Graduate Program Information Nights

Friday, November 9, 2018 - 3:30pm

Learn how OCAD U’s unique and highly interdisciplinary graduate programs can help advance your career, deepen your practice and extend your research interests and community.

For a full list of Graduate Program Info Nights, click here.

 

 

Venue & Address: 
205 Richmond St. W.
Website: 
www.ocadu.ca/admissions
Email: 
admissions@ocadu.ca
Learn how OCAD U’s unique and highly interdisciplinary graduate programs can help advance your career, deepen your practice and

Graduate Programs Info Nights 2018

grad info nights 2018
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 6:00pm to Wednesday, November 21, 2018 - 8:30pm

Our unique and highly interdisciplinary graduate programs offer evening information sessions allowing you to meet with faculty and student from the program, help answer your questions about courses, the learning environment and degree outcomes.

Join us at one or more of our Info Night, you may register for the program/s of interest to you, by clicking on the titles.

Venue & Address: 
205 Richmond St W and 230 Richmond St W
Website: 
https://join.ocadu.ca/Datatel.ERecruiting.Web.External/pages/EventLists.aspx?ID=11&_ga=2.4949936.2043941495.1541441908-1639652096.1530036363
Email: 
admissions@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 ext. 4869
Cost: 
Free
grad info nights 2018

IAMD MFA Alumna Morgan Sea designs CBC Arts profile pic for Transgender Awareness Month

November design by Toronto-based artist Morgan Sea. (Morgan Sea)
Monday, November 5, 2018 - 4:30pm

Excerpt from CBC Arts November 1. For full article, visit: https://www.cbc.ca/arts/for-transgender-awareness-month-this-artist-designed-a-logo-packed-with-symbolism-1.4887503

It's Transgender Awareness Month, a time for recognizing the issues facing transgender and gender non-conforming people and raising visibility of the community. For our November profile pic, artist Morgan Sea designed a CBC Arts logo that's teeming with references to trans history (and CBC history) — plus paintings, books and her personal heroes. (There's a lot to process, but she covers it all in this Q&A.)

But first, some quick notes about the artist: originally from Saskatoon, Sea recently arrived in Toronto to do a Masters at OCAD University. In addition to making comics, zines and radio, she's also an organizer of queer community events.

Says Sea via email: "Traditionally, Trans Day of Remembrance (November 20) isn't so much a celebration as it is a sombre acknowledgement of the death toll and violence towards trans people that escalates massively against trans women of colour, sex workers and the homeless."

"Activists claimed the week leading up to TDoR as Trans Week of Awareness, a time to promote activism and solidarity. So now that we have the whole month, maybe we can go beyond awareness and effect material change."

Learn more about Sea and the ideas that went into the design.

Name: Morgan Sea

Age: 34

Homebase: Toronto

Let's talk about your design! What inspired your take on the CBC Arts logo?

Primarily, I was trying to express that trans rights are human rights; that human rights are still important, and that we have a lot of work to do!

I was trying to figure out how to retroactively inject the CBC with 50 years of HRT (hormone replacement therapy).

In 1966, the CBC started using a rainbow butterfly logo (designed by Hubert Tison) for its colour TV broadcast.1966 was also the year of the Compton Cafeteria Riots, an important fight for trans liberation that is less known than 1969's Stonewall Riots. Coincidence, yes! But I'd like to imagine a parallel world where the CBC was always championing queer rights with its anachronistic rainbow butterfly. (The rainbow flag first debuted in 1978.)

Also, butterflies have been an obvious metaphor for transitioning folks for a long time. It is a bit dated, but I couldn't resist using it. I added a genderqueer butterfly in the back and a large trans flag-themed fuzzy moth.

What are some of the other symbols you chose to include in the design? What do they represent?

The image is based on Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People. I modelled Liberty's face off of artist/activist Mirha-Soleil Ross. The people are meant to symbolize marginalized groups coming together and they embody various virtues: truth, justice, labour, unity, tolerance, humility and mystery.

The foreground replaces the French Revolution with current struggles that we need to come together to deal with, primarily climate change, wealth inequality, corporatism and fascism. These are huge issues, and we need to embrace the diversity and knowledge of human experience if we want to survive.

