Who designed the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Mascots?
Canadian-designed Vancouver 2010 plush mascot – Miga, the Sea-Bear. Miga is wearing the Vancouver 2010 must-have memento – Red Mittens.
The designers of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic mascots (Quatchi, Miga and Sumi… and Mukmuk) is Meomi (MEOMI is Vicki Wong and Michael Murphy (Vancouver / Los Angeles).
Printopolis – International Symposium on Printmaking
image credit: www.openstudio.on.ca website
OPEN STUDIO PRESENTS
international symposium on printmaking
oct 21-24, 2010 - Toronto, Canada – www.openstudio.on.ca
Printopolis is a 4-day symposium with an international focus on contemporary printmaking being presented by Open Studio and held in Toronto, Canada, October 21 – 24, 2010. Printopolis will feature issue-based panel discussions/presentations, artist talks and printmaking demonstrations. This citywide event will feature exhibitions highlighting contemporary print media works on display throughout Toronto.
For details – www.openstudio.on.ca/printopolis.html
ARTECH 2010 – 5th International Conference of Digital Arts
Artech 2010 is the fifth international conference held on the topic of Digital Arts. It aims at promoting contacts between Iberian and International contributors concerned with the concept, production and dissemination of Digital and Electronic Art.
Artech 2010 - April 22 & 23, 2010 – Guimarães, Portugal
Artech 2010 aims at bringing the scientific, technological and artistic community together, while promoting the interest in the digital culture and its intersection with art and technology as an important research field, a common space for discussion andexchange of experiences, a forum for emerging digital artists understanding and be delighted with new forms of digital expression.
Main areas are related with sound, image, video, music,multimedia, architecture and other new media related topics, in the context of emerging practice of artistic creation. Although non exclusive, the main topics of the conference are:
-Art and Science Theory
-Audio-Visual and Multimedia Design
-Creativity Theory
-Digital Fabrication
-Electronic Music
-Generative and Algorithmic Art
-Generative Computational Design
-Immersive Art
-Interactive Systems for Artistic Applications
-Media Art history
-Mobile Multimedia
-Net Art and Digital Culture
-New Experiences with Digital Media
-Parametric Design
-Tangible and Gesture Interfaces
-Technology in Art Education
Organization:
[UM] Minho University, School of Engineering/School of Architecture
see more, read more on their website: www.artech-international.com/artech2010
Bau-Xi Photo
BAU-XI GALLERY OPENS NEW SPACE DEDICATED TO PHOTOGRAPHY
Image credit: Bau-Xi Photo – Artist / Photographer: Adam Makarenko, *
“Passing on a Curve”, edition of 10- chromogenic print – 32 x 24 in.
“BAU-XI PHOTO, opening in January 2010, exhibits photography by Canadian and International artists across from the AGO – (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
As Bau-Xi maintains its commitment to showcasing contemporary artistic talent, it saw the need for a dedicated, separate gallery to exhibit photography. This is an exciting transition as Bau-Xi Gallery has been a presence in the Canadian art gallery scene for almost 45 years. The new contemporary 2400 square foot space sits across from the Art Gallery of Ontario in a renovated Victorian house, just steps away from Bau-Xi Gallery’s current location. Bau-Xi Photo is committed to showcasing fine art photography by emerging, mid-career, and established artists.
Eight Canadian and International photographers will kick-off the new artist stable, with an opening exhibition by Toronto artist Adam Makarenko. Adam’s exhibition, which features mystical photographs of hand-constructed dioramas, opens Saturday January 9th, from 2-4 PM. Other gallery artists include Zoë Jaremus, Joshua Jensen-Nagle, Ferit Kuyas, Eamon MacMahon, Anthony Redpath, Chris Shepherd and Toby Smith.”
link via: www.akimbo.ca
* – “Adam Makarenko grew up in a rural northern Ontario mining town called Atikokan. His artwork explores human influence on nature, a theme undoubtedly seeded by his upbringing in a town boasting two of the largest ore mines in the world. He constructs each photograph as a diorama, sculpting each element by hand and photographing the set. Makarenko uses these constructed realities to tell a story, otherwise impossible through conventional photography. Makarenko has garnered incredible notoriety for an emerging photographer, including having won the coveted Bright Spark Award, published in The Magenta Foundations Flash Forward 2008 annual publication.”
snippet from Bau-Xi Photo website
see more, read more about the new gallery and upcoming exhibitions – www.bau-xiphoto.com
Art Gallery of Alberta – Grand Opening
image from Art Gallery of Alberta website – photo credit: Robert Lememeyer
Grand Opening date: January 31, 2010 – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Opening shows will include major works by the famous Edgar Degas and Francisco Goya, celebrated Canadian photographers Yousuf Karsh and Edward Burtynksy and the internationally renowned Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller.
You’ll find an outdoor sculpture terrace featuring work by Albertan Ken Macklin, as well as a new children’s gallery, named BMO World of Creativity, focusing on the theme of architecture for 2010.
Designed by Los Angeles architect Randall Stout, features of the 85,000 square foot AGA include:
- 30,000 sq ft of premiere exhibition space
- An outdoor sculpture terrace on the third floor
- Dedicated gallery space for the AGA permanent collection of nearly 6,000 works of art
- An expanded Education Centre, the Singhmar Centre for Art Education
- A restaurant, café, espresso bar, gallery shop, 150 seat theatre and an Art Rental and Sales Gallery
- Unique facility rental spaces such as an atrium for banquets, an outdoor sculpture terrace and a ‘floating’ private lounge
Click HERE to take a peek inside (video) – visit their website www.youraga.ca
