The slides and a 5 minute video recap are now available for the most recent workshop on copyright and Isaak/Sakai for those who couldn’t make it.
Both are available HERE.
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Categories: Faculty & Instructors, News
Brock University
Media Release
St. Catharines, ON
March 1, 2012
Industrial Fabric2: Festival of the Arts
Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts
March to April 2012
The second Festival of the Arts showcasing the remarkable talents of students enrolled in the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts will be held March to April 2012. Industrial Fabric2 signals that time of year when students who have been preparing individually and collectively will bring their in-class, independent or studio projects to fruition. In the spirit of openness and mutual generosity, we invite you to celebrate their achievements on stage, in studios and galleries, and at regional venues.
As part of the culminating activities that signal the end of the academic year Industrial Fabric2 offers a dynamic range of creative events open to the University and community at large from theatre to musical performances to art exhibitions. Enjoy original student-written and performed plays produced as part of the Department of Dramatic Arts’ Gimme 3 or One Acts Festival, and a production written and produced by fourth-year students called Shadows of a Toymaker; a rich selection of concerts from the Department of Music including its Tuesday Music@Noon series, Student Recitals, the ENCORE! Professional Concert Series, the VIVA VOCE! Choral Series, and the University Wind Ensemble; exhibitions from the students of the Department of Visual Arts reflecting their achievements in photography, drawing, book making, and intermedia as well as the annual juried show, and a fourth-year honours exhibition hosted by Rodman Hall Art Centre. This year we are honoured by the participation of Donna Szoke, Visiting Artist, whose video installation and all watched over by machines of loving grace will be installed at CRAM Gallery.
“Industrial Fabric2 represents the creative thread that binds students in common effort, to perfect and bring their creativity to audiences both large and small, on and off campus. It promises to deliver over the course of two months a rich plethora of collective and individual talent mentored under the guise of our tremendous faculty and staff. This continues to be a testimony to the strength of our academic programs – where else can one find such brilliant vitality and collaboration that manifests itself from year to year with such vision, energy and dedication?” states Derek Knight, Director of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts.
The Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, part of the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University, is comprised of the Departments of Dramatic Arts (DART), Music (MUSI), and Visual Arts (VISA), and the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture (cSTAC).
All are welcome. Click here for a calendar of events.
The Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture (cSTAC) will be offering a new program that brings together learning opportunities from two leading Faculties at Brock University – the Faculty of Business and the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts of the Faculty of Humanities.
The Concentration in Cultural Management, a new collaboration with the highly-regarded Faculty of Business, will begin in the autumn of 2011. This is the ideal program for students who seek to graduate with employable skills as Cultural Managers in diverse fields of arts and culture, including music, the visual arts and dramatic arts. Together with their interdisciplinary or single-discipline studies in arts and culture students may pursue service-learning or practicum experiences with professionals and organizations in the Niagara Region. Required upper-level courses taken at the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture include Arts Management; Arts, Heritage and Culture: Public Policy and Governance; Producing a Performance Event, or Creating social value from material culture. Courses taken within the Faculty of Business include: Introduction to Business, Marketing Management, Organizational Behaviour and Design, Human Resources Management, Entrepreneurship, Personal Financial Planning and others related business topics.
Read the information sheet for this exciting new Concentration for 2011.
contact the Director of the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, David Vivian, for more information: dvivian@brocku.ca
or the Academic Advisor for the Faculty of Humanities, Alisa Cunnington: alisa.cunnington@brocku.ca
(Source: The Brock News, Wednesday, May 18, 2011)
Duncan MacDonald, assistant professor, has been busy with artworks featured in several shows in the month of April: Small Feats (the Niagara Artist Centre), The Main Event (Rodman Hall Arts Centre), Musicbox Revolving Door (Metro Hall, Toronto), Natural Frequencies (CRAM Art Gallery) and a video entitled “Work, Work” (In The Soil 2011).
To listen to a CBC radio interview regarding the Musicbox Revolving Door project, please see cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2011/04/26/music-box-door
(Source: The Brock News, Thursday, April 21, 2011)
Visual Arts instructor Judy Graham is part of the Preservation/Migration exhibit at the ZGM FineArts Gallery in Buffalo, NY, showing until April 23. She was also part of Garden Views and Artists’ Pots at the ZGM gallery in 2010, and presented surfacingsurfacing: A Poetry Performance.
She also exhibited at Small Feats, a group exhibit and sale at the Niagara Artists Centre, and will be part of the upcoming Social Rejections exhibit at Toronto’s GalleryWest.
Judy Graham published an exhibition essay at ZGM FineArts Gallery in Buffalo, NY in 2011. She also published “Uncomfortable Boys, Cornelius and George” in the Brock Review: Journal for the Humanities in 2010.
She also curated the National Women’s Exhibit at the Impact Gallery in Buffalo this year and has received an Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant.
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Interacting with Immersive Worlds: Third Brock University Conference on the Interactive Arts & Sciences
BROCK UNIVERSITY, ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO JUNE 13th – 14th, 2011
https://brocku.ca/conferences/immersive-worlds
Thanks to a combination of generous support from the City of St.Catharines and corporate sponsorship we are delighted to announce that we are able to reduce our conference registration fees to:
Regular: $150.00
Student: $75.00
Interacting with Immersive Worlds: Third Brock University Conference on the Interactive Arts & Sciences
BROCK UNIVERSITY, ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO JUNE 13th – 14th, 2011
https://brocku.ca/conferences/immersive-worlds
We are excited to announce that Dejan Momcilovic of WETA studios, New Zealand, will give a talk on Monday June 13th on “Lord of the Rings,” “King Kong,” and “Avatar” and motion capture, prior to the guided tour of the motion capture studio at the Generator at one. Further details will be announced on the conference web site as they become available.
The opening reception of VISA’s student photography exhibition “Who’s Afraid of the Darkroom” was recently covered by TV Cogeco. Click here to view the piece, including an interview with instructor Amy Friend.
“Who’s Afraid of the Darkroom” can be found in the Sean O’Sullivan Lobby until January 30th.
(Source: The Brock News, Thursday, October 21, 2010)
Keri Cronin presented a paper entitled “The Art of Animal Welfare Activism: Images and Our Dumb Animals” at the New England American Studies Association (NEASA) conference. The conference was on the theme of “The Arts and the Public” and was held at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston Oct. 1 to 3.
(Source: The Brock News, Thursday, October 7, 2010)
Duncan MacDonald presented a paper entitled “Conflations: Sound Art, Music and Architecture meet” at an international conference in Aarhus, Denmark called SoundActs. More information on the conference and its participants can be found here.