Hosted by the 91��ɫ Libraries, interPLAY will take place Monday, March 26, from 9am to 7pm, in��the Senate Chamber, 940 South Ross Building, and the Scott Library on the Keele campus.��

The symposium is informed by the ongoing publication of the , an experimental online catalogue raisonné (or complete list) currently being developed at the 91��ɫ Libraries by Adam Lauder��(left), the University's inaugural��W.P. Scott Chair for Research in e-Librarianship.

Lauder is working to develop the catalogue raisonné with��Canadian Conceptual artist (the artist recently added the ampersand to his name),��and an international team of collaborators.��The development of the catalogue offers an ideal��opportunity to respond to the visionary information art of IAIN BAXTER& with fresh approaches to information, information technology, and library and information science from across the disciplinary spectrum.

Inspired by Canadian scholar and philosopher Marshall McLuhan’s transformation of information theory, from a “matching” model of communication to one of active “making”, IAIN BAXTER& began in 1966 to explore the creative possibilities of “information” as a medium.��The 45-year process of exploration that followed has led��the��conceptual artist��to engage with, and creatively reinterpret, information concepts across a range of disciplines, including business, computing, and linguistics.

Marshall McLuhan

University��of British Columbia English Professor��Richard Cavell, author of McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography (University of Toronto Press, 2003) will present the symposium's keynote address. Cavell's book was the first to��propose that Marshall McLuhan be read as a spatial theorist.

To learn more about other presenters and symposium proceedings and to register, visit the website.����

More about Adam Lauder

Lauder has joined the Libraries for a two-year term as the first W.P. Scott Chair for Research in e-Librarianship. He holds a master in information studies��from the University of Toronto and a masters in��art history��from Concordia University.

His research project encompasses many areas of e-librarianship including critical information studies, digital archives, scholarly communication and metadata standards. Lauder is applying��the catalogue raisonné publication model in an online environment, with a focus��on IAIN BAXTER&.

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World Scenography 1975-1990 documents lighting, set and costume design

The book covers set, lighting and costume design for all forms of performance, from theatre and dance to opera and spectacle. Encompassing material from hundreds of contributors, it highlights some 430 significant works from more than five dozen countries.

Co-editors Peter McKinnon, professor of stage design and production in the Department of Theatre, Faculty of Fine Arts at 91��ɫ, and Eric Fielding, professor emeritus of scenic design at Brigham Young University, Utah, led an international team of researchers and associate editors for the project.

The editors point out that the publication is neither encyclopedic nor a collection of "greatest hits".�� The intent, they say, is to showcase, contextualize and document for posterity “designs that mattered, that made a difference”: seminal designs that had a major impact on the development of the art form, its practice and reception.

Groundbreaking productions cited in World Scenography 1975-1990 include the political puppetry of the American Anti-Bicentennial Pageant at the University of California (1975); English director Peter Brook’s Mahabharata (1985), which was staged in quarries in France and Australia, as well as in theatres in the US and Spain; and the opening ceremony for the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.

Notable designers featured include Tony and Drama Desk Award-winner Maria Bjornson of France/UK (Phantom of the Opera, 1988); German designer Achim Freyer, winner of the Prague Quadrennial lifetime achievement award (Woyzeck, 1989; The Magic Flute, 1982); Sun-Hi Shin of Korea (A Bicycle, 1983; An Encounter, 1990); Canadian designer André Caron (Cirque Réinventé, 1987, ��for Cirque du Soleil); veteran Broadway designer Robin Wagner (A Chorus Line, 1976; On The Twentieth Century, 1978; Dreamgirls, 1981); and 91��ɫ theatre�� Professors Teresa Przybylski and Phillip Silver.

World Scenography 1975-1990 is the first publication in a projected three-part series. It builds on the foundation established by Stage Design Throughout the World, a four-volume series edited by René Hainaux that concluded in 1975. McKinnon and Fielding are already planning volumes two and three of World Scenography, to span 1990-2005 and 2005-2015, respectively. When complete, the World Scenography series will be the largest, most comprehensive scholarly work on theatrical design ever created.

McKinnon notes that the motivation and passion behind this epic endeavour is the transitory nature of design for live performance. “Theatre design work is as ephemeral as the work of the actor,” he says. “Once the show is over, it disappears. If we don’t photograph, catalogue and preserve our design work, we run the risk of losing it forever.”

