Lectures

AHIS 333 Interdisciplinary Forums Presents
Fall 2009 Featured Speakers - Why Collaborate?

Emily Carr University of Art + Design is pleased to present a public lecture, The Transdisciplinary Nature of Design by Jamer Hunt of Parsons the New School for Design.

Jamer Hunt is the Chair of Urban and Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons, where is he developing a new graduate program in Transdisciplinary Design. Previously, he served for seven years at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia as Director of the Masters Program in Industrial Design.

Emily Carr welcomes renowned Korean fibre artist Sang-Jae Nam for a lecture on the practices, history and contemporary applications of Korean Hanji papermaking.

The lecture is presented to complement the exhibition Fibre, Naturally - Paper Like You Have Never Seen It Before in the Concourse Gallery at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. The exhibition features objects and garments made of Korean Hanji paper by both B.C. and Korean artists.

Fuse Studio invites you to a community forum ev.ent for their proposed electric vehicle design. The ev.ent launch is also a public forum to discuss electric vehicle design and the construction of a community network for alternative personal transportation options in Vancouver. Since fall 2008, the students of Fuse Studio have been designing and developing a scale model of their region-specific electric vehicle design that will be on display during the ev.ent.

Fuse Studio is a cross-disciplinary group of 2nd and 3rd year students at Emily Carr.

SET UP is a student-run lecture series that presents established conceptual Canadian artists in an informal setting. Please join us for the third talk in the series with Elspeth Pratt.

Elspeth Pratt is a Vancouver-based visual artist and has been practicing for over twenty-five years. She received a BFA from the University of Manitoba and an MFA from UBC and currently teaches at SFU.

House and Gender: Meanings of Domestic Spaces is a lecture and conversation with Zaida Muxí Martínez, Phd (University of Buenos Aires).

Martinez is currently a professor in the Department of Planning in the School of Architecture in Barcelona and co-director, with Josep Maria Montaner, of the Master Laboratory of housing in the XXI Century ETSAB since 2004 (www.laboratoriovivienda21.com). They are currently teaching a course together, entitled Architecture and Politics.

SET UP is a student-run lecture series that presents established conceptual Canadian artists in an informal setting.

The second talk of the series features Vancouver-based visual artist, Geoffrey Farmer. Working with elements of conceptual and installation art, Farmer combines many different mediums in a contemporary three-dimensional practice. His work deals with notions of transformation, narrative structure, and is engaged in an incisive and often humourous critique of history and culture as well as the exhibition process itself.

Emily Carr University is pleased to present the inaugural symposium for student writing in Vancouver. Structured as a platform for the exchange of knowledge and ideas, the symposium will explore a variety of approaches to writing critically about visual culture. Ranging from the graduate to undergraduate level, presentations will include students from Emily Carr, Simon Fraser University and University of British Columbia.

March 5 and 6, 2009
Keynote Address: March 5 at 5:30pm

Damian Moppett + Jenifer Papararo in Conversation

February 25, 2009, 7pm
Room 245, North Building

Please join READ Books and Coach House Books for the launch of Lisa Robertson's new title, Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip.

Sunday, March 1, 3pm
READ Books
Charles H. Scott Gallery
Emily Carr University

Composed of previously uncollected verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments, and utopias from the past fifteen years, the book presents a window into the fierce intellect of one of today's most daring authors.