Project Title

Sharable Learning Object

Contact Person

Leah MacVie, Instructional Designer

Phone: 716-888-2418

Email: macviel@canisius.edu

Project Description

What: Students are to be paired with instructors to develop a sharable learning object, such as a video, simulation, or Web site that can be shared across the College and across courses. The instructors will supply students with the content and the students will come up with their own project about the content. To be clear, the project medium is completely up to the student.

Why: There are many areas of education to branch into as a Digital Media Arts student, including content development, product design, and promotional materials. This project is great real-world experience for anyone interested in widening their portfolio focus.

When: Each pairing will have one semester to work on the project and will present the content at Digital Day 2011.

How: This project is to be sponsored by the new Online Learning Community at Canisius College, coming Fall 2010.

If interested, please contact Leah MacVie, Instructional Designer.

Resources/Skills needed

Any, the project medium is completely up to the student.

The Polish-American Photo-Workshop Exhibition 2010 opens on Ignatian Scholarship Day at the Alumni Hall, which connects Old Main and the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library. The exhibition will continue for the remaining of the semester.

Participants from Canisius College: Michael Belfatto (DMA – ’12), Christina Constabile (DMA, COM – ’10), Kelly Jackson (DMA – ’11), Jenna Milne (DMA – ’11)

Participants from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw: Cisowska Katarzyna, Ćwiertniewski Krzysztof, Faryno Dominika, Grela Magdalena, Grochowska Joanna, Jerzynowski Grzegorz, Knur Tycjan, Kochnikiewicz Małgorzata, Kostrzewa Wojciech, Mielcarek Marta, Mikołajczuk Natalia, Milun Ewa Marta, Musielak Michalina, Muszyńska Magdalena, Nowicka Anna, Smogorzelska Małgorzata, Tomsia Szymon, Wojciechowska Maria

Faculty Mentors: Przemyslaw J. Moskal (Digital Media Arts Program, Communication Studies Department), Dr. Justine Price (Art History Department)

Photography has come to shape our culture and the way we see the world. Until recently it was inconceivable that the line separating disciplines such as painting and etching from photography could ever be crossed. The wealth of possibilities photography has to offer was explored by the participants of this year’s Polish-American photography workshop in Monastir, Tunisia (January 7-14, 2010), lead by Dr. Mariusz Dąbrowski from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in Poland and Dr. Justine Price from Art History Department at Canisius College.

Polish-American Photo-Workshop

EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL OSNABRUECK
21 – 25 April 2010
21 April – 23 May 2010

www.emaf.de

// CALL FOR ENTRIES

// WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE EMAF BY 15 DECEMBER 2009

// INFOS AND APPLICATION DOCUMENTS FOR YOUR PROJECT CAN BE FOUND AT WWW.EMAF.DE

The motto of the 2010 festival is MASH UP, reflected in film programmes, lectures and specials.

Today, the reinterpretation and re-coding of media content, works of art and music take place in popular culture and art alike. In the process, mashing up citations and references evolves into the aesthetic, satirical and subversive stylistic device, where it also infringes on the rights of third parties.

The EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art.
As a meeting point for artists, curators, lenders, gallery owners and an audience of specialists, the festival has had a great impact on the topic and aesthetics of Media Art. Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of experimental films, installations, performances, digital formats and hybrid forms, ranging from personal and political subjects or formal experiments to provocative statements.

// AWARDS
At the festival an international jury will present the >EMAF Award< for a trend-setting work in Media Art and the >Dialogpreis< of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the promotion of intercultural exchange. Furthermore, the jury of the German Federal Association of Film Journalists will award the prize for the best German experimental film.

// CINEMA Experimental shorts and feature films, music videos, new forms of narration and documentation as well as specials

// EXHIBITION The latest installations from 21 April to 23 May 2010 in the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche..

// EXPANDED MEDIA Artistic projects of digital media, performances, music and sound projects, as well as the latest concepts from  expanded media.

//MEDIA CAMPUS The contact and project exchange for new projects, tendencies and training concepts from the media universities, academies of art and design colleges of Europe.

// CONGRESS Discussions and issues covering the various elements of the festival in talks, workshops, artist presentations and panel discussions.

We warmly invite you to discover the fascination of the experimental with us in April 2010.

Concept and directors board: Hermann Nöring, Alfred Rotert, Ralf Sausmikat

// SPONSORS
nordmedia – Die Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH
Stadt Osnabrueck
Auswaertiges Amt, Berlin
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Berlin
EU Funding EFRE
as well as donations from further sponsors.

