Call for Submissions: First Generation Student Exhibition & Publication

call for submissions poster
Friday, December 1, 2017 - 11:15am

OCAD U First Generation students from all undergraduate programs are invited to submit work on the theme of MIGRATION for this year's exhibition and publication. Accepted works will be on display in the Learning Zone from March 22nd to March 30th, and will be printed in our publication. 

This year's theme is Migration, meaning "movement from one part to another". This theme can be interpreted in any medium, including writing. 

To apply, email wlc@ocadu.ca with the following:

  • one high-resolution colour image (1500x1500 px minimum) of your work. **Note that the publication will be printed in two-tone risography, therefore please keep in mind that your work should read well as a greyscale image.
  • Title, medium, and year of your work.
  • Your full name, student number, program, and year of study. 

Deadline: midnight of January 15, 2018.

*First Generation refers to students who are first in their family to attend university. 

Come Up To My Room - The Gladstone Hotel

Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 10:00am to Sunday, January 21, 2018 - 3:00pm

Congratulations to our current Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design MDes student Katrina Tompkins, IAMD alumni Ashley Snook (MFA 2016) and Digital Futures alumni Jordan Shaw (MFA 2017) who will be showcasing their work at the Gladstone Hotel's upcoming event "Come Up To My Room".

"Come Up To My Room (#CUTMR) is an alternative design exhibition that provides a platform for experimentation outside the norms of art and design, at the edges between intention and interpretation. Freed from the constraints of traditional practice, CUTMR encourages spatial exploration that engages our senses, our memories and our perceptions of reality. The exhibition challenges participants to push their everyday practice by offering a blank canvas upon which to explore new themes and ways of working. Framed within the backdrop of the historic 128-year-old Gladstone Hotel, CUTMR invites artists and designers to create site-specific, immersive installations that stimulate the imagination and encourage discussion and dialogue between contributors and visitors alike."

For full description and more information please visit:

http://www.gladstonehotel.com/spaces/cutmr2018/

 

CUTMR will be taking place on January 18-21, 2018

January 20, 7-10PM - Opening Reception & Party

January 20, 10PM-late - LOVE DESIGN Party (Opening After Party)

January 21, 1-3PM - TSA Ideas Forum (TO DO)

 

 

Venue & Address: 
The Gladstone Hotel
Website: 
http://www.gladstonehotel.com/spaces/cutmr2018/
2018 CUTMR Poster

The Joy of Laser Cutting

Friday, December 1, 2017 - 12:00pm to Wednesday, December 6, 2017 - 6:00pm

Laser cutters are powerful and versatile tools that can introduce significant untapped potential to artists. However, currently available learning materials for working with these machines are not designed with artists’ needs or interests in mind. To address this gap, Alda developed the Joy of Laser Cutting, a project based on her own experience as an artist looking to engage with these machines. This project uses recipes, food and visual language from the world of cookery as tools to reframe online DIY tutorials and appeal to the interests and needs of artists while encouraging creative engagement with the material. This show presents the work that was developed for the Joy of Laser Cutting as well as the journey that led Alda to develop it in the first place.

 

Venue & Address: 
Graduate Gallery - 205 Richmond St W.
The Joy of Laser Cutting Exhibition Poster

Open Call - Continuing Studies Instructors at OCAD U

Continuing Studies Gallery Opening
Friday, December 1, 2017 - 5:00pm

A group exhibition exploring the diverse work from instructors in Continuing Studies at OCAD U.

Venue & Address: 
285 Dundas Street West
Email: 
lmaynard@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 x 2266

TRACE

Monday, November 13, 2017 - 11:30am to Friday, November 17, 2017 - 7:30pm

TRACE is a graduate exhibition brought together by 6 curators and 14 interdisciplinary artists as they launch into their graduate studies at OCAD University — join us at OCAD University’s Graduate Gallery in a celebration of works by established and emerging artists developing their contemporary art and design practices that challenge the concept of TRACE.

