Material Innovation Centre presents: Talk with Laird McMurray. "Re-imagining Materials for Special Effects"

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Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Laird McMurray is the president of Laird FX, a specialty prototype design company that engineers and manufactures devices and special effects for film, (Pacific Rim, Total Recall, The Incredible Hulk) television commercial theater and live events.

Laird's entertaining and informative talk will demonstrate and delight you in some of the ways that the industry innovatively reimagines materials.

Venue & Address: 
Material Innovation Centre Room MCA 530, 100 McCaul
Cost: 
Free
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OCADU Illustration Podcast, Season 2

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Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 6:45pm

For the second season of the series, OCAD U Assistant Professor Greg Mably graciously invited us over to his home studio in Toronto's Design District. He is an illustrator with great experience in client-based work and digital illustration. 

Click here to listen to this episode!

Check out more pictures of the studio and links to Greg's work on the blog.

Guest Lecture: Jonathan Chippindale

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Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 2:30pm

DIGITAL FUTURES: Wearable Atelier Speaker Series

Jonathan Chippindale, HOLITION

Jonathan Chippindale is Chief Executive of Holition. Formed as a venture start- up to explore and expand the role that technological innovation can play in communicating with today's new digital consumer, Holition is a synthesis of luxury marketers, retail specialists and cutting edge leaders in innovative and emerging digital technology. They craft premium digital experiences for a growing network of pioneering luxury organisations including Richemont, LVMH, Kering and Swatch Group across the emerging digital fashion and accessory sectors.

http://www.holition.com/

Jonathan is an External Industry Advisor and Visiting Lecturer at Central St Martins and the British School of Fashion, a member of the London College of Fashion Digital Think Tank, a mentor to BBC Worldwide Labs and Tech Stars, as well as advisor to the University of Cambridge Digital Compass.

Venue & Address: 
205 Richmond Street, room 301
Cost: 
Free

Guest Lecture: Joanna Berzowska + Suzi Webster

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Friday, October 21, 2016 - 4:00pm

DIGITAL FUTURES: Wearable Atelier Speaker Series

Joanna Berzowska + Suzi Webster

Joanna Berzowska is Associate Professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University as well as the founder and research director of XS Labs. She is also the Head of Electronic Textiles at OMsignal, a wearable and smart textile platform that enables leading fashion brands to design smart apparel. Joanna’s art and design work has been shown in the V&A in London, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in NYC, the Millennium Museum in Beijing, the Art Directors Club in NYC, the Australian Museum in Sydney, NTT ICC in Tokyo, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, SIGCHI, and Ars Electronica Center in Linz among others. She holds a graduate degree from the MIT Media Lab. She lectures internationally about the field of electronic textiles and related social, cultural, aesthetic, and political issues.

www.omsignal.com

Suzi Webster is a contemporary artist whose work explores technology, being and the body. Interdisciplinary in nature, Webster’s sculptural pieces investigate intersections between object and performance, fashion and computing, the body and its context, public and private, in a critical way. Webster’s work has been exhibited and published internationally in Europe, the United Kingdom, South Africa and North America. Recent exhibitions have included Technothreads, Dublin, Codelive 2010, Vancouver and The Future that Never Was and Altenatuur, Belgium. Webster completed an MFA Media at the Slade in London, UK.

www.suziwebster.org

Venue & Address: 
205 Richmond Street, room 301
Cost: 
FREE

Art & Health

As Artist in Residence at Baycrest (2012) Judith Doyle worked with neuropsychologists Dr. Brian Richards and Dr. Eva Svaboda and the clients of Memory Link, a program developing assistive technologies and training for people experiencing memory loss as a result of Acquired Brain Injury.

FUNDING: Artists in the Community and Workplace, Ontario Arts Council

As Artist in Residence at Baycrest (2012) Judith Doyle worked with neuropsychologists Dr. Brian Richards and Dr. Eva Svaboda and the clients of Memory Link, a program developing assistive technologies and training for people experiencing memory loss as a result of Acquired Brain Injury. During the residency, Doyle conducted interviews and worked collaboratively with clients on media montage representing their experiences. The collaboration continued for more than a year and culminated in an exhibition entitled Pathfinding which portrayed the perceptual experiences of memory loss in images combining natural branching phenomenon and scans of neuro-pathways. Pathfinding was installed at Baycrest Health Sciences in a high-traffic, publicly accessible space near the elevators to the Apotex seniors' residence, next to a cafeteria, at the base of a busy elevator and hallway. Composited imagery played on an array of vintage TVs, each with its own soundtrack or "voice". 

