand the program to further SkyTrain stations.
Between Spaces features the work of 2009 graduates
top: kriSta Jankhe, Same Soup, diFFerent FLavourS: 100 pairS oF emily Carr President + Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Ron Lesley Anderson, Shauna Davis, Krista Jahnke, Adria
ConverSe ShoeS. bottom: adria LipSett, Canning the CoaSt Burnett welcomes the pilot project as another Lipsett, Josan Pinon + Ami Sangha, and will be on
photoS: JaSon Chi
opportunity to make art accessible to the community. display until September 2010.
Admissions’ Andrea Nunes (04) exhibited Intimating
Faculty + Staff achievements
a Possible Organization of a World Whose Complexity
Seems Ungraspable at 2 of 2 Gallery in Toronto this
fall. Her drawings depicted elements of the mess
produced in her studio in the months preceding the
show. Tangles of string, a mothballed project, a
The Further Adventures of Girl addresses the complexity peace offering wrapped up as a stick of dynamite,
of negotiating the current socio-political climate scrunched blotting tissues and the project’s own
through the simplistic visual language of children’s rejected drawings all factored into an increasingly
media. Assistant Professor, Diyan Achjadi’s print series self-reflexive exercise modeled on Daniel Spoerri’s
portrayed a single character, “Girl”, as she navigated 1961 work An Anecdoted Topography of Chance.
perilous dystopic landscapes informed by news events
and popular culture images in cartoon-like visual
narratives. The exhibit ran this past summer, at the
Richmond Art Gallery.
CHORUS, an installation of new work by Associate
Professor Marian Penner Bancroft, comprised colour
photographs, texts, short videos and audio centered
on the complex relationships amongst natural sounds,
recorded music, social history and both urban and
rural landscapes. The exhibit was held at Republic
Gallery this fall.
Associate Professor Dennis Burke, received a Leo
Award for Best Sound editing in a Documentary
Program or Series for the film, Dirt. Dennis shares the
honour with Andre Iwanchuk and Mike Paprocki.
Part of the BC Applied Arts History Project, the BC
Design History Exhibition explores the creativity, form
and look of individual and mass-produced works of
functional design, craft and applied arts in British
Columbia from early times to present day. The Liz Magor Receives Audain Prize
exhibition is curated by Associate Professor Sam Carter. Photographer, sculptor and emily Carr Associate
Traveling exhibition dates include: Prince George from Professor Liz Magor (72) was the recipient of the
november 17, 2009 to February 8, 2010, and Courtney, 2009 Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement worth
BC from May 29 to July 17, 2010 $30,000. The Audain Prize is British Columbia’s
most prestigious visual-arts award and was
Congratulations to Margaret Dragu, sessional faculty, presented on May 11 at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
who was one of six winners of the inaugural Richmond noted as one of “Canada’s most significant artists”,
Arts Awards, presented at a ceremony in Council Liz was also prominently featured in the summer
Chambers on April 17. The awards were established to 2009 edition of Canadian Art magazine in an article
recognize the achievements and contributions to the entitled The Outlaw.
arts by Richmond residents, artists, educators,
organizers and business leaders. Margaret won the Liz’s current work, Storage Facilities, features
Artistic Innovation Award, which recognizes an recent works that suggest a collision of domesticity
individual artist or organization producing visionary, with nature, while looking at the display and
top: diyan aChJadi, What have they done? middLe: marain penner creative work, exhibiting innovation within in their arts delivery of objects. A series of cast sculptures—
banCroFt. bottom: denniS burke aCCeptS Leo aWard discipline or bringing a new cultural experience to the food trays, wrapped candies, half-smoked
city of Richmond. cigarettes, pocket-sized bottles of liquor—are
presented atop tables and appear to be leftovers
from a bout of compulsive consumption.
6 emiLy Carr univerSity oF art + deSign
the digestion of a Sabbatical
Lola Augustine Brown
Since taking on the role of Associate Dean of Integrated a filter for all of my encounters: visual, emotional,
Studies in Fall 2006, Dr. Randy Lee Cutler has had little intellectual, economic,” she says, adding that she
time to teach or work on her own practice. became particularly excited when studying the medical
Consequently, Cutler describes the opportunity to take concept of the stomach as a second brain.
a year’s sabbatical as “an incredible gift”.
