Info Session | Long Winter Career Launcher

Long Winter, Toronto’s all-ages, pay-what-you-can seasonal series of underground and DIY music, visual art, installation, reading, food, and dance (and more) have partnered with the Integrated Media and Digital Painting & Expanded Animation program, and the Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers to announce the Long Winter Career Launcher.

Call for Applications - Long Winter: Digital Video Art Commission

Long Winter, Toronto’s all-ages, pay-what-you-can seasonal series of underground and DIY music, visual art, installation, reading, food, and dance (and more) have partnered with the Integrated Media and Digital Painting & Expanded Animation program, and the Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers to announce the Long Winter Career Launcher.

Su Hyun Nam: Public Lecture

Friday, May 5, 2017 - 10:30am to 11:30am

Su Hyun Nam

Friday May 5

10:30 AM –11:30 AM    

205 Richmond Street, room 320

Title: Meditative Computation; The affective relationship of human and technology

Su Hyun Nam is an interdisciplinary media artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, technology, science and philosophy to explore her relationship to digital media with an artistic and meditative approach to computation. Her works, including an interactive video installation, 3D game art and media performance, have been exhibited both nationally and internationally at venues from Spain, UAE, Greece to Singapore. Her community-based media art projects were recently showcased at Burchfield Penney Art Center and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY, and her papers have been presented at SIGGRAPH Asia in Japan and International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Colombia.

She graduated summa cum laude from Konkuk University in Seoul, and received her MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Media Study and adjunct instructor teaching programming and 3D game and animation design in game studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University 205 Richmond Street, Room 320, Toronto, ON
Email: 
lastonhurst@ocadu.ca

Haru (Hyunkyung) Ji: Public Lecture

Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - 10:30am to 11:30am

Haru (Hyunkyung) Ji

Tuesday May 2

10:30 AM –11:30 AM    

205 Richmond Street, room 320

Title: Life Forms: 3D Practice & Transdisciplinary

Haru Ji is a transdisciplinary media artist and co-creator of the research project "Artificial Nature”. This project explores ‘art-as-it-could-be’ as an amalgam of play, research, and art through the creation of interactive and immersive ecosystemic worlds in mixed reality installations and moving images. Haru is interested in seeing, discovering, and knowing our own world and ourselves, through building worlds as a contemporary art practice.

She holds a PhD in Media Arts & Technology from the University of California Santa Barbara where she was also a researcher for the AlloSphere virtual reality instrument. Haru is an Assistant Professor of Art & Technology at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea, as well as a Visiting Professor in Digital Media and Visual Art at York University, Canada. She has exhibited computational installations, virtual reality, digital sculptures, virtual architecture, video installations, sculptural objects, and 3D animations at many exhibitions and art festivals worldwide, including at ZKM Karlsruhe, La Gaite Lyrique Paris, Microwave Festival Hong Kong, Daejeon Biennale Korea, and the international Kaleidoscope VR showcase.

 

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University 205 Richmond Street, Room 320, Toronto, ON
Email: 
lastonhurst@ocadu.ca

Nick Fox-Gieg: Public Lecture

Monday, May 1, 2017 - 10:30am to 11:30am

Nick Fox-Gieg

Monday May 1

10:30 AM –11:30 AM    

205 Richmond Street, room 420

Title: Lightning in a Bottle: Hand-drawn Animation in VR 

Nick Fox-Gieg is an animator and creative technologist based in Toronto. His film "The Orange" won the jury prize for Best Animated Short at SXSW 2010; his films have also screened at the Ottawa, Rotterdam, and TIFF film festivals, at the Centre Pompidou, and on CBC TV. Fox-Gieg was awarded an Eyebeam Fellowship in 2012, a Fulbright Fellowship in 2006, and has received media arts grants from Bravo!FACT, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the arts councils of Ontario, Pennsylvania, Toronto, and West Virginia. He holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Most recently, he’s been working on virtual reality projects at Framestore and Google Creative Lab.

 

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University 205 Richmond Street, Room 420 Toronto, ON
Email: 
lastonhurst@ocadu.ca