Annie Smith Travel Grant
BLACKWOOD GALLERY GRADUATE SHOW INFO
pen pal project potluck
exhibition opportunity at UTM library
Thursday 14 November 12:00 – 2:00 pm
UTM Library Exhibition Studio Visit with Julia Abraham (Collections Manager and Exhibition Curator)
Julia Abraham will be conducting studio visits from 12 – 2 p.m. and she invites all students (from any year) to submit work in any medium and to sign-up to the list posted on the Annie Smith Bulletin Board.
The exhibition will run from late November 2013 to August 2014.
Any work selected for display cannot be removed for the duration of the exhibition.
UTM Library Exhibition Studio Visit with Julia Abraham (Collections Manager and Exhibition Curator)
Julia Abraham will be conducting studio visits from 12 – 2 p.m. and she invites all students (from any year) to submit work in any medium and to sign-up to the list posted on the Annie Smith Bulletin Board.
The exhibition will run from late November 2013 to August 2014.
Any work selected for display cannot be removed for the duration of the exhibition.
graduate exhibition meeting
Thursday 14 November
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Sheridan, Annie Smith Mezzanine
2014 Art & Art History
Graduate Exhibitions
Presented by Juliana Zalucky (Exhibition Coordinator) and Johnson Ngo (Curator-in Residence)
All graduating students wishing to participate in the two graduate exhibitions at the Blackwood Gallery should attend this meeting. Students must either be graduating or enrolled in a 400-level studio to exhibit.
Group #1: March 12 – 23, 2014
Group #2: March 26 – April 6, 2014
At the meeting we will discuss:
- how the exhibitions are produced
- what works can be included and display possibilities
- ways to get more involved
If you cannot attend the meeting, but would like to discuss the grad exhibitions, please contact Juliana Zalucky at j.zalucky@utoronto.ca
art and art history awards ceremony
Art and Art History Program
2013 Awards
Tuesday 12 November 2013
Annie Smith Arts Centre, Sheridan College
Awards Ceremony begins at 7:00 p.m.
Pot Luck Dinner and Bar at 6 p.m.
Bar will remain open after the ceremony.
Keynote Speaker: David Vivian
1987 Art and Art History Alumnus
Everyone is Welcome!
2013 Awards
Tuesday 12 November 2013
Annie Smith Arts Centre, Sheridan College
Awards Ceremony begins at 7:00 p.m.
Pot Luck Dinner and Bar at 6 p.m.
Bar will remain open after the ceremony.
Keynote Speaker: David Vivian
1987 Art and Art History Alumnus
Everyone is Welcome!
exhibition: tree museum
The Art Gallery of Peterborough Presents The Tree Museum: Easy Come, Easy Go Guest curated by: EJ Lightman September 7 to October 27, 2013
Opening Reception Sunday, September 15, 2 pm to 5 pm Artists will be present
Featured artists: Rebecca Armstrong, Jocelyne Belcourt Salem, Michel Boucher, Maralynn Cherry, John Dickson, Deeter Hastenteufel, Roger Henriques, Francis LeBouthillier, E.J. Lightman, Dyan Marie, Anne O'Callaghan, Heather Phillips, Ed Pien, Reinhard Reitzenstein, Margaret Rodgers, Lyla Rye, Meghan Scott, Jordy Steinberg, Penelope Stewart, Orest Tataryn, Jeannie Thib, Francesca Vivenza, Tim Whiten, Gayle Young, Badanna Zack and Johannes Zits
Easy Come, Easy Go is a ‘suitcase project’ conceived of by the curator EJ Lightman with some of the featured artists while working on the last Tree Museum residency project. Following these initial discussions, residency artists were invited to reanimate old salvaged suitcases thereby recuperating the old vessels, and thus breathing another kind of life into otherwise discarded forms.
