Post Image Lab

Upcoming event – March 23, 2016

THE POST IMAGE RESEARCH CLUSTER PRESENTS:
KAREN KRAVEN – THE JOCKEY IS A PEACOCK IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

WEDNESDAY MARCH 23, 2016 @ 6:00 pm

Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
Concordia University
1515 Saint Catherine Street W.
EV Building, Room 10.715

Karen Kraven will focus her discussion on abstraction of the body (pattern, camouflage, optical illusion and distortion) through her current research surrounding costumes and clothing worn for carnival, sport and dance. Geometric Abstraction, rooted in movements of Concretism and Op Art, now summons an antiquated technological fervour mixed with a contemporary desire to disappear.

The research began recently while in residency in Rio de Janeiro, in the context of the international residency program of the art centre Diagonale and will continue with an upcoming residency in New York City in collaboration with the Dance Notation Bureau and the Conseil des arts et des Lettres du Québec.

Found image, The Jockey is a Peacock in the World of Sport in Sports Illustrated, August 30, 1954, photographed by Richard Meek

Karen Kraven is an artist currently based in Montréal. Her installations include found images, photography and sculpture that reference sports and camouflage through investigations of clothing, sports equipment and abstract patterns. Photographs and images are a way to think about form through an exploration of optical illusions and large scale transformations in works that sometimes combine direct photography, scanning and appropriation.

Recent solo exhibitions include the ICA at the Maine College of Art, Portland, Mercer Union and 8eleven, Toronto, Parisian Laundry, Darling Foundry and Centre Clark, Montréal. Her work has recently been included in group exhibitions at Clint Roenisch Gallery and Diaz Contemporary in Toronto. Upcoming this fall is a group exhibition at La Friche, Marseilles. Her work belongs to numerous collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, RBC, TD Bank Group and Banque Nationale. Kraven has participated in residencies at Largo das Artes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the Banff Centre, Alberta. She has received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Québec Council for the Arts and is represented by Parisian Laundry in Montréal.

http://www.karenkraven.com/

Some images from our well-attended March 2 event, featuring speakers Andreas Rutkauskas and Thomas Kneubühler.

Upcoming event – March 2, 2016

THE POST IMAGE RESEARCH CLUSTER PRESENTS:
ANDREAS RUTKAUSKAS + THOMAS KNEUBÃœHLER IN CONVERSATION: STUDIO MODELS AND WORKING PROCESSES

WEDNESDAY MARCH 2, 2016 @ 6:00 pm

Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
Concordia University
1515 Saint Catherine Street W.
EV Building, Room 10.715

In conjunction with his exhibition Borderline presented at the FOFA Gallery from February 20 to April 8, Andreas Rutkauskas will engage in a conversation with Thomas Kneubühler about studio models and the resulting research process. An MFA graduate of Concordia University and former faculty member in the Studio Arts Department, Rutkauskas recently relocated to the Rocky Mountains to take on the role of Photography Facilitator at The Banff Centre. Rutkauskas will discuss how this change of location and facilities has influenced both his research and his working process, and led to an exhibition developed and produced on site at the Banff Centre as well as at the Post Image Cluster here at Concordia. Kneubühler will talk about VIA in Basel, Switzerland, an open studio model where space and equipment are shared, and the collaborations which resulted out of it.

Pocket Hints, letterpress edition of 200. Reproduction of a U.S. Customs brochure from 1981 found in the abandoned border crossing in Houlton, Maine.

Andreas Rutkauskas’ artistic approach focuses on the effect of a range of technologies on the perception, development, and exploi- tation of landscapes. Through the use of photography, video, and mapping, his recent projects address the impact of Internet-based research on wilderness recreation, cycles of industrialization and deindustrialization in Canada’s oil patch, and the subtle technologies used to survey the Canada/US border.