During her sabbatical, Cutler also took on the role of
Beginning in May 2008, Cutler’s intention was to use the student, which is something that she feels is invaluable
sabbatical to write two academic essays on the topics for those who teach to experience. At the Hollyhock
of digestion and decay within a larger frame of Retreat Centre on Cortes Island, she took a workshop—
sustainability. “However, when I started writing I found called A Way with Words: writing and meditation—that
that I wasn’t really interested in the academic form. I made her think differently about writing, and how she
started experimenting a little and before I knew it I was could bring meditation in to the classroom.
writing creative non-fiction, which was quite exciting,”
says Cutler. Currently Cutler is teaching a couple of classes in
phenomenology and art, which allow her to bring
Initially, Cutler starting writing about digestion as a elements of her research into the classroom. next
metaphor for experience. Then her research turned to semester, Cutler will be teaching a course directly
examining works of art that literally dealt with the body related to the research, entitled Metaphorical Bodies,
and the mechanics of digestion. which is an art history class looking at representations
of the body and in part discusses viscera.
“I started to move beyond that, thinking about dr. randy Lee CutLer viSitS a Water SeWer treatment pLant
digestion, absorption, assimilation, consumption and all under the Lion’S gate bridge
the various ways that we digest experience. I used it as
Faculty + Staff Achievements worked persistently to maintain the presence of emily Carr’s Dean of Graduate Studies + Research,
Continued sculpture in the european tradition, including some Renée Van Halm, retired faculty member, Ken
of the most significant works of architecture and Wallace along with numerous alumni were
engineering of the 1920s and 1930s in Canada, featured in the annual Art for Life Preview Show.
including the Lions on the Lions Gate Bridge, statue The Preview Show is an integral part of Art for
of Captain George Vancouver at Vancouver City Hall, Life, launching the season’s collection to the
the Harding Memorial Sculpture and David public and providing patrons with an opportunity
Oppenheimer Bust in Stanley Park as well as the King to extend their appreciation to all the contributing
edward VII Fountain at the Vancouver Art Gallery. He artists in person. Attended by media, artists and
suffered a heart attack in 1939 at the age of 68. prominent members of Canada’s art community,
the Preview Show provides potential buyers with
In May, former faculty member, David Rimmer, one of an opportunity to view the works in advance of
Canada’s foremost experimental filmmakers, was the the actual auction.
subject of loop, print, fade + flicker: David Rimmer’s
Moving Images (2009), the inaugural title in Pacific
Cinémathèque’s Monograph Series on Western
Canadian media artists and Anvil Press’s new film
series 24 per second.
The song Leave Me Alone by the Vancouver band the
Pointed Sticks, with lyrics written by Phil Smith,
Critical + Cultural Studies Lecturer, was recently
named by music critic Rupert everett-Green as one
The Globe and Mail’s ‘essential tracks’ for the week of
november 9, 2009.
Sessional faculty member Alan Storey exhibited
Drawing Machines, documenting 25 years of mark-
making devices at C4 Contemporary Gallery from
mid-September to mid-October. nepotism Magazine
ran a review of the exhibit entitled A Hollywood
Storey at C4.
Sessional Faculty member, Holly Ward, exhibited Here
& There at Republic Gallery from mid-September to
October. The exhibit comprised of large-scale
drawing and intimate sculpture which functions as
top: andrea nuneS, intimating a poSSibLe organization oF a WorLd both diagrams and objects. Based on the long
WhoSe CompLexity SeemS ungraSpabLe tradition of visionary architecture, Holly created an Ian Wallace Awarded Molson Prize
bottom: hoLLy Ward, here & there
installation that examined the dialectic of fantasy Vancouver artist and writer Ian Wallace was
and pragmatism, mining the gap between possibility awarded one of two Molson Prizes from the Canada
The Honourable Jim Prentice, Canada’s environment and limitation in a recuperative gesture. Council for the Arts. The Molson Prizes are awarded
Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, annually for ongoing contributions to the cultural
announced on July 28, 2009, the historic significance Mapping and Marking Vancouver 2010: Artist Initiated and intellectual life of Canada. Ian taught at emily
of Charles Marega, whom he designated a national Public Art Projects exhibition featured emily Carr Carr from 1972-1998 and received an Honorary
Historic Person of Canada, on the recommendation of alumni as well as Fiona Bowie, Assistant Professor, Degree in 2007. In celebration and recognition of
the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. and David MacWilliam, Dean, Faculty of Visual Art + his many achievements, The Ian Wallace -
Material Practice. The exhibition was part of the City Excellence in Teaching Award was established in
Marega worked successfully with the arts of Vancouver’s new vision to support and invest in 2008 by emily Carr benefactor, Bob Rennie.
community to establish both a school of art and the the creative arts and culture of Vancouver over the
Vancouver Art Gallery, and was one of the original next decade. The exhibit ran for two weeks in July at
teachers at the Vancouver School of Decorative and Pendulum Gallery.