Lightman clarifies her position by writing, “The project addresses the issues of 'coming and going'; inner reflection; and relics of pilgrimage, both in the objective and subjective realms. Given the frequently nomadic aspect of modern life, the suitcase provides a rich symbol for movement, change, necessity, and ownership. At the same time, there is a sense that the suitcase holds a history; it may be viewed as an 'historical' object, an artifact, something of use but no longer current . . . Entire stories exist between the hinge and clasp of a suitcase.” Established in 1997 by EJ Lightman and Art Steinberg, the Tree Museum, located just north of Gravenhurst, Ontario, exhibited site-specific installations and hosted an artist residency program. This practicum, co-curated by Lightman and Anne O'Callaghan, provided over eighty contemporary, international and Canadian artists with an opportunity to work outdoors to produce pieces that activate a conversation with a swath of Precambrian terrain...
Special event for Tree Museum exhibition Unpack the Art panel: Maralyn Cherry, EJ Lightman, Anne O’Callaghan Friday, September 27, 6:30 to 7:30 pm, Free
Opening Reception Sunday, September 15, 2 pm to 5 pm Artists will be present
Featured artists: Rebecca Armstrong, Jocelyne Belcourt Salem, Michel Boucher, Maralynn Cherry, John Dickson, Deeter Hastenteufel, Roger Henriques, Francis LeBouthillier, E.J. Lightman, Dyan Marie, Anne O'Callaghan, Heather Phillips, Ed Pien, Reinhard Reitzenstein, Margaret Rodgers, Lyla Rye, Meghan Scott, Jordy Steinberg, Penelope Stewart, Orest Tataryn, Jeannie Thib, Francesca Vivenza, Tim Whiten, Gayle Young, Badanna Zack and Johannes Zits
Easy Come, Easy Go is a ‘suitcase project’ conceived of by the curator EJ Lightman with some of the featured artists while working on the last Tree Museum residency project. Following these initial discussions, residency artists were invited to reanimate old salvaged suitcases thereby recuperating the old vessels, and thus breathing another kind of life into otherwise discarded forms.
Lightman clarifies her position by writing, “The project addresses the issues of 'coming and going'; inner reflection; and relics of pilgrimage, both in the objective and subjective realms. Given the frequently nomadic aspect of modern life, the suitcase provides a rich symbol for movement, change, necessity, and ownership. At the same time, there is a sense that the suitcase holds a history; it may be viewed as an 'historical' object, an artifact, something of use but no longer current . . . Entire stories exist between the hinge and clasp of a suitcase.” Established in 1997 by EJ Lightman and Art Steinberg, the Tree Museum, located just north of Gravenhurst, Ontario, exhibited site-specific installations and hosted an artist residency program. This practicum, co-curated by Lightman and Anne O'Callaghan, provided over eighty contemporary, international and Canadian artists with an opportunity to work outdoors to produce pieces that activate a conversation with a swath of Precambrian terrain...
Special event for Tree Museum exhibition Unpack the Art panel: Maralyn Cherry, EJ Lightman, Anne O’Callaghan Friday, September 27, 6:30 to 7:30 pm, Free
NYC TRIP 2014
CUBICLES FOR SENIOR STUDENTS
Art and Art History Program
Distribution of Cubicles to Senior Students
@ Annie Smith Mezzanine
Tuesday 10 September 2013
at 12:15 PM
This is an opportunity for students to get a cubicle, and meet with Program Technologist John McCartney and the Sheridan Health and Safety Committee to discuss the Annie Smith health-and-safety practices and access rules.
Distribution of Cubicles to Senior Students
@ Annie Smith Mezzanine
Tuesday 10 September 2013
at 12:15 PM
This is an opportunity for students to get a cubicle, and meet with Program Technologist John McCartney and the Sheridan Health and Safety Committee to discuss the Annie Smith health-and-safety practices and access rules.
art and art history counseling session
Drop-in Counselling in the Annie Smith
Centre Lobby on Tuesday 19 March 2013
12:00 – 1:00 p. m.
This week, we are having a credit-check advising session to help students insure they are on track in completing program and degree requirements, as well as being able to enroll in desired courses in later years. The following staff and faculty will be on
hand for you to speak to: AAH Program Officer Tracy Smith, DVS Undergraduate Counsellor Stephanie Sullivan, Professor Lisa Neighbour and Professor John Armstrong.