 

On Thursday, November 16 at 5 p.m., 205 Richmond’s Graduate Gallery will feature new works in a multimedia exhibition exploring the contingent experience of presence as TRACE, evading the ‘real’ and pointing to its constitutive outside: the unreal. Trace, a sign for everything elusive, has no site, but rather is change of site marked by its erasure, making it disappear in its appearance. International artists Adrienne Matheuszik, Coco Guzman, Dori Vanderheyden, Ellen Snowball, Kirstie McCallum, Kristi Poole-Adler, Lida Shanehchiyan, Lingxiang Wu, Philip Sparks, Randa Reda, Sarah Carlson, Shannon Lee, Tal Sofia, and Vanessa Jackson capture these dynamic themes of TRACE — hinting to the existence of something, a residue we cannot ignore. Light refreshments and appetizers provided.

 

An artist talk will take place at 100 McCaul in Room 187 on Wednesday, November 15 at 12 p.m. featuring artists Sarah Carlson, Lingxiang Wu, and Coco Guzman in a discussion about their individual processes and body of works. Moderated by curator Elizabeth Handley-Derry, the talks will be followed by a question and answer period to encourage insightful engagement. Fellow curators Liz Ikiriko, Panya Clark Espinal, Jeff Tallon, Erica Cristobal and Keiko Hart encourage a dialogue around subverting assumptions and discovering intentions to help identify the investigations taking place in TRACE.

 

The OCAD University Graduate Gallery is home to thesis shows, speaker series, and one of a kind events, making it the primary exhibition space for graduate students and Faculty of OCAD University. The primary gallery space in room 104 is connected by a hallway to the media gallery in room 106 that can be used for projections. In TRACE all spaces will be activated with art, including a live drawing in the grad gallery corridor space by Coco Guzman.

 

For further press inquiries, please contact:

Panya Clark Espinal at 416 951 2120

Or the curatorial team at ccp2017ocadu@gmail.com

Instagram: @traceocadu
Facebook: /traceocadu

Venue & Address: 
Graduate Gallery, 205 Richmond St. W
Email: 
ccp2017ocadu@gmail.com
Phone: 
Panya Clark Espinal 416-951-2120
Cost: 
FREE
TRACE Poster
TRACE Artist Talks

ZINE POWER: The OCAD U Zine Library 10-Year Anniversary Party & Exhibition Reception

Text repeated in multiple colours, flanked by two hearts: Zine Power, the OCAD U Zine Library 10-Year Anniversary Exhibition
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - 5:00pm to 8:00pm

The OCAD U Zine Library is celebrating our 10-year anniversary on November 14th. We hope you can join us as we celebrate the amazing and potentially transformative power of zines!

The collection’s founder, Alicia Nauta, will open the evening with a short talk about their reasons for starting the collection and the importance of zines to their life. This will be followed by a short show and tell by various students talking about zines that changed their lives. Staff from Broken Pencil magazine will be on site recording an episode of their new podcast, so come to share and record your experience with zines! The night will feature even more zine fun with snacks, collaborative zine making, button making, a zine reading nook, and a roundtable discussion with zine creators organized by students of Prof. Sheila Sampath’s Nano Publishing class.

The ZINE POWER exhibition will feature work by 15 artists from the OCAD U and Toronto zine community. The exhibit will feature completed publications, as well as the rough notes, sketches and other process documents that are generated in the making of a zine to give viewers a deeper insight to the experiences of zine creators. The ZINE POWER exhibition is up from November 6 to December 1, 2017.

The OCAD U Zine Library was launched on November 14, 2007 by former OCAD U student and Toronto artist Alicia Nauta. Since Alicia’s graduation, OCAD U Library staff have continued to maintain and grow the collection. Over 2000 zines in our collection have been catalogued and are available to search and browse on our online catalogue, launched in the Spring of 2017: http://sscommons.org/openlibrary/#3|collections|7731595||OCAD20University20Zine20Collection20|||

This event is open to the general public andl all members of the OCAD U community. The Learning Zone is an accessible space with two gender neutral bathrooms. 

 

Venue & Address: 
Learning Zone, level 1 of 113 McCaul Street, also accessible from 122 St. Patrick Street
Website: 
http://ocad.libguides.com/zinelibrary
http://sscommons.org/openlibrary/#3|collections|7731595||OCAD20University20Zine20Collection20|||
Email: 
mchudolinska@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 ext.2529
Cost: 
Free

Sites of Reconstruction

Sites of Reconstruction
Friday, November 17, 2017 - 1:00pm to Saturday, December 9, 2017 - 6:00pm

November 17 - December 9, 2017
Reception: Friday, November 17, 6 - 9 p.m.

