OCAD U Presents: The Conversationalists II

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 - 11:00pm to Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 1:00am

OCAD U Presents:  The Conversationalists II

Amy Leaman, cStreet
Dyan Marie, Artist
Nicole Bazuin, Alexandra Hong and Cheryl Hsu, Madeline Co.

 

Tuesday, March 15th
7 - 9pm
Scrap Metal Gallery, 11 Dublin St.

(Lost? http://www.scrapmetalgallery.com/contact-us/)

 

The conversationalists is a series of talks, performances, presentations and chatter that hopes to explore the notion of ‘social change’ and ‘social innovation’ within the arts. A three part series, the conversationalists will hope to offer varying insights into supports, challenges, warnings and ambivalences towards the language we use to describe what it is we do. What is Social Change? How can Social Innovation exist in the arts? This is where we start.

 

Nicole Bazuin, Alexandra Hong and Cheryl Hsu

Madeleine Co. is a Toronto-based art collective specializing in the creation of socially innovative content. Using co-creative platforms, Madeleine Co. integrates communication strategies with the ingenuity of artists to engage with audiences in empowered and emotionally-resonant ways. Our core principles of accessibility, participation, and collaboration guide us in the development of meaningful experiences with a strong social mandate.

Amy Leaman

Amy is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and holds a masters degree in Urban Design from University College London. Amy is co-founder and creative director of cStreet Campaigns, an agency that works with non-profits, political campaigns, and social movements to use digital tools to make social change. cStreet has worked with leading organizations including the United Nation Association, Rainforest Action Network, and Columbia University.

Dyan Marie

Dyan Marie works in photography, text and sculpture and is an early innovator in the field of digital imagery and community-based projects. She responds to urban situations with public art, curating, walking systems, publications, banner projects, community initiatives, festivals and poetry. A founder of C Magazine, Cold City Gallery, Walk Here, Dupont Projects, BIG: Bloor Improvement Group and is the Creative Director of the BIG On Bloor Festival and How We Live In Cities. Dyan received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and the City Soul award from the Canadian Urban Institute among various art and community awards from city, provincial and federal government. AOCAD, MFA

 

Space is limited: e-mail dliddington@ocadu.ca in order to reserve a seat!

 

For further information contact:

DEREK LIDDINGTON
Coordinator, Impact Exchange
Centre For Emerging Artists and Designers 
E. dliddington@ocadu.ca 

 

The Impact Collective is a social innovation project at OCAD University. Learn more at www.impactcollective.ca

Venue & Address: 
Scrap Metal Gallery, 11 Dublin St. Space is limited: e-mail dliddington@ocadu.ca in order to reserve a seat!
Website: 
http://www.scrapmetalgallery.com/contact-us/
Email: 
dliddington@ocadu.ca
Poster for the Conversationalists II, blue BG with random shapes

ID Sustainability & Systems Thinking Lecture

Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 11:30pm to Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 2:00am

Special lecture event on Sustainability & Systems Thinking

Date: Wednesday 9th March,  6.30-9 pm,

Location:  205 Richmond Street, Room 320 (3rd Floor)

Our three exciting guest lecturers are: 

  1. Jason Dressler, co-director of Toronto based brothers Dressler Design Studio- APPLIED SUSTAINABILITY IN DESIGN & LOCAL MANUFACTURING Brothers Dressler use local, reclaimed, found, ecologically friendly and responsibly harvested materials, working to promote a return to local manufacturing and resources. Our design process uses as much of each material as possible, giving cut-offs and waste streams new life as creative new products. As fine craft furniture makers specializing in sustainable design it is our purpose to make furniture that offers the opportunity for the conscious consumer to purchase goods that affect positive change.
  2. Wesley Gee - Director of Sustainability at The Works Design Communications Ltd. _ BUSINESS FOCUS ON SUSTAINABILITY Expertise: Sustainability / Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy, strategy and action planning; advisory services and project/program management; reporting and communication; stakeholder mapping, engagement and collaboration; materiality analysis and risk/reputation management; strategic community investment; environmental management and climate change.
  3. Bernhard Dietz - SYSTEMS DESIGN & SUSTAINABILITY Branding and Corporate Design Specialist, Sustainability Change Agent, Visual Sense Maker, formerly working at Bruce Mau Design Expertise: Systems Design, Communication, Product Design, Life Cycle assessment, Design Planning, User-centered Design, Design Research
Venue & Address: 
205 Richmond Street Room 320
Cost: 
Free

Virginia San Fratello

Earth objects
Friday, November 6, 2015 - 8:00pm to 10:00pm

"Full Scale Study Models”

Virginia San Fratello is a designer, artist and educator. She is a partner at Rael San Fratello and in Emerging Objects, which is a pioneering design and research company that specializes in 3D printed materials and products for the built environment. Her research focuses on the convergence of digital, ecological, and creative material explorations. The research is applied through the design and fabrication of innovative building components, furniture designs, jewelry and object design and site specific installations that look at material resources and have political consequences.

