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Landon Mackenzie | Tracing Mobility

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Emily Carr Professor Landon Mackenzie opens Wednesday in Tracing Mobility: Cartography and Migration in Networked Space at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. A very ambitious event of exhibition, Open Platform and Symposium, Tracing Mobility sets out to examine how electronic networks and mobile media are transforming our conceptions of time, space and distance. Mackenzie joins fellow Canadians Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller, UK’s Simon Faithful and 12 other internationals artists. Two of her very large map-paintings complement a show … Continued

WRAP | A Student/Community Project

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WRAP is a collaborative public art project between Emily Carr’s Faculty of Culture + Community, and the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association. A beautification and graffiti mitigation initiative, WRAP features 12 unique designs that ‘wrap’ around the electrical boxes along the length of downtown Granville Street. Each box is a stand-alone art piece. Together, they’re a collection of public art that can be toured by walking from West Cordova to Drake Street on both the east and west sides of the street. … Continued

Masks, Movement and Mentorship | The VSB and Emily Carr Partnership

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Emily Carr has partnered with the Vancouver School Board to offer new after-school programs that allow elementary school students to explore the power of dance, visual arts and storytelling with one creative curriculum. Once a week, 10 Kindergarten and Grade 1 students are joined by five youth leader volunteers from Eric Hamber and an Emily Carr student in an hour long program. The lesson provides students with an extra helping of arts every week. The programs run from October until early December … Continued

Axis of Light Joint Exhibition

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Axis of Light is a joint undertaking by photography students and faculty from Emily Carr’s Visual Art + Material Practice and UBC’s Fine Arts. Our aim is to bring together works and ideas about what photography is today in the view of visual arts students from both institutions. The title of the project alludes to the array of directions – pedagogical, technical and conceptual – through which photographers explore the possibilities of that elusive substance common to all our artistic concerns: light. … Continued

HOW ARE ANIMALS INFLUENCING US?

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Emily Carr co-presents Interactive Futures ’11: Animal Influence. VANCOUVER, BC | New media artists, scientists, activists and philosophers are gathering together at Emily Carr University of Art + Design for a unique look at how animal cognition, animal consciousness and animal agency are changing the way we make art, do science, make ethical choices and make change in the world with Interactive Futures 2011: Animal Influence. The conference features a workshop, concurrent exhibitions, performances and screenings that take place at Emily Carr and Gallery Gachet, November 17 … Continued

the on edge reading series | gurjinder basran and jim oaten

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Thursday, November 17, 2011 – 7:00pm – 8:30pm The On Edge Reading Series presents: Gurjinder Basran and Jim Oaten Gurjinder Basran’s debut novel, Everything Was Good-bye (Mother Tongue, 2010), was the winner of the Search for the Great BC Novel Contest in 2010 and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Award for most outstanding work of fiction by a BC author. Her work has earned her a place in the Vancouver Sun’s annual “Ones to Watch.” A graduate of SFU’s Writer’s Studio, … Continued

On the Nature of Things Featured in Canadian Art Magazine

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Read the Canadian Art Review . To the general Canadian public, the title of this exhibition makes a direct reference to the popular television series The Nature of Things hosted by David Suzuki since 1979. In the context of this art exhibition it is also meant to evoke the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius’ epic poem De Rerum Natura, which had the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience back in 1st century BC. Read more .

open Doors – open Knowledge | open House

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011 – 11:00am – 4:00 pm Join us for Open Doors – Open Knowledge – an exhibition to showcase the rewards of investing in education and acknowledge funding that the University has received through the Knowledge Infrastructure Program (KIP). As part of the Economic Action Plan, the KIP was launched by the federal government in 2009 – a two-year, $2 billion measure to support infrastructure enhancements in postsecondary institutions. The federal government contributed $1.3 billion and together with provincial and other sources … Continued