General Lectures & Workshops

The best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival for 2010 will be screened at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. This festival is the largest of its kind in North America, attracting film buffs, art lovers, filmmakers, and cartoon fans from around the world to the nation's capital.

The proceeds of this screening will go towards a scholarship to fund an Emily Carr animation student to attend the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2011.

Join us for an evening of guest speakers, raffle prizes and refreshments. Please note this program is not suitable for minors.

The Emily Carr community is invited to attend a presentation by lawyer Martha Rans on copyright issues for artists.

Martha is a regular guest for the SOCS 411 Professional Practice class and shares her knowledge of intellectual property and copyright in an informative and engaging way. She has been practicing law for more than 15 years, providing a range of advice to artists in all disciplines. She was on the Board of the Artists and Lawyers for the Advancement of Creativity in Toronto and is the Legal Director of the Artists Legal Outreach (Alliance for Arts and Culture), a legal advice clinic providing bi-weekly advice to artists in all disciplines. Martha was nominated for one of the YWCA’s Women of Distinction awards in 2009.

Re(ady)Made presents the work of artists who alter existing books to produce new publications. Considering that books are made up of form and content that interplay to generate ideas, it is difficult to draw a defining line that differentiates whether the artists made changes solely to either the form or the content. There are, however, many artists who have taken the extreme to either side.

In particular, the artists presented in Re(ady)Made including Marcel Broodthaers, Dieter Roth and Tom Phillips, made dramatic changes to the physicality of found books so that the original content was obscured. While others such as artist Rodney Graham or publisher Four Corners Books made subtle changes in which they took advantage of the original content.

Publication—the act of bringing before the public; announcement.

Propaganda—the organized dissemination of information, allegations, etc., to assist or damage the cause of government, movement, etc.
How do these two modes of communication saturate a culture?

(Prop)-ublication is an exploration of propaganda and publication as modes of communication. The exhibition investigates the formal aesthetic relationships of various publications from the Second World War to the present, bringing relationships such as dictator to citizen, painter to audience, and publisher to reader to the fore.

The Contemporary Art Gallery and Emily Carr University of Art + Design
co-present I Am A Laser/Scream Like a Baby – a lecture by Jeremy Shaw (99).

Humanities 311: The Practice of Artists' Publishing is pleased to present the forth in a series of six exhibitions that examine the Emily Carr Library's Artists' Book Collection. Form is an exhibition of artists’ publications that asks the question, “What is a book?”

Through the presentation of books such as George Maciunas’s "Flux Paper Events", Guillaume Bijl’s "Fur Garderobe Keine Haftung", Dieter Roth’s "Bok 3b und Bok 3d", and Richard Tuttle’s "Reading Red", the exhibition brings to the fore books that emphasize, extend, or change ideas about formal materiality in relation to the book.

Humanities 311: The Practice of Artists' Publishing is pleased to present the third in a series of six exhibitions that examine the Emily Carr Library's Artists' Book Collection.

The exhibition Environment will showcase the work of artists who produce publications that combine documentary photography with conceptual art in order to analyse and comment on urban landscape. Images of modern urban landscape represent and reflect upon the past (what once was a natural habitat), the present, and even the future. They can analyse the cycle of destruction and construction that occurs in our built environment.

Farah Nosh, an award-winning photographer based in Vancouver, will be talking about her work at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Humanities 311: The Practice of Artists' Publishing is pleased to present the second in a series of six exhibitions that examine the Emily Carr Library's Artists' Book Collection.

The exhibition Index will focus on the work of artists who have developed practises, or produced individual works, based on the activity of indexing.

Emily Carr Library Humanities 311: The Practice of Artists' Publishing is pleased to present the first in a series of six exhibitions that examine the Emily Carr Library's Artists' Book Collection. From November 22 to the end of the semester, Hum 311 students will be working in groups and curating exhibitions from the collection.