Sites of Reconstruction is a group exhibition curated by Karina Iskandarsjah which features works by Jawa El-Khash, Qendrim Hoti, Marcus A. Gordon, and Nikole Hidalgo.

Their interdisciplinary practices allude to the complexity of cultural hybridity propelled by contemporary, digital diasporas. They also examine processes of translation in geopolitics by reconstructing and producing environments that exist in a liminal space. Various screens act as portals to parallel worlds where the real, surreal, and imaginary overlap.

Through the exploration of urgent political issues and comparable histories, this exhibition addresses the following questions: What role does art play in structuring ways of remembering? How do misplaced, erased or violent histories haunt spaces? And to what extent can art influence a critical understanding of the relationship between local and global issues? By bringing the works of diverse and experimental artists together, this exhibition encourages an open-ended dialogue in which a cross-cultural understanding is used to contemplate shared futures.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jawa El-Khash
As an artist in exile, Jawa El-Khash directly addresses memory, loss and destruction. She responds to her war-torn background by reconstructing and reimagining a virtual world for Syria's cultural relics and architecture. Through painting, digital rendering, collage, animation, and virtual reality, El-Khash preserves these artefacts while also creating a place for herself that she can call home. Her works bring attention to the current devastation of her home country, it also contemplates alternate worlds in which harmony is prioritised.
Artist website: http://www.jawaelkhash.com

Qendrim Hoti
Qendrim Hoti is a Toronto-based, Kosovar-Albanian visual artist who seeks to highlight the associations attached to objects by immigrants and to make an assessment of culture in its material and psychological dimensions. Through the use of consumer products, technology and mementos, Hoti assembles a hybrid identity to relive the psychological tension caused by his dualistic identity.
Artist website: http://www.qendrimhoti.com/

Marcus A. Gordon
Marcus Gordon’s practice involves the use of holography, photography and sculptural elements to disrupt physical space. He explores the relationship between light and space to produce uncanny aesthetic experiences. Gordon is interested in the foundations and future of spatial imaging, contextualising holography as an expressive medium that can contribute to the criticality of art in architecture.
Artist website: http://www.marcusgordon.com/

Nikole Hidalgo
Nikole Hidalgo is a Toronto-based video artist and feminist Mestizo-Latino woman. Her works utilise a wide variety of materials and techniques to convey a number of contemporary social justice issues — like women’s reproductive rights — in both Peru and North America.
Artist website: https://vimeo.com/nkle

ABOUT THE CURATOR
Karina Iskandarsjah
Karina is a visual artist and independent curator from Singapore and Indonesia. She is interested in exploring non-dominant histories, cultural hybridity, and the deconstruction of power structures. Because of her own complicated history of migration, Karina’s practice reveals a strong interest in the experience of geographically displaced individuals as well as ideas of inclusion and exclusion in relation to national citizenship. 
Personal website: https://www.karinais.com/

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Sites of Reconstruction runs November 17 - December 9, 2017 at the new Ignite Gallery, located at 165 Augusta Avenue (in the heart of Kensignton Market).

OPENING RECEPTION
Join us on Friday, November 17, 2017, from 6 - 9 p.m. for the opening reception.

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Ignite Gallery
165 Augusta Avenue
Toronto, ON M5T 2L4

Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Sunday: 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

For more information please contact the gallery (ignitegallery@ocadu.ca) or visit our website: https://www.ocadu.ca/gallery/ignite-gallery.htm

Venue & Address: 
165 Augusta Avenue, Toronto, ON M5T 2L4
Website: 
https://www2.ocadu.ca/event/sites-of-reconstruction
Email: 
ignitegallery@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
(416) 596-7538
Cost: 
Free
Keywords: 

Call for Submissions: ZINE POWER, the OCAD U Zine Library 10-Year Anniversary Exhibition

Image of Text: Call for submissions. Zine Power. The OCAD U Zine Library 10-year anniversary exhibition
Thursday, October 5, 2017 - 11:45am to Sunday, October 22, 2017 - 11:45pm

The OCAD U Zine Library is celebrating our 10-year anniversary on November 14th and we are planning an exhibition that celebrates the amazing power of zines! We are looking for zines, original pages, cover art, sketches, and all things that go into the making of a zine.

