General Lectures & Workshops

Emily Carr Lecture Theatre - Room 301
Free and open to the public

Tiny Homes is a visual presentation of the work of some 150 DIY builders: tiny homes, studios, saunas, garden sheds, and greenhouses, each on the forefront of downsizing and self-sufficiency. These structures, all under 500 sq. ft, are built on land, water, wheels and in trees.

Please join us for a presentation by Amanda Forbis ('88) and Wendy Tilby ('86).

Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis are independent animators who have co-directed two award-winning short films at the National Film Board of Canada, as well as numerous commercials through Acme Filmworks, a production company based in Los Angeles.

Their films When the Day Breaks and Wild Life were nominated for Academy Awards (as well as Wendy’s film Strings). When the Day Breaks won numerous major prizes at international animation festivals, including a Palm d'Or at Cannes and the Grand Prize at the Annecy International Animation Festival. It is considered to be an NFB classic.

Please join us for a talk by SFU Associate Professor Jeff Derksen.

Jeff Derksen is a founding member of Vancouver’s writer-run centre, the Kootenay School of Writing. His poetry and critical writing on art, urbanism and text have been published in Europe and North America. Formerly a research fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the City University of New York, he currently works in the English Department at Simon Fraser University. He collaborates on visual art and research projects (focusing on urban issues) with the research collective Urban Subjects. Crepuscular is a series of talks by artists who engage with various genres of writing including art criticism, scholarly forms, fiction, creative non-fiction etc.

The S3D Centre at Emily Carr in partnership with Grand NCE and Tim Bennison and Mark Lasoff of Gener8 presents the fifth Stereoscopic 3D Meetup Gener8: Changing the Conversation about Conversion.

The conventional wisdom in the film industry and popular press seems to be that the only way to produce a quality stereoscopic 3D film is to shoot with native stereo camera rigs. Stereoscopic 3D post-conversion is generally looked upon as a lower-quality alternative. We suggest that 3D conversion can produce high quality results; in fact a more useful conversation is “what is the right tool for the job?”

Associate Professor Trish Kelly is the next speaker for Crepuscular, a small series of talks by individuals who engage with various genres of writing including art criticism, scholarly forms, fiction, creative non-fiction etc. This event is part of the Critical + Cultural Practice Major at Emily Carr which allows students engaged in writing and other textual productions to explore the importance of art history, theory, and criticism in relation to their creative process.

All talks take place at the University and are free and open to the public.

Trish Kelly | Crepuscular
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 | 4:30 – 6pm
Room 291 | North Building

Upcoming Talks:

Associate professor Marina Roy from University of British Columbia (AHVA) is the next speaker for Crepuscular, a small series of talks by individuals who engage with various genres of writing including art criticism, scholarly forms, fiction, creative non-fiction, etc.

The Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival for 2011 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.

Proceeds of this screening will help to send an Emily Carr animation student to this year's festival.

Saturday, February 18, 2012
Doors 7pm | Screening 7:30pm
Emily Carr Lecture Theatre | SB Room 301

Tickets sold at the door (cash only):
Students with valid ID $5 | All others $10

Note: This program is not suitable for minors

Crepuscular is a series of intimate talks by artists who engage with various genres of writing including art criticism, scholarly forms, fiction and creative non-fiction.

These presentations are designed to enhance the Critical + Cultural Practice Major at Emily Carr. This BFA degree allows students engaged in writing and other textual productions to develop their studio practice while exploring the importance of art history, theory and criticism to their creative practices.

There are four talks in this series:

How can the ideas of the open source movement help foster learning? What are the most effective ways to bring learning to everyone?

Presentation House Gallery and Emily Carr University of Art + Design are pleased to present an artist talk by Paris-born, Berlin-based artist Cyprien Gaillard.

Between iconoclasm and minimal aesthetics, romanticism and Land Art, the work of Cyprien Gaillard questions man’s traces in nature with an archeological approach to recent history. Through sculpture, painting, etching, photography, video, performance and large-scale interventions in public space, Gaillard examines the relics of our built environment with an entropic view of destruction as the starting point of renewal.