Venue & Address: 
OCAD U Auditorium Room 190
Cost: 
Free
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Andy Warhol Revisited Lecture Series

Bright pink poster with image of Marilyn Monroe's face
Thursday, August 6, 2015 - 4:00am to Thursday, August 27, 2015 - 4:00am

August 6, 8 to 9 p.m. An Evening Lecture by Gary Taxali, OCAD University alumnus
Accomplished international artist, Gary Taxali will discuss Warhol’s impact on today’s artist and how it has informed his own approach to painting. Explore Warhol through an artistic lens as Taxali discusses Warhol through his own paintings. Meet and greet with the artist to follow.

August 13, 8 to 9 p.m. An Evening Lecture by Tavis Coburn, OCAD University instuctor
Internationally acclaimed artist, Tavis Coburn will be presenting a selection of his 40’s era comic book inspired art and highlight Warhol’s influence on fine art in the digital disciplines. Meet and greet with the artist to follow.

August 20, 8 to 9 p.m. An Evening Lecture by Meraj Dhir
Harvard trained art historian and critic for FashCam.com, Meraj Dhir will present an academic style lecture on Warhol’s art and film within the context of Pop Art. The lecture will include a detailed walk-through of individual works on view through detailed formal and historical analysis.

August 27, 8 to 9 p.m. An Evening Lecture by Warren Steele
Assistant Professor at Western University, Warren Steele will present academic mediation on the apparent (non) meaning within many of Warhol’s works. A choice selection of artworks from Warhol’s body of work will be discussed in detail.

Venue & Address: 
77 Bloor St. W. Toronot, Canada
Website: 
http://warholrevisited.com/
Email: 
<p><a href="mailto:info@warholrevisited.com" target="_blank">info@warholrevisited.com</a></p>
Cost: 
Ticket prices: $20 at the door $10 for VIP holders

MAAD Faculty Lecture Series

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm

Material Art & Design program

Textile print designer and sessional faculty Ana Galindo will talk about her experience attending Surtex 2014, an industry focused event that takes place every year in New York City. Ana is well acquainted with the show, having had her industry start as winner of the student competition back in the day. She will share tidbits about the competition, the dramatic change industry has taken towards licensing, the actuality of digital versus hand-made designs, and the other shows happening simultaneously during SURTEX at the Javits Center.

Ana is a member of the Contemporary Textile Studio with a multidisciplinary background including surface design, fibre arts and book arts with keen interest in Mesoamerican textiles, having just returned from the First Mesoamerican Textiles Symposium in Oaxaca, México.

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University 100 McCaul Street Room 201 - Fibre Studio
Cost: 
Free

Doug Beube: McLean Foundation Artist in Residence

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Friday, February 7, 2014

A Faculty of Art Publications Specialization presentation made possible by the McLean Foundation

Doug Beube discusses his engagement with de/constructing images through collage, bookwork and mixed media. He looks at the book as an inter-connecting block of wood. The codex, which in Latin literally means wooden block, is undeviating in its essential form and undeniably limited in its capacity to store and generate information. Theoretically and physically, Beube excavates the book, as if the text block itself were an archaeological site.

In altering pre-existing books through the utilization of various power tools, the pages and texts of the book are reconfigured so that, having started with the inflexibility of the codex, Beube uncovers internal layers and the book’s inevitable course is altered. We are forced to read non-linearly. Sometimes words remain visible, sometimes their shapes are recognizable, even readable, but in every case the books function visually and are transformed into sculpture.

Doug will lead students and faculty in the weekend workshop, Radical Bookwork: Dis/connecting the Altered Page.

Presentation and discussion of the resulting works will take place in the Learning Zone on Monday, Feb. 10 at 3:30pm. All are invited to join and view the works produced.

Venue & Address: 
Room 284, 2nd Floor 100 McCaul St. Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free
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