MEIC6
Wednesday, February 24, 3 to 7 p.m.
OCAD’s Mobile Experience Innovation Centre (MEIC) presents an afternoon conference discussing the future of mobile content, services and experiences. Speakers will include Gerald Karam, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs – Research, and he will be speaking about: iLoveIt: Riding the accelerating adoption of Smartphones. MORE.

Augmented Reality Developers Camp
Saturday, February 27, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
OCAD’s Mobile Experience Innovation Centre (MEIC) hosts Toronto’s first Augmented Reality Developers Camp (ARDevCamp). This day-long, free event is for developers, designers, researchers, entrepreneurs and others enthusiastic to learn more about the rapidly changing technologies supporting Augmented Reality. MORE.

On Campus
EXHIBITIONS:

Superviscous: Works in Glass
February 19 to May 28
Curators’ Tour with Charles Reeve and York Lethbridge: Wednesday, March 3, 6:30 p.m.
Haunted by fragility and an uncertain identity (ultra-thick liquid? amorphous solid?), glass rests uneasily at the intersection between art, design and craft. Including works drawn largely from Toronto collections, Superviscous brings together artists exploring this temperamental medium’s unstable nature. Jon Kuhn’s dazzling cubes are compacted universes full of colour and light. Tim Whiten’s subtle cast broom stands quietly in the corner, contrasting with Sandra Rechico’s satisfyingly crunchy shards on the floor. Through these and other works, the show explores the contradictory associations we bring to glass. Its eye-catching beauty is both strength and weakness. Is this inevitable attractiveness just a cheap — or costly — trick? MORE.

OCAD Student Gallery:
Fabricating Frontiers
Until March 13
The artists within this show, Ivette Aghajani, Eugenie Davis, Shlomi Greenspan, Nathaniel Hurtubise, Megan A. Skyvington, and Jarrod Wilson produce work which explores architectural forms and space as points of personal reference, whether referring to a personal memory or to a geographical location. The idea of space as a referent indicates an interest in the search for individual identities and a sense of place within a system which perceives space as property and wealth. MORE.

Transit Space:
Corners of Evening
Until March 4
Adrienne Chalaturnyk, Kali Fisher, Jillian MacLachlan, and Ariel Kellett explore the unconscious mind and create alternative realities as they examine the influence of night time. Working with painting and mixed media, these artists contrast the soft, imaginative quality of dreams with the harsh, unsettling reality of nightmares. MORE.

Level 4 Photography Display Cases:
Introductory Photography: Black and White, Photo Essay Assignment
Until February 22
Students in Ron Wood’s Introductory Photography: Black and White course at OCAD produced wonderful visual narratives on interesting themes. MORE.

Student Centre GalleryWall:
Hot Work: Working Towards Summer
Until February 28
Members of OCAD Student Entrepreneurs (OSE) have put together this diverse selection of work, with the celebration of the coming summer in mind. MORE.

The Alumni Window Gallery (Rm 249):
Works by Paula Krochak
Until April 30
The OCAD Alumni Association is presents an installation of a works by alumna Paula Krochak. MORE.

EVENTS:

Alumni Life Drawing Sessions
Wednesday, February 24, 7 to 10 p.m.
Saturday, February 27, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Interested in drawing a professional model each week? These sessions are perfect for people looking for a life drawing drop-in without instruction. You don’t have to be a student or alumni to attend – these sessions are open to everyone. MORE.

Everything You wanted to know about Indians* (but were afraid to ask)
Every Thursday, 2 to 3 p.m.

Aboriginal Visual Culture Program Mentor Advisor Duke Redbird hosts discussion, questions and answers in Rm 1512d, 113 McCaul Street. All are welcome. *First Nations, Inuit, Mètis, Aboriginal and Native Peoples of the Americas.

Community Hours with Jane Ngobia, Director, Diversity & Equity Initiatives
Thursdays from 3 to 5 p.m. (Level 3, 115 McCaul St.)
Jane Ngobia, Director, Diversity & Equity Initiatives, welcomes students, faculty and staff to meet with her informally during her community hours to confidentially discuss their ideas, comments or concerns about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at OCAD.

OCAD Student Entrepreneurs
Friday, February 26, 2 p.m.
The OCAD Student Entrepreneurs work together, support each other, brainstorm and follow through on ways to market their crafts through discussion, exhibition, self-development events, speakers and supportive feedback. MORE.

Faculty of Art annual Drawing Marathon
Sunday, February 28, 12 noon to midnight
The Faculty of Art hosts its annual Drawing Marathon. Professional models will be available in rooms 484 and 487 (Level 4, 100 McCaul St.) for gestures or a sustained pose. Challenge yourself, bring a lunch, get sponsors; this all day event is only $25 for students and $30 for everyone else. All money collected will be used for a catalogue to support the Drawing and Painting Figure Show. MORE.

DEADLINES:

OCADSU Call for Submissions: OCAD Flea Market
Deadline: Thursday February 25, 2010
Sell old clothes, household items, books, cds, arts, crafts, designed clothes, fundraise for your department, barter and swap for affordable items. Flea Market Date: March 4, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. MORE.

