SFU Communications professor Peter Chow-White was featured in a segment regarding the future of Canada Post in a digital, social media world. Full Video (CANADA POST – GLOBAL BC): http://at.sfu.ca/olvPbU

SFU communications professor Peter Chow-White was mentioned in an article concerning B.C. political parties failing to engage voters on social media. Vancouver Sun: http://at.sfu.ca/rmudYM

Chow-White was also briefly mentioned in an article that discusses daily political events. Vancouver Sun: http://at.sfu.ca/ojrvAc

Chow-White was also mentioned in an article regarding the B.C. Conservatives repeating background checks after removing their fourth candidate. Vancouver Sun: http://at.sfu.ca/GAFNYm

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LEANING INTO LEARNING

A day of exchange, inviting us to ‘lean’ into teaching practices that expand the walls of the lecture hall. The forum celebrates practices that bring students into the community, and the community into the classroom.

Facilitated by – FCAT’s Education Consultant, Kathryn Ricketts, FCAT Teaching Fellow, Stuart Poyntz and the Experiential Education Project Coordinators, Jennifer McRae and Deanna Rogers.

• 10:00 – 10:30 Welcome from Coordinators; Introduction by Jon Driver
• 10:30 – 11:45 Presentations – Martin Laba, Martin Gotfrit, Patricia Gruben, Michael Filmowicz; Fast firing presentations based around Pecha Kucha format
• 11:30 – 1:00 Concurrent Workshops: Alison Beale, Arne Eigenfeldt, Bob Hackett
• 1:00 – 1:45 Lunch: Served with a digital presentation showcasing innovative detaching.
• 2:00 – 3:15 Mobile Dialogues Plenary – All participants
• 3:15 – 3:30 Closing remarks

This day promises to be active, inspirational and relevant to developing and continuing innovative teaching practices throughout FCAT.

Robust examples of innovative teaching

Workshops and dialogue sessions

Valuable resources

Activities will range from the spiky visual Pecha Kucha, to interactive workshops demonstrating new teaching practices, to a mobile plenary with participant-generated topics.

May 14, 201310 am – 3:30 pm

World Music Room, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

Information and Registration for this free event: bit.ly/sfu-fcat-event

• Click to watch on the Global news Website

AP Twitter hack:

• Vancouver Sun
• Calgary Herald

Time: 10:00am

RE-COLLECTIONS: AURATIC ENCOUNTERS WITH DATABASE AND ARCHIVAL ARTWORKS

Committee

• Chair: G. McCarron
• Senior Supervisor: J. Marontate
• Committee Supervisor: K. McAllister
• Internal-External Examiner: Z. Druick

Abstract

This study considers Walter Benjamin’s concept of aura in the context of new media. Drawing from Benjamin’s writings as well as scholarly interpretations of his work, I argue that aura has not been eradicated despite technological advancements that have vastly increased the accessibility and mobility of images and image making. Following from interpretations of Benjamin that link the phenomenon of aura to an intrinsic human longing for transcendent fullness of (auratic) presence that can never be realized but persists in a partial state, I develop a general aesthetics of aura that centres on manifestations and representations of trace. I then modify my aesthetics of aura to account for dematerialization and other challenges of new media. My research methodology is phenomenological: I utilize autophenomenographic methods, iteratively documenting and reflecting upon my own embodied perceptions of auratic encounters with new media art. I compare my various observations in the context of the aesthetic criteria of aura previously identified, re-­‐evaluating my original theoretical positions. I eventually confront the issue of aura’s potential instrumentalization, concluding that my accidental and chance encounters with aura, often the result of a design or programming oversight, ultimately cannot be reproduced and instrumentalized at will. I determine that in new media artworks, aura fundamentally lingers within these accidental ruptures that prevent immersive experience.

Location: Harbour Centre, room 2250

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“Frass” (2008) Courtesy of the artist

PUBLIC LECTURE BY GAYE CHAN , CHAIR AND PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I AT MANOA

Friday, March 22, 2012
3:00PM-5:00PM
Room HC 2270 Harbour Centre,
Simon Fraser University
515 W. Hastings
Vancouver
Gaye Chan is a conceptual artist who is recognized equally for her solo and collaborative activities that take place on the web, in publications, streets as well as galleries. Her recent work often ruminates on how cartography and photography simultaneously offer and occlude information. She has exhibited in New York, Montreal, Vancouver, Sydney, Honolulu, San Francisco and Toronto. Chan’s collaborative projects include being a part of Eating in Public and Downwind Productions. She was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States in 1969. She received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. http://www.gayechan.com

Sponsored by the Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities, Simon Fraser University and The English Department SFU, The Asian Canadian Study Society and organized by members of the CPCC’s migration and diaspora working group, the Asia – Canada working group and the creative and cultural working groups at the CPCC Davina Bhandar, Lara Campbell, Dara Culhane, Christine Kim, Helen Leung, Roy Miki,and Kirsten McAllister

Fred and Elaine Moonen Scholarship valued at $1,000 – Elizabeth Krump

Rogers Communications Inc. Award in Communication valued at $2,400 – Jennifer Miller