Faculty news

Professor Landon Mackenzie exhibits Blue / Blue at Art45 in Montreal, Quebec.
 
Dominated by blue, these paintings represent natural phenomena from galactic skies to the Great North, and from our synaptic connections to our vast oceans. Characteristic of Mackenzie’s oeuvre, it is from her meticulous working with form, composition and colour that emerges a mesmerizing and magnificent universe.

Sessional faculty member, Alan Storey, has completed Compass a historically based interactive work integrated into the architecture of Bellevue, Washington's, new City Hall. It is informed by a longstanding history of compass manufacturing in the area. The eyepiece on the balcony is linked to the front doors of the building through a 350' long Terrazzo floor. Using the front doors causes the viewers perspective and focus to shift to the left or right, depending on which door is used.

 “Land is home, it is evidence of not only itself, but of force- retaining and dissolving marks of everything it has housed and supported. It is also the dividing line of space- it is the plane where earth meets the sky.” Merritt Johnson

Emily Carr University of Art and Design Foundation students participated in Creative Processes and Drawing assignments to create works inspired by sixteen specific Chinatown historic sites. The students researched visual images and written documentation at the Vancouver Archives, visited the actual sites, and gathered local research based on their senses; seeing, smelling, tasting and touching the beauty, surprises, objects and issues relevant to the Chinatown environment.

SIGNS OF CHANGE
An exhibition of photographs in the gallery and weekly off-site ice text installations

Associate Professor, Liz Magor, is featured in Artists & Writers in Conversation / Part 2: Super Natural Manufactured at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Liz will be in conversation with Ruth Ozeki discussing the urban landscape, the construction of the natural world and the artist's relationship to this place and the land.

This event is free with Gallery admission.

Saturday, April 10, 2010, at 2pm
Vancouver Art Gallery
Third Floor

For more information, please visit the VAG.

VIVO Media Arts proudly presents Disrupting Currents: Catch + Release, an exhibition of new work by Associate Professor, Ruth Beer. Ruth's exhibition includes sculptures, a multi-channel video, and an interactive and immersive projection.

Disrupting Currents: Catch + Release is in collaboration with Associate Professor Jim Budd and Kit Grauer.

April 9 to April 30, 2010
Opening: April 8 at 7pm
VIVO Media Arts Centre

Assistant Professor, Julie York, showcases her sculptures in an exhibit entitled REFLECTIONNOITCELFER at Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.

Julie's work explores visual relations and ways of seeing. It presents objects and their images as both static and in flux, developing the interaction between objects and images in a transitional space.

March 13 to April 24, 2010
Artist Talk: Friday, April 2 at 5pm

For more information, please visit Pentimenti Gallery.

Renamed in recognition of Associate Professor Sam Carter’s exceptional contribution to design and education, and the financial generosity of longtime Emily Carr friend and supporter, Dr. Yosef Wosk in 2009, the awards celebrate British Columbians who through their creativity contribute to the cultural and economic fabric of the Province.

The Social + Interactive Media Centre (formerly the Centre for Moving Interaction) will hold an information session for all faculty interested in developing SIM Centre projects and applying for course releases for the fall of 2010. The information session will take place on Friday, March 5 from 11:30-12:30 in room 278, North Building. Please RSVP to Morgan Brayton, SIM Centre Partner Liaison mbrayton@ecuad.ca.