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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: 

Visual Analytics Lab's Informational Workshop

Thursday, October 4, 2018 - 11:30am

Are you interested in Data Visualization? Do you have any digital / UI / UX / web design skills?

The Visual Analytics Lab invites all digital / UI / UX / web designers to join the informational workshop about the lab’s projects.

The projects presentation and workshop will take place on Thursday, October 4, from 11:30AM  at the Visual Analytics Lab – 7th floor, 205 Richmond St. W.

Attendees are invited to bring their laptops and resume.

For more information visit: https://www2.ocadu.ca/research/val/home

Or contact Marcus Gordon: v

Venue & Address: 
VAL Lab 205 Richmond St. W. 7th Floor
Email: 
mgordon@faculty.ocadu.ca
Cost: 
free
Visual Analytics Lab invites all digital / UI / UX / web designers

Grad Studies Colloquia 2018

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 2:30pm

One of the most important aspects of university life is the sharing and discussion of ideas. The colloquium — or academic conference or seminar — represents an invaluable opportunity for graduate students to present their work. Each graduate program at OCAD University hosts such an event with the goal of having students discuss their thesis or MRP work. Open to the university and wider community, these colloquia are defined by intellectual rigor, the presentation of original ideas and work and critical discussions.

Interdisciplinary Master’s In Art, Media and Design

October 4, 2018 – 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM 

October 5th, 2018 - 7:30AM- 3:45 PM

Grad Gallery @ 205 Richmnd St. W.

Digital Futures

Septemebr 26th & October 3rd, 2018 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Grad Gallery @ 205 Richmnd St. W.

Contemporary Art Design New Media Art Histories & Criticism & Curatorial Practice

October 1,  2018 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Room 701 K @ 205 Richmond St. W

Inclusive Design

October 25th, 2018 & November 1, 8, 15, 2018

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Room 322, 230 Richmond St. W.

Venue & Address: 
Various locations
Email: 
gradstudies@ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free
Colloquia Poster

Common Room September: Florence Contemporary Exhibition Opening

Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 5:00pm to 8:00pm

 

Common Room September: Florence Summer Residency Exhibition Opening Featuring:

Kristy Boyce
Sarah Carlson
Elizabeth Lopez
Chris Luginbuhl
Alex Perlin
Randa Reda Mahmoud
Samantha Robbie- Higgins
Quinn Rockliff
Lida Shanehchiyan
Philip Sparks
Dori Vanderheyden

  • Thursday, September 20, 2018
  • Graduate Gallery, Ground Level, 205 Richmond Street West, (Level G)
  • Open Bar & Light Refreshments

About the Florence Contemporary Course

What are the legacies of the renaissance within the dominant canon and how are they reflected and resisted in contemporary art and design? This course interrogates the new within the context of the old, with site visits and immersion in contemporary cultural production in Florence. The rich transdisciplinarity of Florentine renaissance sites and artworks is considered alongside the thriving contemporary artisanal culture of the city. This graduate course in studio and scholarly practices offers a compelling opportunity for art and design research and creation, aligning student's thesis objectives within a context of deep cultural interaction and international enquiry.

Venue & Address: 
Grad Gallery 205 Richmond St. W. Level G
Cost: 
Free
Common Room September: Florence Contemporary Exhibition Opening

Atlas of an Ambiguous Utopia: Explorations in Place, Machines and Waste

Atlas of an Ambiguous Utopia: Explorations in Place, Machines and Waste
Saturday, September 15, 2018 - 12:00pm to Sunday, September 16, 2018 - 12:00pm

In collaboration with OCAD U’s Social Body Lab and Autodesk’s Pier 9 Technology Centre, artist and researcher Hillary Predko completed a four month residency in San Francisco focused on global systems of infrastructure, craftsmanship, and computer numeric controlled (CNC) machines. This work explores themes around globalization, waste and cartography through meticulously finished sculptures. Form and structure served as motifs for investigating the material possibilities of advanced manufacturing machines in an artistic context. Using the globalized movement of scrap materials and the impact of China's trash ban from the starting point of the the San Francisco Bay, Predko looks past techno-utopian narratives into a complex network of interconnected factors that shape our daily lives.

A zine collecting images and writing about this work can be found here: https://issuu.com/hilbot/docs/atlas 

Gallery Hours - Saturday, September 15th & Sunday, September 16th, 12PM-6PM
Artist Talk -  Sunday, September 16th at 6PM

Location: OCADU Graduate Gallery, 205 Richmond Street West, Ground floor

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Hillary Predko is a Canadian designer, researcher and maker who creates beautiful products and experiences. Her practice is informed by human centred design, strategic design, and hands on prototyping. She holds a degree in material art and design from OCAD University, with a focus on textiles. 

