lecture: richard rhodes

Art and Art History Presents

Richard Rhodes

Thursday 7 January 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1

Richard Rhodes is an author, arts journalist, curator, educator, critic, painter and photographer. Rhodes regularly writes on contemporary artists working today, primarily for Canadian Art magazine where he is currently the Editor. He has written on art for more than 25 years. In the early 1980s, he served as Toronto editor for Montreal arts and culture magazine Parachute. In 1983, together with Dyan Marie, he founded C Magazine in Toronto, and ran it until 1990. During the late 1980s, he was also a regular contributor of reviews to Artforum magazine in New York.

In 1990, he was appointed curator at The Power Plant in Toronto, following project work as an independent curator, which included work as Commissioner for Canada at the 1985 Sao Paulo Biennale. He has been an adjunct curator for Oakville Galleries and has organized more recent independent projects that included a five-gallery exhibition of emerging artists from the Netherlands in 2002 and a series of one-day exhibitions called The News at Five for Toronto International Art Fair. Rhodes will curate the 7th Alberta Biennale at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, in 2010.

As a photographer, he worked with writer John Bentley Mays to illustrate the City Sites and Material World columns for the Globe and Mail. Rhodes has taught criticism at the Ontario College of Art and Design and photography at Ryerson University. In 2003, he received the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Achievement Award.

Rhodes’ paintings were included in the 2005-06 exhibition Weathervane, curated by Karen Love. His work has been exhibited at Dyan Marie Projects in Toronto (2006) and Galerie René Blouin in Montreal (2007). Rhodes is the author of a popular book on the history of Canadian art for young people, “A First Book of Canadian Art” (2001).

EXHIBITION: BREANN RICHTIE

RED: solo works of Breann Ritchie
Earth and Fire (second floor)
489 Queen St. W
January 4th until January 31st Opening: January 9th, 8pm-12am

graphic design contest

Time is running out! Submissions are due by

end-of-day Friday, December 4, 2009!

Attention students in graphic design, advertising and/or communication media programs!

The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum – Forum canadien sur l’apprentissage (CAF-FCA) is looking for the ‘look’ of its new, peer-reviewed journal: The Canadian Apprenticeship Journal – Journal canadien de l’apprentissage…

Can you help?

We are looking for graphic design submissions for the logo, print cover and web homepage of our new Journal.

Submissions should consist of two items: cover page of print version and homepage of web version, both of which should include the unique, designed-by-you logo of the journal title in Canada’s official languages: Canadian Apprenticeship Journal – Journal canadien de l’apprentissage.

The reward…

• The winning submission will be from a creative, full-time student in any college or university graphic design, advertising and/or communication media program in Canada. To ensure your program applies, please email danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org .
• The nationally renowned graphic design firm Sage Media Design will assist the Canadian Apprenticeship Journal’s Editorial Board in judging the finalists.
• You will be recognized and profiled in the Canadian Apprenticeship Journal.
• You will be able to add this design to your impressive CV and portfolio.

The challenge…

• You will need to include the CAF-FCA logo on the print cover and homepage:

Please email danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org for the CAF-FCA logo.

• You will need to use only the colours and shades of the CAF-FCA logo on the print cover design. Please use the four colour process (CMYK). The homepage may include additional colours and shades.
• You will need to make the ‘look’ of the Journal appeal to a diverse audience of apprenticeship stakeholders including researchers, employers and apprentices.
• You will need to include the Journal website address in English and French:

http://www.caf-fca.org/en/journal/

http://www.caf-fca.org/fr/journal/

• You will need to show where the volume, issue number and date should be displayed on both the print cover and online homepage.
• You will need to provide us with a paragraph explaining your rationale for the design.
• You may include the Table of Contents (again, please just show us where).
• You will need to be really creative because we are seeking submissions from across Canada!

The details…

• Submissions are due by end-of-day Friday, December 4, 2009.
• Submissions must be sent via email to danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org.
• For more information, please contact Danielle Matheusik at danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org or 613-235-4004 ext. 203, or visit our website at www.caf-fca.org.

Funded by the Government of Canada’s Sector Council Program.

Financé par le gouvernement du Canada dans le cadre du Programme des conseils sectoriels.

exhibitions: oakville galleries

Please join us for the opening of our winter exhibitions on Sunday 6 December 2009 at 2:30 pm at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square (120 Navy Street), followed by a reception at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens (1306 Lakeshore Road East) at 3:30 pm.

