Speaker Series
Spring 2010 Speaker Series
Each semester, Emily Carr's public lecture series brings to campus the unique and diverse perspectives of world-renowned artists, architects, designers, curators, scholars, and writers. Each speaker presents their work and invites the audience to participate in a critical discussion. The primary mission of the Speaker Series Program is to foster cross-disciplinary discussions around topical issues in contemporary art, design, and media. Lectures are free & open to the public.
- 7pm South Building Lecture Hall, Room 301
- Emily Carr University, 1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island
- Space is limited, doors open 6:45
January 21 | Edgar Heap of Birds
Co-presentation with Malaspina Printmakers
January 28 | Dexter Sinister
Co-presentation with the Contemporary Art Gallery
March 11 | Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker
April 1 | Ryan Trecartin
Co-presentation with VIVO Media Arts / Cineworks / Fillip
April 8 | Cam Christiansen
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Highlights of the Fall 2009 Speaker Series
Dec 7 2009 - Liam Gillick
Co-presentation with Langara College Centre for Art and Public Spaces and Westbank & Peterson Group
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; The Powerplant Contemporary Art Gallery, 2003; Whitechapel Gallery, 2002; Palais de Tokyo, 2005. Group exhibitions include Guggenheim Museum, 2004; 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009; and documenta X, 1997.
Oct 7 2009 - Roy Matich
Matich has 20 years experience as a creative director in developing integrated marketing communication solutions for Fortune 500 clients in technology, financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, and retail market segments. He focuses on user centered design solutions that balances technology with creativity. The end result helps to cultivate a seamless and engaging experience between customer and brand, both in the physical and interactive worlds. He's held recent positions at Starbucks as Global Director of Interactive and as Executive Creative Director at FITCH-a global design consultancy headquartered in the UK.
Oct 21 2009 - Mona Hatoum
Co-sponsored by the Rennie Collection Speaker Series
Hatoum is a Palestinian artist born in Beirut in 1952 and now lives and works in London and Berlin. She her political and poetic oeuvre utilizes 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).
Nov 12 2009 - Alex Schweder
Schweder is the 2005/2006 Rome Prize Fellow in Architecture. Schweder has been experimenting with time and performance based architecture including projects at New York's Sculpture Center 2007, Western Bridge in Seattle 2007, Melting Instructions presented at the Tacoma Art Museum 2007, Gallery Magnus Muller in Berlin 2009, Lawrimore Project 2009, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2009. He is a three time artist in residence at the Kohler company and is currently in residence at the Chinati Foundation.
Nov 18 2009 - JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
Morin is a composer, Professor of Media Arts and Technology and Music, and a researcher in multi-modal media systems, content and facilities design. She created, built, and designed the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology and is the Center Director since its inception in 1986. Her years of experience in digital media research led to the creation of a multi-million dollar sponsored research program for the University of California, the Digital Media Innovation Program. She was Chief Scientist of the Program from 1998 to 2003. In 1999 she, along with her colleagues, established the Graduate Program in Media Arts and Technology and served as Chair of the Program from 1999 to 2005.