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.
xpace.info

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.

artist lecture: tara marshall

Art and Art History Presents


Tara Marshall


Tuesday 27 October 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.


Sheridan, Annie Smith Arts Centre Mezzanine

Tara Marshall is an art historian, teacher, curator, art consultant and writer from Toronto. Tara earned her MA in Art History from York University, her BA from McGill University and also studied Interior Design at Sheridan College. Tara is currently the Outreach Programmer at the Art Gallery of Mississauga where she programs special exhibitions and events and she teaches courses on Contemporary and Canadian Art at the AGO and at the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto. Tara has published in Canadian Art Magazine, worked for the Canadian Art Foundation, worked as an art historian for the Granite Club and is a former Director of Red Head Gallery in Toronto. This Spring, an exhibition of portraits by James MacDougall, curated by Tara, will open at the Varley Gallery in Markham.





Tara will be speaking to students regarding opportunities in Visual Arts.