Therese Bolliger: Four Echoes 5 December 2009 - 28 February 2010 Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens This exhibition brings together a selection of recent drawings and sculptures by Toronto artist Therese Bolliger. Occupying the four gallery spaces, Four Echoes is an exploration of the essence of form, as Bolliger articulates memory’s place between past and present, translates mathematical and philosophical constructs into objects, and explores the outer reaches of the body. Curated by Shannon Anderson. Therese Bolliger, Interior Schema 5, 2009

Wendy Coburn, Untititled (buck), 2007 Uneasy Pieces 5 December 2009 - 28 February 2010 Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square Fretfulness, anxiety and apprehension are hardly new concerns in contemporary art, but they are quickly gaining currency in light of present global woes. Uneasy Pieces will showcase works from Oakville Galleries’ permanent collection that grapple with the fragile state of our world. From anxiety about economic recession, military warfare and global warming to concerns about consumerism, surveillance and the decentered world of global capitalism, the works in Uneasy Pieces examine states of uncertainty and unease in contemporary life. Curated by Marnie Fleming. Featuring works by Ed Burtynsky, Wendy Coburn, Colin Darke, Susanna Heller, Deirdre Logue, Ken Lum, Liz Magor, Kim Moodie, Monika Napier, Louise Noguchi, Ed Pien, Glenn Rudolph and John Scott.

fado performance

FADO Performance Art Centre presents

Escapist Action: Performance in Recession
November 23 – 29, 2009

InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
9 Ossington Avenue, Toronto

Curated by Don Simmons

Daily media reports bombard us with the reality of the current worldwide economic situation. We are in the midst of a recession. Businesses are failing and offering discount prices on everything in the store, the stock market is volatile, companies are looking for bailouts, and government agencies are giving away bloated stimulation packages. Despite these tough economic times, some businesses are experiencing a boom. Alcohol sales are up; Hollywood movies are experiencing a surge in attendance and theatres are reporting a rise in audience numbers. During tough economic times, art relating to escapism prospers.

Escapist Action: Performance in Recession is a weeklong series of performance events that investigate personal and public economics by offering the audience alternative methods of exchange. The series culminates in three evening programs: Black Friday, Red Flag Saturday, and Grey Cup Sunday. These programs investigate the mixed emotions evoked by the volatile economic market with live performances that navigate fear, despair, laughter, and hope. The audience is transported from the dark emotions of Black Friday through the humour of Red Flag Saturday, arriving at celebratory Grey Cup Sunday!

Co-presented by InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre.

ARTISTS
John G. Boehme (Victoria)
Joanne Bristol (Winnipeg)
David Frankovich (Toronto)
Tomas Jonsson (Calgary)
Rodolphe-Yves Lapointe (Montreal)
Julian Higuerey Núñez (Venezuela)
Ignacio Peréz Peréz (Venezuela)
Claudia Wittmann (Toronto).

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FULL SCHEDULE DETAILS: www.performanceart.ca

BLACK FRIDAY @ 8PM: Performances from Joanne Bristol, Claudia Wittmann, Roldophe-Yves Lapointe, Julian Higuerey Núñez and Ignacio Pérez Pérez

RED FLAG SATURDAY @ 8PM: Performances from Tom Jonsson, John Boehme, Joanne Bristol, Julian Higuerey Núñez and Ignacio Pérez Pérez

GREY CUP SUNDAY @ 6PM: Grey Cup Party by David Frankovich

And more!
November 23, 2-9PM: Open Barter Market by Julian Higuerey Núñez & Ignacio Pérez Pérez
November 24 – 29, 9AM-9PM: The Artist and the Beanstalk by Julian Higuerey Núñez & Ignacio Pérez Pérez
November 27, 1-4PM: Association for Imaginary Architecture by Joanne Bristol
November 28, 1-10PM: Magpie by Tom Jonsson

See our website for full details, project descriptions and artist bios.

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About FADO
Established in 1993, FADO Performance Inc. (Performance Art Centre) is a not-for-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada. FADO exists to provide a stable, ongoing, supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art. Currently, we are the only artist-run centre in English Canada devoted specifically to this form. We present the work of local, national and international artists who have chosen performance art as a primary medium to create and communicate provocative new images and new perspectives. FADO is grateful for the generous support of our funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and Department of Canadian Heritage.

