FOA Sabbatical Presentations: Barbara Astman, Richard Fung, Luke Painter & b.h. Yael

Tuesday, November 28, 2017 - 12:30pm to 2:30pm

Faculty of Art Sabbatical Presentations by Barbara Astman, Richard Fung, Luke Painter and b.h. Yael

Tuesday November 28, 12:30 – 2:30pm

 

BARBARA ASTMAN, PROFESSOR, PHOTOGRAPHY:  Professor Barbara Astman’s sabbatical objectives were based on furthering and expanding her practice based research. One of her objectives was to spend time in the darkroom to examine abstraction though the photogram process. The darkroom is her research laboratory and the methodology includes an examination of the material and tools available to create with hand made negatives in the darkroom. The negatives used for this research were clear glass, mainly figural vessels.   This methodology allowed for a greater questioning and reassessment of the potential of the photogram in image making, as well as allow for the art to thrive and progress.  This exploration also incorporated digital intervention as part of the study. The darkroom was our research laboratory and the methodology included an examination of the materials and tools available and or invented to fully utilize hand made negatives, using glass figural objects in both the colour and black and white darkrooms at OCAD U. 

RICHARD FUNG, PROFESSOR, INTEGRATED MEDIA/ART & SOCIAL CHANGE:  In 2013, Professor Richard Fung received a four-year SSHRC Insight research-creation grant, the principal deliverable of which was a feature length documentary, Re:Orientations, which revisits participants from my 1984 video Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians three decades later. The film considers the shifts and continuities in identities, politics and conditions facing people at that particular intersection of race, gender, sexuality and class. The fourth year of the project was designed for what SSHRC describes as knowledge mobilization, and that was the principal activity for my sabbatical year. In short, this involved organizing screenings and discussions of the resulting documentary film Re:Orientations at festivals, universities and community groups in Canada and internationally. During the year he also wrote a number of texts and realized another documentary film Nang by Nang. 
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LUKE PAINTER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DRAWING & PAINTING/ DIGITAL PAINTING & EXPANDED ANIMATION:  Luke Painter’s presentation will discuss two different but connected works created during his sabbatical: Modern Wand and The Teasers and the Tormenters. The Teasers and the Tormentors is a 3D animation that references and continuously transforms set designs from 20th century theatre, film and   illusion shows.  The work travels across different time periods, exploring the tensions between competing movements and making tangential, formal and narrative connections between references.  Through the use of mirrors in the animation, the viewer’s perspective shows the action outside of the camera frame which becomes a reflexive technique that allows the viewer a sense of awareness of the space beyond the set. Modern Wand is a number of sculptures that are amalgams and translations of historical design objects and furniture. They are fabricated in glass and wood through traditional and laser cut techniques and rest on a series of interconnecting and raised carpeted platforms. These sculptures convey organic, ornamental and anthropomorphic sensibilities with the appearance of holding the body and also physically suggesting the body at the same time.  The work offers a space for the viewer to imagine the often-contrasting themes of functionality and fantasy that played out in the 20th century in relation to art and design practices.  

b.h. YAEL, PROFESSOR, INTEGRATED MEDIA/ART & SOCIAL CHANGE: In her report of activities during her half-sabbatical, b.h. Yael will reference a number of projects, some completed and culminating over a few years of work, and others initiated and still in process of research and development. One work follows up on previous work around the politics of Israel/ Palestine, this time a consideration of images of witness and how these are perceived; the majority of the work is autobiographical in various media forms: documentation through a completed website, experimental animation, memoire writing, and photography.
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Venue & Address: 
OCAD U 100 McCaul St., RM. 460, Toronto, ON
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photo of male dance in pose on the floor
image of colourful doors
illustration of woman reading

Faculty of Art Sabbatical Presentations

Faculty of Art Sabbatical Presentations
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 10:00pm

Faculty of Art professors share work and research produced during their sabbaticals.

Venue & Address: 
Rm 284 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Sabbatical Presentations: Peter Mah and Mich'le White

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 10:00pm

All are invited to attend sabbatical presentations by Faculty of Art Professors Peter Mah and Mich'le White.