Image: Year 3 AAH student Annie Ratcliffe Baby Beluga (2012), oil on panel
Centre Lobby on Tuesday 19 March 2013
12:00 – 1:00 p. m.
This week, we are having a credit-check advising session to help students insure they are on track in completing program and degree requirements, as well as being able to enroll in desired courses in later years. The following staff and faculty will be on
hand for you to speak to: AAH Program Officer Tracy Smith, DVS Undergraduate Counsellor Stephanie Sullivan, Professor Lisa Neighbour and Professor John Armstrong.
Image: Year 3 AAH student Annie Ratcliffe Baby Beluga (2012), oil on panel
END OF THE YEAR PARTY NEEDS VOLUNTEERS!
REGISTER FOR
RUNNING WITH CONCEPTS: THE SONIC EDITION
A TWO DAY HYBRID EVENT PRESENTED BY THE BLACKWOOD GALLERY AND LED BY THREE DISTINGUISHED MENTORS:
Marc Couroux (composer, Associate Professor, Time-Based Art, York University), Marla Hlady (artist, lecturer at UTSC) and Brandon LaBelle (Berlin-based artist, writer, professor at Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway).
Moderated by Steph Berntson (PhD candidate, Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, UofT), and hosted by Christof Migone (artist, lecturer, Director/Curator Blackwood Gallery).
This hybrid event is part-workshop, part-conference, part-crit session, part-master class, and part-experiment. The event is founded on the following questions: How do ideas take form? How does one embark on the process of extracting, editing and distilling an idea into a presentable format? These types of questions are found in all disciplines. In the second edition of this annual event, we will focus attention on sound, not only on its own but also in conversation with image, text, performance. Silence is also welcome. And so are other projects from disparate fields, the hybridity of the event is integrated in all its facets—we are inclusionary rather than exclusionary.
One half of this intensive two day event will be led by the three invited mentors who will model the process by which they each move from the conceptual to the final stages of a project. They will present the successes and failures of both in-progress and finished work in a series of engaging presentations. The other half of the weekend will feature presentations by graduate students, undergraduates, recent alumni, and practicing artists and scholars, selected from the submissions we received.
MENTORS
Marc Couroux
Towards Indisposition
In a world where rapacious capital is endowed with seemingly unlimited capacities to metabolize the resistant into more precise, pervasive modes of abduction, a concerted focus on sound and its relationship to the political and the social provides a front according to which action can be envisioned. Given the role sound plays in stealthily sustaining the mechanisms of control essential to a post-disciplinary society—through the embedding of earworms afflicted by sonic brands, and the quantum modulation of mood effected by background sound (among others)—a preliminary analysis of the manners by which capital hijacks aural modalities constitutes a first step in the elaboration of a praxis. How might cognitive and affective dissonances regain their traumatic, antagonistic capacities? By which contemporary modes is an individual disposed to pre-emptive, normalized predation and by which consequent methods might an active positioning against clarified targets take root? While tracing the genealogy of one work, I hope to show how mechanisms of capture and escape operate concurrently within a hallucinatory eternal present and might be productively seized upon to reactivate embodied historical continuities, by forging singularities that stick in the craw and require delayed and protracted digestion.
Marla Hlady
Sculptural Sound
Alvin Lucier once said “If a room can intrude its personality on whatever sounds occur in that room, then any other size environment can do the same thing.” Implicit in this statement is the body, present in relation to the space to hear, to embody the sounding experience. Sugar shakers as recording machines, record-sized suitcases being performed collectively in a bus being driven a specific route, a floor-object that rotates while sounding the bass of the subterranean basement of the building it’s located in—all of these objects-as-sounding-spaces look to the embodied experience complicated by the comprehension of the organizing concept. Sound is an elusive, ephemeral material. This presentation will look at sound sculpturally, shaped through a functional sensibility that looks to technology as a means of sounding but equally as a means of shaping, structuring, containing and composing.