FADO is grateful for the generous support of our funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and Department of Canadian Heritage. We would also like to thank InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre for their support and contributions hosting and presenting this event.

artist lecture: jon sasaki

Art and Art History Presents

Jon Sasaki

Tuesday 24 November 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1

Working in the vein of “romantic conceptualism,” John Sasaki utilizes primarily performance-for-video, objects, installations and interventions in work that mixes humour and pathos, often with gently antagonistic results. Cyni­cism, futility and tragedy are taken as starting points, then countered with dry, comic delivery. Often structured like the familiar “shaggy dog joke,” much of this work is a deadpan escalation of expectations, followed by an anticlimactic punch line. It is a celebration of futility and resignation.

Sasaki’s work has been pre­sented in solo exhibitions at Centre Clark (Montreal), Gallery TPW (Toronto), The New Gallery (Calgary), and Latitude 53 (Edmonton). He has participated in recent group exhibitions at VOX (Montreal), the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (University of Toronto), the Owens Art Gallery (Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB) Simon Fraser University Gallery (Burnaby, BC), as well as the 2006 and 2008 editions of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche. Upcoming solo exhibitions will be presented at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects (Toronto), The Doris McCarthy Gallery, (University of Toronto at Scarborough) and 126 (Galway, Ireland). Sasaki was an active member of the Instant Coffee art collective between 2002 and 2007. He lives and works in Toronto.



Image: Toronto's Official Y2K Mascot, Autumn (2008), HDV, 4:33, looped

bookworks call for submission

The Art Gallery of York University sponsors the race to the ABotM.

Now is your chance to be recognized.

The Art Gallery of York University is now accepting submissions to the AGYU Artists' Book of the Moment competition.

Following the closing deadline, our panel of adjudicators will assess all submissions. Taking into consideration their own eclectic tastes, the jury will select which books they deem worthy of the AGYU ABotM designation – a rare honour indeed!

The singular book that rises to the top of the ABotM will receive a cash award of $1,500 (Canadian funds, of course).

Submission Deadline is 18 January 2010.

Submission guidelines:

1. Read the full rules (see below).
2. Complete the ABotM submission information form (even further below).
3. Send the book(s) you wish considered for the AGYU ABotM competition to the Art Gallery of York University along with printed submission information for each entry.
4. Books must be received by the AGYU by January 18th, 2010. Do not send books COD.
5. Email the required submission form to ABotM@theAGYUisOutThere.org.
6. Wait for the results of the adjudication.

ABotM Rules:

Yes, there are rules.

1. The “A” in ABotM is silent.
2. All books submitted to the ABotM competition should already be published (e.g., no prototypes or maquettes) and exist in either editions of more than 20 or as open editions. The ABotM is directed towards content-driven artist's books. For the purposes of this contest, we will not consider catalogues, portfolios, or promotional material.
3. There are no restrictions on date or location of production. There is no limit of the number of submissions you may make.
4. There is no submission fee. No submissions will be returned, however. Over the course of the submission and assessment period, all the books will be publicly accessible in the lobby bookstore of the AGYU. At the end of the competition, all works will be placed in our newly-developed artist's book resource centre or other suitable collection. Those retained by the AGYU will continue to be accessible to the public by appointment.
5. All books deemed worthy of ABotM designation will be featured on a section of our website dedicated to artist's books along with contact information on the artist(s) responsible. In addition, qualifying artist's will receive proper notification and acknowledgement as well as a frameable certificate attesting to the designation.
6. Any submission to the competition is considered tacit agreement to the terms of the competition (especially rule number 5).
7. Follow all submission guidelines.

ABotM Submission information to include with your entry:

• Title of work
• Artist name[s]
• Press/imprint
• ISBN (if applicable)
• Dimensions
• Retail Price
• Edition size
• Supplier/contact person
• email address for contact person
• mailing address for contact person
• website
• 200 – 300 words describing the submitted title
• 200 – 300 words describing the press and/or artist

For more information please contact:
Michael Maranda, assistant curator
Art Gallery of York University
Toronto ON (Canada)
abotm@theAGYUisOutThere.org

out there
http://www.theagyuisoutthere.org/abotm/

emerging artist competition

Emerging Artist Competition | Deadline: January 15, 2010
The Artist Project Toronto | March 4-7, 2010

The Artist Project Toronto invites submissions from emerging artists for the Untapped Emerging Artist Competition. Untapped is a juried competition in which 16 of the best up-and-coming artists are awarded a free space in the 2010 show! This is an excellent opportunity to participate in a professional level art fair and to showcase your work to gallerists, collectors and art enthusiasts.

