ONSITE/onward: Art/Design and Public Spaces
What role does public art and design play in our everyday urban experience? Join us for a conversation on art/design and public spaces, presented by Onsite Gallery in partnership with Design Exchange.
Featuring:
Nicole Beno graphic designer and visual artist
Karen Carter Executive Director of the Myseum of Toronto
Shawn Micallef author and weekly columnist at the Toronto Star
Ala Roushan OCAD U Assistant Professor, Faculty of Design
with Nina Boccia as moderator Director of Programs at Design Exchange
Tuesday, April 5, 6:30 p.m.
100 McCaul St.
Auditorium, Room 190
Event is FREE, all are welcome
Space is wheelchair accessible
This talk formally launches a public work by Nicole Beno that celebrates Onsite Gallerys upcoming move. View Benos larger-than-life vinyl mural on the window faade of 230 Richmond St. W., directly across from the gallerys new location. From April 2016 to May 2017. Curated by Linda Columbus.
Nicole Beno
Nicole Beno is a graphic designer and visual artist from Toronto, working with bold colours, layers and screen printed compositions. Her playful process combines hand drawings, materials, and textures with computer generated illustrations to form a unique graphic style.
Onsite Gallery is pleased to present a public non-commercial graphic design vinyl work installed on the two-storey street-level exterior window surface of 230 Richmond St. W. the former site of Onsite Gallery which directly faces the gallerys future location across the street at 199 Richmond St. W.
Karen Carter
Karen Carter is the Executive Director of the Myseum of Toronto an innovative approach to the museum experience, and a new way to experience Torontos natural spaces, cultures, history, archaeology and architecture. She has over 20 years experience working and volunteering in a variety of cultural and educational settings in Toronto. She is the co-founder and Chair of Black Artists Networks Dialogue BAND, an organization dedicated to the promotion of Black arts and culture in Canada and abroad. Karen is also the Program Coordinator and faculty member for the Culture and Heritage Site Management program at Centennial Colleges Story Arts Centre.
Shawn Micallef
Shawn Micallef is the author of The Trouble With Brunch: Work, Class, & the Pursuit of Leisure, Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto and Full Frontal TO nominated for the 2013 Toronto Book Award, a weekly columnist at the Toronto Star, and a senior editor and co-owner of the independent, Jane Jacobs Prizewinning magazine Spacing. Shawn teaches at the University of Toronto and was a 2011-2012 Canadian Journalism Fellow at University of Torontos Massey College. In 2002, while a resident at the Canadian Film Centres Media Lab, he co-founded [murmur], the location-based mobile phone documentary project that has spread to over 20 cities globally. Shawn is the Toronto Public Librarys urban-focused Writer in Residence until December 2013.
Ala Roushan
Ala Roushan is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Design at OCAD University and a Ph.D. candidate at the European Graduate School focused on Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought of the Digital. She is engaged in speculative design research, writing, curatorial practice and teaching through which she explores the boundaries of design, art and architecture. She is the co-curator/co-director of flip project space, a curatorial project for contemporary art based in Napoli, Italy. Through exhibitions and printed publications flip addresses various aspects of contemporary artistic practice by reevaluating the intricate networks between object, content, concept, form and space.
Nina Boccia
Nina Boccia is the Director of Programs at Design Exchange, Canadas only museum dedicated exclusively to the pursuit of design excellence and preservation of design heritage. Nina was previously the Managing Editor at Designlines magazine, Torontos ultimate guide to design, and the Associate Editor of Azure magazine, where she wrote about design and architecture. She has interviewed some of contemporary design and architectures leading talents including Stefan Sagmeister, Philippe Starck, Rem Koolhaas, and Patrizia Moroso.
Onsite [at] Ocadu
Onsite Gallery, OCAD Universitys public gallery and experimental curatorial platform for art, design and digital media, fosters social and cultural transformations. In preparation for the launch of Onsite Gallerys new location in May 2017, our 2016 ONSITE/ programming imagines and creates what a public gallery can be.
Onsite Gallerys education program is generously supported by Nexus Investment Management.
Design Exchange
Design Exchange, a not-for-profit museum funded by its members and donors, is Canadas only museum dedicated exclusively to the pursuit of design excellence and preservation of design heritage. At the crossroads of multiple disciplines, their programs are curated to reflect the popular zeitgeist and contemporary culture while demonstrating the relevance and importance of design to everyday life. DX is committed to delivering accessible design experiences and education and it aims to provide the tools necessary to connect design learning to the ordinary and extraordinary.
