Drawing experienced artists and designers from around the world, encouraging them to investigate and produce works.

Grad Student Spa Day

Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 1:00pm

There's nothing better to ignite imagination than shifting from stress to balance. Enjoy complimentary massages, "Snacks" the therapy dog, and join in on DIY care packages. * Please note: this event includes scented oils.

Schedule

1:00pm - 4pm: Complimentary Massages by Massage On Wheels (last massage at 3:45pm)

1:30pm - 2:30pm: Service Dog hangout!

2pm-3:30pm: Meditation Session with Moksha Khanna and Kais Padamshi

 

Free for OCAD U Graduate Students

Presented in collaboration with Xpace Cultural Centre, OCAD U Grad Studies, and the OCAD Student Union

Venue & Address: 
205 Richmond St. W. 7th Floor Open Space 701
Email: 
gradstudies@ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free - All grad students welcome!
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Full Time OSAP Deadline for Fall/Winter & BSWD Applications

Graphic image with deadline and bullet points of the applications. Due Friday February 21 2020
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 3:15pm

Hey OCADU!

It's not too late to apply for OSAP if you are attending the 2019-2020 year as a full time student.

Make sure to apply before Friday to be eligible to receive funding. Apply online at:  https://www.ontario.ca/page/osap-ontario-student-assistance-program

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The BSWD (Bursary for Students with Disabilites) application is also due this Friday!

If you would like to learn more about the program please visit our office, or ask the Student Wellness Centre for more information.

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Contact us if you have any questions! 

Financial Aid & Awards

230 Richmond St W

5th Floor

416 977 6000 ext. 250

financiala@ocadu.ca

Tech Ethics Workshop: Contrasting Present Laws and Codes: Dr. Victoria I. Burke

Victoria I. Burke
Friday, January 17, 2020 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm

Today, many companies make money by monetizing data (the new ‘gold mine’). The dial-up telephone is a two-technology but it does not permit third party access without a wiretap and a warrant. Internet technology is also a two-way technology but it does permit easy third-party access. This workshop will introduce students to the problems that ethicists see in this technology and in data harvesting practices. The most serious issues have arisen in the past five years. We will compare the new ‘Contract for the Web’ (human rights document), the new California law that comes into force in January 2020, the Association of Computing Machinery Code of Ethics, and the current version the EU General Data Protection Regulations.

 

Dr. Burke teaches ethics and political philosophy at Ryerson University.

 

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to Josh Paglione via email: jpaglione@ocadu.ca by Wednesday, January 15th

Venue & Address: 
RM 511 at 205 Richmond St. W.
Email: 
jpaglione@ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free! Seating is limited. Please RSVP to Josh Paglione
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Artist Talk: Rodolfo Cossovich "Machine Art"

Rodolfo Cossovich "Machine Art"
Thursday, January 16, 2020 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Rodolfo will show the work in progress done at the interdisciplinary research team at NYU Shanghai, that ranges from bio-inspired robot prototypes to physical interfaces.

Bio: 

Rodolfo Cossovich is a media artist with an engineering background. His position as faculty of NYU Shanghai Interactive Media Arts has allowed him to explore and research different robotic applications, focusing on ways that machines present traits of living beings. His investigations on bio-inspired robots and interdisciplinary work with other artists and engineers have led him to develop a series of explorations that try to unveil ways that machines might exhibit cognition, evolution, and autonomy. His work on electrical vehicles, Open Source Robotics, and physical programming has been featured in Popular Mechanics, CNN, and other popular media outlets.

 

Venue & Address: 
701 Open Space @ 205 Richmond St. W. 7th Floor
Email: 
jpaglione@ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free. All welcome!
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CONNECTION_FOUND: An online exhibition curated by feelSpace

Friday, November 29, 2019 - 5:30pm

connection_found is an online group exhibition organized by feelSpace featuring works by Ronnie Clarke, Taylor Jolin, Leia Kook-Chun, Madeleine Lychek and Paula Tovar, Noelle Wharton-Ayer, and Becca Wijshijer. At times humorous, and other times tender, these meditations illustrate the quirks of navigating intimacy in the digital realm as it inadvertently relates back to the body in the physical world. As the name connection_found implies, the works within this exhibition understand connection and intimacy in broad subsets: a found connection between an individual and their complicated cultural history (Wharton-Ayer), between lovers separated by an ocean (Lychek and Tovar), between strangers online (Kook-Chun), between the corporeal and the digital (Clarke), between where we are and where we’ve never been (Jolin), and with alternate versions of ourselves (Wijshijer). Together, these works trace and re-trace digital intimacy, touch, and the body as it moves and navigates towards the virtual realm.

 

More literally, connection_found also suggests the curatorial alignment of these works in a digital context which, in and of itself, requires finding connection. At the core of the exhibition, connection_found simultaneously expands, individuates, and links the collective experience of existing on the internet.