The editors of World Scenography are themselves leading contributors to the field.

Peter McKinnon

McKinnon has served as lighting designer for some 450 shows, principally dance and opera, across Canada and internationally, and has produced shows off- and on-Broadway and in Edinburgh, Scotland. A past president of the Associated Designers of Canada, he was an organizer of the Canadian exhibit at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. His editorial credits include the international lexicon Theatre Words��and One Show, One Audience, One Single Space by Jean-Guy Lecat.

Fielding has designed scenery and/or lighting for more than 250 productions for stage, film, television and special events. He designed the gold medal-winning American exhibit at the 1991 Prague Quadrennial and created the World Stage Design exhibition, directing its premiere showing in Toronto in 2005. He is a 30-year member of United Scenic Artists 829, a Fellow and former vice-president of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, and former editor of the journal Theatre Design &Technology (TD&T).

World Scenography 1975-1990 is designed by Randal Boutilier (BFA '00), an alumnus of 91��ɫ’s Visual Arts Program. The series, to be published both in print and online, is an official project of��the International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians (OISTAT). Both McKinnon and Fielding are long-serving executive members of OISTAT, a UNESCO-recognized organization that draws together theatre production professionals from around the world. The long list of international supporters of the World Scenography project includes the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

McKinnon and Fielding will be in attendance at a reception marking the Canadian launch of the publication on Thursday, April 5, 7 to 10pm at TheatreBooks, 11 St. Thomas Street, Toronto.

For more information, visit the��World Scenography series website.

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91��ɫ’s Schulich School of Business has been ranked 20th in the world and number one in Canada in a global MBA survey conducted by ����貹�Բ���ó�� magazine, a Time Inc. business publication based in Mexico City.

It marks the third straight year Schulich has made the world’s top 20 in the ����貹�Բ���ó�� ranking. Schulich placed just behind Kellogg College at the University of Oxford, Stern School of Business at New 91��ɫ, and the University of Cambridge, and ahead of the University of California, Los Angeles, Carnegie Mellon University and the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina.

Dezsö J. Horváth

Harvard Business School once again placed first overall, with Stanford University taking second spot and the London School of Business finishing third. Schulich ranked ninth among business schools outside the United States and 12th among business schools in North America.��

The ����貹�Բ���ó�� Best Global MBAs ranking, established in 2006, rates leading MBA programs from around the world using a broad range of criteria, including academic quality, return on investment and global value. The survey employs a predominantly statistical-based methodology to rank business schools, with points awarded in key areas of measurement such as international scope and orientation, average GMAT, post-MBA average salary percentage increase and faculty research output.

“We’re pleased to once again be rated among the top 20 business schools in the world by a major global ranking this academic year,” said Schulich Dean Dezsö J. Horváth, who noted The Economist and the Aspen Institute recently ranked Schulich among the top 10 MBA programs in the world (Schulich placed ninth in The Economist‘s 2011 global ranking and second in the Aspen 2011 global ranking). “The ����貹�Բ���ó�� ranking is the premiere global survey conducted by a Latin American business publication and complements the other major global business school rankings conducted by business publications in the US and Europe.”

Horváth added that the ranking is also important to Schulich because of the school’s growing focus on the Latin American market, and on Mexico in particular.

In addition, Schulich graduate Fabiola Sicard (left), director of Latin Markets, Multicultural Banking at Scotiabank, and Krista Larson, director of Admissions & Recruitment at Schulich, are featured in an article in the current edition of�� ����貹�Բ���ó�� magazine that highlights the benefits and advantages of pursuing a Schulich MBA.

Sicard (MBA ’06) is the recent winner of the 2012 Ohtli Award, the Mexican government’s highest honour for a civilian living outside of Mexico who has devoted part of his or her life and professional activities to “forging a new path” abroad for their fellow citizens. She is also one of the founders of LAMBA, the first association for Latin Americans with an MBA in Canada.

Last November, Schulich officially opened a satellite centre in Mexico City that, Horváth said, will help recruit students, provide career placement services to alumni, offer executive education programs, support the local Schulich alumni chapter and manage local media relations.��

For more information, visit the website.

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