Predko worked as a Studio Y fellow at the MaRS Discovery District, tackling systems level problems with design, with Intel + Intel innovators and launched Vega Edge, a wearable cycling light on Kickstarter. Hillary is currently an active leader in the Toronto maker community. She has worked as studio manager at Guild Eyewear and as an instructor specializing in wearable electronics at OCAD University.

Predko’s work with OCAD's Social Body Lab has exhibited at the Stanford D School for TEI 15, and Eyebeam Gallery and she has served as installation director for Way Station (Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, 2010) and as artistic lead for James Street Circus (Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, 2011). As cofounder of Little Dada, Hillary has produced events with Intel and Design Exchange, and exhibited work in North America, Europe and Asia. Her work has been recognized by Vice, CBC, Fast Company and Toronto Life. She is interested in the interplay between industrial production, sustainability and entrepreneurship.

Venue & Address: 
Graduate Gallery, 205 Richmond St. W., Ground Floor
Phone: 
416-977-6000 Ext. 423
Cost: 
Free

The Latin American Speakers Series presents CECILIA FAJARDO-HILL

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm

The Latin American Speakers Series presents
CECILIA FAJARDO-HILL
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
7:30-9PM @ OCAD University,
100 McCaul St, Room 190 / Free admission

Venue & Address: 
100 McCaul St, Room 190
Website: 
http://lacap.ca/sur-gallery/current-exhibition/single-view/calendar/2018/09/26/event/tx_cal_phpicalendar/2018_latin_american_speaker_series_cecilia_fajardo_hill/
Cost: 
Free
The Latin American Speakers Series presents CECILIA FAJARDO-HILL Wednesday, September 26, 2018 7:30-9PM @ OCAD University, 100 M

NSERC Information Session - Scholarships and Fellowships

Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Are you interested funding opportunities available through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada? Are you considering applying for a Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-M) at the Master's level? Then plan to attend this information session, where respresentatives from NSERC will be on hand to provide information on CGS-M scholarships, Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements, and postgraduate and postdoctoral programs. Come by to learn about the application process, how to craft a competitive application, and to have your questions answered.

Please RSVP to gradstudies@ocadu.ca. For further details about scholarships and funding for graduate students please see our website here

Venue & Address: 
Digital Salon (Room 701K), 205 Richmond St. W.
Email: 
gradstudies@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 ex. 4369
Cost: 
Free
NSERC Information Session Poster

IDC's Three-Day Conference

Dr. Dori Tunstall, FoD Dean
Monday, September 17, 2018 - 7:30am to Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - 1:30pm

OCAD U's Faculty of Design Dean Dr. Dori Tunstall will be a speaker at this year's IDC 3-day conference. For tickets or more information please click here: http://idcdesignsymposium.ca/

Venue & Address: 
Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel, 525 Bay St.
Website: 
http://idcdesignsymposium.ca/#register
Cost: 
https://www.idcanada.org/english/event-registration-template/event-registration.html#id=1344&cid=294&wid=2501
Keywords: 
Digital Screen: 

New Graduate Student Orientation

O-Days image, with OCAD U logo
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 10:00am

NEW GRADUATE STUDENT ORIENTATION 2018
Office of Graduate Studies

TIME: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
*A more detailed schedule will be provided during the REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS component of the day.

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | 100 McCaul St., Great Hall
SERVICE EXPO
• Find out what services the university has to offer. Move from table to table and meet the friendly faces that are OCAD U student services. 

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | 100 McCaul St., 6th Floor, Open Studio 
REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENTS

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | 100 McCaul St., 6th Floor, Open Studio
GRADUATE STUDENTS WELCOME TO OCAD U
• Official welcome from the University President and Dean of Graduate Studies and important information from the Graduate Studies Office. 

12:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | 205 Richmond St. W., Various Rooms 
PROGRAM INTRODUCTIONS, ADVISING LUNCHES

12:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Graduate Studies Office, Room 501, 205 Richmond St. W.
REGISTRATION ASSISTANCE
• Graduate Studies Staff will be on hand to answer your questions and assist you with any last minute registration needs. 

2:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. | 205 Richmond St. W., Various Rooms 
WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
• Skills-based workshops and presentations are offered to help orient you to various aspects of being a graduate student at OCAD University. 

6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. | WeWork, 240 Richmond St. W. 
WELCOME RECEPTION
• Celebrate the beginning of the year over light refreshments with returning students, faculty and staff.  
 

Venue & Address: 
Multiple Venues: 100 McCaul St., 205 Richmond St. W., 240 Richmond St. W.
Website: 
https://www.ocadu.ca/academics/graduate-studies/current-students.htm
Email: 
gradstudies@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 x423
Cost: 
Free

Artist in Residence: David Bateman "I WANTED TO BE BISEXUAL BUT MY FATHER WOULDN’T LET ME"

David Bateman (writer/performer) in costume for performance piece, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre,1992
Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - 10:00am to 11:30am

ABSTRACT

During a two week residency in the OCAD Graduate Student Gallery, performance artist and painter David Bateman will be revisiting four of his performance pieces from the 1990’s. Beginning with the provocative sex/gender title I WANTED TO BE BISEXUAL BUT MY FATHER WOULDN’T LET ME (1992) the revisitation/interrogation begins with a large scale text painting influenced by Abstract Expressionism and Lyrical Expressionism, as well as the idea of absorption as it applies to artists as spectators and spectators as artists within the visual and performance arts.