Brandon LaBelle
Shared Space
Sound supports a dynamic relationality between self and surrounding, imparting generative instances of contact and belonging, along with interruption and negotiation. From echoes passing across a given space to vibrations underfoot, disturbances from the neighbour to recollections of disappeared voices, this intense relationality can be appreciated as exceeding the sightlines of the architectural imagination, and the limits of the single body, to support alternative notions of shared space – of meeting the other. Following theories of distributed agency (what Jane Bennett terms "vibrant matter") and disagreement, I'm interested to chart out this "acoustics of sharing" by way of over-hearing. At stake is a concern for the potentiality of sound to foster collectivity in the (un)making, and how this may suggest new modalities of "being public".
Moderated by Steph Berntson
Steph Berntson makes noise. As a writer, she has penned for FLASHQUIZ, the CBC, DaPoPo, SurfCamp, and Nightwood Theatre. Steph has howled as an urchin for the Canadian Opera Company; recorded the theme song for the 1988 Calgary Olympics; and warbled in Life with Mikey (Phoebe Films). She has twice toured co-written original commissioned plays to Berlin. Steph has slammed poetry for the CBC, NCRA, and the National Wordlympics. As a designer, she has built soundscapes for The Washing Machine (Next Stage) The Proust Project (Canstage: Ideas and Creation), and Arm's Length(Summerworks). She is pursuing her doctorate, researching unusual vocal performance in public/digital space. Recent academic gigs: five research months in Singapore; a public sound project in Tokyo; and a research and recording trip to Fylkingen, the Stroget, and the Paris Arcades.
Hosted by Christof Migone
Christof Migone is the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery and a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He performs, publishes and exhibits internationally. His recent projects include performances of Hit Parade at the Whitney Museum (New York), the 7a11d International Festival of Performance Art (Toronto), Send+Receive (Winnipeg), Trama Festival (Porto); a silent sound bookwork, The Rise and Fall of the Sounds and Silences From Mars (Parasitic Ventures Press); and a book on sound art,Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body (Errant Bodies Press).
SPECIAL PERFORMANCES
by ERIN SEXTON and VIKAS KOHLI
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23, 5 - 6PM
*FREE and open to the public
The Blackwood Gallery has invited two artists, Erin Sexton (Montreal) and Vikas Kohli (Mississauga) to perform and "activate" two sound installations by Darsha Hewitt and Alexis O'Hara respectively. Both are on view at the galleries as part of the exhibition VOLUME: HEAR HERE (Jan 16 - Mar 10, 2013). These performances are free and open to the public (i.e. you do not need to be registered with the conference to attend.)
Erin Sexton
Space II (with Darsha Hewitt's Electrostatic Bell Choir)
A site specific sound performance which activates space with hand-held oscillators and interventionist amplification, exploring the physicality of sound through acoustics, enclosure, threshold, and movement.
Montreal-based artist Erin Sexton explores matter, energy, space, and time through sound, performance, installation, and video. Drawing from both theoretical physics and mysticism, her work exists on the edge of knowledge, revealing immanence through an active vulnerability. With analog electronics, electromagnetic fields, pseudo-science projects, and phenomenological experimentation she creates direct links between lived experience and the processes of nature, drawing us through immediacy into contact with the micro-macro cosmos. She has presented her work across North America and Europe, released several albums, and is featured on multiple compilations. http://erinsexton.com
Vikas Kohli
Improvisation (with Alexis O'Hara's SQUEEEQUE! The Improbable Igloo)
Vikas Kohli, playing guitar and accompanied by violinist Subhadra Vijaykumar, will explore the sonic possibilities provided by Alexis O'Hara's installation when it is used as a filtering device for conventional instruments.