Applied Arts (now emily Carr). Charles Marega
emiLy Carr univerSity oF art + deSign 7
Student + alumni achievements
CLoCkWiSe From top-LeFt: adad hannah, raFt oF the meduSa (100 miLe houSe); Suzanne marie doyon; eriC karJaLuoto, Speak human; JaSon daSiLva, FirSt StepS; taraLee guiLd, airStream
Cedric Bomford (03) was featured in a solo exhibition, work; he shoots with a custom ‘virtual view’ camera Aparna Kapur (08) received The Jackson-Triggs Award
TOWER BLOCK 2009 at Red Bull 381 Projects, Toronto this system design to broaden the range of traditional for Best emerging Canadian Filmmaker, and a $5,000
fall. Bomford’s TOWER BLOCK 2009 was built from photographic perspective. cash prize at the CFC World Wide Short Film Festival for
discarded construction materials — some of which were her film, Amma. The film is a lovingly hand-drawn
salvaged from vacant spaces in the building that houses Recent Honorary Doctorate recipient, Stan Douglas (82), animation of a young girl’s life and her magical
the gallery. Canadian Art Magazine described the display as exhibited his outstanding multi-media installation Stan connection to her grandmother.
“an impressive assemblage of ladders, bleachers, old Douglas: Klatsassin at the Vancouver Art Gallery from
billboards and even a hockey penalty box that dominates June to november. This challenging exhibition brought Congratulations to Eric Karjaluoto (95) who has published
the two-storey office-atrium-cum-gallery.” together two major video and film-based installations, his first book, Speak Human. eric is a founding partner of
Klatsassin and Pursuit, Fear, Catastrophe: Ruskin, B.C., the digital agency, smashLAB. He has directed projects for
Malaspina Printmakers presented Sleep 1,2,3,4, an presenting the divergent histories of inhabitation and groups including Cn, Tourism Vancouver and Canadian
exhibition of etchings by Eli Bornowsky (05) this fall. settlement in Canada’s westernmost province. These Heritage. In 2007, he spearheaded Design Can Change, an
each year, Malaspina awards the Print Research provocative film and video-based installations called effort to unite designers and address climate change. The
Residency to a local artist who has no printing attention to how forces of capitalism and colonialism book is published by smashLAB Inc. and may be purchased
experience and in 2008, eli was a recipient of the have marked the land and its narrative. at Amazon.com.
award. The acts of sleeping and dreaming informed the
Sleep 1, 2, 3, 4 prints as eli saw a correlation between his First-year student Suzanne Marie Doyon was nominated in Campbell River Public Art Gallery presented a solo
visualization process of printmaking. the 11th annual native American Music Awards (nAMA) exhibition by Brigitta Kocsis (05) entitled Secret
Best Video category for an excerpted scene from the Mechanisms this past July. Secret Mechanisms explored
The Monte Clark Gallery presented Douglas Coupland (84) in Legend of Tillamook’s Gold. The feature film starring Doyon how technology can alter perception by interacting with
a solo exhibition entitled Mom and Dad. using personal won Best Family Film at film festivals in the uS and Canada the methods and processes involved in how the human
family experience and his decades working within the pop and garnered Doyon a Best Actress nomination at the body works. The tension contained within the bodies of
culture arena, Douglas compiled a set of works that Mid-Valley Film Festival in Oregon. The awards were held the characters, due to the pervasive technologies,
renegotiate his ongoing relationship with Andy Warhol. The in niagara Falls on October 3, 2009. communicates a sense of contemporary environment in
highly personal works were based on his upbringing in a its fractured state.