ARTIST STATEMENT
In an attempt to re-consider a 30 year old performance piece (I Wanted To Be Bisexual But My Father Wouldn’t Let Me) - to interrogate the issues surrounding gender and sexuality in the writer/performers consciousness at the time, and to bring this together with a form of abstract/ lyrical expressionism in the visual arts https://www.ideelart.com/magazine/lyrical-abstraction and then to make a perhaps risky historical leap into Michael Fried’s notion of ‘Absorption and Theatricality’ in the paintings of Chardin (among others),I have begun to create a series of 28 foot long canvasses focusing on four formative performance works that I created in the last decade of the twentieth century; I Wanted To Be Bisexual But My Father Wouldn’t Let Me, What Dreadful Things To Say About Someone Who Has Just Paid For My Lunch, Self-Deprecation and other Niceties, and Betty Wyatt.

For purposes of a three week residency at the OCAD Graduate Student Gallery, I have begun the preparations for the first two ‘performance paintings’ as abstract [lyrical] expressionist “manifestations of an absorptive state, the image's absorption in itself, so to speak - that only happens to subsist. The result, paradoxically, is that stability and unchangingness are endowed to an astonishing degree with the power to conjure an illusion of imminent or gradual or even fairly abrupt change. (50, Absorption and Theatricality) By replacing the word image with the word text in the first line of Michael Fried’s concise definition of his reflections upon the effects of absorption in various paintings, I satisfy my own need to paint text as a way of bringing the spoken/performed words into another realm of expression and representation - text-based performance art as painted subject. Being this close to a large canvas over an extended period of time brings a kind of performed labour into the equation, analogous to the act of memorizing and performing - absorbing one’s self and one’s audience in a narrative dependent upon a kind of self-absorption through a decidedly theatricalized rendition of that self-absorption - and in the end moving beyond the ‘self’ through painting and into a realm of social query and consciousness regarding historic categories that have served to define, and at times limit, the bounds of sex and and gender.

1“The implications of Absorption and Theatricality extend well beyond painting and art criticism to the literature and philosophy of the period.”

The original performance was done on roller skates while wearing a stylized patio umbrella frock and reciting the memorized text (image above). The basic import of the half hour piece finds distilled summarization in a few lines;

you see, I never wanted to be a man, or a woman / because i love borders / crossing them, ignoring them / borders between countries / borders between sexualities (1992)

In the three decades following that period I have often gone back to the title as an effective seriocomic way in which to absorb - to draw the audience into the performance as early as their first experience with the title of the piece. But there has always been, each time I have momentarily reflected upon the depth and effectiveness of that title, a hesitation regarding how far I was able to go in performing the idea of an identity I desired - grappled with - but could never quite actualize in any fully realized manner. The Kinsey report (1953) - perhaps well intentioned - worsened the struggle with its emphasis on statistical foundations - only three years before I was born. Was my inability to self-actualize a product of my own limitations or the gendered limitations projected and absorbed/inscribed upon (and into) my body during particularly liberating yet frequently repressive moments in the history of sexuality. Obviously both. As Marjorie Garber states in her text Bisexuality -

Is bisexuality a "third kind" of sexual identity, between or beyond homosexuality and heterosexuality? Or is it something that puts in question the very concept of sexual identity in the first place? Why, instead of hetero-, homo-, auto-, pan-, and bisexuality, do we not simply say "sexuality"? And does bisexuality have something fundamental to teach us about the nature of human eroticism?

My performance piece addressed similar issues when I was in my mid thirties (1992). I incorporated images from popular culture - ranging from quotes integrated into the text from the plays Boys In The Band, Being At Home With Claude, and Les Liaisons Dangereuse. A triumvirate of nationality (Canadian, American, French Canadian) finds expression in both the text and the costume (image above). Now, in 2018, I examine these issues again, in my early sixties, through painting - through a kind of lyrical expressionism that transplants “nationalized” colour and abstract image into a palette of shape and form - amorphous, lyric, and layered - where the painted textual images of a profoundly misunderstood form of sexual behaviour finds yet another playful area of expression to take on new form and function - and to perhaps find new/revisited meaning.

As Foucault so simply, and sardonically, put it, with an eye for amusement regarding the ways in which we have muddled through a fascination with the categorization of sexual identity -

“People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went about pretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.” ― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

David Bateman, Artist in Residence: Graduate Gallery OCAD, July 2018

Venue & Address: 
Graduate Gallery OCAD University 205 Richmond St. W. Toronto, ON
Email: 
gradstudies@ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free

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