Emily Carr Viewbook 2011/12

EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ART + DESIGN

View Book VIEWBOOK 2011/12

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CONTENTS 4 president’s message 7 degrees granted 50 undergraduate degrees 56 graduate degrees 56 international students 57 aboriginal students 58 online education 58 continuing studies 58 resources 60 campuses 61 how to apply

This viewbook is designed as a general visual guide to the programs offered at Emily Carr University of Art + Design; it is not a comprehensive guide. Detailed information about the University and application process is available on our website.

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the future is about creativity + innovation Dr. Ron Burnett, President + Vice-Chancellor Emily Carr University of Art + Design is one of Canada’s premier specialized institutions. We offer a unique set of programs geared to support the development of successful artists, designers, and media creators. When you come to Emily Carr, you will immediately notice the unique flavour of our campus situated on Granville Island in the heart of the vibrant, culturally diverse city of Vancouver. Our Bachelor’s and Master’s programs have been carefully created to balance studio and academic work. You will learn how to be an artist within a context that also encourages you to think critically and historically and to examine and re-examine your assumptions about how to create interesting and important works of art. Our students are taught by some of the best faculty in Canada, in state-of-the-art facilities supported by technical staff.

Our alumni range from internationally renowned filmmakers like Bruce Dowad to authors like Doug Coupland, to designers like Kelly Deck, to visual artists like Brian Jungen and Terence Koh. One of our recent graduates, Mark Soo, was described by Art News in England as one of the top 30 emerging artists in the world. We have a specialized New Media research centre run by Dr. Maria Lantin and a broad program of research that includes health design, 3-D image production and interactivity. Our Master’s students spend four months working as interns with industry to further strengthen their prospects when they graduate.

In 2011, we turn 86 years old. We have grown from a small art school into a university with 1,800 full-time students and many thousands of continuing studies students. We are a nurturing place, devoted to sustainable practices in everything that we do and most importantly, we encourage

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students to develop the independence of mind and spirit to explore their creative talent and to aim for the highest academic standards.

Our faculty, staff and administration work together to ensure that students have as many opportunities as possible to learn how artists, designers and media practitioners can contribute to the creative economy not only in Canada, but internationally.

A degree from Emily Carr opens up a world of possibilities since you will also be studying with students from more than 60 countries.

Today, creative people are at the heart of a healthy social, cultural and community context as well as being significant contributors to the creative economy.

Take a careful look at this Viewbook and at our website. Many surprises await you!

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degrees granted Bachelor of Design

 Communication Design Major  Industrial Design Major  Interaction Design Major Bachelor of Fine Arts

 Critical + Cultural Practice Major  Film, Video + Integrated Media Major  Fine Arts + Creative Writing Major – Joint Degree (UNBC)  General Fine Arts – External Degree (NIC)  Illustration Major  Photography Major  Visual Arts Major  Ceramics, Drawing, Illustration, Painting, Print Media and Sculpture Concentrations

Bachelor of Media Arts

 Animation Major  Interactive + Social Media Master of Applied Arts Resident MAA and Low-Residency MAA

 Design Stream  Media Arts Stream  Visual Arts Stream Master of Digital Media Joint Degree with UBC, SFU and BCIT

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undergraduate degrees All undergraduate degrees begin with a required common first year, entitled Foundation.

FOUNDATION Foundation is a critical and demanding first-year program that orients new students to Emily Carr and prepares them for future years of study in art, media and design.

The primary goals are to encourage inquiry and promote a willingness to engage in contemporary art, media and design issues.

Contemporary practice works with the interrelationship of concepts, skills, and theories to address such themes as social context, audience and the relation of form and content.

Practicing artists and designers take creative risks; they experiment with ideas and materials. In Foundation, students will explore art, media and design in a highly structured learning environment in order to develop the discipline necessary for working in a creative cultural practice.

BACHELOR OF DESIGN Our design and media programs respond to the changing needs in the world around us, on a variety of scales, and focuses on the development of comprehensive messaging, experiences, and the social context. Upon graduation, our award-winning students continue their leadership in creative industries and innovation around the globe.

Communication Design Major Communication Design focuses on developing comprehensible meaningful messages and experiences. The program emphasizes various study pathways, including information design, e-pub and publication design, interface design

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and interactivity for social and mobile media applications, and motion graphics. Within these areas of specialization, students can further refine their interests by focusing on services and systems, typography and type design, wayfinding and exhibit design, and other opportunities such as design for immersive environments and community engagement.