Film composer and music producer Vikas Kohli from FatLabs is the first composer to receive a Trailblazer Award from the ReelWorld Film Festival, the first composer to receive a Voice Achievers Award and is also recipient of a MARTY award from the Mississauga Arts Council. Kohli has worked with filmmakers and recording artists from Bollywood, Canada, the USA and Europe. Kohli has been profiled by ET Canada, CBC The National, CTV, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, The Hindustan Times, Times of India and Zee News. Subhadra Vijaykumar, a Toronto-based violinist, is the Founder and Artistic Director of Radha Academy of Carnatic Violin. Radha Academy imparts training in the finest traditions of Carnatic violin playing. Subhadra has trained under the renowned soloist and maestro Prof. T.N. Krishnan. She comes from a family with rich musical traditions and obtained a first-class diploma in violin from the prestigious Bharatiya Music and Arts Society's Music College in Mumbai, India, under the tutelage of the late Mrs.Vijayam Ramaswamy. She is a faculty member at the Royal Conservatory of Music.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
The following presentations were selected from proposals submitted to the gallery in early December.
1. Asounder - (Rat-)Running Through Concepts
2. Mitchell Akiyama - The Object of Permanence: 2000 Years of Frozen Sound
3. Atanas Bozdarov - Check/Mate
4. Erin Gee - Singing in the Brain: Swarming Emotional Pianos Project
5. Ido Govrin - "Sound: A Concept"; A Theory Performance
6. Matthew Griffin - Under Living Skies
7. Dipna Horra - Sounds of Dislocation
8. Tyler Kinnear, Mark Nazemi & Maryam Mobini - Soundwalk Composition for Clinical Use
9. Duncan MacDonald - untitled
10. Annie Martin - listening to the thing not there
11. Aynsley Moorhouse - Turning
12. Heather Nicol - Talk Back
13. Henry Adam Svec - A Hootenanny in Your Pocket: Apple’s iPhone, Smule Apps and “The Folk”
14. Sandra Volny - Silence starts at -425m
To learn more about our presenters, please click here.
RUNNING WITH CONCEPTS: THE SONIC EDITION is part of the exhibition VOLUME: HEAR HERE presented concurrently at the Blackwood Gallery and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery until March 10, 2013. Click here for more info.
Marc Couroux (composer, Associate Professor, Time-Based Art, York University), Marla Hlady (artist, lecturer at UTSC) and Brandon LaBelle (Berlin-based artist, writer, professor at Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway).
Moderated by Steph Berntson (PhD candidate, Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, UofT), and hosted by Christof Migone (artist, lecturer, Director/Curator Blackwood Gallery).
This hybrid event is part-workshop, part-conference, part-crit session, part-master class, and part-experiment. The event is founded on the following questions: How do ideas take form? How does one embark on the process of extracting, editing and distilling an idea into a presentable format? These types of questions are found in all disciplines. In the second edition of this annual event, we will focus attention on sound, not only on its own but also in conversation with image, text, performance. Silence is also welcome. And so are other projects from disparate fields, the hybridity of the event is integrated in all its facets—we are inclusionary rather than exclusionary.
One half of this intensive two day event will be led by the three invited mentors who will model the process by which they each move from the conceptual to the final stages of a project. They will present the successes and failures of both in-progress and finished work in a series of engaging presentations. The other half of the weekend will feature presentations by graduate students, undergraduates, recent alumni, and practicing artists and scholars, selected from the submissions we received.
MENTORS
Marc Couroux
Towards Indisposition
In a world where rapacious capital is endowed with seemingly unlimited capacities to metabolize the resistant into more precise, pervasive modes of abduction, a concerted focus on sound and its relationship to the political and the social provides a front according to which action can be envisioned. Given the role sound plays in stealthily sustaining the mechanisms of control essential to a post-disciplinary society—through the embedding of earworms afflicted by sonic brands, and the quantum modulation of mood effected by background sound (among others)—a preliminary analysis of the manners by which capital hijacks aural modalities constitutes a first step in the elaboration of a praxis. How might cognitive and affective dissonances regain their traumatic, antagonistic capacities? By which contemporary modes is an individual disposed to pre-emptive, normalized predation and by which consequent methods might an active positioning against clarified targets take root? While tracing the genealogy of one work, I hope to show how mechanisms of capture and escape operate concurrently within a hallucinatory eternal present and might be productively seized upon to reactivate embodied historical continuities, by forging singularities that stick in the craw and require delayed and protracted digestion.