family familiar with guns and taxidermy. In early summer, Graham Gillmore (85) exhibited Refusalon at the Monte
he exhibited Atelier at the Monte Clark Gallery in Toronto. Clark Gallery this Fall. The exhibit featured large-scale Nick Lepard (08) exhibited his second solo show,
The exhibit contained materials and objects found in his panels of glossy phrases. Graham’s new body of work has Chronophobic, at the Diane Farris Gallery in november. In
various working spaces. Viewers gained a heightened sense shifted from candid, autobiographical, confessional texts his latest series, nick expands his repertoire to include
of being in a creative space; the show was as much about to more opaque self disclosures. Completed in oil and large-scale portraits of women as well as the male
the physical experience as the visual one. enamel on panel, the works create scenes where hope and subjects and self-portraits for which he has become
doubt run in counterpoint to each other. known. Basing his paintings on collages made from
Jason DaSilva’s (MAA 08) First Steps was viewed at both duplicate photographs that vary in exposure, hue and
the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Tribeca Current fourth-year student, Taralee Guild’s, solo saturation, he alluded to the subjectivity and sensory
Film Festival in new York City. After working as a exhibition Airstream comprised of 20 realistic paintings perceptions that constrain us when we process
filmmaker for ten years, Jason put his experience with of early model Airstream trailers polished to a mirror information. Through this amalgamation Lepard’s paintings
progressive multiple sclerosis on the screen in First Steps. finish. each composition emphasizes the distortion take on an exaggerated, mythological quality.
The film uses DaSilva’s personal narrative as an anchor visible in the highly reflective metal. The paintings were
point to weave in and out of interviews, explanations and inspired from amateur photographs taken by proud Kathryn Macdonald (04) and Lorraine Kwan redesigned a
findings on MS within a jigsaw puzzle of incidents. Airstream enthusiasts or sellers on the internet. The telecommunications artifact into a wireless
series examines the politics of the reflection and uses it workstation, and in the process have given new life to
Eric Deis (99) was featured in the exhibition, Shadows to metaphor the ideology of the American Dream. The found objects destined for recycling. Dialosaurus
Cast on Imagination’s Past at elissa Cristall Gallery this exhibit ran from early September to mid-October at JeM boothus was exhibited at IDSwest in Vancouver this
past October. Questions of perspective abound in eric’s Gallery in Vancouver. September. For home or office, the workstation has
8 emiLy Carr univerSity oF art + deSign
Curator Peter Morin (01) led a tour of the exhibition, In 2002, Montreal-based performance and video artist,
Speaking in Landscape Tongues/Speaking to the Old Aaron Pollard, partnered with Stephen Lawson to form
Ones which was held at both the Western Front in 2boys.tv, a collaborative transdiciplinary art duo. They
mid-September and the Museum of Anthropology in have created and toured a wide repertoire of epic
Vancouver in mid-October. This special exhibition multimedia cabaret works, performances, videos and
featured the works of artists, including Associate installations in clubs, galleries, theatres and festivals
Professor Sandra Semchuk showing collaborations with across Canada and internationally.
her late husband, Cree speaker, James nicholas.
2009 graduates Jason Edwards, Brendon Hartley and
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother Samantha Stroman were invited to take part in a Glamour
and Other Botanical Atrocities, written by Amy Magazine shoot with the female lead actors of the Twilight
Stewart and published by Algonquin Books, contains saga. The group assisted the photographer and crew
40 of Briony Morrow-Cribbs’ (05) slightly menacing setting up light stands, powering up strobe lights and large
botanical illustrations and is now at local bookstores softboxes. They received a first-hand look at how a
and online. Accompanying the release of the book successful fashion photographer work and they found the
was a show at the Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery in experience highly educational and entertaining!
new York and another at eureka Books in California
that featured hand-tinted versions of the Revolving Doors, directed by Kirsten Korns (09), Trolls,
illustrations. directed by Brianne Nord-Stewart (09), Dear John Lee,
directed by Amanda Thomson (09) and Nature on Its
Carmen Pollard (97) won a Leo Award for Best Picture Course, directed by Su-An Ng (09) were officially selected
editing in a Documentary Program or Series for the to screen at the 36th Annual northwest Film + Video
film, Dirt. Festival in Portland, Oregon. The festival is the most
prominent forum for independent work by artists living in
Sean Raggett’s (04) large format photograph Queen’s the northwest. The Festival presents features,
Woods was chosen to appear in this year’s Taylor documentaries and short films, chosen by a prominent
Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize show at the member of the independent film community such as Gus
national Portrait Gallery (nPG), London. The photograph Van Sant, Todd Haynes, producer Christine Vachon and
was chosen from a pool of 6,300 entries, and is SIMPSOnS creator Matt Groening. Selected films from the
Raggett’s second accepted entry to show at the nPG. Festival are included in the Best of the northwest Film +
The exhibit runs until February 21, 2010. Video Festival Tour, a collection of shorts sent to dozens
of venues throughout the uS and Canada with a total
The equinox Gallery featured a solo exhibition of audience exceeding 6,000.