Call for Submissions: I See You See Me
Deadline: Monday, March 1
The Internationaleyes OCAD Student Group invites all OCAD students to submit works. MORE.

Call for Submissions: Michael Sweet Memorial
FIRST PRIZE: $5000
Information session: Wednesday, March 3, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Deadline to register: Thursday, March 12
Deadline for Submissions: Monday, March 15
52 Division Toronto Police Service, First Urban Development and OCAD invite all OCAD students to submit proposals to create an outdoor art or design installation in memory of Police Constable Michael Sweet, an officer who lost his life in the line of duty 30 years ago this March. Complete competition details will be available online and in MyCourses after February 18. MORE.

Call for Submissions: Transit Space
Deadline: Thursday, March 4
Faculty and students are invited to submit proposals for Fall 2010 programing. MORE.

OCADSU Call for Submissions: 2010 RETRO SHOW
Deadline: Friday, March 12
The Student Union is planning our annual retrospective, or the 2010 RETRO SHOW for short. It is an end of the year show hosted and put together by the OCADSU. It consists of a variety of artworks from all disciplines of the school. MORE.

Call for Awards Program Applications
Deadline: Friday, March 26, 4 p.m.
OCAD’s Awards Program recognizes excellence in each program at the second-, third- and fourth-year level on the basis of studio work as well as for specific Liberal Studies achievement, on the basis of coursework completed. OCAD Medals will be given for each program at the fourth-year level as part of the Awards Program. Awards are differentiated from Bursaries, which are distributed on the basis of financial need. MORE.

Call for Submissions: OCAD Student Gallery
Deadline: Thursday, May 20
The OCAD Student Gallery/Transit Space office is accepting student submissions to program Fall 2010 – Spring 2011 in the OCAD Student Gallery. MORE.

In the Community

EXHIBITIONS:

give us our dreams: part II
Until March 20
Leo Kamen Gallery in Toronto presents new work by alumna Crystal Liu. MORE.

EVENTS:

Architecture Theraputics Aesthetics
February 26 to 28
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto hosts a conference focused on “Technologically Enhanced Environments and the Human Sensorium.” OCAD is a collaborative partner, and presents two speakers: Industrial Design program chair Julian Goss and Faculty of Liberal Studies Associate Professor Jim Drobnick. MORE.

SCREENINGS:

New Snow
Tuesday, February 23, 7 p.m.
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery presents the Toronto premiere of Reverberlin (2006, 67 min.). This film will be preceded by Puccini Conservato (2009, 10 min.). OCAD alumnus Michael Snow will be present for a post-screening Q&A. MORE.

Queer Café
Wednesday, March 3, 12 to 1 p.m.
A “PROUD at OCAD” drop-in for LGBQTI2Q students, staff, faculty and alumni. MORE.

Graduate Student Gallery:
Past Now: Works by Meryl McMaster and Luke Parnell
March 4 to 13
Opening Reception: March 4, 7 to 9 p.m.
Curated by Suzanne Morrissette and Lisa Myers; first-year MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice students at OCAD. Past Now is an exhibition concerned with the life of images. Artists Meryl McMaster and Luke Parnell enter into a dialogue with meaning in visual representations of Aboriginal identity. Their works rupture stereotypes embedded in historical iconography to challenge and problematize the legacy of these images. MORE.

ASA Buffalo Stew Lunch
Thursday, March 4, 12 to 2 p.m.
The Aboriginal Student Association (ASA) exists to bring together Aboriginal, Native, Indigenous, Métis and Inuit students at OCAD to network and support an Aboriginal community of emerging artists and designers. The ASA Buffalo Stew Lunch is held every second week on Thursday. All are welcome. MORE.

Art Creates Change: Action
Vodou and Haitian Art
Friday, March 5, 1 p.m.
OCAD’s Faculty of Art presents a lecture, exhibition and silent auction in support of Haiti. Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, professor of Africology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and an Oungon Asogwe (a high practitioner of Vodou religion and spirituality) will lecture on Vodou and Haitian Art. Professor Bellegarde-Smith will address misperceptions surrounding Vodou, and in the process reveal the strength found in its cultural practices and historic vision. An exhibition of art representing the past four generations of Haitian artists, from the 1940’s to the present (courtesy of Arte Del Pueblo). The event includes a silent auction of art with proceeds going to SOPUDEP, located in Petion-ville, Haiti, a comprehensive community school serving the poorest residents of the city. MORE.

SUMO Robot Challenge 2010
Saturday, March 6, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
One of the most anticipated annual events at OCAD, the SUMO Robot Challenge features homemade robots in competitions ranging from tug of war, dancer/painter, autonomous, and full out, head to head combat! MORE.

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MEIC6 Wednesday, February 24, 3 to 7 p.m. OCAD’s Mobile Experience Innovation Centre (MEIC) presents an afternoon conference discussing the future of mobile content, services and experiences. Speakers will include Gerald Karam, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs – Research, and he will be speaking about: iLoveIt: Riding the accelerating adoption of Smartphones. MORE. [...]