Marla Hlady
Sculptural Sound
Alvin Lucier once said “If a room can intrude its personality on whatever sounds occur in that room, then any other size environment can do the same thing.” Implicit in this statement is the body, present in relation to the space to hear, to embody the sounding experience. Sugar shakers as recording machines, record-sized suitcases being performed collectively in a bus being driven a specific route, a floor-object that rotates while sounding the bass of the subterranean basement of the building it’s located in—all of these objects-as-sounding-spaces look to the embodied experience complicated by the comprehension of the organizing concept. Sound is an elusive, ephemeral material. This presentation will look at sound sculpturally, shaped through a functional sensibility that looks to technology as a means of sounding but equally as a means of shaping, structuring, containing and composing.
Brandon LaBelle
Shared Space
Sound supports a dynamic relationality between self and surrounding, imparting generative instances of contact and belonging, along with interruption and negotiation. From echoes passing across a given space to vibrations underfoot, disturbances from the neighbour to recollections of disappeared voices, this intense relationality can be appreciated as exceeding the sightlines of the architectural imagination, and the limits of the single body, to support alternative notions of shared space – of meeting the other. Following theories of distributed agency (what Jane Bennett terms "vibrant matter") and disagreement, I'm interested to chart out this "acoustics of sharing" by way of over-hearing. At stake is a concern for the potentiality of sound to foster collectivity in the (un)making, and how this may suggest new modalities of "being public".
Moderated by Steph Berntson
Steph Berntson makes noise. As a writer, she has penned for FLASHQUIZ, the CBC, DaPoPo, SurfCamp, and Nightwood Theatre. Steph has howled as an urchin for the Canadian Opera Company; recorded the theme song for the 1988 Calgary Olympics; and warbled in Life with Mikey (Phoebe Films). She has twice toured co-written original commissioned plays to Berlin. Steph has slammed poetry for the CBC, NCRA, and the National Wordlympics. As a designer, she has built soundscapes for The Washing Machine (Next Stage) The Proust Project (Canstage: Ideas and Creation), and Arm's Length(Summerworks). She is pursuing her doctorate, researching unusual vocal performance in public/digital space. Recent academic gigs: five research months in Singapore; a public sound project in Tokyo; and a research and recording trip to Fylkingen, the Stroget, and the Paris Arcades.
Hosted by Christof Migone
Christof Migone is the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery and a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He performs, publishes and exhibits internationally. His recent projects include performances of Hit Parade at the Whitney Museum (New York), the 7a11d International Festival of Performance Art (Toronto), Send+Receive (Winnipeg), Trama Festival (Porto); a silent sound bookwork, The Rise and Fall of the Sounds and Silences From Mars (Parasitic Ventures Press); and a book on sound art,Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body (Errant Bodies Press).
SPECIAL PERFORMANCES
by ERIN SEXTON and VIKAS KOHLI
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23, 5 - 6PM
*FREE and open to the public
The Blackwood Gallery has invited two artists, Erin Sexton (Montreal) and Vikas Kohli (Mississauga) to perform and "activate" two sound installations by Darsha Hewitt and Alexis O'Hara respectively. Both are on view at the galleries as part of the exhibition VOLUME: HEAR HERE (Jan 16 - Mar 10, 2013). These performances are free and open to the public (i.e. you do not need to be registered with the conference to attend.)
Erin Sexton
Space II (with Darsha Hewitt's Electrostatic Bell Choir)
A site specific sound performance which activates space with hand-held oscillators and interventionist amplification, exploring the physicality of sound through acoustics, enclosure, threshold, and movement.
Montreal-based artist Erin Sexton explores matter, energy, space, and time through sound, performance, installation, and video. Drawing from both theoretical physics and mysticism, her work exists on the edge of knowledge, revealing immanence through an active vulnerability. With analog electronics, electromagnetic fields, pseudo-science projects, and phenomenological experimentation she creates direct links between lived experience and the processes of nature, drawing us through immediacy into contact with the micro-macro cosmos. She has presented her work across North America and Europe, released several albums, and is featured on multiple compilations. http://erinsexton.com
Vikas Kohli
Improvisation (with Alexis O'Hara's SQUEEEQUE! The Improbable Igloo)
Vikas Kohli, playing guitar and accompanied by violinist Subhadra Vijaykumar, will explore the sonic possibilities provided by Alexis O'Hara's installation when it is used as a filtering device for conventional instruments.
