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Fine Arts e-broadcast - October 2013
Congratulations to Luca Caminati (Cinema) who has joined the School of Graduate Studies decanal team as associate dean of recruitment and awards.
The FOFA Gallery has launched a sixth, distinct exhibition space. The Image Grid, located in the gallery courtyard, is composed of metal rings that were installed on the west wall. By running wire through its various rings, the gallery can display multiple enlarged prints of different sizes. The Image Grid's first print, entitled Curtain, Arles from the series The Book Of Things II by MFA in Studio Arts student Celia Perrin Sidarous, is currently on view.
A new recruitment video has been created for Studio Arts’ photography program. Check out what dedicated faculty, students and alumni have to say about Concordia.
Student and alumni news
MFA in Studio Arts student Colleen Heslin is the national winner of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Heslin won the $25,000 purchase prize for her piece Almost young and wild and free, a vibrant mixed media creation that blends painting with textile art. Also nominated for the prize were MFA in Studio Arts students Brendan Flanagan and Nathaniel Hurtubise, and alumna Laura Findlay, BFA 11.
Mark Clintberg, Art History PhD student, was one of the five shortlisted candidates for the 2013 Sobey Art Award, one of Canada's pre-eminent awards for contemporary art. Although the top prize went to artist Duane Linklater, Clintberg will be awarded $5,000 for being named to the short list. The 2013 Sobey Art Award shortlist exhibition will be on view at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia until January 5.
Noa Ne'eman, a student in the Department of Studio Arts' undergraduate painting and drawing program, Tammy Salzl, a current MFA in Studio Arts student, and Ian Shatilla, MFA 08, were selected as three of the 30 finalists for the Kingston Prize for Canadian Portraiture and the grand prize of $20,000.
PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies student Kester Dyer recently won the 2013 Gerald Pratley Award from the Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC). Dyer was awarded for his work about “A Transportable/Transnational Cinema: The Wapikoni Mobile”.
A group of five current students at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema were nominated for a 2013 Forces AVENIR award: film animation's Marie-Josée Archambault, and film production's Noémie Boisclair, Edouard Dufour, Alfonso Herrera Salceda and Shahab Mihandhoust. Forces AVENIR brings together government, public and private partners to honour students developing into socially conscious, active and responsible citizens.
Gabrielle, a film written and directed by Concordia graduate Louise Archambault, MFA 93, was selected as Canada’s submission for the 86th Academy Awards in the Foreign Language Film category. Only five films will make the final nominations list, which is expected to be announced on January 16.
Laurence Dupuis, a film production student the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, will receive a $500 bursary as the second place winner of the Canadian Wind Energy Association's second annual Power of Wind blog contest.
Research-creation news
François-Marc Gagnon (Art History), founding director of Concordia's Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, was honoured by the Académie des lettres du Québec on September 26 for his literary and research contributions to Quebec society.
Sha Xin Wei (Design and Computation Arts) was named as 2014 Intel Fellow at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. Sha's project concerns the future of paper animated by gestural sensing and responsive media, and implications for the arts and technologies of writing and publishing.
On October 15, Sandeep Bhagwati (Music, Theatre) will give the keynote address at the Rencontres du jazz et de la musique contemporaine (Jazz and Contemporary Music - Meeting Points) symposium at the University of Toulouse, France.
The work of Ana Cappelluto (Theatre) and several Department of Theatre students and alumni can be seen this fall on three separate Montreal stages: Cappelluto was the lighting designer on The St. Leonard Chronicles (October 1 to November 3) and on Seeds (October 29 to November 23), both playing at the Centaur Theatre. She and her team also designed both the lighting and the set for Sal Capone: The Lamentable Tragedy Of, which will run from October 24 to November 10 at MAI Theatre.
