Otino Corsano's video installation "ROSSO" featured at Istituto Italiano di Cultura

Still 1 from ROSSO
Still 2 from ROSSO
Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Otino Corsano’s Ocean Course Films presents “Rosso” at Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto
496 Huron Street, Toronto from September 4 to October 2, 2019.
Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 10:00 am - 1:00 pm; 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm.
Contact Adalgisa Rosmini, Events & Communications, adalgisa.rosmini@esteri.it, for more information.

 

“Rosso” is an exhibition comprising an HD video installation attempting to evidence a contemporary passion still lingering from the 1982 FIFA World Cup on an international, local and personal level. It could be argued this signature sporting event initiated the notion of Toronto as a world-class city. The project was directed by New Genres artist and OCAD U Continuing Studies instructor Otino Corsano for Ocean Course Films, a collaborative entity he established, comprised of a specialized core production team.

The imagery focusses on a tapestry of Southern Ontario environments in order to present a narrative delineating the influence of a specifically Italian natured globalism on Canadian soil. A new contemporary aesthetic is presented, reflecting the earlier eighties fusion of Italian and Canadian cultures and how this melding has activated poignant perspectives and discourses on immigration, diaspora and multiculturalism.

Composer John Mark Sherlock orchestrated the musical soundtracks for each of the three chapters featured in “Rosso”. The video also features an Italian narrator, played by voice actor Alex Martinelli, reflecting poetically on various stages of his life in three cyclical chapters. The first chapter traces his first memories as a youth hearing the voice of his father as if in a waking dream. The second chapter weaves a romantic narrative from seemingly unrelated location imagery - vineyard, autobody shop, factory and sports fields. The final third chapter concludes with an optimistic view of national unity paradoxically built from both a highly personal vision and a global mosaic of perspectives.

Otino Corsano is an international New Genres artist who established Ocean Course Films as an umbrella entity for the artwork he produces in collaboration with a selected core team. He has taught at the University of Toronto and continues to teach at OCAD University in Canada.

Composer John Mark Sherlock has built the moving soundtrack for “Rosso”. Sherlock’s works have been played by many of Canada’s finest performers and ensembles including Arraymusic, the Burdocks, Critical Band, The Ergo Ensemble, Eve Egoyan, Linda Catlin Smith, Stephen Clarke, and Ensemble KORE.

Special thanks to Alessandro Ruggera, editor Jeff Hamill, Alexandra Landon Richardson, Manuel De Luca, R. Ferri Automotive, European Auto Body, J.R. Martino, Budds’ Group of Companies, and The York School. “Rosso” is lovingly dedicated to Otino Corsano Sr.

 

http://www.oceancoursefilms.com

http://www.otinocorsano.com

 

Poster: 
ROSSO Poster

SFI Students at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium 7 (RSD7) Turin, Italy

SFI students Ariana Lutterman and Tara Campbell with their poster Designing Designers: A critical look at design education
SFI student Adam Oliveira presenting his poster Interstellar: “To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before” which he prepared with
SFI students Nadia Abuseif, Nicole Norris, and Jen Wilson-Lee presenting their poster Flourishing Cybernetics: A Biomimetics Pos
Thursday, November 22, 2018

By Ariana Lutterman and Tara Campbell

The Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium (RSD) is an annual international gathering of academics, researchers, and practitioners engaged in systemic design, a discipline that brings together systems thinking and systems-oriented design. This year, the seventh RSD took place in Turin, Italy from October 24-26th to explore the theme of “Challenging Complexity by Systemic Design Towards Sustainability”.

RSD is convened by the Systemic Design Association, co-founded by Dr. Peter Jones, an associate professor in the Faculty of Design here at OCAD, where he teaches in two graduate programs: Strategic Foresight and Innovation, and Design for Health. Both of these programs have courses in systemic design. As part of these courses, students create maps that visually illustrate complex topics, unpacking relationships, histories, and layers of a system in a way that can be more easily understood and digested. The symposium included a track for these visual maps specifically, and several OCAD student groups submitted and had their maps accepted to be presented in the RSD7 gallery.