His work has been exhibited in solo and group contexts nationally and abroad including at Oslo8 Contemporary Photography in Basel, Switzerland, Gallery 400 in Chicago, and TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary. His project «Virtually There» was featured in the 14th edition of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, and he was a recent finalist for the Gabriele Basilico International Prize of Architecture and Landscape Photography.

www.andreasrutkauskas.com

Thomas Kneubühler’s current projects deal with Canada’s far North, where he investigates how technology and the extraction of natural resources effect the people and the land. Originally from Switzerland, he has been living in Montreal since the year 2000, where he com- pleted a MFA at Concordia University in 2003. His projects have been presented in exhibitions in both Europe and North America, among others at the Musée d’art contemporain (2011), Centre culturel canadien, Paris (2012), the Centre Pasquart Bienne (2014), the Manif d’art 7, Québec (2014), and the Videonale.15 at the Kunstmuseum Bonn (2015). In 2011 he was awarded the Pratt & Whitney Canada Prize of the Conseil des arts de Montréal, and in 2012 the Swiss Art Award by the Ministry of Culture Switzerland.

www.thomaskneubuhler.com

On November 25 we held our first event in the context of Research Activities – members of the Post Image cluster presented their ongoing research in the format of speedy Pecha Kucha presentations under 7 minutes. Presenters included Jessica Auer, David K. Ross, Raymonde April, Velibor Božović, Celia Perrin Sidarous, Katie Jung, Thomas Kneubühler. A great evening.

It was a great turnout at the Post Image Open Lab yesterday. We enjoyed the opportunity to show to the visitors all the possibilities the lab offers.

We are holding an Open Lab Day on Wednesday October 14th, from 11 am to 3 pm.

If you are planning a project or just curious about the facilities or the research cluster, stop by at the Open Lab Day and meet our staff. We will be happy to show you our equipment, and answer questions you might have.

At 12:30 there will be an Lab Tour, which will give you an overview of the facilities and some information on the cluster (duration about 30 minutes).

Some things have changed since we said goodbye to the Digital Imaging Lab on June 30th 2015, others stayed the same when we opened again as the Post Image Lab in August. Most important, we still have the same equipment, and we are still open to all Faculty and Graduate Students.

Here the important changes:

– Portable Equipment: It is no longer possible to book portable equipment via PIR. Instead, you are asked to send a booking request to postimage@concordia.ca. For details see the section Make a Booking

– New staff: Velibor Božović and Jacques Bellavance have joint the team of technical staff. Everyone is under a small part-time contract, and our office hours are from Monday to Thursday 1-6 pm, or by appointment.

– Invoices for material usages: You will pay at the same location as before, at EV 11-455, which is now the office of the Institute. For the moment, it is not possible to pay with a card, only cash and cheques are accepted.

– Email: The general e-mail address is now postimage@concordia.ca

– Post Image Cluster: As previously announced, we are now part the new cross-faculty research centre, the Institute for Digital Arts, Culture and Technology – this is the biggest change. The Post Image Cluster will organize research activities, and some of them will take place in the lab. It has its own corner, with bookshelves, tables and a computer station.

– Kitchen: On the 11th floor, the kitchen and lounge is now open daily from 9 – 6. It can be accessed by all institute members, and it a great place to meet researchers from other clusters.

– Hexagram: We used to be part of Hexagram-Concordia, which evolved into the new Institute for Digital Arts, Culture and Technology. What is still very much alive is the Hexagram network for research-creation in media arts, and some cluster members are part of it.

Space of the Post Image Cluster at EV 10-715

Starting Monday August 17th, the lab will be again open, accessible  to all Graduate Students and Faculty from Fine Arts. A couple of things have changed since we closed for restructuring over the summer. Most important, we are now part the new cross-faculty research centre, the Institute for Digital Arts, Culture and Technology. While in the past we were mostly a place for production, we will now also focus on research activities. More to come!

Change is in the air at the Digital Imaging Lab. We will operate as usual until June 30, but starting July 1st, we will become part of the new research centre under the umbrella of the [X] Institute. We will use the summer for restructuring, and the lab will be closed from July 1st to mid August. We are planning to reopen again on Monday August 17, with  access for everyone (MFA students, Faculty etc).

+ the di-lab 10 years ago, May 3rd 2005:

The Digital Imaging Lab  will operate until June 30, 2015. After that date, the future is unknown. If you want to know what is at  stake, please read the Digital Imaging Lab Status Report from April 29, 2015.

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