Winners Will:

• Receive a free space in the Open Gallery section of the show (approximately 10 linear feet)
• Connect with 10,000 visitors, gallerists & art buyers
• Network with artists from across North America
• Get promoted on: The Artist Project website, show guide, press releases & other marketing materials

Who Can Apply?

• Current students and recent graduates (no more than three years removed from post-secondary or graduate-level education)
• Self-taught artists who have been practicing their art for less than 3 years
• Winning artists must be personally present for the duration of the show (March 4-7, 2010 at the Queen Elizabeth Building, Toronto, ON)

The deadline for application is Friday, January 15, 2010
Click HERE for application (pdf)

For applications & more information
Visit www.theartistprojecttoronto.com

About Us:
The Artist Project Toronto is produced by MMPI, one of the largest trade show producers in the world credited with Art Chicago, Volta, NEXT and The Armory Show. MMPI Canada is also responsible for The Toronto International Art Fair, One of a Kind Shows, Interior Design Show, and IIDEX/NeoCon Canada .

Contact:
Kim Selman
T: 416-960-4527
E: kim@mmpicanada.com
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maura doyle: artist lecture

reel asian film festival

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Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Opens this week, November 11-15

The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Reel Asian) celebrates its 13th year as Canada’s premier showcase of contemporary Asian cinema! This year’s festival presents 49 East/Southeast Asian titles from 14 countries, including Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), Singapore, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and the USA.

With over 30 Asian Canadian titles, this year’s festival presents the biggest and best selection of recent Asian Canadian films, videos and new media works, including the world premiere of THE ACHE by Toronto-based director Keith Lock; REX VS. SINGH, a collaboration between Ali Kazimi, Richard Fung, and John Greyson; and an installation by Jin-Me Yoon.

For more info: 416-703-9333, www.reelasian.com.


FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

Wed Nov 11 7:00 PM | Bloor Cinema | Opening Night Gala
OVERHEARD
Dir. Alan Mak & Felix Chong | Hong Kong 2009 | Canadian Premiere
Lau Ching-wan, Louis Koo and Daniel Wu star as three cops torn between money and justice in the highly anticipated Canadian premiere of this suspenseful crime drama. Preceded by a live multi-media animation by Lesley Loksi Chan and Serena Lee.

Thu Nov 12, 5-8 PM | Trinity Square Video | Gallery Reception
“IT WILL ALL BE DIFFERENT”
Exhibition: November 12 to December 12
ANGST ESSEN / EAT FEAR (Ming Wong) is a reconstruction of the Fassbinder movie, Angst essen Seele auf (1973). In this scandalous love story between an elderly cleaning woman from Munich and a young Moroccan immigrant worker, Wong unlocks a playful state of ‘in-betweenness’ (in-between ethnicities, languages and genders) by humorously playing all of the characters in the film.
AS IT IS BECOMING, BEPPU, JAPAN SERIES (Jin-Me Yoon) - Through rigorous action that evokes scenes of evasion and/or survival combat techniques, Yoon crawls like an alien creature throughout the Kannawa District, a former U.S. Army Base converted into a park, and the Atomic Treatment Centre.

Thu Nov 12 | 7:30 PM | Innis Town Hall
FRUIT FLY Dir. H.P. Mendoza | USA
An outrageously gay San Francisco musical about a Filipina performance artist in search of her birth parents.

Fri Nov 13 | 6:15 PM | Innis Town Hall
SENSE OF WONDER
Inspiring our imaginations in the darkest of moments, this year’s selection of the best Asian Canadian shorts invokes a playful outlook on tragedy. Including films and videos by Leslie Supnet, Jong Wook Choi, Lydia Fu, Yung Chang, Paramita Nath, Victoria Cheong, Randall Okita, Richard Fung, John Greyson, and Ali Kazimi.

Fri Nov 13 8:00 PM | The Royal | Centrepiece
RED HEROINE with Live Score by Devil Music Ensemble | Dir. Wen Yimin | China
Red Heroine and White Monkey unleash the art of hand, sword, and powerful magic in the Canadian premier of the only surviving silent “Kung Fu” film from China (1929), featuring a modern score performed live by Boston band, Devil Music Ensemble.