Also, with the CBC logo, I added a three-pronged trans symbol for binary and non-binary genders. In the centre sits Claire Diane's "Sigil of peace, ending capitalism, healing trauma and hot trans makeouts," which I first encountered in the book Sea Witchby Moss Angel.

Digital Futures Grad Student Quinn Rockliff collabs with H & M & Rethink Breast Cancer

H & M tee Quinn Rockliff
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 2:45pm

Article by Josh Paglione, Graduate Studies

Digital Futures MFA Graduate Student Quinn Rockliff has teamed up with H&M Canada and Rethink Breast Cancer, the young women’s breast cancer movement, to design a five peice t-shirt collection in an effort to promote breast cancer awareness. Quinn, a surival of sexual assault, began creating her illustrations as a way of healing from the trama she experienced, and eventually, she began sharing her designs on social media sites as a reflection of life as a survivor, while transferring the responsibility of repeating and distributing these reflections onto a digital platform. The work has also inspired her thesis research which takes an autoethnographic approach to understanding how one can use social media as a survivor of sexual assault. She specifically investigates how a virtual embodiment of self can perpetuate narratives and recall information, allowing for a transference of her emotional labour.

"When I began to seek traditional routes towards justice and healing after my assault, I was repeatedly required to recount, justify, and relive trauma, in order to be believed. My simplistic line style has always explored the representation of women's bodies, this project challenged me to think in a new medium by considering how a t-shirt can serve as a reminder to self and signifier to others to check yourself for breast cancer.- Quinn Rockliff

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Photo courtesy of the artist

Quinn said she began sharing her illustrations digitally as a means to interact remotely with people who have the potential to challenge her selfhood, without retraumatization through one-on-one interaction. For Quinn, the technological interface becomes a means to speak loudly and bravely about her assault, as well as a way to confidently explore issues and creative expressions, such as body positivity, nudity, and feminist art. Quinn was then approached by H & M Canada to design the t-shirt collection as a fundraiser and awareness initiative for the Rethink Breast Canacer capaign, in which 100% of the proceeds go directly to Rethink Breast Cancer.

"This was such a great project for me to work on alongside my thesis work, it provided both a creative shift while still fitting into my larger interests of the way in which we can talk about issues with social stigma, especially those who effect women, and how art can be used to inspire new perspectives of the body. I wanted to create art that raised awareness around breast cancer while still being t-shirts I would wear every day and I was thrilled to have the opportunity to work with a charity that gave me the artistic freedom to stay true to my style while highlighting their important cause. I've admired Rethink Breast Cancers work for a while, their style of conveying hard to talk about topics in a bold and accessible way for young people continues to inspire me to rethink my understanding of the cause and continue to support it, it was such an honor to collaborate with them and H&M to raise funds this October." -Quinn Rockliff

For more information:

Related article by Fashion Magazine: https://fashionmagazine.com/lifestyle/hm-rethink-breast-cancer-shirts/

For more informaiton about the Rethink Breast Cancer campaign, visit: https://rethinkbreastcancer.com/get-involved/shop/

The Rethink Breast Cancer t-shirts are available at the H & M Eaton Centre and Yorkdale Mall stores.

Follow Quinn on Instagram: Instagram.com/quinnrockliff 

External Funding Workshop for Graduate Students

Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - 10:00am to 11:30am

Did you miss out on the scholarship workshops that ran on October 16th and 24th? You're in luck! This workshop will now be offered a third time on October 30th, from 10:00 to 11:30AM. Remote participation is available. 

Interested in applying for CGS-M (SSHRC, NSERC) and/or an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)? This session will provide students with further information about competitions, timelines and best practices. These are prestigious awards, and all full-time graduate students are encouraged to apply.

For further details about scholarships and funding please see our website here

Venue & Address: 
Room 510, 205 Richmond St. W.
Email: 
gradstudies@ocadu.ca
Keywords: 

External Funding Workshop for Graduate Students

Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm

Did you miss out on the scholarship workshop that ran on October 16th? You're in luck! This workshop will now be offered a second time on October 24th, from 6:30 to 7:30PM. Remote participation is available. Please email gradstudies@ocadu.ca for more information.