Contact/Address/Postal:

European Media Art Festival
Lohstrasse 45 a,
D-49074 Osnabrueck

phone +49 (0) 5 41 – 2 16 58,
fax   +49 (0) 5 41 – 2 83 27,
mail: info(at)emaf.de
www.emaf.de

The human countenance first left its trace upon a photographic surface in 1838.  In one of his early tests, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, one of the inventors of the new photographic medium, captured the view from his studio.  In the photograph, Boulevard du Temple, Paris (seen here),  the sidewalks appear empty.  In truth, the boulevard had been bustling with people.  Their movement—normal walking speed—allowed their images to elude capture by the nascent, still-slow photographic process.  Only one person stood still long enough to have his image register: the fellow with his foot resting on a pump in the lower left-hand corner.  History has not recorded his name.

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre: Boulevard du Temple, Paris, c.1838.

The Daguerreotype, named for its inventor, was announced publicly in France in 1839.  The new medium bore little resemblance to our modern concept of the replicative, paperweight photograph. Daguerreotypes were printed on hefty copper or brass plates, they were unique, and they had extremely fragile surfaces that were also extremely detailed. (We would say „high-resolution“ today.) The desire to capture the portrait in less time was the main motivation for Daguerre to improve the recording speed of his invention.  Indeed, the human face, our collective countenance, was the most popular subject in the first decades of the existence of photography.

Przemyslaw Moskal, in his work „Painting with Pixels“ brings the problem of portraiture into our contemporary times.  Portrait photography has always relied upon the co-operation—voluntary or not—of the photographer and the sitter.  (Police mug shots became a popular and useful representation as early as 1852.)  Thanks to modern digitization, we have the chance—the choice—to register our own portrait here in „Painting with Pixels“.  If only for the moment.  Like Daguerre’s boulevard walkers, our images are not fixed permanently.  The play of our movements and the passing of time both register on the pixelated surface of the screen.  The effect is of an abstract (portrait) painting, here animated by Moskal for our digital era.

~ Justine Price, Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Canisus College, August 2009

View Moskal’s “Reflections: Painting With Pixels”

exhibit starting monday the 31st in the 4th floor gallery in Lyons. Come check it out.

ArtsCanisius Presents:
The Outskirts of the Photographic Image: Wojnecki-Prażmowski-Dąbrowski
Magdalena Durda-Dmitruk, curator and faculty at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland, presents the work of three of the most visible photographers working in Poland today, all of whom investigate the potential of photography and new media.

Opening Receptions on Wednesday, 26 August from 5–7 p.m. (in two locations):
The Peter A. and Mary Lou Vogt Gallery in the Bouwhuis Library
The reception hall of the Montante Cultural Center

Public Lecture, free and open to the public, on Thursday, 27 August at 2:30 p.m. in Regis
(immediately following the Mass of the Holy Spirit):
Magdalena Durda-Dmitruk, “Beyond the Photographic Frame: Curating Contemporary Polish Photography”

Professor Durda-Dmitruk’s residency at Canisius College was made possible by the generous support of ArtsCanisius, the Department of Fine Arts, the Digital Media Arts Program, the Department of Communication Studies, the Department of Modern Languages and the Office of Academic Affairs.

Photograph by Mariusz Dabrowski

The Polish-American Photo Workshop Exhibition opened last Friday, April 17 during the Ignatian Scholarship Day in Alumni Hallway, the corridor that connects Old Main to the Bouwhuis Library. The exhibition is a result of a photography workshop organized by prof. P.J. Moskal (Digital Media Arts Program, Canisius College) and prof. Mariusz Dabrowski (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in Poland). The workshop took place in the north African country of Tunisia in January of 2009. Four Canisius College students attended the workshop along with Academy students from Warsaw.  The exhibition is curated by Ms Magda Sykulska, a doctoral candidate at the Academy, who visited Canisius College and who also gave a presentation in the class of prof. Justine Price about prof. Dabrowski’s photography teaching techniques. This exhibition was recently presented in Poland at the Museum Palace at Wilanow, a former royal residence and one of the most prominent museums in Poland. The exhibition will be on view till Friday, April 24th, 2009.

Click here to view the catalog of the exhibition (4.1 MB pdf format).

Students participating in the exhibition are:

Anna Łuczak (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Christopher Cox (Canisius College)
Dominik Kosik (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)

Dominik Kosik (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)

Jan Stefanski (Canisius College)
John Minieri (Canisius College)
Kristian Charnick (Canisius College)

Krzysztof Ćwiertniewski (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Leszek Margasiński (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Magdalena Grela (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Magdalena Sykulska (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)

Mariusz Dąbrowski (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Matevs Cas (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Natalia Mikolajczuk (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)

Szynon Tomsia (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Wojciech Kstrzewa (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Curator: Magdalena Sykulska