VISITING EXPERTS
OCAD University regularly invites visiting lecturers — notable artists and designers, scholars, researchers and theorists — to share their thought-provoking ideas and experiences with our community, to engage audiences, stimulate new thinking and enrich the learning environment. In addition, OCAD U regularly holds engaging community events that highlight the achievements and explorations of students and faculty. These presentations have been preserved here for your interest and enjoyment as video streamed content (Quicktime).
New Forces in French Design: Cédric Morisset
Presented by the Faculty of Design and the Consulate General of France, September 15, 2011.
New Forces in French Design: Dominique Jakob and Brendan MacFarlane of Jakob+MacFarlane
Presented by the Faculty of Design and the Consulate General of France, September 22, 2011.
Art Creates Change: The Kym Pruesse Speaker Series: Ricardo Dominguez
Presented by the Faculty of Art & e-fagia, September 13, 2011.
Ecology.Design.Synergy: Stephan Lanz & Graeme Stewart
"Reclaiming the City: The Architect/Planner as Eco-Urbanist"
Presented by the Goethe-Institut Toronto in cooperation with the Faculty of Design and MaRS Centre, April 7, 2011.
smart & OCAD U Student Competition Launch
The Faculty of Art invited fourth-year students to the launch and information session of the smart & OCAD U student competition. Mr. Richard Trevisan, Director of smart, presented at the session on October 12, 2011.
Ecology.Design.Synergy: Barbara Hoidn & George Stockton
Presented by Goethe-Institut Toronto in cooperation with OCAD University and MaRS Centre, March 9, 2011.
CraftTalks: Craft - Shifting Directions
Presented by the Ontario Crafts Council and OCAD University, March 9, 2011.
Dr. Jeanne Randolph: "The Art of Ethics"
A free talk presented by OCAD U's Graduate Studies office, March 10, 2011.
David Small: "Small Firm on a Boisterous Sea"
Part of the Torch-sLab Unfinished Lecture Series, March 3, 2011.
Marian Bantjes
A free public talk, presented in conjunction with Bantjes' first solo show in Canada, in Onsite [at] OCAD U. March 2, 2011.
Design for Conversation: How to "Tummel" Lecture and UnPresenting Workshop with Heather Gold
Part of the Torch-sLab Unfinished Lecture Series, February 16, 2011.
CraftTalks: Goss Design Studio - A Study in Tenacity
Presented by the Ontario Crafts Council and OCAD University, February 9, 2011.
Susan Buck-Morss: "Inheriting Culture: History in a Communist Mode"
Part of the Art Creates Change: Kym Pruesse Speaker Series, and presented in conjunction with Adel Abdessemed: The Future of Décor, an exhibition in Onsite [at] OCAD U; February 3, 2011.
Rachel Wingfield: "ArchiLace: Ecomimetic Space Design"
Part of the Faculty of Design Speaker Series, January 27, 2011.
Dan Saffer: "The Complexity of Simplicity in Design"
Part of the Torch-sLab Unfinished Lecture Series, January 20, 2011.
Kim Herforth Nielsen: "How Architecture Shapes Behaviour"
Part of the Faculty of Design Speaker Series, November 12, 2010.
Adam Greenfield & Nurri Kim: "Elements of a Networked Urbanism"
Part of the Torch-sLab Unfinished Lecture Series, November 11, 2010.
Nomadic Resident Adel Abdessemed
OCADU's fifth Nomadic Resident, Adel Abdessemed, in conversation with OCADU Curator Charles Reeve, November 25, 2010. Nomadic Residents, a program of the Faculty of Art, is generously supported by the Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation. Abdessemed’s exhibition The Future of Décor is generously supported by Culturesfrance, the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and the French Consulate in Toronto, and continues until February 13, 2011 at Onsite [at] OCADU.
Paul Raff: "Radical Situations"
Part of the Faculty of Design Speaker Series, October 21, 2010.
Ambarien Alqadar & Samina Mishra: "Documentaries from Jamia Nagar"
Part of the Faculty of Art, Art Creates Change: The Kym Pruesse Speaker Series, October 13, 2010.