Mark Sussman (Theatre) will be travelling to the UK’s Falmouth University to present a paper, lead a workshop and perform at the Performing Objects conference. Sussman will give a talk on new forms of model theatre on October 18 and his company, Great Small Works, will stage a performance of Terror As Usual on October 19.
t/Social Contract, a new permanent installation of a motion picture weaving work by Richard Kerr (Cinema), will be unveiled at University of Toronto’s Innis College on October 17. A screening of Kerr’s work will also take place at the event.
Nicolas Pezolet (Art History) will present a paper in the panel Referential Meaning in Abstraction at the Universities Art Association of Canada conference in Banff, October 17 to 20.
Joanna Berzowska (Design and Computation Arts) has been invited to speak at EmTech España, organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review magazine, the world’s leading emerging technologies conference, taking place in Valencia, Spain on November 5 and 6.
Berzowska is also an invited speaker at the Wearable Technology Symposium Part 2: Textiles and Intertextuality event, to be held at the School of Art, Design and Media at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore on November 11 and 12.
Media coverage
Breaking the Frame, a film by Marielle Nitoslawska (Cinema) about performance artist Carolee Schneemann, was featured in the Huffington Post.
Joanna Berzowska (Design and Computation Arts) was interviewed for an episode of Explora chronique scientifique entitled "Les Vêtements électroniques", which aired on September 2. She was also featured in the CBC Montreal documentary Looming large: smart textiles in Québec which aired on September 26.
Propinquity, a video game designed by Lynn Hughes (Studio Arts) that focuses on full body interaction and the use of sound and game play mechanics to produce an intensely social and physical experience, was featured in a video report about the Bozar Electronic Arts festival.
Micheline Lanctôt (Cinema) will be the first ambassador for the Cinéma Excentris, reports TVA Nouvelles.
Call for applications
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture announced that the Ph.D. in Humanities Committee is accepting proposals to teach its core courses in the 2014-2015 academic year. Those interested in teaching one of two courses should submit a course proposal by email to Erin Manning (erin.manning@concordia.ca), program director, by October 25. Previous course descriptions are available on the CISSC website.
The Faculty of Fine Arts invites applications for the fifth Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art, a two-year post-graduate fellowship that will begin in 2014. Candidates who graduate in June 2013, October 2013 or June 2014 with an MFA, MA or PhD in specified disciplines are eligible to apply. The application deadline is November 1.
Upcoming events
- Until October 25: FOFA Gallery’s La Rentrée exhibition (Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings #103, #123A, #1099 and #394, Kyla Chevrier’s All Betting and Cashing, Alexandra Côté’s Je vas t'attendre and Candice Davies’ Supply)
- October 11, 5 p.m.: The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture lecture, Repatriation and the Second Life of Heritage: Return of the Masks in Kodiak, Alaska, with James Clifford
- October 11, 6 p.m.: Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and Nouveau Festival du Cinéma lecture with Vincent Paul-Boncour and Ross Lipman
- October 16, 4 p.m.: Hexagram-Concordia workshop with Berlin-based composer Sam Auinger, Thinking with your Ears
- October 18, 2:30 p.m.: ARTHMIS presents Reconsidering Cuban Film Culture with PhD Bursary winner Irene Rozsa
- October 23, 8 p.m.: Department of Music concert with Duo Beija-Flor, two alumni of the music program, featuring new music by retired faculty member Roddy Ellias
- October 24, 5 p.m.: The Music Research Talks Series kicks off with a talk by Liselyn Adams (Music), Speechless: an introduction to the elements of music
- October 24, 6 p.m.: Conversations in Contemporary Art presents sculptor Stephen Schofield
- October 25, 8 p.m.: Studio 7, a monthly performance series presented by Contemporary Dance
- October 29, time TBA: Hexagram-Concordia workshop on ethnographic techniques with Georgina Born
- October 30, 5:45 p.m.: Design speaker series lecture with Grace McQuilten, presented in collaboration with Art History
- October 31, 8 p.m.: Jazz Studies Faculty Ensemble concert, part of Daniel Pearl World Music Days