Gordon Smith’s (46) New Paintings in the fall. As well,
the Gallery published a Gordon Smith Catalogue for the 2009 graduates Maggie Chok, Jane Koo, Chloe Lan, Ginger
October exhibit. Ngo, Heather Pringle and Connie Sze have each been
awarded an Applied Arts 2009 Student Award and feature
The 2009 VIVA Awards, worth $12,000, were presented to in the current Student Awards issue. Maggie was
photographer and multi-media artist Mark Soo (99) and recognized for two of her projects. Also appearing in the
ReAD Bookstore’s Kathy Slade, for her video and sculpture October edition is emily Carr alumnus Stefan Belavy (99),
work. Both Mark and Kathy were featured in the VAG’s in a three-page feature story focusing on designers with
How Soon is Now exhibition. hybrid talents.
Congratulations to Adad Hannah (98) and Aaron Pollard The Bambulance Design Team of Chris Ryan (08),
top: briony morroW-CribbS, beetLe nut (93), for their recent Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Philippa Mennell (08) and Niki Dun (03) were selected
beLoW: kriSti maLakoFF, moon dog Award wins. The annual awards, worth $15,000 each, as a 2009 InDeX: Awards Finalist. The InDeX: Award is
bottom page, right: Sean raggett, Queen’S Wood
recognize outstanding mid-career artists in the seven the largest monetary design award in the world,
disciplines funded by the Canada Council: dance, offering a purse of ₤500,000, divided among five
privacy, a view, motion-sensor lighting, an ergonomic integrated arts, media arts, music, theatre, visual arts categories of “design to improve life”. The Bambulance
chair plus a fully functional desktop and shelf. and writing and publishing. Through a nomination Project was chosen as a finalist because of the extent
Interactive qwerty key play is also available for process, peer assessment committees selected the most to which it embodies the notion of “design to improve
messages, or love notes. outstanding professional mid-career artists among the life”. The project, designed for rural communities in
successful applicants. developing countries, provides under-served
Kristi Malakoff’s (05) solo exhibition, The Circus and the communities with safe and affordable medical
Wishing Well, explored chaos, pandemonium, fantasy Adad Hannah works at the crossroads of video, transportation. The team along with Phillippe Schlesser,
and spectacle colliding with hopes, dreams, regrets and photography and performance. The video-recorded were also nominated for the 2009 People’s Design
desperation; the circus as an externalization of the tableaux vivants restages the photographic moment Award. The People’s Design Award was held in
wishing well. The exhibition ran for two months this and opens a space for the contemplation of time and conjunction with national Design Week in the united
summer at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Kristi also the human condition. His works are held in private, States. new York’s Cooper-Hewitt national Designed
exhibited with four other artists in Barometric Reading corporate and institutional collections around the Museum sponsors the award. The Bambulance is a
Series 1. The exhibition was presented by Young Canada world. He currently lives and works in Montreal. bicyle-pulled stretcher, made almost entirely from
which is committed to bringing forward survey shows bamboo, noted for its strength and sustainability.
that distill contemporary Canadian practice into a series
of exhibitions that offer access to Canada’s most
confident and ambitious young contemporary artists.
The exhibition ran at Le Gallery in July.
Fourth-year photography student, Kayla McColl,
participated in the 2009 Sustainable Living Leadership
Program, a 25-day trip run by the Rivershed Society of
British Columbia. The program is an environmental,
educational Fraser River canoeing trip that allows the
participant to learn about living without leaving a trace,
exploring the flora and fauna, wildlife and how to
camp-out without hurting your environment. The trip
allowed Kayla to fuse her two passions: art and nature.
The ability to participate in this adventure and work on
her art practice was key to her. Primarily doing black-
and-white photography, along with ink painting and
charcoal, Kayla was able to work on animal, flower and
landscape images on this strenuous trip.
