And all watched over by machines of loving grace is an interactive video installation using a computer, software, large monitors and a sensor created by Ricarda McDonald (97) and Donna Szoke. Read more.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Amanda Forbis (81) and Wendy Tilby’s (86) animated short Wild Life, is one of 10 films selected to continue in the running for a nomination at the upcoming 84th Academy Awards. This is the second Oscar nomination the pair have received; their animated film, When the Day Breaks received an Oscar nod in 1999. Read more…
Friday, January 20, 2012 – 7:00pm – 9:00pm READ Books at the Charles H. Scott Gallery and the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, invite you to the launch of Brian Jungen: Carapace. Read more…
By Niomi Pearson Ladysmith Chronicle Ever since she was a little girl, Katie Nicol always said she wanted to be a veterinarian when she grew up. Five months into the veterinary medicine program at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine —… Tuesday, January 10, 2012 | full story …
Robert Pepper-Smith and Harold Rhenisch will provide a mix of poetry, magic and spells at Vancouver Island University’s Nanaimo campus Jan. 19. The readings, presented by Poets on Campus, will be in the Log Cabin (Bldg 365) starting at 7… Tuesday, January 10, 2012 | full story …
A talk Alexandra Samuel recently gave at TEDx Victoria, has been blogged about by The Atlantic. Her talk focused on ten reasons to stop apologizing for your online life. Read more…
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 – 12:00pm – Sunday, December 18, 2011 – 5:00pm The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Toronto artist Michelle Gay. Gay investigates relationships of language, the body and memory and the way in which they are mediated through machine technologies via a multi-disciplinary practice that includes computer projections, animations and drawing. Poemitron is a software program Gay developed in collaboration with her brother and particle physicist Colin Gay. Read more…
BCIT UPDATE From software systems development and auto refinishing, to underground mining, shellfish aquaculture and a host of other programs, the B … Read more →
The City of Vancouver and its economic development agency, the Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC), announced today, December 7, 2011, the Campus‐City Collaborative (C3): an initiative to bring together the City of Vancouver, Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC) and six post‐secondary institutions to work together towards the City’s green economy targets. This innovative program is the first of its kind in Canada. The six post‐secondary institution partners represented in C3 are the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Emily Carr University of Art and Design , Langara College, Simon Fraser University (SFU), The University … Continued
Rennie Collection is proud to present the first comprehensive survey of Canadian artist Damian Moppett (’92). The work of Damian Moppett charts a self-reflective studio practice spanning photography, sculpture, drawing, painting and video, often using one medium to examine another. His expansive Watercolour Drawing Project (2004 – 2008) to be exhibited at Wing Sang in all of its breadth is a ruminative omnibus of artistic process, reference and representation. Read more…
