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FCL News
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Christine Davis launches exhibition in Montreal |
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 |
Future Cinema Lab's first Artist in Residence Christine Davis has launched an exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. The exhibition, which runs until September 7, 2009, consists of three multimedia installations and eight collages curated by Lesley Johnstone.
From the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal:
"Weaving together the interconnected histories of dance, cinema and the sciences, the works of Christine Davis conjure up encounters that are surprising, to say the least, between the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, the dancers Loïe Fuller and Vaslav Nijinsky, and the mathematician Euclid." Link to article
From e-flux, news digest of contemporary art:
"From Did I Love a Dream ?, in which an archival film of one of Fuller's serpentine dances is projected in reverse onto a suspended copper mesh screen, to the dizzying array of images in Satellite Ballet (for Loïe Fuller), which is presented on iPod Touches, Davis demonstrates a skilful use of the inherent properties of her various projection devices. Multiplying the layers of reference to include such diverse sources as Thomas Edison, Vaslav Nijinsky, Euclid, and high-particle collisions, Davis draws the viewer into fascinating and dynamic perceptual experiences through her highly seductive imagery." Link to e-flux article
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FCL Symposium highlights student and faculty research |
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Friday, 22 May 2009 |
On May 8, 2009, the Future Cinema Lab (FCL) organized a one-day symposium that brought together presentations by faculty and graduate students at York University. The day's events kicked off with a panel comprised of graduate students from York's programmes in Social and Political Thought (Julie Nagam), Communication and Culture (Anna Friz and Jason Rovito), Computer Science and Engineering (Andrei Rotenstein), and Interdisciplinary Studies (Vicky McArthur). The students discussed ongoing projects that are supported by FCL, including Nagam's "Indigenous Oral History Sound Project" and McArthur's Opus, a digital experimental music notation project.
Andrew Roth, FCL's Technology Manager, followed with a presentation of his locative media project "Gremlin-infested Positioning System" (GiPS) which was completed during a co-production residency called "Almost Perfect" at the Banff New Media Institute in 2008. FCL founders and Film Department professors Caitlin Fisher, John Greyson, and Janine Marchessault also discussed their current projects and welcomed new collaborators Ali Kazimi and Don Sinclair in a round table on "New Stories, New Screens, New Struggles." The round table was followed by a screening in the Accolade Price Family Cinema of John Greyson's new film Fig Trees, which won a Teddy Award at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival. The symposium ended with a reception in the Augmented Reality Lab in the Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts, where Caitlin Fisher presented her award-winning digital poem "Andromeda" and Don Sinclair set up an interactive fog screen installation.
The FCL intends to organize similar events each year to engage the York community in faculty and student research. For inquiries, visit the "Contact Us" section of this website.
The Future Cinema Lab gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and York University.
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Caitlin Fisher wins international digital poetry prize |
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 |
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From Y-File, February 27, 2009:
Film Professor Caitlin Fisher wins international digital poetry prize
York film Professor Caitlin Fisher, Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture, is co-winner of the City of Vinaròs 4th International Digital Literature Award 2008 prize in poetry, a first for a Canadian.
The award is for outstanding work in digital poetry. Fisher won the City of Vinaròs prize, along with 2,500 euros, for her work "Andromeda", an augmented reality journey poem about stars, loss and women named Isabel.
The work uses a unique authoring environment, Jit/tag, pioneered in the Augmented Reality Lab at York under Fisher’s direction. The technology makes it easy for artists to explore robust, multiple and simultaneous fiducial recognition with sound. The Augmented Reality Lab is part of the Future Cinema Lab in York’s Faculty of Fine Arts.
Read the full article |
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Faculty of Fine Arts Research Celebration |
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009 |
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From Y-File, York University's Daily Bulletin, February 23, 2009: "Fine Arts Celebrates its Researchers with 'Imagining the Invisible'"
From the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University:
A Faculty of Fine Arts Research Celebration
Join us for a celebration of research and creation in the Fine Arts at York! Explore our new studio facilities, network with potential collaborative research partners, attend a world dance premier, and watch a film! Wednesday, February 25, 2009
9am - 5:30pm
Complete schedule and details available at yorku.ca/ffares/imaginingtheinvisible.htm
Events include:
- Research Exhibition, 9am – 5:30pm
- Interdisciplinary Speed Research Dating Event, 9 – 10am
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- Caitlin Fisher: “Poetry generators, Fogscreens and Augmented Reality Tools for Artists”, 10:15 – 11:15 am
- Brandon Vickerd: “Machines, The New Studio Slaves” , 11:30am – 12:30pm
- Shirley Ann Brown: “Deciphering Operation Matilda: The Bayeux Tapestry, Germanic Nationalism, and the Nazi Project, 1939-1944” , 12:45 – 1:45pm
- Michael Longford: “The Mobile Media Lab - New Projects & Collaborations”, 1:45 – 2:15pm
- World premiere performance and post-performance talk: Da Collision: “(Re)Tracing Fred”, 2 – 3:30pm
- Film Screening: “Rex vs Singh”, 3:45 – 4:30pm
- Wine & Cheese Reception, 3:30 – 5:30pm
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