Fri Nov 13, 10:00 PM | The Rivoli
CANADIAN MOVIEMAKERS PARTY
Celebrate Canadian Moviemakers! Live music by THE WORST POP BAND EVER joined by LEO37, MAGNOLIUS, THE ABYSS, SUNCLEF to new animations by Howie Shia (PPF HOUSE), and DANCING with DJ TAD.

Sat Nov 14 2:00 PM | Innis Town Hall
AGRARIAN UTOPIA | Dir. Uruphong Raksasad | Thailand
Two families find themselves farming together on the same field as they face economic, political and social changes sparked by national policy and industrial globalization. Panel with Uruphong Raksasad: Tue Nov 10, 6-8pm at the Asian Institute, Munk Centre

Sat Nov 14 10:00 PM | Innis Town Hall
FISH STORY | Dir. Nakamura Yoshihiro | Japan
A doomsday adventure about a Japanese punk song that rescues humanity—adapted from the acclaimed book by Kotaro Isaka.

Sun Nov 15 12:30 PM | Innis Town Hall
A SCHOOLGIRL’S DIARY | Dir. Jang In-hak | DPRK (North Korea)
A story about the daughter of a national researcher provides a remarkably lucid window into the social fabric and cinematic culture of the contemporary DPRK. Preceded by Chosun Forever by Joohyun Kwon.

Sun Nov 15 5:30 PM | Innis Town Hall
THE ACHE | Dir. Keith Lock | Canada
A young Chinese Canadian woman working in an erotic parlour unravels the shameful mysteries of her cursed family and father’s illicit affair with a spirit.

Sun Nov 15 8:00 PM | The Royal | Closing Night Gala & Awards Ceremony
BREATHLESS | Dir. Yang Ik-June | South Korea
Debut director, writer and actor Yang Ik-June plays a frustrated extortionist who tries to escape his violent past after he meets a wayward schoolgirl.

FESTIVAL INFORMATION
Phone: 416 703 9333, Email: info@reelasian.com, Website: www.reelasian.com

SCREENING VENUES
Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St W at Bathurst
The Royal, 608 College St at Clinton
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave at St. George

BOX OFFICE INFO
During the Festival
Festival Box Office: Nov 12-15. Innis College Lobby (2 Sussex Av) open from noon. Cash only.
Venue Box Offices: Nov 11-15. At each screening venue. Opens an hour before each screening. Cash only.
Advance Box Office
Web Sales (until Monday, Nov 9 at 11:59pm). Online at www.reelasian.com
Walk-Up Sales (until Saturday, Nov 7 at 6:30pm). T.O. Tix (Yonge-Dundas Square), Tuesday through Saturday, 12:00pm – 6:30pm.
ADVANCE BOX OFFICE INFOLINE – call T.O. Tix at 416 536 6468 x 40

TICKETS & PASSES

	Regular Price/Discount Price*
Regular Programmes	$12/$10
Opening Night Gala	$20/$15
Centrepiece Presentation	$15/$12
Closing Night Gala	$15/$12
Festival Pass	$80/$65

*Discount applies to students (with valid current ID), seniors over 65 (no ID required), or group sales (by arrangement)

The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario Media Development Corporation, Ontario Tourism, Toronto Arts Council, Telefilm and the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Reel Asian Charitable # 870021383RR000

artist lecture: richard rhodes

Art and Art History Presents

Richard Rhodes

Thursday 19 November 2009

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan B124

Richard Rhodes is an author, arts journalist, curator, educator, critic, painter and photographer. Rhodes regularly writes on contemporary artists working today, primarily for Canadian Art magazine where he is currently the Editor. He has written on art for more than 25 years. In the early 1980s, he served as Toronto editor for Montreal arts and culture magazine Parachute. In 1983, together with Dyan Marie, he founded C Magazine in Toronto, and ran it until 1990. During the late 1980s, he was also a regular contributor of reviews to Artforum magazine in New York.

In 1990, he was appointed curator at The Power Plant in Toronto, following project work as an independent curator, which included work as Commissioner for Canada at the 1985 Sao Paulo Biennale. He has been an adjunct curator for Oakville Galleries and has organized more recent independent projects that included a five-gallery exhibition of emerging artists from the Netherlands in 2002 and a series of one-day exhibitions called The News at Five for Toronto International Art Fair. Rhodes will curate the 7th Alberta Biennale at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, in 2010.

