Academic News

It’s All in the Movies (https://youtu.be/3RUw9yKC7Os)
EXHIBITION DESIGN INFLUENCED BY CINEMA

The medium of cinema works through an unfolding process of perception. As a spectator of cinema, one is drawn into a dimensional world, where the experience of spectacle, narrative, and semiosis work together to percolate a film’s interest, context, and purpose. Cinema is affective, engaging, and critically contemplative. Through dynamic relations between the movement and colour of images, ambient, immersive, and musical sound, cultural and human perspective, cinema creates an altered experience of reality. This encourages individuals to reflect, through embodied and cognitive instances, on the fluctuating conditions of the world and human experience.

Best of the OIAF

Animation Fundraiser

Friday February 19th

6:00pm-9:30pm

SB Lecture Theatre Room 301

Screening of a selection of the best films from the 2015 Ottawa International Animation Festival. Fundraiser includes a reception and pizza from 6:00-7:30. Screening begins at 7:30, followed by a draw for raffle prizes. Proceeds will send an ECU student to the 2016 festival.

General Admission: $10

Student Admission: $5 (with valid student ID)

Join the Write Club: 21 days to better reading and writing for the Spring 2016 semester brought to you by the Writing Centre.

Come to the information session on Friday January 8th from 11:45 – 12:45pm in the Aboriginal Gathering Place to hear more about the program. Or find out more here: http://blogs.eciad.ca/wc/write-club-general-information/

Write Club is an opportunity for you to work with a writing instructor/trainer via Moodle. You will write in short "training sessions" in response to readings that you will choose (from your course readings or from a list we provide) to improve your facility with writing and reading. You will also meet with your writing instructor/trainer (and the "club") three times throughout the term.

The time commitment:

Trading Routes: Grease Trails, Oil Futures is a publicly-engaged, trans-disciplinary art and research project undertaken in the midst of a liminal moment in Canadian history. In the pursuit of the nation’s place among world energy superpowers, debates have emerged about the benefits and social and environmental risks associated with rapid changes brought about from investment in fossil fuel industries.

Current, Emily Carr’s design research journal is an annual multi-platform publication that seeks to showcase the richness and texture of creative practice and research within our institution.

Emily Carr was one of 26 Canadian universities which made it into the QS World University Rankings by Subject.  

"The Harmonograph Swingset, capturing the frequency of love and friendship"

- from the TED Blog

We are happy to celebrate the successful installation of a "Harmonograph Swingset" at this year's TED conference, hosted in Vancouver. A sculpture by Carly Stadelmann and Emily Carr University employee Jeremy Wong literally made waves inviting thousands of global visitors at TED to create interactive art pieces.

This summer, Emily Carr University of Art + Design will run 10-day creative intensives in Whistler and Prince George offering teens across the province the oppportunity to explore the arts in immersive and vibrant environments. Not only will local teens aged 15-18 in these cities be able to work with university faculty, but an accommodation option for Whistler will open the program up to students from Vancouver to Dawson Creek.

The University is pleased to welcome Tene Barber as Executive Director, Continuing Studies.

As part of the University's academic leadership team, Ms. Barber takes on the strategic development of Emily Carr University's lifelong learning programs, and delivery of the broad range of offerings we currently provide to our many communities. From teen programs and professional certificates, to The Leeway's drop-in studio space and corporate creativity programs, Emily Carr University's Department of Continuing Studies has opportunities for study in the creative disciplines for students of all ages and interests.

Over 65 high school students have already decided to spend the first month of their summer vacation in class at Emily Carr University. The Summer Institute for Teens had 112 students (out of 120 spots) last July, so being half-full at the end of early bird registration was an unexpected surprise.

“It’s fantastic to see this phenomenal growth, because it represents a belief and investment in the next generation of artists and designers,” says Claire Schagerl ('04), who runs the Emily Carr University teen programs. “Our summer students show that creatives of all ages can be invested in their practice.”