Friedrich von Borries in conversation with Philip Beesley
Part of Ecology.Design.Synergy, presented in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Toronto, October 7, 2010.
Dr. Christiane Paul: "Media Art Politics"
Part of the President's Speaker Series, October 6, 2010.
Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani
Part of the CROSSMEDIAL Artists Residency, presented in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Toronto, September 30, 2010.
Dr. Vandana Shiva: "Soil not Oil"
Part of the President's Speaker Series, April 6, 2010.
Dr. Sara Diamond and Canada 3.0
Dr. Diamond, President of OCAD, expresses the importance of attending Canada 3.0, April 1, 2010.
Gary Panter
Part of the Faculty of Design Speaker Series, March 24, 2010.
Debera Johnson: "Incubating the Future of Design Education"
Part of the Unfinished Lecture Series, March 24, 2010.
Axel Kufus and Marc Piesbergen; Design Reaktor Berlin: "Design Thinking and Open Innovation"
Co-presented by the Goethe-Institut Toronto and OCAD, March 23, 2010.
"The New Ecology of Learning"
Dr. Vladimir Spicanovic
Martha Ladly
Julian Goss
Bonnie Devine
A discussion of the New Ecology of Learning, one of the cornerstones of OCAD’s Strategic Plan, March 17, 2010.
Jamelie Hassan
Part of the Art Creates Change: The Kym Pruesse Speaker Series, February 17, 2010.
Craft: Shifting Directions
Part of the CraftTalks Series, February 11, 2010.
Henry Hong-Yiu Cheung: "From Artifact to Transformation"
Part of the Unfinished Lecture Series, February 11, 2010.
Golan Levin
Part of the Faculty of Design Speaker Series, February 4, 2010.
Ian Connacher: Addicted to Plastic
Part of the Art Creates Change: The Kym Pruesse Speaker Series, February 3, 2010.
Will Alsop: "Reassembly Required"
Presented in conjunction with the launch of OCAD’s annual Design Competition and the Toronto International Design Festival, January 20, 2010.
David Eaves: "After the Collapse: Technology, Open and the Future of Government"
Part of the Unfinished Lecture Series, January 14, 2010.
Unity & Diversity in Review: Canadian Craft in Korea
Part of the CraftTalks speaker series, January 11, 2010.
Dr. Vladimir Spicanovic
A talk by Faculty of Art Decanal candidate Dr. Vladimir Spicanovic, November 26, 2009.
Dr. Glenn Adamson: "Rethinking Postmodernism"
Part of the President's Speaker Series, November 17, 2009
Dr. Adamson is Deputy Head of Research and Head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he leads a graduate program in the History of Design.
Nathan Shedroff: "Design is the Problem"
Part of the Unfinished Lecture Series, November 5, 2009.
Shedroff is the chair of the ground-breaking MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, CA.
Hal Foster: "How To Survive Civilization, Or What Dada Can Still Teach Us"
Foster's presentation was part of his Nomadic Residency, November 3, 2009
Widely considered one of postmodernism’s founding theorists, Foster has participated urgently in the critical and historical investigation of avant-garde art for almost thirty years, producing a body of writing that has informed the practices of many contemporary artists.
Chris Messina: "Open Web: Identity is the Platform"
Part of the Unfinished Lecture Series, October 20, 2009.
Messina runs Citizen Agency, and is the co-founder of the Flock web browser. He also led the community marketing of Firefox.
Dr. Diana Taylor: "The Digital As Anti-Archive?"
Part of the President's Speaker Series, October 15, 2009
Dr. Taylor is Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University.
Dr. Glyn Davis: "Trauma in Margate"; Tracey Emin's "Top Spot"
October 8, 2009
British artist Tracey Emin recently celebrated twenty years of prolific output with a major retrospective exhibition in Edinburgh that featured her installations, tapestries, lithographs, and film work. Dr. Glyn Davis is Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies at Glasgow School of Art.
Material Art & Design Program Video, for Cheongju International Craft Bienniale, 2009, Republic of Korea.
August de los Reyes: "Design and the Emotion Commotion"
Part of the President's Speaker Series, September 23, 2009
August de los Reyes, Principal Design Director for Microsoft Surface.