As a photographer, he worked with writer John Bentley Mays to illustrate the City Sites and Material World columns for the Globe and Mail. Rhodes has taught criticism at the Ontario College of Art and Design and photography at Ryerson University. In 2003, he received the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Achievement Award.

Rhodes’ paintings were included in the 2005-06 exhibition Weathervane, curated by Karen Love. His work has been exhibited at Dyan Marie Projects in Toronto (2006) and Galerie René Blouin in Montreal (2007). Rhodes is the author of a popular book on the history of Canadian art for young people, “A First Book of Canadian Art” (2001).

call for submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Up and Away 1st exhibition at your Inset Space

If you haven’t already heard, the North Building at UTM is home to a newly established student gallery called Inset Space. Most magnificent of all, we want your artwork NOW for the first exhibition!

We want your reactions/responses to the current shows at the Blackwood Gallery – ‘Fall Out’ and ‘Fall In’. Inspiration could stem from a certain artist, concepts from the exhibition, or the relationship between multiple works, etc. New work is encouraged as well as the reworking of previous projects you may have. Consider the relationship between the themes of the two Blackwood shows and the implications of the phrase ‘up and away’.

Inset Space is accepting submissions from UTM students. Entries in all media are welcome. Performances for the opening? Yes please! The opening will take place on Thursday, November 26th.

Please keep in mind: Inset Space is located within a computer lab – work with sound requires headphones. The space is unmonitored – work is unfortunately susceptible to damage. A web component to the show can be created for work that is awesome and on topic but not suitable for, or at risk in the Inset Space.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

• A few photos/descriptions of previous work
• Artist statement (paragraph about yourself including program, year of study, areas of interest)
• A description of the proposed work with sketches if relevant, a plan of how the work would be installed (equipment needed, what you can get, what you may need from us)

Email submissions to insetspace@gmail.com
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, November 6th, at 12 pm

More Info? Ideas? Inquiries? contact us at insetspace@gmail.com

ART AND ART HISTORY: AWARDS CEREMONY

Art and Art History Program

2009 Awards

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Annie Smith Arts Centre, Sheridan College

Awards Ceremony begins at 7:00 p.m.

Pot Luck Dinner and Bar at 6 p.m.

Bar will remain open after the ceremony.

Keynote Speaker: Carol-Ann Ryan, Art and Art History Alumna

Everyone is Welcome!

artist lecture: blackwood gallery

artist lecture: susan detwiler

Art and Art History Presents

Susan Detwiler

Thursday 12 November 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan B124

I live in a rural area of southwestern Ontario. Over the past six years I have developed and maintained a series of walks, which trespass private farmland, abandoned quarries, swampland and woodlots. Within this activity I try to cultivate sensitivity to body awareness as opposed to mind-based projection and perception. Much of my work deals with issues of body and landscape. It often raises questions about our relationship to the environment and increasing disconnection with the natural world.

Biography

Susan Detwiler is a contemporary visual artist, educator and writer. Her work includes sculpture, installation, performance, drawing and video. Detwiler studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and later received an MFA from the University of Guelph. She teaches part time at the University of Guelph and the Dundas Valley School of Art.




Image: Green Cleaning House (2008), 8 x 6 x 5 feet, float, live plants, mops, brooms, buckets, Jay Cloths

symposium: war at distance

War at a Distance Open Symposium
Documentary Practice, Visual Culture and Public Conversations about Military Conflict
Ryerson University, Toronto
Friday October 30, 2009 – Saturday October 31, 2009

War at a Distance Exhibition
Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Avenue, Toronto
Curated by Blake Fitzpatrick, Karyn Sandlos and Roger I. Simon
Saturday October 24, 2009 – Saturday November 21, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday October 30, 2009 7-9pm

The War at a Distance symposium and the associated exhibition will explore the ways in which new representational practices are mediating the terms on which Canadians struggle to make sense of the war in Afghanistan. New technologies and forms of documentary and artistic practice are continuing to alter the range of impressions available to a civic culture. The symposium and exhibition will create a forum for participants to grapple with the questions that emerge when these artistic and cultural forms are brought into relation, often in ways that blur the distinctions between documentary and aesthetics, art and visual culture, war artist and combatant-diarist. This new cultural landscape is setting the terms for public conversations about Canada’s on-going involvement in the war in Afghanistan.