Interested in applying for CGS-M (SSHRC, NSERC) and/or an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)? This session will provide students with further information about competitions, timelines and best practices. These are prestigious awards, and all full-time graduate students are encouraged to apply.

For further details about scholarships and funding please see our website here

Venue & Address: 
Room 322, 230 Richmond St. W
Email: 
gradstudies@ocadu.ca
Keywords: 

Hallöween Common Room: D.I.Y. Arts & Crafts

Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 5:00pm to 8:00pm

Join us for the October edition of COMMON ROOM, the monthly casual, comfortable and collegial social gathering for the graduate community, students and faculty, at OCAD University. All welcome!

Venue & Address: 
Grad Gallery 205 Richmond St. W. Level G
Email: 
gradstudies@ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free!
Join us for the spookiest Common Room of the year! Free treats & drinks, mini coffin painting, pumpkin carving & painting, fall
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Subtle Technologies: We ++DECOLONIZING (≠ RECONCILING) Science, Tech, Indigenous Relations

Friday, October 19, 2018 - 6:30pm to 9:30pm

Keynote Lecture # 1: DECOLONIZING (≠ RECONCILING): Science, Technology, and Indigenous Relations. Presented by Dr Kim TallBear (Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment, Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta), with respondent Dr Ashok Mathur (Dean of Graduate Studies, OCAD University)

Date: Friday, October 19, 2018
Time: 6:30-9:30pm (with concluding reception)
Location: OCAD University, 100 McCaul St, Toronto, Room 190 (Auditorium)
Presented in partnership with OCAD University

Keynote Lecture # 2: Gene Drift: White Nationalism, Hybrid Identities and Panic Ancestry Presented by Dr Arthur Kroker (Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria), with respondent Pamela Edmonds (Curator of the Thames Art Gallery, Catham-Kent, ON)

Date: Saturday, October 20, 2018
Time: 6-9 pm (with concluding reception)
Location: Ryerson University, Rogers Communication Center, 80 Gould St, Toronto, Room 204
Presented in partnership with Ryerson University School of Performance: Faculty of Communication & Design

Installation: No Choice About the Terminology

No Choice About the Terminology is inspired by Lewis’ struggle to determine what terminology to use to describe his ethnicity (Cherokee, Hawaiian, Samoan, raised in Northern California), and his profession (artist, poet, software developer, educator, designer), and recognizing both the danger and seduction of neat categorizations. It was commissioned by the ImagineNATIVE Festival for the Vital to the General Public Welfare exhibition. Presented by Jason Edward Lewis (University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary, Concordia University)

Date: Saturday, October 20, 2018
Time: 6-11 pm
Location: Ryerson University, Rogers Communication Center, Northern Exterior Presented in partnership with Ryerson University School of Performance: Faculty of Communication & Design
Workshops: To be announced
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Subtle Technologies would like to acknowledge funding support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. For further information (including press inquiries), please contact:

Keiko Hart
Artistic Director,

Subtle Technologies
programming@subtletechnologies.com
www.subtletechnologies.com

Venue & Address: 
100 McCaul St. Room 190
Website: 
www.subtletechnologies.com
Email: 
programming@subtletechnologies.com
Cost: 
Free
Subtle Technologies presents: We ++ Friday, October 19 - Saturday, October 20, 2018

Grant Writing for Graduate Students

Grant Writing for Graduate Students
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 10:00am to 11:15am

This hands-on workshop facilitated by Dr. Lynne Milgram will provide research proposal writing support for your upcoming CGS-M (SSHRC, NSERC) and Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) application(s). Please come prepared with specific questions related to your research projects.

As limited seats are available, please RSVP to this workshop through this EventBrite listing. For further details about scholarships and funding please see our website here

Venue & Address: 
Room 701K, 205 Richmond St. W.
Email: 
gradstudies@ocadu.ca
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External Funding Workshop for Graduate Students

External Funding Workshop for Graduate Students
Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - 10:00am to 11:30am

Interested in applying for CGS-M (SSHRC, NSERC) and/or an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)? This session will provide students with further information about competitions, timelines and best practices. These are prestigious awards, and all full-time graduate students are encouraged to apply.

For further details about scholarships and funding please see our website here

Venue & Address: 
Room 510, 205 Richmond St. W.
Email: 
gradstudies@ocadu.ca
Keywords: 

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