 

curated by feelSpace

feelSpace is an ad hoc interdisciplinary curatorial collective based in Tkaronto at OCAD University. The collective is interested in the implications and potential of curatorial practice within, through, and around digital spaces.

 

Image credit: Madeleine Lychek & Paula Tovar

Featuring works by: Taylor Jolin, Ronnie Clarke, Becca Wijshijer, Leia Kook-Chun, Noelle Wharton-Ayer, Madeleine Lycheck & Paula Tovar

 

Opening Reception Thursday, December 5th, 6PM-8PM

Graduate Gallery, 205 Richmond St. W. Level G

 

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Venue & Address: 
Graduate Gallery 205 Richmond St. W. Level G
Website: 
feelspace.cargo.site
Cost: 
Free
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Digital Futures Open Show December 2019

Wednesday, December 4, 2019 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm

What is Digital Futures OPEN SHOW?

The Digital Futures OPEN Show is an annual exhibition where we show our best and most interesting work that’s happening RIGHT NOW. The collection of work presented is intended to represent a survey of current ideas, concepts, themes, theories, tools, techniques, and trends being explored by the Digital Futures community. Last year’s inaugural OPEN Show was a big success and we’re excited to do it again.

OPEN comes from the fact that this call is open to our whole community. The show will include works from current Digital Futures undergraduate students, graduate students AND faculty. Works include physical computing prototypes, data visualizations, digital entertainment, games, wearable technology, interactive installations and performances. For anyone who has asked the question “What IS Digital Futures anyway?” - we’re hoping this exhibition will continue to provide some answers.

What is Digital Futures?

Digital Futures is an undergraduate and graduate program at OCAD University that combines creative approaches to emerging technologies and critical thinking to prototype possible futures. Digital Futures faculty and students are world leaders in physical computing, data visualization, digital entertainment, wearable technology, smart materials, music technology and games.

When is it happening?

Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 6:00-9:00PM

Where is it happening?

An assortment of rooms on the Ground ("G" on the elevator) and 7th Floor.

This event is free and open to the public.

Venue & Address: 
OCADU Graduate Gallery & Digital Futures HQ 205 Richmond St. West Ground Floor & 7th Floor Toronto, Ontario M5V 1V3
Cost: 
Free all welcome!
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Open Circle Exhibit & End of year celebration: Decolonizing the Book

Friday, November 29, 2019 - 5:00pm

The form of the book — whether as novel, course text, or art book — draws from traditions that tend toward reflecting a social status quo. But the book and its related productions have tremendous potential to disrupt, disturb, and disentangle colonial legacies and point to new non-hierarchical principles. The course takes the question of the book and encourage these new possibilities, both through an intellectual and making process. Some considerations will include engaging with and responding to the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art; reinterpreting the book through re-use, recycling, and remaking; intellectual/writing/discussion opportunities; theoretical and critical challenges posed by Indigenous, postcolonial, and decolonizing methods; and the production of an exhibition at the Graduate Gallery that reflects the pedagogies of the course.

Opening Reception and Grad Studies end of term celebration: November 29th from 5PM-10PM

Gallery Open Daily from November 29- December 2 from 7:30AM-7:30PM

Exhibitors:

Deborah Barnett

Jason Burke

Natalie Chuck

Jaime Hilditch

Cayden Johnson

Andrew Kostjuk

Ashok Mathur

Claudia McKnight

Victoria Milne

Patricia Pasten

Jevonne Peters

Sheetal Prasad

Katlin Walsh

Danny Walsh

Venue & Address: 
Graduate Gallery 205 Richmond St. W.
Email: 
gradstudies@ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free
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Call for Students: The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation Global Experience Project 2020

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Friday, January 10, 2020 - 5:00pm

The Global Experience Project (GEP)

The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation Global Experience Project (GEP) is centred on an immersive studio-based course that allows OCAD U students to work with pre-eminent artists and other notable scholars in dynamic, international contexts, in Toronto and abroad. A trailblazing initiative, GEP is designed to explore and build Canada’s prominence in global communities of art and culture. Piloted in 2017, GEP brought renowned British artist Isaac Julien to OCAD U. In 2018 & 2019, GEP hosted Brazilian artist and activist Maria Thereza Alves. During these first iterations of GEP, OCAD U students were given the opportunity to participate in experiential learning opportunities in Toronto, Buffalo, NY, London, UK and Naples, Italy. In 2020, OCAD U students selected for the program will travel to Johannesburg, South Africa to engage with Zanele Muholi.

GEP 2020

The GEP 2020 program unfolds in two parts:

Part 1: Zanele Muholi Artist Residency

May 2020

OCAD U will bring Zanele Muholi to Toronto for a 4-week residency program, in May. The international artist residency is uniquely designed to coincide with a program of events on the OCAD U campus, and in locations across Toronto. The event series, known as Community Studios, will engage GEP 2020 students, OCAD U students and OCAD U faculty from all disciplines, as well as members of Canada’s artistic community.

GEP 2020 students are expected to attend scheduled Community Studios. These events are open to all OCAD U students and faculty, and invited community members.