The artist collaborators included Doyle and Robin Len, Emad Dabiri and Kang-Il Kim, with sound by Paul Geldart. Robin and Kang have difficulty storing and retrieving new memories (anterograde amnesia) resulting from Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). All of the team are experienced media artists and compositors and drew from this experience, enlisting embodied memory through artistic collaboration. In September 2012, the project relocated from Baycrest to the Social Media and Collaboration Lab (SMAClab) at 230 Richmond West at OCADU. After the exhibition at Baycrest, the work was subsequently presented at the Inclusive Design Institute at OCAD University and at the artist-run centre HAVN (Hamilton Audio-Visual Node) with support from Brain Injury Services of Hamilton (BISH).

LINKS

Worldviews Conference presentation on Memory Link collaboration  at TIFF Bell Lightbox by Judith Doyle 2013 http://readingpictures.com/worldviews.pdf

Feature: Aging in the 21st Century: Judith Doyle & Baycrest http://www.baycrest.org/Breakthroughs/winter2010/Features.asp

Pathfinding Exhibition Opening at Baycrest 2013 http://vimeo.com/60362578

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 2:00pm

Gesture Cloud

In this series of research-creation projects, 3D depth cameras are adapted for motion capture and gesture representation. We ask, how can these technologies be best leveraged for use in the art studio, and for collecting documentary gestures on location? In our research, we consider human and animal gesture as a hub or meeting point of discourses and embodied experiences where meaning can be identified and generated.

ABOUT

GestureCloud began with a micro-collaborative formation of artists working in Canada and China. Founded by Judith Doyle (Toronto) and Fei Jun (Beijing), the team investigates art, gesture and the politics of labour exchange. In these projects, 3D depth cameras are adapted for motion capture and gesture representation. We ask, how can these technologies be best leveraged for use in the art studio, and for collecting documentary gestures on location? We consider human and animal gesture as a meeting point of discourses and embodied experiences where meaning can be identified and generated.

We are interested in the syntactic structures of gesture, and consider culturally-situated, historically-informed theoretical models grounded in gesture studies and other interdisciplinary fields (performativity, art history, neuroscience). Key research themes include technological mediation, post-internet conditions, and the changing definition of physical versus immaterial labour. GestureCloud addresses how our ubiquitously networked present impacts conceptions of embodiment, subjectivity, and agency. GestureCloud projects probe changing modes of artistic production and issues of labour.

Over six years and four China-Canada artist exchanges, GestureCloud began with traditional motion capture and subsequently built Kinect-based skeleton tracking to make artworks. The software we have generated can be used to control avatars, mobile devices, and robotic systems. GestureCloud has exhibited artworks in major international contexts and has presented broadly, notably at the International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA2013 Sydney), at Art Beijing International Art Fair (2013), at the National Insititute of Design (NID) in Bangalore, India (2014) and at ISEA2014 in Dubai.

LINKS

ISEA2013 Conference Paper: GestureCloud: Gesture, Surplus Value and Collaborative Art Exchange http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/9819

FedDev Ontario Applied Research Project: http://www.ocadu.ca/Assets/pdf_media/ocad/research/2013+FedDev+GestureCloudFinal.pdf

GestureCloud overview: http://readingpictures.com/gesturecloud.html

Gesture Research at National Institute of Design (NID) Bangalore 2014: http://gesturecloud.wordpress.com/

Project 31 art auction (OCAD University, Toronto 2014): digital print, Flow Blue (Judith Doyle) http://www2.ocad.ca/project31/#23

Art Beijing 2013 GestureCloud Interactive Installation: http://vimeo.com/67425782

AV@AR2 2.0 AT C.MoDA (China Millenium Monument Museum of Digital Arts), 2013.4.14 - 2013.4.28

For the AV@AR 2.0 exhibition at CMODA, GestureCloud attempted to respond to the following question: How can labor be transposed via gesture across networked conditions to have material effects elsewhere in the world?' The team converted a zone of CMoDa into a factory floor where labor - stacking, pulling, stomping, and lifting - was performed by visitors. These actions were then collected with an onsite motion capture system and harnessed to power lightbulbs in various nighttime locations in Toronto, spanning a twelve-hour time difference. The process was displayed on an array of flat screen televisions with live projections.