Dave Gray: "Knowledge Games: A Grammar for Creativity and Innovation"
Part of the Unfinished Lecture series, September 22, 2009
Dave Gray is the founder and chairman of XPLANE Corp., an information design consultancy serving Fortune 100, NGO and government clients around the world. An artist, journalist and information designer, he is passionate about applied creativity.
Thomas Fairbairn: "Finding your Dream Job"
A workshop for students led by Thomas Fairbairn, OCAD Career Services Advisor, September 2, 2009.
OCAD+ 94th Annual Graduate Exhibition, Medal Winners
May, 2009
H1N1: A Doctor's Answers
Reducing Your Risk of H1N1 Influenza
Presented by OCAD's Health & Wellness Centre, September 11, 2009
Craig Porter: Summer Portfolio Intensive Lecture
July 23, 2009
Craig Porter’s new body of work sets out to explore the tension of delicacy and destruction, employing various mould making, casting techniques and meshing diverse objects such as tentacles and yams; chrome Zeppelins and deer; chicken feet and scaffold into an intricate web of histories and fabrications.
Catherine Heard: Summer Portfolio Intensive Lecture
July 22, 2009
Catherine Heard has exhibited extensively in Canada, the US and internationally since graduating from OCAD in 1990.
Gord Peteran: Summer Portfolio Intensive Lecture
July 21, 2009
Faculty of Design Professor Gordon Peteran has been creating site-specific works of art and furniture for private and public spaces since 1979. He has exhibited and lectured extensively.
MEIC 3: Mobile Experience Innovation Centre Event
July 9, 2009
The MEIC is a public-private consortium led by OCAD and funded through the Entertainment and Creative Clusters Partnership Fund, Ontario Media Development Corporation).
The Path of Most Resistance: Panel Discussion
Presented by the OCAD Professional Gallery, June 26, 2009
Panel discussion with artists Elizabeth McIntosh, Nestor Kruger, Alexis Harding and Daniel Raedeke.
Memorial: Celebrate the Life of Kym Pruesse
A video in memory of Associate Professor (January 14, 1961-June 18, 2009) artist, activist, educator, friend.
Abigail E. Disney: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Part of the Unfinished Lecture series, June 15, 2009
Abigail E. Disney (Producer) is Founder and the President of the Daphne Foundation, a progressive, social change Foundation that makes grants to grassroots, community-based organizations working with low-income communities in New York City.
Aboriginal Visual Culture Symposium on Epistemological Difference, Part 1 and Part 2
Presented by OCAD's Aboriginal Visual Culture program, May 28, 2009
Presenters: Steve Loft, Aboriginal Curatorial Resident, National Gallery of Canada; Gerald McMaster, Canadian Curator, Art Gallery of Ontario; Duke Redbird, Advisor/Mentor, OCAD.
Discovering the Future of Interactive Entertainment
An sLab Explorations special event: April 3, 2009
Karen Stephenson: "Social Networking Beyond Organization"
Part of the Unfinished Lecture series, March 31, 2009
Dr. Karen Stephenson is a corporate anthropologist and a pioneer and "leader in the growing field of social-network business consultants," hailed by Business 2.0 as "The Organization Woman."
Nigel Dickson
Presented by First-year Art & Design, March 19, 2009
Nigel Dickson is an international award-winning photographer whose work has been published by such magazines as Toronto Life, Details, Esquire, Saturday Night, Forbes, Business Week, The Globe and Mail, Rolling Stone, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Weekend, Chatelaine, and Fast Company.
Jenny Bergström: "Poetics and Politics in Design"
Part of the M.C. McCain Design Speaker Series: March 12, 2009
Jenny Bergström is a designer and researcher currently based in London and Stockholm.
Lee Maracle, Hari Krishnan, Nalo Hopkinson and Jill Carter: "Artists in the Original"
Presented by the Employment & Educational Equity Task Force Programming Committee, March 10, 2009
Dr. Marie Battiste: "Indigenous Knowledge: Roots and Routes to Learning"
Part of the President's Speaker Series, March 5, 2009
Battiste, a Mi’kmaq educator from Potlo’tek First Nations of Unama’kik, Nova Scotia, has worked actively with First Nations schools and communities as an administrator, teacher, consultant, and curriculum developer, advancing Aboriginal epistemology, languages, pedagogy, and research.