The conference itself began with a day of workshops covering topics ranging from the idea of place in systemic design to connected products and the circular economy. The following days were broken down into parallel presentation sessions for participants to choose from based on different themes within systemic design. These were punctuated by keynote presentations from systems thinkers whose backgrounds spanned public policy, ecology, economics, farming, and architecture - a representation of the diverse voices needed across disciplines to truly think systemically. A number of OCAD faculty, Peter Jones, Greg Van Alstyne, and Michele Mastroeni, presented their work relating to systemic design. Students and alumni from Strategic Foresight and Innovation and Design for Health also presented work, including the aforementioned posters in the Visualization of Complex Systems exhibit, as well as paper presentations.

After the conference, participants were given the opportunity to attend a “de-conference” in the nearby alpine village of Ostana. Here, RSD members who founded the MonViso Institute brought attendees to visit their mountain laboratory, a community they are constructing using systemic design principles. Participants visited the buildings being constructed through net-positive, sustainable, cradle-to-cradle construction and shared meals sourced from local, seasonal ingredients produced with an emphasis on permaculture.

Overall, OCAD had a large presence at this year’s symposium, a tradition that will hopefully be continued at RSD8 next year in Chicago.

Italian Baroque Art Lectures by Dr. Francis Broun

Italian Baroque Art lectures
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 5:00am

The Women's Art Association (WAA) presents a series of lectures on Italian Baroque Art by OCAD Faculty of Liberal Studies Professor Francis Broun, recently nominated for TVO's Best Lecturer Award.

Schedule:

November 27 ~ Carracci
December 4 ~ Caravaggio I
December 11 ~ Caravaggio II
December 18 ~ Followers of Carracci &
Caravaggio (Artemesia)
January 8 ~ Pietro da Cortona etc.
January 15 ~ Bernini I
January 22 ~ Bernini II
January 29 ~ Preti, Rosa etc.
Next series: Flemish & Spanish Baroque Art

Everyone is welcome!

Venue & Address: 
Women's Art Association 23 Prince Arthur, Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
fljj@rogers.com
Cost: 
$20 per lecture, payable at the door ($10 for first time guests and students)

Italian Baroque Art Lectures by Dr. Francis Broun

Italian Baroque Art lectures
Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 5:00am

The Women's Art Association (WAA) presents a series of lectures on Italian Baroque Art by OCAD Faculty of Liberal Studies Professor Francis Broun, recently nominated for TVO's Best Lecturer Award.

Schedule:

November 27 ~ Carracci
December 4 ~ Caravaggio I
December 11 ~ Caravaggio II
December 18 ~ Followers of Carracci &
Caravaggio (Artemesia)
January 8 ~ Pietro da Cortona etc.
January 15 ~ Bernini I
January 22 ~ Bernini II
January 29 ~ Preti, Rosa etc.
Next series: Flemish & Spanish Baroque Art

Everyone is welcome!

Venue & Address: 
Women's Art Association 23 Prince Arthur, Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
fljj@rogers.com
Cost: 
$20 per lecture, payable at the door ($10 for first time guests and students)

Italian Baroque Art Lectures by Dr. Francis Broun

Italian Baroque Art lectures
Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 5:00am

The Women's Art Association (WAA) presents a series of lectures on Italian Baroque Art by OCAD Faculty of Liberal Studies Professor Francis Broun, recently nominated for TVO's Best Lecturer Award.

Schedule:

November 27 ~ Carracci
December 4 ~ Caravaggio I
December 11 ~ Caravaggio II
December 18 ~ Followers of Carracci &
Caravaggio (Artemesia)
January 8 ~ Pietro da Cortona etc.
January 15 ~ Bernini I
January 22 ~ Bernini II
January 29 ~ Preti, Rosa etc.
Next series: Flemish & Spanish Baroque Art

Everyone is welcome!

Venue & Address: 
Women's Art Association 23 Prince Arthur, Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
fljj@rogers.com
Cost: 
$20 per lecture, payable at the door ($10 for first time guests and students)

Italian Baroque Art Lectures by Dr. Francis Broun

Italian Baroque Art lectures
Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 5:00am

The Women's Art Association (WAA) presents a series of lectures on Italian Baroque Art by OCAD Faculty of Liberal Studies Professor Francis Broun, recently nominated for TVO's Best Lecturer Award.

