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Dave Dyment is a Toronto based artist whose work encompasses audio, video, photography, writing, curating and the production of artists’ books and multiples. He has exhibited across the country and was recently included in the Montreal Biennale. Many of his recent projects have been in response to site-specific histories (the Power Plant archives, The Walper Hotel in Kitchener and the Given-Shaw public school archives). In 2008 he was the artist in residence at the Glenfiddich Distilleries in Northern Scotland, where he produced a 100-year barrel of whiskey.

Tanya Doody is a Canadian artist working in a variety of media including performance, video, ceramics and sculpture. Her work revolves around craftivist strategies, performative acts, and poetic gestures.

The Department of Philosophy will present the following research presentation.

Bertrand Russell, Free-Will in Early Modern Philosophy, the Problem of Evil, and (in particular) David Hume and the Radical Enlightenment
Guest Speaker:  Anders Kraal (UBC)
Monday, February 29, 2016
3:00 p.m.
C-640 (University Hall)

First Session: March 1, 2016  from 10:30am - 11:30am

Second Session: March 3, 2016 from 9:30am - 10:30am

Both sessions contain the same content and run two people at a time in 10 minute intervals. The workshops will take place in W850. Register for one spot only, please.

Register here.

CrossingNewfoundland. Jordan has shown extensively in Canada and abroad, in venues such as The Museum of Art and Design,NYC, NY; Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Project Space Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, AUS; ThePower Plant, Toronto, ON; MusŽe d'art contemporain de MontrŽal, Montreal, QC; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France;The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC and most recently was one of two artists to represent Newfoundland and Labrador in the 2015 Venice Biennial at Galleria Ca’Rezzonico, Venice, Italy as part of the official Collateral Events.

"Recent Calgary architecture in the context of global trends"

The Department of Philosophy will present the following research presentation.

Reasoning by Precedent
Guest Speaker:  Katharina Stevens (McMaster University)
Friday, February 26, 2016
3:00 p.m.
L-1050

Some materials provided or bring your own.

Free activity on a drop-in basis!

Generating artistic spectacle through the intersection of cinema, sculpture, theater and technology, Heidi Kumao reframes ordinary gestures to explore their psychological underside.  Her interests have manifesteGd a wide range of hybrid art forms including: a game interface which empowers users to hack live CNN broadcasts, provocative electronic clothing, electromechanical girl’s legs that “misbehave,” experimental animations, and narrative video sculptures.  Many of her works feature a minimalist theater set, a site for presenting simple actions such as wr