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Panel discussion about Ripples, a new public art project

Join us for a conversation about Ripples between artist Sydney Hart and Dr. Jaleh Mansoor, on November 20, 2025 @ 7pm at ECU’s Rennie Hall / B2160. The conversation will be moderated by the Ripples project curator, Christine D’Onofrio.

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Rennie Hall / B2160,
Emily Carr University of Art + Design

520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5T 0H2 See on Map

Contact

Sydney Hart | sydneyhart@ecuad.ca

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Panel discussion about Ripples, a new public art project

The Global Reporting Centre at UBC is organizing a panel discussion about the Ripples public art project, data visualization, and modernist abstraction. Join us for a conversation between the artist, Sydney Hart, and Dr. Jaleh Mansoor from the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia, moderated by Ripples’ curator, Christine D’Onofrio, Associate Professor of Teaching, Chair of the Bachelor of Media Studies program and Director of Digital Scholarship in Arts at the University of British Columbia.

About Ripples

Ripples is a public art project consisting of five consecutive billboards that examines how we understand and visualize data related to the environmental impact of global trade. The project is a collaboration between artist Sydney Hart, curator Christine D'Onofrio, researcher Gavin Fridell, and the Global Reporting Centre. The Global Reporting Centre is based at UBC's School of Journalism, Writing, and Media.

The billboards are part of a City of Vancouver public art program along the Arbutus Greenway, between Burrard and Fir Streets. The five billboards will be installed until late November, 2025.

Join artist Sydney Hart for a walking tour of Ripples on October 25, from 2pm to 3pm.

Process

Sydney Hart developed this series through discussions with Christine D'Onofrio, the Global Reporting Centre, and Gavin Fridell, a researcher at Saint Mary's University in Halifax whose work explores the political economy and ideological aspects of trade and trade policy.

Fridell's extensive knowledge of the impacts of international trade, and Hart's artistic approaches to data visualization, formed the basis for a creative exchange questioning how these impacts can be understood.

Ripples is part of a multi-year research cluster and reporting collaboration called the Hidden Costs of Global Supply Chains. Led by the Global Reporting Centre, Hidden Costs brings together dozens of academics, journalists, and artists from around the world to reveal the consequences of global supply chains.

For more about the project, visit globalreportingcentre.org/ripples.