Barbie Zelizer will deliver a Keynote lecture at Ryerson University at 4:00pm on October 30th. Barbie Zelizer is the author of Remember to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera’s Eye among other numerous publications and holds the Raymond Williams Chair of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania.

The War at a Distance Symposium is free and open to the public. It is supported by The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University and the Centre for Media and Culture in Education, OISE/UT.

More information can be found at http://www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/waratadistance

short film screening

Interested in watching some short amateur student films? What about
free food to compliment your eyes? And maybe a little bit of alcohol
as well?

Then come out to the Hart House Film Board: Student Film Screening on
Wednesday, Nov. 11th at 7pm.

We will be showcasing various short films from your very own amateur
filmmakers at UofT as part of the Hart House Film Board.

If you would like to submit a short film for the screening send an email to
Sve Pavic @ svebor.pavic@utoronto.ca. Deadline for submissions is Nov. 6th.

Hope to see all you cinephiles there and in the meantime enjoy the
posters created by Kate McEdwards!

**THE HUB = the Hart House main desk!!!
*** Deadline for submissions has been changed to Nov. 2nd!
***** And as you see the location has changed from the music room to
the East Common Room :)

exhibition: gallery 44

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
401 Richmond St West Suite 120 Toronto Ontario M5V 3A8 www.gallery44.org

GOOGLE EARTH
Eryn Foster and John van der Woude

October 23 – November 28, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, October 23, 6 - 9 pm
Artists’ talk: Friday, October 23, 6 pm



CHANGING THE WAY WE VIEW THE EARTH – TWO ARTISTS CONSIDER THE IMPLICATIONS OF GOOGLE EARTH

From the first aerial photograph made by Nadar in 1858 to the first fully illuminated view of planet Earth taken by the crew of Apollo 17 in 1972 to the release of Google Earth 3.0 in 2005, our access to views of the Earth has increased exponentially. In their exhibition at Gallery 44, Eryn Foster and John van der Woude demonstrate what can be done with the visual information made publicly available today by Google Earth.

In Eryn Foster’s animation, Flight Simulation, aerial perspectives of the landscape coalesce into the abstract renderings and discontinuous movements of computer-generated images. Flight Simulation thus brings to our attention the sociological distance we have traversed from being airplanes passengers to being “virtual navigators”—as Foster refers to the users of Google Earth—and how this “developed” perspective affects our relationship to the Earth.

John van der Woude’s series of photographs, Airports—composites of satellite images downloaded from Google Earth—show us in astonishing detail the nine busiest airports in the world. Van der Woude refers to the airport as “a metaphor for the ultimate strength and weakness of contemporary life”. Beyond their formal beauty, his images immediately bring to mind issues of accessibility in an age when populous locations are prime terrorist targets.

Eryn Foster is an interdisciplinary artist who currently lives and works in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Guelph. She has participated in residencies at the Banff Art Centre, the MacDowell Art Colony in New Hampshire and the Vermont Studio Centre. From 2005 to 2009 she was the director of the artist-run Eyelevel Gallery in Halifax and has also worked as an instructor in the Foundation Studies program at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University.

John van der Woude is a photography and new media artist, based in Montreal, who initially studied art and design at Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia and later received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2007, focusing on photography and graphic design. He has won multiple awards, including the Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward 2008 award and the BMO Financial Group's 1st Art! Competition. His work has been shown in galleries across Canada and has been featured on many media outlets, including CTV and CBC, both locally and nationally.

A catalog essay by Marco Avolio accompanying the exhibition is available at www.gallery44.org

Google Earth opens on October 23 and continues until November 28. An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 23, from 6 to 9 PM at Gallery 44, located at 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120, Toronto. The artists will be giving a talk at 6pm.

Image credit: John van der Woude, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, USA, 2007



For more information please contact:
Alice Dixon, Exhibition Coordinator
Gallery 44
(416) 979-3941
alice@gallery44.org
Gallery 44 is open Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 5 pm

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8
www.gallery44.org

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to the advancement of photographic art. Founded in 1979, the centre consists of a gallery, resource centre, and production facilities. Gallery 44 is supported by its members and patrons, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.

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call for submissions

To Whom it May Concern:

XPACE Cultural Centre and the Images Festival are co-presenting a new media student group exhibition for the upcoming Images Festival (April 1 – 10, 2009) and we are seeking proposals from local undergraduate new media students.

