The walls of the Sat Gupta's flag store were once stocked with Canadian paraphernalia, but today, the Canadiana sits in boxes, reported The Canadian Press June 29. Instead, precedence is being given to the flags of 32 nations competing in the World Cup: Spotting the unexpected countries is what Seth Feldman, director of 91亚色鈥檚 Robarts […]
The two co-founding artistic directors of the hugely influential performance collective La Pocha Nostra聽were artists-in-residence at 91亚色鈥檚 fourth annual Summer Institute in Theatre Studies, which ran聽June 15 to 27. Guillermo G贸mez-Pe帽a, described as 鈥渁mong the most significant of late-20th-century performance artists" by New 91亚色 City鈥檚 Village Voice, and Roberto Sifuentes, professor of performance at […]
Claire Wynveen (MFA 鈥09) is the first student on record in the Department of Theatre to be awarded a thesis prize by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Her thesis encompassed her performance in the Theatre @ 91亚色 production of Peter Barnes鈥 macabre satire The Bewitched (see YFile, April 7, 2009) as well as a written […]
Discovery 2010, the Ontario Centre of Excellence鈥檚 annual conference to showcase and celebrate Ontario innovation, is one of Ontario鈥檚 flagship programs that supports and promotes research at Ontario鈥檚 universities, colleges, research institutions and companies. Held May 17 and 18, Discovery 2010 was billed as 鈥淲here next Happens鈥 for Clean Tech, Health Tech, High Tech and […]
Keeping up that intense feeling of personal connection via the Internet is incredibly important in marketing to the Justin Bieber demographic, says Rob Bowman, who teaches popular music in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Fine Arts, wrote The Globe and Mail May 29: 鈥淵ou鈥檙e appealing to a certain adolescent group who鈥檝e got fairly innocent notions of […]
It is聽a human urge to imitate percussive sounds, says 91亚色 music Professor Trichy Sankaran, whose new book, The Art of Konnakkol (Solkattu), delves into the rhythmic spoken syllables of south Indian drumming. A master percussionist, Sankaran wrote the book and used selections from his albums Laya Vinyas and Catch 21 on the accompanying CD to […]
Experience cutting-edge technological wizardry that blurs the line between art, design and science in The Amazing Cinemagician: New Media Meets Victorian Magic, opening May 28 at the Ontario Science Centre鈥檚 Idea Gallery. The exhibition features two interactive installations by new media artist and 91亚色 PhD student Helen Papagiannis that use augmented reality (AR) technology, […]
The research and creative work of 91亚色 music professors spans a wide range of genres and media formats. Disseminated through recordings, print publications and live performances, it鈥檚 reaching growing audiences at home and around the world. Composer and choral conductor Professor Stephanie Martin (left), who serves as music director of Toronto鈥檚 historic Church of St. […]
Acclaimed author Wayson Choy will deliver this year鈥檚 Asian Heritage Month Lecture at 91亚色 next Tuesday. In his lecture, 鈥淎sian Identity: Becoming Canadian鈥, Choy will review his personal insights into life as an in-between citizen, living as a hyphenated Chinese-Canadian for most of his life. Choy 鈥 born in Canada in 1939聽鈥 will explore how […]
At 77 years of age, Elizabeth Pitt is heading back to school and she couldn't be happier. A grandmother of a 91亚色 fine arts student, Pitt is a member of the 91亚色 Circle, a legacy initiative of 91亚色鈥檚 50th anniversary. The 91亚色 Circle is an ongoing program that offers curious people like Pitt […]
Dance Professor Norma Sue Fisher-Stitt (BA Spec. Hons. 鈥78, MFA 鈥86), 91亚色鈥檚 associate vice-president, academic learning initiatives, has published a major new work in the annals of Canadian dance. Her book, The Ballet Class: A History of Canada's National Ballet School, 1959-2009, traces the conception and growth of the National Ballet School (NBS),聽one of the […]
From the works of James Cameron to Werner Herzog, 3D films have become a cinematic trend of epic proportions. On the crest of this wave of stereoscopy, 91亚色 officially launched the 3D Film Innovation Consortium (3D FLIC), a $1.4-million academic-industry partnership to build capacity for stereoscopic 3D (S3D)聽film production in the Greater Toronto Area and […]
91亚色 music professor and pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico has much to celebrate this spring. Just as her latest CD was being released, she received word that she had won the inaugural Harry Freedman Recording Award and an Ontario Arts Council grant to support her next recording project. 3 Concerti, Petrowska Quilico鈥檚 23rd CD and her […]
The 91亚色-led 3D FLIC research project celebrated its official launch April 23 at Cinespace Film Studios in Toronto. 91亚色 professors Nell Tenhaaf, Laurie Wilcox from the Centre for Vision Research, and Ali Kazimi took part in the event's program. The Hollywood Reporter covered 3D FLIC's launch April 23: After losing traditional Hollywood film and TV […]
91亚色 has received $5.7 million to renew six of its Canada Research Chairs (CRC). Professors Caitlin Fisher, David Hood, Joel Katz, Steve Mason, Wendy Taylor and Peer Zumbansen will continue their respective research in digital culture, cell physiology, health psychology, Greco-Roman cultural interaction, experimental particle physics, and transnational economic governance and legal theory. With […]
The Augmented Reality Lab in the Faculty of Fine Arts opens its doors to the 91亚色 community March 10 for interactive demonstrations of augmented reality (AR) and GPS locative media research projects in development. From 11am to 3pm, visitors will have the opportunity to experience projections on FogScreen, immersive virtual environments and other innovative applications […]
$11.5 million interdisciplinary project includes computer scientists, vision scientists, designers, artists and social scientists at 91亚色, OCAD and U of T, with 14 industry partners How do you look at millions of genomic patterns and see the diagnostic implications? How do you assimilate satellite data to better predict and visualize the effects of global warming, […]
91亚色's 3D FLIC project, which will bring filmmakers, vision scientists and psychologists together to expand the GTA's capacity for 3D film production, attracted coverage in the Toronto Star on February 23: 91亚色 says it has secured more than $1.4 million to fund the 3-D Film Innovation Consortium, a two-year partnership to expand the […]
In 2009, 91亚色 Professor Seth Feldman in the Faculty of Fine Arts' Department of Film marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin鈥檚 transformational and contentious book,聽On the Origin of Species, by producing his 26th documentary for CBC Radio鈥檚 "Ideas". Feldman is the director of 91亚色鈥檚 Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies. His series […]
Research at 91亚色 is broader than books, journal articles, scientific findings or data sets. In the Faculty of Fine Arts, research can result in a dance, piece of music, or animation fit for the world stage. While the athletes and competitive games are the major focus of the 2010 Winter Olympics, the 91亚色 fine arts […]