Film composer and music producer Vikas Kohli from FatLabs is the first composer to receive a Trailblazer Award from the ReelWorld Film Festival, the first composer to receive a Voice Achievers Award and is also recipient of a MARTY award from the Mississauga Arts Council. Kohli has worked with filmmakers and recording artists from Bollywood, Canada, the USA and Europe. Kohli has been profiled by ET Canada, CBC The National, CTV, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, The Hindustan Times, Times of India and Zee News. Subhadra Vijaykumar, a Toronto-based violinist, is the Founder and Artistic Director of Radha Academy of Carnatic Violin. Radha Academy imparts training in the finest traditions of Carnatic violin playing. Subhadra has trained under the renowned soloist and maestro Prof. T.N. Krishnan. She comes from a family with rich musical traditions and obtained a first-class diploma in violin from the prestigious Bharatiya Music and Arts Society's Music College in Mumbai, India, under the tutelage of the late Mrs.Vijayam Ramaswamy. She is a faculty member at the Royal Conservatory of Music.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
The following presentations were selected from proposals submitted to the gallery in early December.
1. Asounder - (Rat-)Running Through Concepts
2. Mitchell Akiyama - The Object of Permanence: 2000 Years of Frozen Sound
3. Atanas Bozdarov - Check/Mate
4. Erin Gee - Singing in the Brain: Swarming Emotional Pianos Project
5. Ido Govrin - "Sound: A Concept"; A Theory Performance
6. Matthew Griffin - Under Living Skies
7. Dipna Horra - Sounds of Dislocation
8. Tyler Kinnear, Mark Nazemi & Maryam Mobini - Soundwalk Composition for Clinical Use
9. Duncan MacDonald - untitled
10. Annie Martin - listening to the thing not there
11. Aynsley Moorhouse - Turning
12. Heather Nicol - Talk Back
13. Henry Adam Svec - A Hootenanny in Your Pocket: Apple’s iPhone, Smule Apps and “The Folk”
14. Sandra Volny - Silence starts at -425m
To learn more about our presenters, please click here.
RUNNING WITH CONCEPTS: THE SONIC EDITION is part of the exhibition VOLUME: HEAR HERE presented concurrently at the Blackwood Gallery and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery until March 10, 2013. Click here for more info.
Annie Smith Travel Award
University of Toronto Student Art Exhibition Curators’ Visit
Sign up on the Annie Smith Bulletin Board
Thursday 31 January 2013 10:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Student curators from the Masters of Museum Studies program will visit Sheridan to choose work for the University of Toronto Student Art Exhibition (painting, drawing, video, print, design, sculpture and photo, as well as performance works). There will be 15-minute interviews. The curators will visit cubicles in Annie Smith and a submission drop-off area on the mezzanine. The University of Toronto Student Art Exhibition will celebrate the talent and skill of undergraduate students from visual studies programs at each of University of Toronto’s three campuses (St. George, Mississauga and Scarborough). This exhibition will be on display and open to the public from April 2nd to 13th, 2013 at University of Toronto Art Centre (UTAC).
Sign up on the Annie Smith Bulletin Board
Thursday 31 January 2013 10:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Student curators from the Masters of Museum Studies program will visit Sheridan to choose work for the University of Toronto Student Art Exhibition (painting, drawing, video, print, design, sculpture and photo, as well as performance works). There will be 15-minute interviews. The curators will visit cubicles in Annie Smith and a submission drop-off area on the mezzanine. The University of Toronto Student Art Exhibition will celebrate the talent and skill of undergraduate students from visual studies programs at each of University of Toronto’s three campuses (St. George, Mississauga and Scarborough). This exhibition will be on display and open to the public from April 2nd to 13th, 2013 at University of Toronto Art Centre (UTAC).
