Svea Vikander
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vernissage was saturday, november 21st: 7-11pm at studio béluga (see vernissage photos here). viewings available by appointment until saturday november 28th.
about the show:
on the 25th anniversary of the tragic and unremedied chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, studio béluga invites you to an exhibition of photographs and stories about resistance and survival in daily life. Melanie Hadida, who has traveled to Bhopal twice for socio-economic justice research, and Justin Shoub, who recently returned from a Middle-East trip that included unofficial access to Palestinian refugee camps, have worked hard to bring together an exhibit that celebrates the warmth and humanity of both places. they hope to introduce you to the unique and vibrant cultures that spring up in spite of — and sometimes because of — resistance to injustice.
for more information about the photographers and their backgrounds, click here.
bhopal, 2007. photo by melanie hadida
palestine, 2009. photo by justin shoub
Filed under: photographic béluga, pod members, social béluga, studio béluga, upcoming, visual béluga | Tags: bhopal, india, palestine, refugee camps, social justice, economic justice, conflic, resistance, creativity, culture, studio béluga
on the 25th anniversary of the tragic and unremedied chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, studio béluga invites you to an exhibition of photographs and stories about resistance and survival in daily life. Melanie Hadida, who has traveled to Bhopal twice for socio-economic justice research, and Justin Shoub, who recently returned from a Middle-East trip that included unofficial access to Palestinian refugee camps, have worked hard to bring together an exhibit that celebrates the warmth and humanity of both places. they hope to introduce you to the unique and vibrant cultures that spring up in spite of — and sometimes because of — resistance to injustice.
vernissage is saturday, november 21st: 7-11pm
exhibit available for viewings by appointment for the following week.
refreshments provided; prints and other fundraising merchandise available for sale.
at studio béluga: #32A, 999 rue du collège, montréal, québec. three blocks north of metro place-st.-henri. call (514)754-7832 or email studiobelugacontact@gmail.com for more information.
bhopal, 2007. photo by melanie hadida
palestine, 2009. photo by justin shoub
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matthew hiscock, musical genius: http://bodegaempire.wordpress.com/bevels/
it’s instruments, “stuff that you record with microphones, like guitars and drums.”
the cool thing about his site (the thing that makes it cooler than myspace) is that you can play one or all of the tracks at the same time. i doubt that’s the effect he was going for but it really gives your ADD something to think about. this photo is also something he’s not really into.
what is it about typography that really gets me excited?
kerning, ligature, curly cues, printing presses; from romantic to cyrillic. i’m not sure.
but there are other people just like me.
in mexico, for example. the Association Typographique International (ATypI) is holding its bi-annual conference this year with the theme of ‘the heart of the letter’. here’s the video they made about it.
a bit about ATypI:
ATypI provides a structure for the type community to meet and act together. We not only preserve the culture, tradition and history of type and typography, we also
* promote contemporary digital fonts
* encourage outstanding typography and typographic design
* campaign for the protection of typeface designs
* offer an arbitration service for disputes between members
* influence legislators around the world
* run conferences
* publish journals, newsletters and other publications
Filed under: environmental béluga, installation béluga, literary béluga, photographic béluga, pod members, social béluga, studio béluga, theoretical béluga, upcoming, visual béluga
a series of events about nests and home.
1. ‘to be located in a sheltered spot’
aug 27 2009. 6pm – 10pm (vernissage). viewings by appointment until aug. 31 2009.
an exhibition exploring the construction of home, both concrete and ethereal featuring works by: Celine Gorham, Maziar Javidiani, Rebecca St. John, Duy Khương Phạm and Elise Pineda.
2. ‘a circular structure of twigs’
aug 28 2009 5pm – 9pm.
round-table artist discussion moderated by Natalia Lebedinskaia and Anastasia Hare (5-6pm); hands-on nest creation: reed-weaving workshop by Celine Gorham (7-8:30pm).
3. ‘as in a hollow tree’
sep 3 2009 6pm – 10pm (vernissage). viewings by appointment until sep 5 2009.
an exhibition questioning the linearity of familial history featuring works by: Jennifer Goddard, Natalia Lebedinskaia and Svea Vikander
4. ‘in which to lay and incubate’
sep 4 2009 7-8:30pm. weaving your history: family genogram workshop by Svea Vikander
details:
- admission costs: vernissages are free, workshops by donation.
- location: studio béluga. #32A, 999 du collège, montréal, québec (for map, click here).
- contact: studiobelugacontact@gmail.com, (514)754-7832; press contact natalia lebedinskaia.
- curators: anastasia hare, natalia lebedinskaia, svea vikander (for images, writing and theory, click here).
- artists: Celine Gorham, Maziar Javidiani, Rebecca St. John, Duy Khương Phạm Elise Pineda; Jennifer Goddard, Natalia Lebedinskaia and Svea Vikander (for photos and bios, click here).
1. petra costa, brazil. undertow eyes, premiering at the vancouver international film festival, october 1-16 2009 (watch subtitled trailer here).
daughter of vera and gabriel
2. caterina scorsone, toronto/la. alice, a re-imagining of lewis carroll’s alice in wonderland, set in modern times (take a sneak-peek here).
caterina scorsone as alice
3. kevin healy and eric weber, toronto/vancouver. come clean for the congo contest (watch the one-minute submission here). the contest is for videos addressing war in the democatic republic of the congo that is funded by our use of “conflict minerals” in cell phones. their video has made the top three; you can see the others (and vote for this one) here.
