News
Concordia students win big at the Ubisoft Academia Game Lab Competition
Morphlers, the game prototype representing Concordia at the Ubisoft Academia Game Lab Competition was awarded Best Art Direction and nominated for Best Game Design and Best Game Prototype.
The Morphlers team of students from Computation Arts and Computer Science:
- Anna-Alicia McDonald-Fortier
- Eva Cvijanovic
- Alexander Westcott
- Ana Tavera Mendoza
- Gabrielle Lafrance
- Eric Robitaille
- Richard Wou
Learn more about this student project, visit the development blog.
Canadian Screen Awards and the Jutras
Louise Archambault (BFA 93, MFA 00) won the 2014 Canadian Screen Award in the film category of Best Motion Picture for her film Gabrielle. She was also awarded three 2014 Jutra Awards in the categories of Meilleure réalisation, Meilleur scenario and Film s’étant le plus illustré à l’extérieur du Québec.
Richard Comeau (BFA 87); won the 2014 Jutra Award for Meilleur montage for his work on the film Gabrielle.
Simon Poudrette (BFA 98) won the 2014 Jutra Award in the category of Meilleur son for Louis Cyr.
Sobey Art Award releases 2014 long list
Diane Morin (MFA 03), Nadia Myre (MFA 02) and Michael Dudeck (MA Individualized Program student) were long listed for the 2014 Sobey Art Award. Morin and Myre are nominated in the Quebec region and Dudeck in the Praries and the North. The short list will be announced on June 4, 2014. Work by the shortlisted artists will be shown in an exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery opening on November 1, 2014, with the winner being announced at a gala event on November 19, 2014.
Accolades
Mark Ruwedel (MFA 83) was awarded the $50,000 Scotiabank Photography Award. Ruwedel a professor of photography, College of Arts at California State University, Long Beach, also won a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.
Linda Swanson, assistant professor in Studio Arts, was awarded the Raphael Prize from the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pennsylvania. This prize honors artists who are redefining the boundaries of their media to create work that is challenging and thought provoking.
Sara A. Tremblay (BFA 08, MFA student) was awarded the first edition of the Yvonne L. Bombardier Graduate Scholarship in Visual Arts.
Ashley Sabin (MFA student) was nominated for a 2014 Webby Award for her work as director of Girl Model. Her film is a critique of the modeling industry. Sabin is nominated in the category of Online film and video: Documentary: Individual Episode.
Mark Ruwedel (MFA 83),
Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre (BFA 02, MFA 05) will screen her short-film Jutra at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival.
Jessica Auer (BFA 01, MFA 07) and spouse Andreas Rutkauskas (MFA 07), both professors at Concordia, have been chosen for the 2014 Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency Program. The program invites selected artists to hike the famous Chilkoot Trail, which passes through the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park (Alaska) and the Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site in northern British Columbia.
Jon Davies (BFA 03), associate curator at Oakville Galleries; is the inaugural recipient of the Award for Emerging Curator of Contemporary Canadian Art from The Hnatyshyn Foundation and TD Bank Group.
Régine Chassagne (BA 98) and Richard Reed Parry (BFA 03), as members of Arcade Fire, won two 2014 Juno Awards in the categories of Album of the Year and Alternative Album of the Year, both for the album Reflektor.
Research highlights
Dirk Gindt, artist-in-residence at the Theatre Department, participated in the annual Tennessee Williams Scholarly Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he presented his research on Williams's influence on Canadian playwrights.
Alice Ming Wai Jim, associate professor in the Department of Art History, will participate in Beyond the Digitized Slide Library an eight-day summer institute to be held at the University of California, Los Angeles, July 28–August 6, 2014.
Jim will also present at “Asian American Art: Transnational Circulations and Diasporic Framings” at the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art in Washington DC on May 30.
Fine Arts in the news
Canculture featured a review of the documentary film, Children 404, that exposes the aftermath of Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay legislation that was passed last year.
The review mentions that Thomas Waugh, professor in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, and Ryan Conrad, a student in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies as well as Concordia’s Cinema Politica co-founders Svetla Turnin and Ezra Winton, who each hold an MA from Concordia. $11,575 USD was raised on the Indiegogo campaign for Children 404.
The Montreal Gazette featured a story about the production of Attawapiskat is No Exception, co-created by Floyd Favel, a Cree playwright and Concordia writer-in-residence, and directed by Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer, professor in the Department of Theatre.
The Montreal Gazette published an article about Montreal-based studio Spearhead Games that has opened to the public every aspect of the development of its current project. The article quotes Jonathan Lessard, professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts.
Performing arts events
Music
Rosemary Mountain: Retrospective concert and retirement party on Thursday, May 8 at 6 p.m. in the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
Wednesdays, 8 p.m: Music students play at the Karina Club Lounge
Everyone is welcome to come out to enjoy some great music.
Four groups rotate weekly:
- December Rose and the Feedbackers,
- Shullie and the Shysters,
- Ioana Ionescu Quartet, and
- Fuat Tuac and the Play Along Trio.
Other upcoming events
Spring Shows are ongoing until June 28.
Julie Favreau and Jinyoung Kim have exhibitions at the FOFA Gallery that run until May 16.
Emily Hermant, a visiting assistant professor, in the Department of Studio Arts,will present her large-scale body of work, Spatial Drawings, in a solo exhibition at CIRCA (Espace 444, 372 Ste. Catherine St. W.) from May 31 to July 12, 2014.