Garden guru. Integra appointment. Music over writing. Computational imaging. Level of Confidence. Hungarian partisan media.
Concordia in the news
Posted on March 27, 2015
Alumni in the news
Our alumni are featured in the media locally and around the world. Vist the Alumni News section to access an archive of stories or read the latest list of stories:
- Fugues writes about Allan Becker, a.k.a. the "garden guru", and mentions that he is a graduate of Concordia.
- An earlier release announcing the appointment of Petra Decher (BComm) to the board of directors of Integra Gold Corp. is picked up by Le Lézard.
- Montreal DJ Erik Faulkner,interviewed for Camuz, confides that after graduating from Concordia with a degree in creative writing, he discovered that he prefered music to writing.
- Sensors Mag publishes an article about computational imaging, by Allan Benchetrit (MBA).
- An article on cbc.ca profiling Governor General's award winning artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (BSc. chemistry) mentions that Lozano-Hemmer is currently showing his work "Level of Confidence" at the FOFA Gallery (EV 1-715). The work is a tribute to 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa Normalista school in Iguala, Mexico, who were kidnapped and murdered. It involves the projection of the student ID photos of the young men on a flat screen which connects to a face-recognition camera that scans the faces of viewers to see if any of them match those of the missing Mexican students. The article includes a video of the interactive piece in action.
- The Hungarian Free Press publishes an editorial about efforts by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to launch a partisan media structure. It includes a footnote that mentions that the author, Christopher Adam, editor of the Hungarian Free Press, has a BA in history from Concordia.