Filed under: installation béluga, literary béluga, performative béluga, social béluga, theoretical béluga | Tags: 3e imperial, dreams, karen elaine spencer, public intervention, quebec, Rêves à la poste [pour Granby], writing
we really don’t try to be so anglophone. we really would like to speak, hear, understand, and look french. and here’s proof: karen elaine spencer presents ‘rêves à la poste,’ a year-long intervention in which she wrote down the fragments of her dreams and sent them out into the world — by post, by crank call, by the hounding of passersby.
at 3e impérial, centre d’essai en art actuel in granby, québec.
“]![Rêves à la poste [pour Granby]](http://studiobeluga.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/04lit.jpg?w=420&h=315 "Rêves à la poste [pour Granby]")
here’s the deets en français and a link to her blog:
Tous les jours, Karen Elaine Spencer recueille des bribes de rêves attrapés à son réveil. Elle les retranscrit à la main sur un papier à lettre, puis, un à un, elle les disperse dans la ville, en les postant à des personnes inconnues, choisies au hasard dans l’annuaire téléphonique. Le destinataire reçoit cette missive énigmatique dans sa boîte aux lettres, ouvre l’enveloppe, déplie la lettre et lit : «Cher…, j’ai rêvé que…»
Chaque destinataire reçoit ainsi un fragment de rêve unique. Si cette correspondance participe d’un geste de communication authentique, elle confronte toutefois le destinataire à une logique incongrue puisque la lettre est écrite par un étranger. Et quelle explication logique pourrait soutenir le fait qu’un étranger adresse une lettre à un inconnu?
À travers l’envoi de ses rêves à la poste, Karen Elaine Spencer souhaite placer les destinataires dans une posture dynamique où ils deviennent des collaborateurs actifs. Elle puise dans son univers onirique personnel pour infiltrer leur vie privée, même si, au bout du compte, l’impact de la réception s’avérait ténu et éphémère.
«J’ai fait un rêve.
À mon réveil, j’ai écrit ce rêve pour vous le poster.
Je ne vous connais pas.
Ce rêve est pour vous.Je ne vous demande rien en retour.
Toutefois, il me ferait plaisir d’accueillir vos commentaires, questions, réflexions.
Je serai disponible pour vous rencontrer au 3e impérial, où je séjournerai comme artiste invitée :Du mardi 9 juin au jeudi 11 juin
Et le samedi 13 juin
De 13 h 30 à 17 h 30Du mardi 18 août au jeudi 20 août
Et le samedi 22 août
De 13 h 30 à 17 h 30 »
there’s something so interesting about the translation of information from one medium to another, one discipline to another, even one format to another (pie chart vs. bar graph!). what changes? what stays the same? what looks cuter?
translation comes from latin: trans (across) + latere (to carry). carry over, carry across…
Terence Love writes:
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and
colleagues in 30 labs worldwide have released a new set of standards for
graphically representing biological information. This complements the
standardized visual languages used to communicate complex information in
many scientific and engineering fields. Till now, biology has lacked a
standardized notation for describing biological interactions, pathways, and
networks, even though the discipline is dominated by graphical information.
This is a significant input from the field of graphic design.This new scientific graphic design language will act as an enabler for the
emergence of new industries devoted to the creation of software tools for
working with it, as well as its teaching and publication.…Biology can be seen as another of the disciplines that started life as an
Art, became a science in the general sense, and is now in transition to
becoming more like Physics as it increases the amount of quantitative
modeling that provides predictive power. It retains however, its fundamental
foundations in ‘putting things into boxes’ ( taxonomies) which like many
design disciplines has been an effective scientific tool to advance the
field. This new graphic design language in biology builds on and extends
this approach.Perhaps a similar language would be of use in graphic design itself?
– Dr. Terence Love, FDRS, AMIMechE, PMACM
…but we all know no graph is ever going to look as cute as this baby:
Filed under: designer béluga, environmental béluga, installation béluga, opportunities, social béluga, theoretical béluga, upcoming
…i almost submitted to this, but my formatting was all out of place and i wanted to go to a 1950’s dance party on a friday night instead of stay at starbucks and fix it. for shame. it’s shaping up to be a fantastic conference full of big ideas.
The 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference (CC09) embraces the broad theme of Everyday Creativity. This year the conference will be held at the Berkeley Art Museum (CA, USA), and asks: How do we enable everyone to enjoy their creative potential? How do our creative activities differ? What do they have in common? What languages can we use to talk to each other? How do shared languages support collective action? How can we incubate innovation? How do we enrich the creative experience? What encourages participation in everyday creativity?
Here’s an example of one cool workshop:
Informing the design of the future urban landscape
This workshop will identify emerging design themes by bringing together practitioners from across disciplines. Participants in the workshop will collaborate in a practical exercise designed to reveal issues that will increasingly impact upon the design of the products and services that will populate the urban landscape in the near future. The outcome of this half-day workshop will be the identification of challenges that designers and technologists will have to address as they shape the media-rich urban landscape.
Workshop Leaders:
Michael Smyth & Ingi Helgason, Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Who should attend?
As the aim of this workshop is to generate discussion and to collaboratively identify design issues, we would like to encourage attendance from a mix of people at different career stages, both creative practitioners and academic researchers. As interdisciplinarity is an important feature of this workshop, participants from a range of related fields, for example technology and creative design, are welcome to attend.
If you are interested in attending, please email Ingi Helgason :
i.helgason@napier.ac.uk : by 31st August, including a maximum of 500 words telling us about yourself and your work, and why you would like to attend this workshop.
Find out more about the workshop.