Venue & Address: 
Rm 284 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

SABBATICAL PRESENTATIONS: SYLVIA WHITTON

photograph of a dress form sculpted of natural materials
Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

SABBATICAL PRESENTATIONS:  SIMON GLASS, DIANE PUGEN, SARAH NIND & SYLVIA WHITTON

SYLVIA WHITTON:  UNDERPINNINGS

Exploring the understructures of personal practice

(and the Mater Skirt)

 

 

Sylvia Whitton, 2015

Venue & Address: 
OCADU 100 McCaul St Room 667

SABBATICAL PRESENTATIONS: SARAH NIND

photo with multi coloured stripe overlay
Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

SABBATICAL PRESENTATIONS:  SIMON GLASS, DIANE PUGEN, SARAH NIND & SYLVIA WHITTON

SARAH NIND

Professor Sarah Nind’s sabbatical year focused around three main areas of work. Her own studio production resulted in a solo show in Montreal and Calgary. She was included in group shows in Montreal and Miami and is currently part of a touring show scheduled in eight museums across North America. Professor Nind was an OCADU Massey Visiting Scholar for the 2014-2015 academic year. She also continued to work in Beijing for Laurel Films, and worked on English subtitles and writing for three feature films. One of these films, The Continent, has become the 5th highest grossing film of all time in China.

Professor Nind was awarded two separate residencies with the Ville de Paris. She spent a total of four months of her sabbatical year working in a studio in Paris.

 

Sarah Nind, Film Scores, Galerie Youn, Montreal, 2015

Venue & Address: 
OCADU 100 McCaul St Room 667

SABBATICAL PRESENTATIONS: DIANE PUGEN

Black and White Landscape Drawing
Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

SABBATICAL PRESENTATIONS:  SIMON GLASS, DIANE PUGEN, SARAH NIND & SYLVIA WHITTON

 

DIANE PUGEN

SKETCHBOOK ODYSSEY

Neolithic France to Newfoundland

Journeying with a camera and sketchbook, Professor Diane Pugen visited Brittany and later Newfoundland during her sabbatical.  In Brittany, she was surprised and fascinated to find many remnants of Neolithic structures abounding in the land and was compelled to search them and explore their meanings. In Newfoundland, the rugged earth felt like her home and she embraced it.  Professor Pugen recorded numerous  places and began a larger site specific drawing which remains unfinished; the land is calling her to return.

 

Diane Pugen, 2015

Venue & Address: 
OCADU 100 McCaul St Room 667

SABBATICAL PRESENTATIONS: SIMON GLASS

abstract image with hebrew text
Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

SABBATICAL PRESENTATIONS:  SIMON GLASS, DIANE PUGEN, SARAH NIND & SYLVIA WHITTON

SIMON GLASS

Professor Simon Glass’ Administrative Leave presentation consists of a review of some reading and research as well as landscape photographs from a trip to Iceland. He presents his studio work, a suite of twelve giclee collages. These collages comprise concrete poetry based on the book of Isaiah chapter 24, verses 1-12, restoring some of the poetry to the text – poetry that translation most often overlooks. Professor Glass also addresses some of the ambiguities of tense in the Hebrew biblical verb through an annotated translation of the text into English.

 

Venue & Address: 
OCADU 100 McCaul St Room 667

Frederick Burbach Sabbatical Presentation

Image with the Swiss flag
Tuesday, February 10, 2015 - 9:00pm to 10:00pm

Faculty of Design

Faculty Sabbatical Talk presented by: Frederick Burbach, Associate Professor of Communication Design (Graphic Design, Typography & Branding).

Frederick Jon Burbach is Associate Professor of Communication Design (Graphic Design, Typography, & Branding). In addition to his academic career Burbach has worked for more than 30 years in brand development and design for clients in Europe and North America. His experiences include Deutsche Telekom, BMW, Swisscom, Swiss Bank Corporation, SIG Group, EniChem, Muller Martini AG, Rieter AG, PepsiAmericas, Diebold, and Steelcase. Since 2010, his branding practice is in support of organizations for the betterment of humanity including Aarya Ltd., and Singing Cities Ltd., in the United Kingdom, and Pelikan Environmental Solutions in the United Arab Emirates. Burbach’s research interests are in brand development, design fundamentals, history of typography, letterform design, and Swiss poster design. His personal creative practice focuses on the integration of typographic forms with photography. His Sabbatical Talk will address a range of research, practice, and personal creative projects. Writing and the codification intellectual capital around professional practice, design history, theory, and criticism will be discussed. Central to his sabbatical year effort is his forthcoming book on strategic brand development Form Follows Strategy: Strategic, Structured, and Sustainable Brand Development for Organizations.