The exhibition will run from November 6 – December 3 at the Learning Zone, home of the OCAD U Zine Library. We will be celebrating the exhibition and the anniversary at a reception on November 14th, from 5-8pm.

Please email ocadzinelibrary@gmail.com with 2-3 images of your work by Sunday, October 22, 2017. We are particularly interested in zinesters whose work is featured in our collection.

The OCAD U Zine Library was launched on November 14, 2007 by former OCAD U student and artist Alicia Nauta. Since Alicia’s graduation, OCAD U Library staff have continued to maintain and grow the collection. Over 2000 zines in our collection have been catalogued and are available to search and browse on our online catalogue, launched in the Spring of 2017. 

The exhibition is open to the entire OCAD U community as well as to local zinesters. All materials for the exhibition will need to be dropped off and picked up in person, as we will not be able to return any materials by mail.

Venue & Address: 
OCAD U Zine Library Learning Zone Gallery 113 McCaul Street, Level 1 Also accessible from 122 St. Patrick Street
Website: 
http://ocad.libguides.com/zinelibrary
Email: 
ocadzinelibrary@gmail.com
Phone: 
416-977-6000 x2529
Cost: 
Free
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Galaxy Champion Fun Zone™

Galaxy Champion Fun Zone™
Friday, October 13, 2017 - 6:00pm to Friday, November 3, 2017 - 6:00pm

October 13 - November 4, 2017
Reception: October 13, 6-9 p.m.

Galaxy Champion Fun Zone™ is a two-person exhibition by Qendrim Hoti and Max Lupo which uses the video game technology of the past three decades to create an interactive installation. By using hacked and modified video games, Hoti and Lupo insert personal migrant histories into existing virtual worlds as a means to recontextualize their familiar contents. We invite visitors to play these games as a way to explore these alternate characters and environments.

About the Artists
Qendrim Hoti is a Kosovar Albanian interdisciplinary artist living in Canada. He uses his hybrid identity to help him negotiate material culture into artwork. Hoti graduated from the Interdisciplinary Arts, Media, and Design Masters Program at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2017. Qendrim's piece, made in collaboration with Esmaa Mohamoud, entitled 'One of the Boys' is currently on display at 'Every.Now.Then:Reframing Nationhood' at the Art Gallery of Ontario until December 10, 2017.
Artist website

Max Lupo is an emerging artist who received his MFA from OCAD U in 2017. Over the course of his education Max focused on printmaking, and new media sculpture. These days, Max travels the world (not really) in order to bring the most exotic and fascinating inventions to life. Max's recent shows include solo exhibitions at Georgian College's Campus Gallery, as well as VERSO gallery, on Queen Street West in Toronto. Max currently works as an educator at Georgian College, and the Innisfil Public Library and Idealab.
Artist website

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Galaxy Champion Fun Zone™ runs October 13 - November 4, 2017  at the new Ignite Gallery, located at 165 Augusta Avenue (in the heart of Kensignton Market).

OPENING RECEPTION
Join us on Friday, October 13, 2017, from 6 - 9 p.m. for the opening reception.

SPECIAL EVENT - WORKSHOP
Sunday, October 15, 2-3:30 p.m..
Join Qendrim Hoti in this special tutorial workshop as he demonstrates his ideas and techniques about manipulating commercial video games into virtual worlds of memoir and relief. This workshop is free and open to the piblic. No materials required.

Game still, Qendrim Hoti

 

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Ignite Gallery
165 Augusta Avenue
Toronto, ON M5T 2L4

Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Sunday: 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

For more information please contact the gallery (ignitegallery@ocadu.ca) or visit our website: https://www.ocadu.ca/gallery/ignite-gallery.htm

Venue & Address: 
165 Augusta Avenue, Toronto, ON M5T 2L4
Website: 
https://www2.ocadu.ca/event/galaxy-champion-fun-zone™
https://www.facebook.com/events/829378303901482
Email: 
ignitegallery@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
(416) 596-7538
Cost: 
Free
Keywords: 

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