Industrial Design Major Industrial Design focuses on mediating human experience through the design of objects, systems, technology, environments, products and services, offering a rigorous program of hands-on study that emphasizes understanding human needs through exploration and prototyping in real time and space. Students can be generalists in this program or can focus their work on household products, recreational products, electronics, medical and health design, soft products, ceramics, exhibitions, and furniture, as well as research in sustainability.

Interaction Design Major Interaction Design fosters the integration and application of combined skills in both physical and digital environments to help shape the way we interact with artifacts, information and environments in everyday life.

Through hands-on projects based on a range of iterative human-centred modeling methods, students can investigate more deeply into interactive wearables and mobile devices, to online services and automated systems, from sensor-activated environments to social networks, and to systems that enable a more sustainable future.

BACHELOR OF MEDIA ARTS Animation Major Animation is an open and flexible program that embraces diverse media, offering students the opportunity to focus on Animation Filmmaking Practices or Animation Production Practices. Students develop as creative animation designers and critical thinkers, exploring forms of narrative through media studies, writing and drawing practices. Courses within the animation program encompass 2D, 3D and interactive animation,

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integrating a range of approaches – from direct to digital. Within the animation program, students can focus on a specialized stream of courses that best suit their particular interests.

Interactive + Social Media Arts Major The Interactive + Social Media Arts major enables students to pursue creative and critical art practices that employ the use of interactive technologies.

Students are encouraged to undertake work incorporating themes and practices such as narrative, performance and collage with current and emerging technological media such as social networking, locative media and robotics. Students explore new technologies while developing a critical point of view regarding the social and political aspects of contemporary culture and the roles that technology play within it.

BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS Critical + Cultural Practice Major The Critical + Cultural Practice major enables students to explore the importance of art history, cultural theory and criticism while they develop their studio practice. Academic classes (Art History, Design History, English, Humanities, Media History, Science and Social Sciences) can make up more than half of the curriculum with the remainder of credits in studio courses. This interdisciplinary approach allows students to foster connections between theory and practice, and to bring modern and contemporary approaches to the creation of material and textual culture.

Film, Video + Integrated Media Major Film, Video + Integrated Media offers a studio-based education that explores contemporary practices in media arts. The program offers a vibrant combination of studio work, technical instruction, theory, critical analysis, history and professional practices. Film, Video + Integrated Media focuses on independent interdisciplinary learning processes and specialized technical skill development within a model of collaboration, historical and critical awareness and creative content development.

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Illustration Major Illustration reflects the changing art and design landscape. Students will focus on illustrative approaches to communicating ideas and explore pictorial strategies that span across territories, histories and disciplines of commercial illustration where drawing, painting and design have always been interconnected.

Photography Major Photography offers a strong emphasis on conceptual, technical and historical knowledge, preparing students to become innovative photographers within contemporary culture. Curriculum covers a wide range of cameras, black and white and colour processes, archival printing, digital imaging, installations, studio and projection lighting, projected imagery, image and text, and directorial work.

Visual Art Major The program actively promotes the interrelationship between material practice and critical reflection through material and intellectual experimentation. The Visual Art Major takes into account the development of studio skills, creation, analysis and understanding within social and cultural contexts. Blending rigorous individual and group critiques, the program provides a balanced integration of theory, practice and production. Areas of practice are as follows: C E R A M I C S - Curriculum integrates ceramic concepts and materials with sculpture, painting, drawing, print media, digital applications, design and architecture. Students explore expression, conceptual development, function, decoration and mixed media approaches within scientific, technological and social contexts, both historical and contemporary.

D R AW I N G - Drawing students develop an understanding of the technical, perceptual and conceptual aspects of drawing and participate in the exchange of ideas and solutions. Curriculum cultivates students’ abilities to develop two-dimensional language and technical virtuosity in relation to contemporary art practices.

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PA I NTI N G - Through subjects ranging from the personal to the global, Painting provides the student with a framework for formal and material exploration.

Whether narrative or abstract, painting allows for diverse solutions that, while acknowledging its history, work toward advancing the discipline in new ways.

P R I N T M E D I A - Print Media focuses on concepts and processes that shape artistic exploration, and on the roles printed image and text play in society.

Curriculum covers a wide range of printmaking techniques, including woodblock, engraving and etching, lithography and screen-printing.

S C U L P T U R E - Curriculum emphasizes the development of ideas and concepts through the study of three-dimensional form and space. Techniques, materials and methods reflect the diversity of contemporary and traditional practices. Students are encouraged to explore sculptural approaches that include video, installation, electronic media and kinetics, as well as the production of cast or constructed objects.