Credits: FEI Jun, Judith Doyle: art direction [www.feijun.net] / Mike Goldby: printing and fabrication / Nick Beirne and Ken Leung: programming / Zacahary Martineau: 3D modeling and virtual architecture / Emad Dabiri: live video in toronto

GENDAI GALLERY 'RESIDENCY IN RMB CITY' GROUP SHOW (2010-11)

Judith Doyle and Fei Jun collaborating as GestureCloud were included in a groundbreaking exhibition curated by Yan Wu at the Gendai Gallery. The exhibition took place from December 4 2010 - January 29 2011.

Yan Wu writes on the project, "Manifesting inside Gendai space at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre and the on-line virtual world Second Life simultaneously, Residency in RMB City is a virtual residency programme intertwining with an actual exhibition, staged to experience, reflect, and agitate the contingencies and resistances around the thresholds of the virtual and the actual in response to the augmented reality our everyday inhabits. Three proposals originally developed for Chinese artist Cao Fei's RMB City in Second Life are put forward by Toronto-based artist/architect, Adrian Blackwell; artist, Yam Lau; and the collaborative team GestureCloud: Judith Doyle and Fei Jun..."

For more, visit the Gendai Gallery website:  http://www.gendaigallery.org/programs/residency-rmb-city

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Saturday, December 4, 2010 - 2:00pm

SURGICAL TRAINING FETUS

Medical surgeons need to hone their skills prior to performing high-risk surgical procedures on fetuses in utero and on newborns. To date, highly representational 3-dimensional fetal models, that have life-like physical properties, do not exist. The goal of our research project is to create a series of accurate and responsive fetal models to help surgeons visualize the complex physiology of a newly developing fetus and their associated pathologies. These models will provide surgeons with the visual and tactile information necessary to confidently implement highly complicated fetal surgical procedures.

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Monday, June 22, 2015 - 4:00pm
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The State of MarTech: Artifical Intelligence VS. The Human Touch

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Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - 8:30pm to 11:30pm

Digital marketing is evolving quickly and changing the way brands and agencies work. One of the biggest evolutions in the industry is the integration of new and innovative marketing technologies (MarTech) and the speed at which they are changing the digital landscape. The question now is, how far can MarTech go? Will it eventually be able to completely take over ALL functions of traditional, human marketers? Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) be able to make all the decisions, and effectively run a marketing campaign without human intervention?
 
OCAD University's Imagination Catalyst in partnership with Qoints is thrilled to invite you to a panel discussion (or debate, depending on points of view) by some of the most prominent and intelligent minds in the Canadian marketing game. They will share their thoughts on what the future of marketing looks like, and what role MarTech will play.
 
For more information and to register for this free event go to: bit.ly/QointsMarTechEvent

 

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University, Sharp Centre for Design, The Great Hall 100 McCaul Street, Toronto ON
Website: 
http://qoints.com
Email: 
kellis@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 ext. 4364
Cost: 
Free
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Saskia Van Kampen featured on Novella Magazine

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Monday, October 17, 2016 - 6:00pm

Graphic Design Assistant Professor Saskia Van Kampen was recently interviewed by Novelle Magazine to talk about what prompted her to study design, the differences about doing her own creative work and working for clients, her work and creative process. 

You can read the interview here

 

Illustration: "Normal Waistline" by Saskia Van Kampen

OPEN LIFE DRAWING STUDIO

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Friday, October 7, 2016 - 5:00pm to Sunday, December 11, 2016 - 9:00pm

All are welcome! Interested in drawing a professional model? These sessions are perfect for people looking for life drawing without instruction. While this studio time is offered by the OCAD University Alumni Association, you don't have to be a student or alumni to attend — the sessions are open to everyone! Bring a drawing board and materials — no reservation is required, but due to room capacity limits these sessions are run on a first-come first-served basis.

Venue & Address: 
Room 615, 100 McCaul St. Toronto, Ontario M5T 1W1
Website: 
http://www.ocadu.ca/alumni/alumni-association/life-drawing-sessions.htm
Email: 
alumni@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 ext. 4885
Cost: 
Free

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