Schedule:

November 27 ~ Carracci
December 4 ~ Caravaggio I
December 11 ~ Caravaggio II
December 18 ~ Followers of Carracci &
Caravaggio (Artemesia)
January 8 ~ Pietro da Cortona etc.
January 15 ~ Bernini I
January 22 ~ Bernini II
January 29 ~ Preti, Rosa etc.
Next series: Flemish & Spanish Baroque Art

Everyone is welcome!

Venue & Address: 
Women's Art Association 23 Prince Arthur, Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
fljj@rogers.com
Cost: 
$20 per lecture, payable at the door ($10 for first time guests and students)

Italian Baroque Art Lectures by Dr. Francis Broun

Italian Baroque Art lectures
Thursday, January 15, 2009 - 5:00am

The Women's Art Association (WAA) presents a series of lectures on Italian Baroque Art by OCAD Faculty of Liberal Studies Professor Francis Broun, recently nominated for TVO's Best Lecturer Award.

Schedule:

November 27 ~ Carracci
December 4 ~ Caravaggio I
December 11 ~ Caravaggio II
December 18 ~ Followers of Carracci &
Caravaggio (Artemesia)
January 8 ~ Pietro da Cortona etc.
January 15 ~ Bernini I
January 22 ~ Bernini II
January 29 ~ Preti, Rosa etc.
Next series: Flemish & Spanish Baroque Art

Everyone is welcome!

Venue & Address: 
Women's Art Association 23 Prince Arthur, Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
fljj@rogers.com
Cost: 
$20 per lecture, payable at the door ($10 for first time guests and students)

Italian Baroque Art Lectures by Dr. Francis Broun

Italian Baroque Art lectures
Thursday, January 8, 2009 - 5:00am

The Women's Art Association (WAA) presents a series of lectures on Italian Baroque Art by OCAD Faculty of Liberal Studies Professor Francis Broun, recently nominated for TVO's Best Lecturer Award.

Schedule:

November 27 ~ Carracci
December 4 ~ Caravaggio I
December 11 ~ Caravaggio II
December 18 ~ Followers of Carracci &
Caravaggio (Artemesia)
January 8 ~ Pietro da Cortona etc.
January 15 ~ Bernini I
January 22 ~ Bernini II
January 29 ~ Preti, Rosa etc.
Next series: Flemish & Spanish Baroque Art

Everyone is welcome!

Venue & Address: 
Women's Art Association 23 Prince Arthur, Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
fljj@rogers.com
Cost: 
$20 per lecture, payable at the door ($10 for first time guests and students)

Italian Baroque Art Lectures by Dr. Francis Broun

Italian Baroque Art lectures
Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 5:00am

The Women's Art Association (WAA) presents a series of lectures on Italian Baroque Art by OCAD Faculty of Liberal Studies Professor Francis Broun, recently nominated for TVO's Best Lecturer Award.

Schedule:

November 27 ~ Carracci
December 4 ~ Caravaggio I
December 11 ~ Caravaggio II
December 18 ~ Followers of Carracci &
Caravaggio (Artemesia)
January 8 ~ Pietro da Cortona etc.
January 15 ~ Bernini I
January 22 ~ Bernini II
January 29 ~ Preti, Rosa etc.
Next series: Flemish & Spanish Baroque Art

Everyone is welcome!

Venue & Address: 
Women's Art Association 23 Prince Arthur, Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
fljj@rogers.com
Cost: 
$20 per lecture, payable at the door ($10 for first time guests and students)

Italian Baroque Art Lectures by Dr. Francis Broun

Italian Baroque Art lectures
Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 5:00am

The Women's Art Association (WAA) presents a series of lectures on Italian Baroque Art by OCAD Faculty of Liberal Studies Professor Francis Broun, recently nominated for TVO's Best Lecturer Award.

Schedule:

November 27 ~ Carracci
December 4 ~ Caravaggio I
December 11 ~ Caravaggio II
December 18 ~ Followers of Carracci &
Caravaggio (Artemesia)
January 8 ~ Pietro da Cortona etc.
January 15 ~ Bernini I
January 22 ~ Bernini II
January 29 ~ Preti, Rosa etc.
Next series: Flemish & Spanish Baroque Art

Everyone is welcome!

Venue & Address: 
Women's Art Association 23 Prince Arthur, Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
fljj@rogers.com
Cost: 
$20 per lecture, payable at the door ($10 for first time guests and students)

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