General Fine Arts Major – External Degree Emily Carr, in collaboration with North Island College, offers the third and fourth years of a Bachelor of Fine Arts - General Fine Arts major at North Island College. The program is available to graduates of the North Island College Fine Art and Design Diploma Program. Students will enter at the third-year level and will be required to complete 60 credits to earn an Emily Carr BFA degree.

faculty of culture and community Minor in SPACE: SOCIAL PRACTICE AND COMMUNITY ENAGAGEMENT Housed in the Faculty of Culture and Community, Social Practice and Community Engagement (SPACE) is an interdisciplinary minor that is open to students in any Degree program. The SPACE minor is designed to enable

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students to develop a special focus on social practice, public and participatory practices, ecology and sustainability, documentary practices, and a range of community projects. SPACE provides students with opportunities to use applied art, media and design to engage real-world issues and problems and to create bridges with citizen groups, industry, non-profit organizations, arts groups, the public school system and other related organizations.

graduate degrees MASTER OF APPLIED ARTS The Master of Applied Arts degree programs focus on promoting critical reflection and intellectual inquiry, and links art, design and media to professional practices. Students combine academic learning, research and studio practice with practical experience in a variety of creative industries.

Both the resident and low residency programs blend rigorous individual and group critiques of student projects and integrate the study of theory with research and production. Students have access to traditional and advanced technologies.

Students elect to concentrate their studies in one of three streams Design, Media Arts or Visual Arts. Interdisciplinarity is actively encouraged with many students working collaboratively and across streams.

The Low Residency MAA program combines online and independent learning with annual summer intensives on our Vancouver campus; this allows students to study in their home communities for the remainder of the year.

international students Emily Carr’s student body includes international and exchange students from more than 50 countries worldwide. Set against the backdrop of the

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spectacular city of Vancouver, Canada, Emily Carr is the perfect destination for students of art and design from around the globe.

Vancouver is a city that celebrates its multicultural tapestry, and the University offers international students a chance to thrive in its rich artistic environment. For more information please see our website’s international page at www.ecuad.ca/studentservices/international, or visit our International Students at Emily Carr Facebook page.

Emily Carr has a very active student exchange program with partnerships that give our students the opportunity to access other top art and design schools across North America and around the world. The presence of visiting exchange students also adds to the diversity of our international student body. Read more at www.ecuad.ca/studentservices/exchange.

aboriginal students The University is experiencing a steady increase in its diverse Aboriginal student population as well as an increase in Aboriginal course offerings and programming. Students with Aboriginal ancestry (status, non-status, MĂŠtis or Inuit) are encouraged to self-identify on their application forms and contact the Aboriginal Program Office.

The University has established an Aboriginal Admission Policy to encourage applications from Aboriginal individuals with an interest in pursuing studies in art, media or design at the post-secondary level.

The Aboriginal Gathering Place, on campus is a centre that reflects the cultural characteristics of our Aboriginal students, community and traditions and the Aboriginal Program Office provides culturally appropriate support that encompasses both traditional and contemporary artistic and cultural expressions of Aboriginal peoples. Read more at www.ecuad.ca.

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online education Emily Carr offers an exciting variety of degree credit courses online: both studio practice and academic. These courses are open to Emily Carr students and alumni, to students attending other post secondary institutions, and to individuals interested in developing their skills and knowledge in art, design and cultural studies. Online offerings include a range of courses from first-year courses in creative processes, visual communication and art history to third and fourth-year courses in photography, Canadian design history and professional practice. In addition, there is a growing cluster of courses in Aboriginal art practices and art history. Transfer credit to other institutions is available on a course by course basis.

continuing studies Continuing Studies offers exciting education and training opportunities for career transition, portfolio development, professional upgrading or personal interest in the visual arts, media arts and design. A wide range of programs, studio courses and seminars offer enjoyable, challenging and practical experiences, responding to the wide scope of your interests. From Certificate programs and innovative courses to thematic institutes, Continuing Studies is an innovator and leader in the delivery of unique programs.

For further information, visit the Continuing Studies website at ecuad.ca/cs.

resources INTERSECTIONS DIGITAL STUDIOS Intersections Digital Studios (IDS) is Emily Carr’s dedicated research space. It is composed of three themed studios: the Motion Capture and Visualization studio (MOCAP), the Wearables and Interactive Products studio (WIP), and

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the Prototyping + Media + Programming studio (PMP).

