Events

South Building Lecture Hall - Room 301

Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker is a specialist in the history of the Modern and was exhibition director of the international research and exhibition projects The Short Century (curator Okwui Enwezor), as well as Shanghai Modern and Art of Tomorrow: Hilla von Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim which she also co-curated. She is currently the Director of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle. Birnie Danzker will engage in a dialogue with Sadira Rodrigues, Director of Continuing Studies at Emily Carr. Free and open to the public.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design will host a roundtable discussion on the presence in Vancouver of the Farnesina Design Collection. Emily Carr will participate with the curators of the exhibition along with designers, industrialists and academicians from both Italy and Canada. The theme of the event will be the cultural value of design, with particular focus on the issue of sustainability.

In the Fall of 2009, while Emily Carr prepared to host CODE Live, students in a directed studies course with Emily Carr’s artists-in-residence Jer Thorpe and M Simon Levin considered the implications and opportunities of observing, and being observed, in one of the most photographed locations in the city. During the 2010 Games, Granville Island, already a photo-saturated environment, will be shot from every angle: images from tourists’ cameras and cell-phones mix with surveillance and media images to document every moment from every conceivable perspective.

The CODE Live festival is an 18-day landmark event with visual art exhibitions, music and performances, all informed by digital technology and audience involvement.