Now in its second year, this collaboration is hoping to expand on the success of last years Inner and Outer Spaces. This energetic exhibition featured work from students at York University, the Ontario College of Art and Design, and the University of Toronto.

XPACE and Images are seeking challenging and refreshing new media installations. Our goal is to combine work from OCAD, the U of T campuses, Ryerson and York for an exciting counterpart to the annual S is for Student screening, one of the Images Festival favourites. This is an excellent opportunity for students to exhibit their work at a supportive, professional space with internationally renowned festival exposure.

On behalf of XPACE, I would be delighted to answer any questions about this project and encourage you to contact me. Please feel free to forward this call for proposals to interested parties – attached is the application form. All proposals must be received by November 13^th, 2009; note that only hardcopy proposals will be considered. Class talks regarding this project and about XPACE Cultural Centre can also be arranged.

Thank you and warmest regards,
Matthew Williamson
Programmer
XPACE Cultural Centre
58 Ossington Ave.
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artist lecture: anda kubis

Art and Art History Presents

Anda Kubis

Thursday 29 October 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan B124

The urban experience is highly visual, complex and competitive. Attentive viewing and prolonged focus is often impossible. To navigate we must continually filter and sort. I wish to mimic the perceptual negotiation that must take place when we constantly shift from the virtual to the natural and back again. Rising from questions posed in Modernist abstract painting, such as presence, consciousness and the desire for transcendence, my work explores the subjective quality of conscious experience. I create floating screens and flickers of luminously synthetic colour using traditional oil paint. My challenge is to seek a resolution between painting’s historic context and its relevance today – as a means of “explaining” the dominant drivers in my visual landscape: architecture, design, media and consumer culture.

Biography

Anda Kubis was born in Toronto during a hopeful era. A faith in possibility pervades her work. Kubis studied at OCA for a short while and then moved on to complete a BFA at NSCAD and an MFA at York University in 1992. She is currently Chair of Drawing and Painting at OCAD. Before teaching at OCAD Anda taught at the University of Lethbridge and at York University.
Kubis has curated many exhibitions and run experimental art galleries: Superplastic for Drabinsky Gallery, Self Help at Mercer Union and Alias, Alibi for Free Parking Gallery.
Kubis is represented by Drabinsky Gallery in Toronto, Newzones in Calgary, Elissa Cristall Gallery in Vancouver and Tapper-Popermajer Art Gallery in Sweden. In 2008 Kubis’ work appeared in Carte Blanche, Vol. 2: Painting – a compendium of Canadian painters, published by the Magenta Foundation.


Image: Cluster, Red (2008), 6 x 5 feet, oil on canvas

huffman award information

Art and Art History Program


William Huffman Award

In preparation for the Art and Art History Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 17 November 2009, William Huffman will judge student work for the William Huffman Award on Tuesday 10 November 2009. Please assemble your work for viewing in either your cubicle or in the Annie Smith atrium area before 6:00 PM.

The William Huffman Award recipient will participate in an exhibition curated and promoted by Mr. Huffman in Toronto at Red Bull 381 Projects. Last year’s recipient of this award was Jessica Valentin.

Mr. Huffman, a program alumnus (1991), is Associate Director at the Toronto Arts Council.

hart house: call for submissions

Deadline for Submission is November 9, 2009

Any student interested in art of photography, then this is a chance for you to showcase your work at Hart House through the Hart House Art Committee.

The Art Committee is now accepting SUBMISSIONS OF ARTWORK from any University of Toronto student (full-time, part-time, undergraduate, graduate, professional faculty) to be exhibited in the Arbor Room of the Hart House on the St. George Campus. The size of the artwork should not exceed 60 inches high by 70 inches wide. Works submitted may be in any media as long as its mount or frame can be safely and securely placed on hooks along the wall of the dining area in the Arbor Room. If your submission is selected for the upcoming exhibition, please reframe from using clip frames and make certain that they are properly framed. The Hart House Art Committee cannot assume liability for lost of damaged artworks throughout the exhibition.

The Arbor Room Sub-Committee oversees the Arbor Room exhibitions.

***Some sculptural pieces and other 3-dimentional artworks may be included at the discretion of the Committee.Please forward any questions to arbor.cttee@gmail.com

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK:
Please submit jpeg image(s) of your work with a title and short description about your artwork, along with your Name, Year, College, email and contact number to arbor.cttee@gmail.com under the subject heading of Arbor Room Submissions.