The studios provide faculty and graduate students access to state-of-theart digital technologies to develop or enhance projects in all disciplines. The equipment in the IDS was chosen to bridge digital and material practices and promote collaborations between departments. Examples include, 3D scanners and printers, a CNC machine, stereoscopic cameras and displays, and a 20-camera Vicon motion capture system. Expert technical help is available in the studios and workshops are held regularly.

Access to a facility such as IDS allows the further training and education needed to create a new kind of art and design researcher — one whose understanding of technology is informed by a strong sense of aesthetics and ethics. In a field that moves so quickly, and where today’s innovations may be obsolete, tomorrow’s students and researchers will gain more than just technical skills. They will gain an understanding of the underlying structures that fuel the dynamism between technology and creativity.

CHARLES H. SCOTT GALLERY The Charles H. Scott Gallery is an integral aspect of the educational experience at Emily Carr. The Gallery has a mandate to exhibit contemporary art that reflects the range of disciplines currently explored within the University’s curriculum of studies. A primary objective of the gallery is the presentation of exhibitions and public programs that effectively communicate the role of Emily Carr University of Art and Design as an active site for the exhibition, discussion, teaching and production of art and design. As part of its mandate, the Gallery functions as a teaching space, providing practical experience in many aspects of exhibition development and presentation.

Students are able to interact with the work of professional artists in a close-up and hands-on manner. A number of students are employed on a part-time basis to assist with gallery operations and installations.

A program of regional, national and international exhibitions is carried out, with an emphasis on contemporary thematic group shows that contain an

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educational or critical component, and on solo exhibitions that offer in-depth analysis of an artist’s production.

The Charles H. Scott Gallery provides leadership in the community by initiating projects that involve the public, Emily Carr and artistic communities in a dialogue about the development of critical practice in art and design.

Support is given to architecture, design and cross-disciplinary practice, as well as new technologies and traditional media. In an effort to expand public knowledge and awareness, the Gallery sponsors lectures and symposia and is committed to the production and dissemination of publications and exhibition catalogues.

campuses GRANVILLE ISLAND CAMPUS The main campus of Emily Carr is located on Granville Island, a bustling hub of arts, culture and entertainment in the heart of Vancouver, BC, Canada. The Island is popular with both local residents and tourists, and attracts more than eight million visitors annually. The University is a well-known landmark on the Island, and its galleries and special events attract many of these visitors.

In addition to the University, the Island community includes numerous theatres, artists’ studios and galleries, restaurants, a public market, an art supplies store, a community/fitness centre, a hotel and many other facilities.

The Island is accessible by foot, vehicle and harbour ferry, and is close to several regional transit routes.

GREAT NORTHERN WAY CAMPUS The Great Northern Way Campus (GNW) is a partnership involving Emily Carr University of Art and Design, the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

At GNW, each organization is committed to building a unique and integrated

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centre of excellence in teaching, learning, research and entrepreneurship.

Collaboration is recognized as an essential goal, without duplication of what is already available on the campuses of the four partner institutions.

GNW is accessible by foot, regional transit and vehicle, and is situated in the heart of the Southeast False Creek Flats, a district undergoing significant urban renewal. The area will become a knowledge, social, and cultural hub by establishing a compelling and creative environment for regional and economic advancement.

how to apply INTERNET APPLICATION Emily Carr requires that prospective applicants apply for admission on the web through the Post Secondary Application Service of BC at ApplyBC. You can find the link to ApplyBC via the Admissions screen on our website at www.ecuad.ca. After you log in, this site will list applications for several BC post-secondary institutions. Select “Emily Carr University� and then follow the application instructions.

APPLICATION FEE A non-refundable application/portfolio evaluation fee of $40 is required for all undergraduate applications and $75 for all graduate applications.

The fee must be paid by Visa or MasterCard at the time of application.

For app li deadlin cation es, tuitio n fees + r informa elated tio www.e n, go to cuad.ca .

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The Emily Carr University of Art + Design 2011/12 Viewbook is printed on socially responsible paper made from 100% post-consumer fiber. No new trees are used in the manufacturing of this paper.

The environmental savings* for choosing this paper for our viewbook are: trees saved

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water saved (litres)

88,849

net greenhouse emissions reduced (kilos)

2,345

View Book

landfill reduced (kilos)

671

energy reduced (BTU in millions)

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GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM THE PAPER LIFECYCLE, THE TRANSPORT, AND THE PRINTING OF THIS ITEM HAVE BEEN OFFSET THROUGH INVESTMENTS IN ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND NONFOSSIL FUEL ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES.

COVER IMAGE:

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BY LIZ MAGOR, EMILY CARR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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