Faculty of Communication & Design

Light Up The Night

On September 29th, 2007, the City of Toronto ’s downtown core will come alive with the second annual Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, a ‘contemporary art thing’ running from 7:03 p.m. until sunrise.

Ryerson University ’s light up the night will consist of 3 exhibit areas:

• one location at the Ryerson campus on the first floor of the Chang School for Continuing Education and in Devonian Square, and
• two other locations off campus on Queen Street:
  • Gladstone Art Bar
  • Camera

Ryerson exhibitions have been curated through the Faculty of Communication & Design (FCAD) and include Schools within FCAD as well as other Schools and Deparments on campus. Participating Schools include:

• Department of Architectural Science
• School of Fashion
• School of Interior Design
• School of Image Arts (film, photography and new media)
• Theatre School (performance, production)
• and the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education

LOCATIONS AND EXHIBITS

Location 1:  Scotiabank Nuit Blanche at Ryerson University

Ryerson University is proud to present the following artistic works created by faculty, students, and/or alumni from the Schools of Fashion, Image Arts, Interior Design, and Theatre in the Faculty of Communication & Design (FCAD), and the Department of Architectural Science with the generous support of the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University .

Devonian Square
corner of Victoria St. and Gould St .

• Located in Devonian Pond, this affectionate poke at the City of Toronto ’s approved low flush 6 litre toilets takes a tongue in cheek attitude portraying these utilitarian objects as design fetishes.
  
  Ode to the Porcelain Gods
  Artist Ryerson University : School of Interior Design and Theatre School, with the generous support of American Standard, Kohler, Vortens and TAPS.

• Located on the south east corner of Devonian Square, two performance pieces developed by Theatre School students as exercises in their first year creative performance, portray movement-text responses to chosen pieces of art.
  
  Go Down Burning
  Created and Performed by: Taryn Brandt, Paul Chabonneau, Darla Forward, Melissa Haddad, Christina Opolko, and Amelia Sargisson
  
  My Mother At Prayer
  Created and Performed by: Stephanie Bye, Sochi Fried, Anika Johnson, Megahan McNicol, and Molly Shanahan

• Located on the south-west corner of Devonian Square, this undergraduate thesis creates an architectural response to the nearby Dundas Square, that evokes a spiritual experience with water as a contrast to the Square's immensely commercialized context.
  
  Steps to Water
  Artist Priyanka Bista, Department of Architectural Science

• Various design creations from students in the School of Fashion

Heaslip House, Raymond G. Chang School of Continuing Education
297 Victoria St. , 1st floor

• This interactive game allows the user to assume the role of a truck driver delivering commodities across America .
  
  Road Thang
  Artist Orest Szopiak, School of Image Arts

• This interactive narrative allows the user to take the role of an amnesiac lost in a world in which they have no memory.

  Hyperbound
  Artist Michael Iantorno, School of Image Arts

• An exploration of family, this installation examines the way in which our lives are constructed of memories, represented by both figures and hand-stitched slides.

  Horace
  Artist Vanessa Leggett, School of Image Arts

• This mult-channel film and video installation with audio portrays September 28th, 2006 at 9:30 p.m. as perceived by 19 different artists.

  SSDE
  Producer Brad Dworkin, School of Image Arts
  Artists (School of Image Arts) Dani Alon, Alex Bateman, Nikolai Beeby, Adam Brown, Joe Ciaravino, John Cole, Ben Edelberg, Brandon Forsyth, Andréanne Germain, Kathleen Mackey, Dan Montgomery, Leigh Nunan, Salini Perera, Jessica Poyton, Anna Rolek, Dylan Spencer, Charles Taylor, Rob Tagliaferri, Sarah Topp  
  Technical Installation by Scot McLeod, Theatre School

• Various design creations from students in the School of Fashion

Location 2 :  Ryerson University at Camera, 1028 Queen Street West

Ryerson University is proud to present the following artistic works created by faculty, students, and/or alumni from the School of Image Arts in the Faculty of Communication & Design (FCAD), and the program in Communication & Culture in the School of Graduate Studies .

FILMS (School of Image Arts)::

• R. Bruce Elder, Michael Snow (interviews with the artists)
  By: Frédéric Papon (le Fresnoy) and Pierre Tremblay ( School of Image Arts ) with the collaboration of students. A le Fresnoy and Ryerson University co-production supported by the Consulate General of France in Toronto

• 4C
  Directed by: Angela Joosse, Communication and Culture

• Echo
  Directed by: Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Communication and Culture

• Outside Sarajevo
  Directed by: Ajilal Odobasic, Communication and Culture

• Paricutin
  Ericka Loic, Communicaiton and Culture

• Pulsions
  Directed by: Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Communication and Culture

• Shapes Eat Shapes
  Directed by: Angela Joosse, Communication and Culture

• Song of the Firefly
  Directed by: Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Communication and Culture

PHOTOGRAPHY (School of Image Arts)::

• When Brothers Fight (The Gaza Strip)
  Artist: Dominic Nahr, School of Image Arts

• The American Civil Rights Movement
  Ryerson’s Black Star Historical Black and White Photography Collection

Location 3: Ryerson University at Gladstone Art Bar, 1214 Queen St. West

Ryerson University is proud to present the following artistic works created by students and alumni from the School of Image Arts in the Faculty of Communication & Design.

ARTWORK ( School of Image Arts):

• Exodus: The Ten Plagues
  Artist: Talia Shipman

• pEOPLE oF tHE cOI
  Artist: Daniel Garcia

FILMS ( School of Image Arts):

• Apples and Oranges
  Produced and Directed by: Darrell Faria

• The Astounding Alfonzo
  Directed by: Michael Pierro; Produced by: Kevin Krikst

• Billy Bites People
  Directed by: William Allinson; Produced by: Kyle Wilson

• Cityline Blues: Sights & Sounds
  Produced and Directed by: Judith Clancy

• Dancing Shoes
  Directed and Produced by: Megan Mills

• Even With The Thunder Gone
  Directed by: Katie Hawrysh; Produced by: Yazzad Rabadi

• In Thee Out Never
  Produced and Directed by: Jessie Oliver-Laird

• Life in the Shadows
  Produced and Directed by: Jessie Oliver-Laird

• The Nastiworths
  Directed by: Kristina Durst ; Produced by: Jessica Thom

• Pierre La Rock
  Directed by: Mary Gerretsen; Produced by: Kyle Wilson

• Polycotton and the Catholic Girl
  Directed by Henry Li (G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education)

• Smokestack
  Directed by: Dylan Spencer; Produced by: Yim Hung Kung & Jessamyn Horsman

• Storm
  Directed by: Christina Rennick (G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education)

• Too Shane
  Directed by: Laura daSilva; Produced by: Kyle Wilson

• Traumrauber
  Directed by: Jennifer Kassabian; Produced by: Darrell Faria

• Tweed Dobbs
  Directed by: Stephen Crosby; Produced by: Razvan Anton

• Upside-Down Girl
  Directed by: James Vandewater; Produced by: Kevin Krikst

• 113%
  Directed by: Marayna Dickinson; Produced by: Kevin Krikst