Thursday, September 27, 2007

Join us to learn about the structure of the Masters of Applied Arts Program and opportunities for research partnerships with other schools and local companies.

Networking reception 5.30 - 6.30 pm
Presentation: 6.30 - 7.30 pm

Intersection Digital Studio at Emily Carr
1399 Johnston St., 2nd Fl. on Granville Island

Members $21.20 incl GST
Non-Members $31.80 incl GST
Students: $5.00

Speakers

Catherine Warren

Chief Industry + Research Officer, Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design

Founder and president of FanTrust Entertainment Strategies, Catherine Warren is a management consultant to audience-building industries. Her work has influenced Fortune 500 clients, tourist attractions, educational organizations, advertising agencies and game corporations, providing them with new ways to captivate people, build revenues, secure funding and capitalize on innovation. In 2006, Catherine joined Emily Carr Institute as its Chief Industry & Research Officer, responsible for innovative corporate and community partnerships.

Catherine’s client work includes strategic initiatives for major broadcast and telecommunications companies such as CTV, CBC, PBS/KCTS and Bell Canada; computer corporations such as Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft; tourist attractions such as the Vancouver Aquarium, Science World and the Pacific Space Centre, as well as game and animation studios, Radical, Studio B Productions and Decode Entertainment. An interactive media veteran, Catherine’s executive productions include the Gemini Award-winning CTVNEWS.com.

Board Directorships & Affiliations: A board member of the national the Bell Broadcast & New Media Fund, Women in Media Foundation, and formerly of New Media BC, Catherine’s leadership includes identifying the winning concepts for broadcasting and awarding significant financing. The Bell Fund remains the preeminent influence on the production of interactive content for Canadian TV programming, with $50 million invested to date in English and French language productions. In 2007, Catherine was appointed to the international jury of the Emmy Awards with a focus on interactive excellence. She is also a new Board Member of the United Way Lower Mainland, Canada, elected June 2007.

Education: Catherine has a degree in physics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she broke the story of multimedia on location at M.I.T.

Julie Andreyev

Julie Andreyev is a Vancouver-based artist whose practice explores: the social and spatial character of the city using mobility and performance; and animal consciousness through interactive installation and video. Her work has been shown across Canada, in the US, Europe and Japan at venues such as: Viper Festival Basel; SIGGRAPH; ISEA; Media Arts Festival, Tokyo; Elektra Festival, Montreal. Andreyev's work is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, The British Columbia Arts Council, Foreign Affairs Canada, and The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is an Associate Professor of Digital Visual Arts at Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver and co-curator of Interactive Futures Conference, Victoria, Canada.

Website: www.fourwheeldrift.com

Sam Carter

Sam Carter, Canadian artist, designer, and educator has a long history of exploring the spirit of Canadian design and culture. In the mid 1960s as Senior Designer for the Hall of Life, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, he designed exhibits featuring Canadian contributions to science and technology. From then on, Carter has worked as creative director, curator and exhibition designer on numerous interpretive centres, museum exhibition and events in Canada and abroad.

Central to much of his work is the exploration, documentation and celebration of Canadian applied arts. As an art and design educator at Emily Carr Institute of Art+Design he has created the first comprehensive course on Canadian design history: Canadian (design+craft) (history+theory). This online course includes video clips of noted Canadian designers from all parts of Canada. Currently he is designing an exhibition and online course for the celebration of British Columbia’s 150 Anniversary. Titled: BC2008- Applied Arts History the exhibition provides 150 examples of BC applied arts from 1858 to 2008.

As Visiting Professor at the Humanistic Olympics Studies Centre, Renmin University, Beijing, Carter has participated in numerous over the past five years. He has presented to International Olympic Forums, universities, community centres and other organizations concerned with design and production of the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Carter looks forward to seeing “the look” and visual storytelling for the 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Olympics and Paralympics and hopes that the Canadian government and the private sector continues to brand its applied arts. As “Pacific Gateway” to Canada and the West, there is need to articulate and share the beauty and unique qualities of Canada through its interpretative arts.

David Humphrey

As a small business owner, David has managed large and complex work teams, delivering creative strategy, direction and project management to his clients. His firm, blindedbox media, was named as a finalist in the “Best New Business of the Year” and “Best Small Business of the Year” categories for the 2003 Metro Halifax Business Awards, and his work recently received the “Best Visual Presentation” award from one of Canada’s top research hospitals.

David develops new technologies and new applications to provide corporate clients with impressive visual storytelling for their presentations. David storyboards and produces interactive multimedia applications for medical researchers, offshore technology industries and Fortune 500 companies, including KPMG and Microsoft, accurately conveying complicated ideas in an easy-to-understand visual form. By integrating complex animation and dynamic visuals, David transforms the way business professionals and educators communicate. For client Capital Health’s Centre for Clinical Research, David developed a series of presentations that broke down the complex mechanics of the human immune system to explain recent discoveries into the cause of several inflammatory skin diseases, and the process by which newly-developed therapies treat these diseases. David’s work has been presented at Dalhousie University, Harvard Medical School, and at regional, national and international meetings.

Scott McCullough

Scott McCullough of Lightroom FX will speak to the topic of Digital Media Experiences and Environments.

Entertainment by the Scott Cook jazz duo will be offered, courtesy of Lightroom FX and Maple Leaf Studios.