Exhibitions

These associative accumulations of methodical gestures are a conversation in tandem, an amalgam of stipulations that take up space in a three-part negotiation. Affect. It is geographical and familiar as it resists the urge to counter the shift from a land to a sea, a sea to a land and the place hovering between. Slow. Quiet conversations in sculpture walk on mountains inside rooms of cobalt and white, on haystacks of gold and the distant smell of someplace close under the mirrored light of home. Move. Under home are steps never made, but the stillness and frenzy of moments always arriving. 

Liz Knox’s work is inspired by early conceptualism, examining systems of interpretation with an emphasis on strategies of irony. The main body of work being shown in ie, gallery is Found Synopses. The series offers portraits of films, each displayed as a poster, developed from the user-generated parental advisory of imdb.com. The results are ambiguous articulations of anonymous actions, seemingly unrelated, in strings that form the distillation of filmic narratives and imagery. A number of the films used are films that other artists have addressed in previous works, infusing the series with ideas of the reference, and the numerous ways films linger in memory and culture.

The Social + Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University of Art + Design invites you to a public presentation of our students' latest ebook designs. Communications designers from our third year ebook design class will be sharing their visions for five interactive ebook titles, including projects developed in partnership with MOV, Presentation House Gallery and the Aboriginal Healing Foundation.

Find out how the next generation of digital designers tackle challenges like social and collaborative reading, touchscreen navigation and multilingual content integration.

This event is FREE and open to the public, but space is limited! For tickets, check out the EventBrite page.

ebook Design

The Emily Carr library presents Persistent Objects, an exhibit that explores the dual nature of what a book is.

While a book is a container of ideas that can transform imagination, it simultaneously persists just as an object. From artist’s publications such as Derek Sullivan’s Persistent Huts, Klaus Scherüble’s The Book, and Yoko Ono’s A Box of Smile to Phaidon Press’ design book Spoon, the exhibition considers the nature of the book’s materiality and the ideas held within. The exhibit is curated by current fourth year students Erin Hurst, Kyle Juron, Elfred Matining, Kalen Ravelli and Evgueni Saiapine.

Occupy Art is a group exhibition of works by current grad students at Emily Carr. The works all consider the Occupy Movement and wider ideas of protest and civil uprising.

About ie: gallery

ie: gallery is pleased to present two exhibitions, by Felicia Batzloff and Lloyd Stone.

Axis of Light is a joint undertaking by photography students and faculty from Emily Carr's Visual Art + Material Practice and UBC's Fine Arts. Our aim is to bring together works and ideas about what photography is today in the view of visual arts students from both institutions.

The title of the project alludes to the array of directions – pedagogical, technical and conceptual – through which photographers explore the possibilities of that elusive substance common to all our artistic concerns: light. This project is a first attempt to overcome barriers during this challenging and exciting moment in photography where analogue and digital processes intersect, dialogue and art in conflict.

Axis of Light
November 16 to December 3, 2011

Emily Carr Concourse Gallery

As part of The Art of Comics, our summer Graphic Novel Institute, Continuing Studies at Emily Carr is hosting Emily Con, a one-of-a-kind comic book convention. The Con will have many local guests in attendance showcasing their comics, zines, and artwork. Curated by Robin Thompson. The Emily Carr Library will be hosting a graphic novel reading room in the Concourse Gallery, as well as a series of short discussions and demonstrations. 

This very special one day event is free and open to the public.

Free public lectures + demonstrations in the Library

The annual Degree Exhibition highlights students’ creativity and innovation across design, media and visual arts in our Bachelor and Masters’ programs.

This year, we feature the work of 306 graduating students in the following disciplines: animation, ceramics, communication design, drawing, digital and interactive arts, film/video/integrated media, illustration, industrial design, interactive design, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.

Please join us as we celebrate the class of 2011!

Students from Emily Carr's Community Projects class presents XYZ, an exhibition of works pertaining to the examination of gender identity that questions the placement of binaries which revolve around a strictly male and female bathroom system.

As part of the exhibition, the fourth floor women's washroom (South Building), will be converted into a gender neutral bathroom installation April 7. Students have proposed and begun petitioning to attain a gender neutral facility on campus in support of the transgendered and gender variant community (students can contact their Students' Union for details).