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(Forthcoming: 2025) “A Biography of Learning,” University of Toronto Press
The focal point for many of the activities of the media be they mainstream or alternative can be found in the often different and varied ways in which media practitioners relate to the communities of which they are a part . . .
I will weave through a series of juxtapositions in this essay drawn from a number of experiences which I have had in the "field" of ethnography . . .
The many levels of mediation which go into the production, creation and interpretation of photographs suggest a great deal about how we categorize and make judgements about sight.
From the beginning of 2007 until the summer of 2017…
Edward Madojemu is a third year Media student at Emily Carr…
I got to know Gordon within a few months of arriving…
I have been an educator, administrator, writer and creative artist for over forty years. During that time, most of the disciplines with which I have been involved have changed.
The eyes of the emperor’s brother once looked straight into a camera, in this case ‘manned’ by a photographer whose duty it was to take pictures of the rich and powerful.
Common ground, a dialogue on curiosity…
An interview with Dr.Ron Burnett…
Mort Ransen who recently died at the age of eighty-eight was a very important Canadian filmmaker and an extraordinary person.
Aside from a few shows, the material available from Netflix ranges from clichéd to super clichéd and this would not matter that much if they were not so dominant in the streaming era.
Not to Scale: How the Small Becomes Large and the Large Becomes Unthinkable and the Unthinkable Becomes Possible by Jamer Hunt (Grand Central Publishing, New York 2020)
Reviewed by Ron Burnett
In the early 2000’s, I led a design research group which was part of the New Media Innovation Centre in Vancouver. NewMic was one of those brilliant ideas that come along once in a while but are generally rare. The inventory you see below was developed in 2002.
The video and computer game industry has been developing more and more sophisticated models of interactivity to allow us to more fully explore the closeness that we have established with screen-based experiences.
“The computer is a trope, a part-for-whole-figure, for a world of actors and actants and not a Thing Acting Alone.” - Donna Haraway
This website has been redesigned to mark and illustrate the beginning of a new era. In the past it has been a repository for articles and thoughts by Ron Burnett
Founded in 1928, the CAA is both traditional and profoundly innovative.
Got a chance to interview Vancouver's arts & culture champion and my old boss at Emly Carr Sir Ron Burnett on the topic of Creative Leadership #FuelVan #thnkVan - with Ron Burnett at Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company.
To think that we are a university of art and design! And, in being this unique and specialized place we are a rarity.
Many of the teaching tools described in this video foresaw today's use of technologies in all aspects of our lives. A fascinating time capsule.
A group of Presidents from Art Schools from all over the world attended a meeting in December at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Here are some pictures.
Swiss artist and photographer Fabian Oefner is on a mission to make eye-catching art from everyday science.
Yesterday, a historic announcement! The BC government will be contributing 113 million dollars to the construction of a new campus for Emily Carr.
Over the course of a year, I receive many proposals from consultants to talk to me about the services they have and how my organization will benefit from using their knowledge
As Design moves into the mainstream of contemporary thought, collaboration among designers and many other disciplines, but especially Engineering, will be crucial for the future.
Many academic colleagues may be unaware but Vancouver, Canada, has just played host (May 29-June 3) to the largest gathering of higher education practitioners in the world,
Over the years (17 to be exact), this web site has turned into a vast enterprise.
At the conclusion of a short piece on text, literacy and the Internet, Nicholas Carr suggests the following about the digital age: "Writing will survive, but it will survive in a debased form.
So....I ended up without my phone for two hours during the working day. It needed to have its battery replaced.
Social Media are being blamed for the development of closed tribal spaces in this, one of the most challenging political and cultural landscapes I have experienced in my lifetime.
There is a detailed analysis of Snapchat in the New York Times today that deserves a read.
One of the central metaphors at the heart of the activities of New Media, both from the creation and audience side, is “interactivity.”
I have been thinking a great deal about Stereoscopic 3D cinema over the last number of years.
In 2002, the administrators of the Bettman Archive, which is one of the largest collections of photographs ever assembled . . .
Blowing up across the 3D printing Internet last week was the following video, which demonstrated a software with the ability to convert 2D photographs into complete 3D models
Elon Musk is amazing and this video portrays the future of interfaces as well as the future of design.
This presentation by MIT Professor, Neri Oxman summarizes some key points for the creative sector and 3D printing
internet • mobile phones • media studies • technology • interactivity • cinema • images • social networks • video games
I have been reflecting with sadness on the challenge of trying to bring…
Inlander was a brilliant draughtsman. In the early 1950’s renowned art critic and writer…
Inlander used windows in many of his paintings and from time to time…
This is one of Inlander’s most famous paintings, a self-portrait…
Inlander was fascinated with windows. Many of his paintings use windows to reflect on human vision, how we see and what moves us.
Inlander was fascinated by debates between abstract expressionism…
Inlander played with mirrors and reflections in many of his works…
This painting is characteristic of the later phase of Inlander’s career…
I will weave through a series of juxtapositions in this short essay drawn…
My deepest thanks to Monique Fouquet for this wonderful interpretation of…
Van der Keuken had an illustrious career and was not recognized to the degree…
painting • images • photography • design • cinema • writing • television • creativity • performance • technology • architecture • music • research • video • craft
We are in the middle of a very messy period with Covid-19 in Canada…
A series of thoughts and notes during this time of isolation…
It struck me as ironic that Amazon bought Whole Foods just as the store was reaching the lowest point in its history and showing how superficial its understanding was of the customers who frequented it.
So here is the thing...Pokémon Go is a BIG event in the history of augmented reality…
"The world felt as if it stood behind glass, and I myself felt as if I were made out of glass…
Science is about speculation, investigation and often about results that even in their
Take a moment and close your eyes and picture outer space that is, the space of travel…
A TED talk by Amanda Palmer…
In the first few minutes of Moulin Rouge, the film by director Baz Luhrmann, two major references are made…
On this day, December, 14 2012, we mourn the victims of a senseless and despicable murder…
It was an overcast day in 1977 when the great writer and Quebec nationalist, Hubert Aquin, committed suicide
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Some years ago, I was a Professor of Film and Cultural Studies at McGill University. I taught a class I deeply loved with over six hundred students in it.