Venue & Address: 
113 McCaul Street Room 1516 - (5th Floor)
Cost: 
Free

Faculty Sabbatical Talks

Photograph of carnival scene
Image of a building at night
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 8:00pm to 10:00pm

Join the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences & School of Interdisciplinary Studies (LAS/SIS) to learn about two of our faculty members' research experiences during their sabbaticals:

DAVID MCINTOSH
Quipucamayoc: A Cusco/Buenos Aires Performative Communications Network
Dr. David McIntosh is Associate Professor of Media Studies. His primary research fields are globalization and the political-economies of audiovisual spaces; network theories and practices; new media narrativity; mobile locative media; game theory; digital documents; Latin American media studies; and queer media. In 2008, McIntosh was the recipient of the first OCAD University Award for a Career of Distinguished Research and Creation. In 2012 he was
awarded a SSHRC Insight Research and Creation grant to undertake Quipucamayoc. This Sabbatical Talk will address a range of research and creation activities in relation to Quipucamayoc, as of year 2 in its 4 year process, including: adaptation of historical sources for contemporary digital interactive constructions; trans-local collaboration; charette as creative process; interaction and narrative building across art disciplines of analogue and digital movement, sound and wearable creation; interactive digital network construction and contextual application of platforms including Kinect Point Cloud, Skeletal Kinect and a variety of body sensors.

MARIE-JOSÉE THERRIEN
Towards an Inuit School
Dr. Marie-Josée Therrien is Associate Professor of Design and Architectural History. In addition to her academic career, Therrien has worked for museums, television and new media as well as for government research agencies. A heritage activist, she has successfully led two campaigns to protect the integrity of the Toronto Dominion Centre in Toronto. Her research explores design and the built environment in the context of the North American car culture, and she has also published on Canadian embassies and shopping malls. This Sabbatical Talk will address her recent work on the architecture of the post-residential schools in the Arctic. Starting in the late fifties, the oldest schools of the Eastern Arctic established by the different religious were replaced by modern facilities planned by the federal and subsequently by the territorial government. Since then, schools have been built at a fast pace, responding to the process of sedentarization, and reflecting the government’s intentions to standardize the education system. This presentation examines the design of a few schools that testify as much to the evolution of pedagogical orientations as to the sociopolitical and environmental changes since the late fifties.

Venue & Address: 
205 Richmond Street West Room 7315, 3rd Floor

Faculty of Art Sabbatical Presentations

Image: Wendy Coburn and Aviva Rubin 2011-2013
Friday, December 6, 2013 - 8:15pm

Presentations by Wendy Coburn and Catherine Beaudette

Wendy Coburn
Associate Professor Wendy Coburn’s work spans the mediums of photography, video, installation and sculpture. Coburn recently led curriculum development for the Art & Social Change Minor in the Faculty of Art, and she is currently a Fellow in the Sexual Diversity Studies Program at the University of Toronto. Coburn’s sabbatical work explores questions pertaining to freedom of assembly, the ethical implications of provocateurs and their effects on activist organizing and the media’s influence in forming public opinion about protesters and their calls for social change.

Catherine Beaudette
Associate Professor Catherine Beaudette is the founder of Loop Gallery in Toronto and 2 Rooms Contemporary Art Projects in Duntara, Newfoundland. Beaudette received her MFA from NSCAD in 1998, won The RBC Canadian Painting Prize in 2000, and twice has been awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, in 1982 and 1986.

Image: Wendy Coburn and Aviva Rubin 2011-2013

Free

Venue & Address: 
Room 284 100 McCaul St. Toronto, Ontario

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