Faculty of Culture + Community News

NATURAL CAPITAL is a community projects course in partnership with Canada's leading environmental organization, the David Suzuki Foundation (DSF) through the Faculty of Culture + Community. Through a dynamic and collaborative approach to documentary practices, students aim to build meaningful community connections and create digital narratives featuring diverse community perspectives on nature's benefits in Vancouver.  Students have also had a unique opportunity to work collaboratively with national project partners at OCAD University, Toronto.

Please join us for the opening reception of this interactive exhibit and dynamic public education initiative.

Emily Carr and Canada Line, Skytrain’s newest line, have launched round two of a project that will see student animation on video display terminals for the month of February, 2012.

Many Worlds, led by Associate Professor Martin Rose, was produced by students in Emily Carr’s third year Experimental Animation class. The joint project will see one new clip featured each week over the course of four weeks. The 10-second thematically related films will be shown every two minutes in each station along the line. Animations range from paint-on-glass, 3D puppets, 2D cut-outs, digitally drawn methods and stop-motion with masking tape.

The PNE Container Art Show provides an exhibition opportunity for artists. This unique, multi-disciplinary show is housed in 12- to 20-foot shipping containers, which will be set up in the Spirit Plaza area on the PNE grounds. The 17 day show will be open-themed. The jury will select work that reflects the diversity of Vancouver artists. It will be up during the PNE Fair and we are anticipating drawing almost 1 million people over the 17 day fair.

Georgia Straight
March 24, 2011
Collaborative art hits the Portland Hotel Society’s Interurban Gallery
http://www.straight.com/article-382873/vancouver/art-heart

"For proof that art really can change lives, a visit to the Portland Hotel Society’s Interurban Gallery is in order. Until next Thursday (March 31), the gallery is exhibiting the results of a collaborative art project between the Dr. Peter Centre and students from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Students and clients worked together on a creative journey in the project, which was run as part of a new Emily Carr course. One client, Murray White, was brought to tears by the new logo he and student Jacklyn Harris created for his recycling business (pictured above)." March 24, 2011

Navigating Ethical Representation shares the important artwork and community building that was a result of the collaboration between participants at the Dr. Peter Centre, West End (DPC) and Emily Carr students who took a Community Projects course last Fall. The course focused on challenges and successes in navigating ethical issues while representing and collaborating with people living with HIV/AIDS.

Emily Carr University of Art +  Design and TransLink are excited to announce their second collaborative project  Art on Transit, part of their ongoing effort to bring art, design and media to the wider public through transit.

This latest pilot project will see a total of 31 works by 18 Emily Carr students displayed on over 700 interior advertising panels on buses and SkyTrains.

This project provides visual interest to TransLink's customers and an unprecedented opportunity for exposure and public engagement for students.

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Vancouver Foundation has launched a special initiative--their new Generation Green Awards will provide 20 cash awards (up to $12,500) for environmental projects in Vancouver by young people (individuals or groups) aged 6 to 24. The awards are open to both individuals and groups for projects taking place in Vancouver.

The deadline to submit green ideas is March 4, 2011.

For more information please visit www.vancouverfoundation.ca/awards.

Associate Professor Dennis Burke is a multi award-winning composer and sound designer for film and television with over 100 films to his credit. His work can be seen regularly on network and cable television, film festivals, galleries and commercial theatres worldwide. Dennis has been a professional musician for the past 30 years, performing extensively throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. 

War In the Mind, a one-hour documentary directed by Judy Jackson will have its world premiere in June 2011 on CBC Television.  Dennis completed the musical score for War in the Mind.

Picture Start, directed by Associate Professor Harry Killas, documents how a small group of artists put Vancouver at the leading edge of contemporary art.

Sessional faculty members Heidi May and Jody Baker are part of the New Media Caucus panel "Fight the Power: Open Source, Free Software, and Critical Digital Practice" at the 99th annual conference of the College Art Association, which takes place in New York from February 9 to 12, 2011. In their presentation "Processing Digital: Opening up to a Space of Emergence in Art Pedagogy," they will examine how ideas behind "open source" can be applied to the studio and the classroom, drawing from their experience with online learning and focusing on the current "remix" phenomenon in digital culture. The panel is made up of artists and scholars from the United States and the United Kingdom.