Gareth Moore (04) has enjoyed great success at London’s
Frieze Art Fair. Gareth’s outstanding installation, Neither
Here Nor There was awarded one of the rare purchase
prizes at the fair. Gareth’s work along with the work of five
other young artists, will be added to the Tate Modern
Collection through the Outset Fund, a collaboration
between Outset, Frieze Art Fair and the Tate. The panel of
judges included significant international curators and art
professionals. He is represented locally by the Catriona
Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver.
emiLy Carr univerSity oF art + deSign 9
Student + Alumni Achievements
Continued
Consumer Protection BC asked students from post-
secondary film schools across BC to submit ideas for a
30-second Public Service Announcement (PSA) that
would explain film classification to the public in a fun and
entertaining way. Four team finalists, (two from emily
Carr and two from Capilano university), were shortlisted
from over 25 submissions and were provided up to
$10,000 to produce their PSA with a film industry
professional acting as a mentor. Rated Argyle by the team
affectionately known as ‘Team Argyle’ (led by animation
students Chelsea Ker, David Nguyen, Sterling Richter,
Carmen Wong, assisted by Toni Zhang, and directed by
Stephanie Blakey,) took home top honours. The emily
Carr entries stemmed from a class, Collaborative
Animation, instructed by sessional faculty member
Darren Brereton, with supervision by Associate Professor
Martin Rose. Rated Argyle will screen in Cineplex, empire
and independent cinemas across the province beginning
this fall. View all four finalist’s PSA’s on the Consumer
Protection BC website, www.bpcpa.ca.
David Khang (00) and P. Roch Smith (97) took part in a
group exhibition Welcome to the Dollhouse that featured
miniature artworks that consider the small things in life, as
invited by TRuCK Contemporary Art in Calgary. The artists
came together in the dollhouse to explore various
intersections of collecting and play; memory, loss, and the
desire to preserve; manipulation and control. The group
exhibition ran from mid-August to the end of September.
And laid him on the green presented a selection of work
from Vancouver artists Mark Dahl, Tegan Moore (08), and
Lauren Scott (06), examining the manner in which specific
objects and scenarios can be made uncertain through
vaguely scientific methods and purposefully poetic
choices. The exhibit was curated by Francesca Bennett
(08) and ran at Goonies for one week in September.
WEIGHT, a short film written and directed by third year
film/video student Kevan Funk, was showcased at the
28th Annual Vancouver International Film Festival. Created
with fellow third year students Benjamin Loeb and Dustin CLoCkWiSe From top: kunaL Sen, deniz merdanoguLLari and aparna kapur, interveLometer; team argyLe, rated argyLe; paterSon giLLiSS,
Wadsworth, WEIGHT was screened as a part of Roadwork boneFeather; david khang, amputeeth
Ahead shorts program.
2009 graduates Callum Paterson and Nathan Gilliss new vision to support and invest in the creative arts
emily Carr grads screened their films at the 28th received Best Animation Production for their film, and culture of Vancouver over the next decade.
Annual Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF). Bonefeather at the 40th Canadian Student Film Festival Mapping and Marking invited artists to propose
Diego Maclean’s (09) graduation project, The Arts of (CSFF). The announcement was made September 2, 2009 artworks based on their own ideas and practices, at
Drowning screened in the Roadwork collection of as part of the World Film Festival of Montréal. Bonefeather sites of their choosing. The intent of Mapping and
shorts. Brianne Nord-Stewart’s (09) short film Trolls is a digitally-captured, stop-motion animated film Marking was to encourage exploration and
screened in the Caution Children collection. The collaboration featuring two male birds competing for the involvement in the city itself as the world turns its
animated film Intervelometer was made in 52 hours as affection of a female bird through dance. Two other emily eyes on Vancouver. Of the 120 entries, eight public art
part of the Trick 17 Stop Motion competition. Carr alumni, also 2009 graduates, received special projects were chosen. The exhibit ran for two weeks in
Filmmakers Kunal Sen (08), Deniz Merdanogullari (08) mention by the CSFF jury: animator Shannon Ang for July at Pendulum Gallery.