Part 2: GEP Course, CROS-3016, Global Experience Project

Summer 2020 / Instructors: Johanna Householder & Dr. Glen Lowry

Pre-Requisite: 8.0 Credits, Good Academic Standing (70% average min.)

Open to OCAD U Undergraduate and Graduate Students

In Summer Semester (May-June 2020), students enrolled in the dedicated GEP course will travel to Johannesburg, South Africa to visit Muholi’s studio and professional gallery. Student airfare and accommodations are generously supported by the Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation Global Experience Project. The international travel experience will be followed by an exhibition of new work by the GEP 2020 students at a gallery on the OCAD U campus, in late summer or fall 2020.

How to Apply:

Applicants should submit a letter of interest, a portfolio and CV. In the letter, outline the ways in which this international opportunity is relevant to your creative practice. Special attention will be given to applicants whose work explores thematic and conceptual issues investigated by the artist Zanele Muholi. All applicants are encouraged to research the artist.

Please direct any questions about the course to John Rubino, Assistant, Outreach & International Projects, Faculty of Art.

Submission Package:

1/ Portfolio: 10 images accompanied by relevant context information about the artworks

2/ Letter of Interest: maximum 500 words.

3/ Artist Statement

4/ Curriculum Vitae

Please note that this 300-level course requires completion of 8.0 credits and Good Academic Standing (70% average or above)

A class of up to 10 students will be selected through this application process. Applications will be adjudicated by the lead faculty, the Dean of the Faculty of Art, and a previous GEP particpant.

Applications should be submitted in a single PDF file to John Rubino, Assistant, Outreach and International Projects, at jrubino@ocadu.ca by Sunday, January 19, 2020 (extended deadline).

Interested applicants are encouraged to attend a GEP Information Session.

Info Session 1:

Tuesday, December 10, 12:00 -1:30 p.m.

100 McCaul St., room 258

Info Session 2:

Tuesday, January 14, 11:30 – 12:30 p.m.

100 McCaul St., room 258

 

About the Artist

Muholi came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that sought to envision black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex lives beyond deviance or victimhood. Muholi’s work challenges hetero-patriarchal ideologies and representations, presenting the participants in their photographs as confident and beautiful individuals bravely existing in the face of prejudice, intolerance and, frequently, violence.” –  Tate Modern

Website: 
https://www.ocadu.ca/academics/faculty-of-art/globalexperience.htm
Email: 
jrubino@ocadu.ca
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Guest Speaker -Pedro Biz (Rio): Studying collaborative and sustainable prac

You're Invited: Guest Speaker -Pedro Biz (Rio): Studying collaborative and sustainable practices through design
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Who:

Pedro Biz is a design researcher from Rio and PhD student at School of Design Esdi / UERJ, researching Community Waste Management in Favelas. His research is part of Arranjo Local Penha, a network of institutions and residents in favela of Penha, Rio de Janeiro, that work towards food sovereignty through urban farming. Pedro is also working on a project on biodesign, researching kombucha's bacterial cellulose.

What:

Organic waste management in favelas of Rio de Janeiro: collaborative and sustainable practices through design

The research investigates how collaborative and sustainable practices can contribute to the development of an organic waste management articulated by the community itself, by processing the organic waste inside favela, avoiding accumulation and irregular displacement; also, with potential for improvement in urban garden cultivation and income generation from the commercialization of organic fertilizer.  From  mapping initiatives that already manage waste in favelas and through the experience of implementing a composting unit a favela, I intend to establish a theoretical and practical approach based on codesign and design for sustainability, so that designers can engage with communities specifically in the management of organic waste in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. And finally, verify the implementation of a composting unit in the favela of Penha, as part of a bigger project already in progress that deals with food sovereignty in favelas through urban garden and agroecology called Arranjo Local Penha.

When: Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 from 6PM-8PM

Where: Room 410 (sLab) 205 Richmond St. W.

Free! All welcome! Presented by the SFI Program

Venue & Address: 
RM 410 (sLab) 205 Richmond St. W.
Email: 
bjoe@ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free

Individuation

Art by Fallon Andy
Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 5:00pm to Sunday, December 8, 2019 - 8:00pm

Individuation

Individuation describes the manner in which a thing is identified as distinguished from other things, this includes how an individual person is held to be distinct from other elements in the world and how a person is distinct from other persons.

In Jungian psychology, individuation is the process where the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious, other psychoanalytic theorists describe it as the stage where an individual transcends group attachment and narcissistic self-absorption.

Todays the term individuation denotes new online technologies that permit mass customization of the contents of a newspaper, a magazine, or a website so that its contents match each individual user's unique interests. This differs from the traditional mass-media practice of producing the same contents for all readers, viewers, listeners, or online users.

 

Venue & Address: 
165 Augusta Ave
Website: 
https://www.ocadu.ca/gallery/ignite-gallery.htm
Email: 
ignitegallery@ocadu.ca
Art by Fallon Andy

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