Saul Kaplan: "Creating a Real World Laboratory for Business Model Innovation"
Part of the Unfinished Lecture series, March 3, 2009
Saul Kaplan founded Rhode Island-based Business Innovation Factory (BIF) in 2005 with a mission to enable collaborative innovation.
David McIntosh: "Eternal Returns: Travels in South American Thought, Image and Ingenuity Communities"
February 24, 2009. David McIntosh is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Studies, and OCAD's first recipient of the Distinguished Researcher Award.
Natalie Jeremijenko
Part of the M.C. McCain Design Speaker Series: February 12, 2009
Natalie Jeremijenko is Director of the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, where she is an assistant professor in Art, and affiliated with the Computer Science Department.
Larry Keeley: "Towards a Science of Innovation"
Part of the Unfinished Lecture series, February 11, 2009
Larry Keeley is an innovation strategist who often wonders why people bother to listen to innovation "experts" at all.
David Serlin: "Questioning Normal - Disability, Conformity and Normalcy"
Presented by the Employment & Educational Equity Task Force Programming Committee, February 9, 2009
David Serlin is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Communication and Affiliated Faculty, Critical Gender Studies and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
Lisa Jevbratt: "Online Participatory Research to Interspecies Collaboration: Creating New Understandings of the World Through Artistic Collaborations"
Part of the President's Speaker Series, Thursday, February 5, 2009
Lisa Jevbratt is Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Scott Thomas and Rahaf Harfoush: "Innovation within the Obama Campaign"
Part of the Unfinished Lecture, January 13, 2009
Scott Thomas was the Design Director of the historic Obama Presidential campaign. Rahaf Harfoush is an Innovation and New Media Strategist who specializes in creating authentic conversations in the social media landscape.
Adam Bly: "The 21st Century Scientific Revolution: Shattering Disciplinary Boundaries Between Science, Art, Design and Culture"
Part of the President's Speaker Series, November 13, 2008
Adam Bly is the founder and CEO of Seed, a leading global media and technology company committed to advancing science and its potential to improve the state of the world.
An Evening with Lillevan
Presented by the Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media & Design program at OCAD and Goethe-Institut Toronto, October 30, 2008
Lillevan is co-founder of the visual audio group Rechenzentrum (1997–2008), whose performances and DVD releases have been acclaimed by critics and audiences alike for taking visual music, animation, bricolage and film manipulation to new levels.
Terry O'Reilly: "Why it's More Important to be Surprising than Consistent"
Part of the M.C. McCain Design Speaker Series: October 23, 2008
Terry O'Reilly is a writer/director and CBC Radio One host. He has worked in the creative departments of some of the most award-winning ad agencies in Canada, including Campbell-Ewald, Lowe Goodgoll, DDB and TBWA\Chiat\Day.
Cheryl L'Hirondelle
Presented by the Faculty of Art, October 15, 2008
Cheryl L’Hirondelle (a.k.a. Waynohtêw, Cheryl Koprek) is an Alberta-born artist and musician of Metis/Cree non-status/treaty, French, German, and Polish descent. Her creative practice is an investigation of the junction of a Cree worldview (nêhiyawin) in contemporary time and space.
Nomadic Resident: ORLAN
Presented with support from Partners in Art, September 30, 2008
From plastic surgery interventions and performances to photography and digital works, ORLAN has been a formidable presence in contemporary art for over four decades.
Shri Shashank Mehta: "Design in India: A Paradigm of Ascension"
Presented by the Office of Graduate Studies and the Faculty of Design, September 23, 2008
Professor Mehta is a Mechanical Engineer and a Post Graduate in Industrial Design (Product Design), and is the Activity Chairperson, Research & Publications at India’s esteemed National Institute of Design (NID).
Julie Andreyev
Part of Art Creates Change, April 2, 2008
Julie Andreyev is a Vancouver-based artist whose practice explores the social and spatial character of the city using mobility and performance; and animal consciousness through interactive installation and video.
