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

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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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Info Session | Long Winter Career Launcher

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Tuesday, January 15, 2019 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm

Long Winter, Toronto’s all-ages, pay-what-you-can seasonal series of underground and DIY music, visual art, installation, reading, food, and dance (and more) have partnered with the Integrated Media and Digital Painting & Expanded Animation program, and the CEAD to announce the Long Winter Career Launcher. The exciting opportunity to create new work and participate in a dynamic public event is open to upper year students or recent graduates of the Integrated Media, DPXA, and Digital Futures programs. OCAD U students and recent alumni are invited to apply for this paid opportunity by submitting a project proposal for a new, or newly updated, digital video artwork.

More information on the Career Launcher can be found here.

On January 15, an on-campus info-session/submission workshop will be offered by CEAD Staff and Tommy Truong, DPXA alumni and past Long Winter presenting artist. Interested applicants are encouraged to attend this optional session to receive guidance and assistance with their applications.

Venue & Address: 
Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers, 3rd Floor, 115 McCaul Street, OCAD University
Website: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1454819908017347/

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
Connection_Found: An online exhibition curated by feelSpace
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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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Community Dialogue Series | Designing Experience in Cultural Spaces

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Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:30pm

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Tuesday, November 26, 2019
5:00 - 7:30 PM
Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers, Level 3, 115 McCaul St.
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Join the OCAD U CEAD, exhibition design firm Haley Sharpe Design, curator Michael Propkopow and artist/gamemaker Tommy Ting for an open conversation on the future of experience design in cultural spaces. 

Haley Sharpe Design

The Haley Sharpe Design team is a multidisciplinary group of individuals with a common passion. We provide broad-ranging skills in the planning, design, and production of interpretive and interactive exhibitions for museums, science centres, visitor attractions and historic sites.
Our staff of more than sixty enthusiastic individuals have skills and qualifications covering curatorship, education, operations and management, in addition to design, architecture and fabrication. It’s a comprehensive service to fit the specifics of each project.
Close collaboration with our clients and their stakeholders means creating tailor-made displays that communicate effectively with their particular audiences. In particular we strive to understand cultural differences. Combining academic integrity, learning opportunities and entertainment, we produce unforgettable visitor experiences.

Clients include: Alutiiq Museum, Alaska, Canadian War Museum, Historic Jamestowne, Virginia, Museum of Liverpool, Natural History Museum (Sharjah), Royal Ontario Museum, The National Children’s Museum of Jordan

https://haleysharpe.com/

Venue & Address: 
OCAD U Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers, 115 McCaul Street, Level 3

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

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