and Aparna Kapur (08) all met at emily Carr where they Gophers in Space and filmmaker Jin Hong for Who Killed
began experimenting with stop motion techniques. the Goldfish. The jury was comprised of Line Richard, Gareth Moore (04), Kevin Schmidt (97) and Kara Uzelman
The film was screened in the Yield collection. principal producer at the Quebec studio of the nFB; Roland (04) exhibited in the group show Sentimental Journey. The
nguyen, short film department head at France 3; and exhibit brought together local artists who use the journey
Sara Bogh Jensen, (09), Jace Kim (09) and Diego MacLean Christina Stojanova, professor, film critic and writer. as a starting point, approaching the expedition, or the
(09) were selected for the Student Film Showcase to have landscape traversed, with a sincerity made evident by
their work screened in Toronto and be included in a Second-year student Vanessa Brown curated Moveable their fascination with documentation and the way
compilation video of the best of the film school’s work City, as part of this year’s SWARM. A media arts exhibition, documentation is presented. The exhibit ran this summer
from across Canada. Magali Simard, programmer with the this event featured work that explores potentiality in the at the Contemporary Art Gallery.
Toronto International Film Festival Group said it was built environment, and included pieces by alumnus Sean
unprecedented that the jury chose three productions Arden (07), Ross Birdwise, (MAA 09), current MAA student, Sonny Assu (02), John Brent Bennett (03) and Marianne
from one school. Holly Schmidt and former student Jamie Ward. The Nicolson (91) were part of Continuum: Vision and Creativity
installation of works played off the surfaces of both the on the Northwest Coast, a major exhibition of emerging
Cedric Bomford (03), Lila Bujold (06) and Jody Rogac outdoor infrastructure as well as the indoor studio at and mid-career Aboriginal artists from British Columbia,
(06) exhibited in New Photographers at Gallery Atsui in Cineworks’ annex space in the Ironworks building. Washington State and Alaska. A number of special
early spring. programs were planned including artist dialogues, talks
Project Rainbow are Jesse Birch (01), Jade Boyd, Sydney and special tours at the Bill Reid Gallery. The exhibit runs to
Mark Soo (02), Steven Shearer (93) and Elizabeth Zvonar Vermont (00), and Heidi nutley, a group of Vancouver- January 31, 2010
(01) exhibited work in All That is Solid Melts into Air Part based interdisciplinary artists who collaborate to explore
II The Thing, curated by Dieter Roelstraete, in Mechelen, the study of colour through photography, film, video, and Grace-Gallery was a blank canvas for the Stone Soup
Belgium this spring. The production included five movement. Their projects are research based and often Exhibition. Two progressive, site-specific artworks were
curated exhibitions, showing the work of over 100 derive from literature, dance, film, and art history and have made in the Gallery over the course of the exhibition
contemporary artists. included diverse sources such as Honoré de Balzac, Maya and reworked each week by a new set of artists. Lisa
Deren, and Yvonne Rainer. The Ruby Glass, a study of the Birke (98), Christopher Donnelly (07) and Sascha
Velo-City: Vancouver & the Bicycle Revolution was an colour red, takes its name from Werner Herzog’s 1976 film, Yamashita (00) all participated in this collaborative
exploration of the city’s cycling culture, in all its Herz aus Glas in which Herzog claimed to have hypnotized exhibition held this past June.
whacked-out glory. The exhibit was curated by Toby his actors in the filming of a pastoral village’s obsession
Barratt (96), Pamela Goddard (98), and Nik Rust (96) of with red glass. The exhibit and artist talk took place at the Adam Dodd (06) and Sean Weisgerber (09) exhibited
local lighting and furniture design company Propellor Richmond Art Gallery during the summer and was curated Spectral Rhythms at Shudder Gallery in June. In a period of
Design. The exhibit took place at the newly renamed by Vancouver artist and ReAD Book’s, Kathy Slade. globalization and the domination of the digital, Adam and
Museum of Vancouver (formerly the Vancouver Sean revisited analog mediums and construct
Museum). The museum’s exhibition spaces were filled Mapping and Marking Vancouver 2010: Artist Initiated compositions that pulse with recurrent geometric
with all manner of bikes, from the purely functional to Public Art Projects exhibition featured alumni Jesse structures: these recurrences transform the homogenous
the outrageously whimsical. The show ran from the Birch (01), Geoffrey Farmer (92) and Vanessa Kwan repetitions of global mass production, beating with a
beginning of June to September. (04). The exhibition was part of the City of Vancouver’s rhythm that is intentionally out of sync.
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