Gary Clement: "Illustrative Reactivism: Responding to Current Events with a Sharp Pen"
Part of the President's Speaker Series, March 19, 2008
Gary Clement is a writer, illustrator and is Editorial Cartoonist for the National Post.
Undercover: A First-year Faculty of Art Great Hall Event
March 13, 2008
OCAD First-year students from the Faculty of Art perform in a fun, competitive 'fashion show' of wearable art by students in the course Experimental Art and Creative Process & Research, facilitated by faculty members William Hodge, Jennifer Long, Judith Tinkl and Colette Whiten.
Tali Krakowsky: "Algorithmic Anthologies: The Architecture of Play"
Part of the Faculty of Design Speaker Series, February 27, 2008
Tali Krakowsky, Director of Experience Design for Imaginary Forces, has been extensively involved for the last five years in concept development, management and development of the division and its projects in both the New York and Los Angeles offices.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Presented by Nomadic Residents and the OCAD Professional Gallery, April 4, 2007
Internationally acclaimed artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, who graduated from OCAD in 1984, in conversation with Charles Reeve, Assistant Professor and Curator, OCAD Professional Gallery.
Camille Utterback
Part of Art Creates Change, March 29, 2007
Camille Utterback is a pioneering new media artist whose interactive installations and reactive sculptures have received world-wide acclaim.
Lu Jie: "The Long March Project"
Part of the President's Speaker Series, February 14, 2007
Chinese artist Lu Jie is a curator and the founder and director of The Long March Project. Initiated in 1999, the original curatorial project took place along the historical route of Mao Zedong and the Red Army’s Long March (1934-35).
Michael Snow in Conversation with Bruce Elder
Part of Art Creates Change, January 25, 2007
Internationally-acclaimed filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist Michael Snow speaks with Bruce Elder, filmmaker, critic and Professor of Film Studies at Ryerson University.
Michael Rakowitz
Part of the Faculty of Design Speaker Series, November 27, 2006
Michael Rakowitz is an artist/designer who divides his time between Chicago and New York. In 1998 he initiated his award-winning paraSITE project, which catapulted him into the international arts scene.
Bruce Sterling
Part of the Faculty of Design Speaker Series, October 2, 2006
Bruce Sterling is an internationally recognized cyberspace theorist, Internet critic and science fiction writer based in Austin, Texas.
Gary Younge
Presented by the OCAD Professional Gallery, October 25, 2006
Gary Younge, the Guardian’s New York correspondent and a regular contributor to The Nation, discusses his book, Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States (New Press).
Dr. Brenda Laurel: "The Human Face of Research"
Part of FOCUS:2020, April 6, 2006
An investigation into new approaches to design research, with an emphasis on human-centred design research, set within the context of emerging needs, technologies and forms of the 21st century.
Dr. Sarat Maharaj: "Dynamic Creativity: Remaking Art and 'non-Art'"
Part of FOCUS:2020, March 27, 2006
An exploration of the dynamics of creative practices, collaborations and redefinitions of practice within an increasingly global dialogue and exchange.
Wanda Koop in Conversation with Robert Enright
Part of Art Creates Change, March 16, 2006
Internationally-renowned painter and video artist in conversation with cultural journalist Robert Enright.
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
Part of Art Creates Change, February 22, 2006
Janet Cardiff and alumnus George Bures Miller (Photo Electric Art, ’86) discuss their award-winning work.
Zacharias Kunuk
Part of Art Creates Change, February 9, 2006
Award-winning Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk discusses his career.
Edward Burtynsky: "In the Wake of Glory - China's Industrial Revolution"
Part of the Faculty of Design Speaker Series, November 21, 2005
Dayna Baumeister: "Biomimicry: Conscious Emulation of Nature's Genius"
Part of the Faculty of Design Speaker Series, November 7, 2005
Katherine McCoy: "Speaking in Tongues"
Part of the Faculty of Design Speaker Series, October 17, 2005
Sumo Robot Challenge in Butterfield Park
October 6, 2005
Kim Vicente: "The Human Factor"
Part of the Faculty of Design Speaker Series, October 3, 2005
Victor Margolin: "Healing the World: A Challenge to Designers"
Part of the Faculty of Design Speaker Series, September 19, 2005
