/ / p u b l i s h e d Fall 06 Visions> // published by emily carr institute foundation + development office // President’s New CIRO Message appointed 02 02 New Director ECI at for IDS SIGGRaPH 03 03 Delectable Emily award martha sturdy Designs Winner and walter murch 06 07 receive eci honorary doctor of letters lEfT To RIGHT: ECI BoaRD CHaIR, DR. GEoRGE pEDERSEN, walTER MURCH, Governor General, and is a member of the Royal > Animation Grad wins MaRTHa STURDy aND ECI pRESIDENT DR. RoN BURNETT. Canadian academy of arts. Her work has been $20,000 award published in international magazines such as ECI Gets matching Grant at the Institute’s 77th convocation on May 6th, Architectural Digest, Metropolitan Home, and Vogue. 2006, Martha Sturdy and walter Murch were each Every graduating student hopes their grad conferred an Honorary Doctor of letters degree. walter Murch is an award-winning film editor and project will launch their careers. For Joel sound mixer, based in California. He received an Furtado, his big break came in the form of an ECI alumna, Martha Sturdy is an internationally- academy award for best sound for Apocalypse Now, Electronic Arts’ Reveal 06: Canadian 3D renowned leading designer of furniture, home two British academy awards in 1975 for film editing Animation Showdown. accessories, jewelry and wall sculptures. Based in and sound mixing for The Conversation, as well as Congratulations to Joel, B.C., she is known for creating distinctive artwork numerous nominations from both academies. walter whose animated short using casting resin, brass and steel that is that is directed and co-wrote the film return to oz in 1985, film Tree for Two bold, clean and simple. She was named Best is involved in film restoration, and pursues interests earned him the grand Contemporary Designer by Decorex International in the science of human perception, cosmology and prize of $20,000. ECI (England), received a Golden Jubilee Medal from the the history of science. will receive a matching prize of $20,000 for the JoEl fURTaDo Animation department. In the same competition, ECI animation student eci alumni receive prestigious Hao Chen won the third place prize of $500 in the Textures and Rendering category for his bc creative achievement awards film Never Now. In addition, 2002 animation alumna Kate Balfe, currently working as a ECI alumni Niki Dun and Stuart Sproule have won 2006 a project she started while still a student at Emily concept artist at Bardel, received the second British Columbia Creative achievement awards. at the Carr Institute. The bicycle ambulance is being place prize of $1,500 in the Modeling category. June awards ceremony, another alumna was also produced and is in use in rural africa. honored: 2006 ECI Honorary Degree recipient Martha Other ECI animation students short-listed for Sturdy was awarded the BC Creative achievement Stuart Sproule and his business partner Barnaby prizes were Kantcho Doskov and Simon Lu. award of Distinction. The BCCAA was established in Killam combine their interests in soft goods design Congratulations to all of them! 2005 to recognize established and emerging applied and textiles. In 2004, they established Red flag artists and designers in British Columbia. Design to create products with both sustainable As for Joel, he didn’t have to wait long to get a and aesthetic values. Drawing on both technical and full-time job after graduating. He’s now Niki Dun seeks to improve the quality of lives through conceptual expertise, Killam and Sproule seek viable working for Electronic Arts. sustainable design. a 2003 Bachelor of Design (ID) recycled materials with unique properties for use in graduate of Emily Carr Institute, Niki is the founder their products. In its first commercial line, Red flag of Design for Development, a non-profit organization Design uses discarded boat sails in its distinctive dedicated to encouraging Canadian designers to bags called aUM (alternate Use Material). Sproule use their design skills to address problems in received a Bachelor of fine arts from Emily Carr less fortunate areas of the world. Niki’s work in Institute in 2001, and a Masters of Design from international development began with designing Design academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands. a bicycle ambulance for developing communities, GINNy aND HER DoG HoNEy GazE UpoN THEIR NEw HoME – Tree for Two emily carr institute // 1399 johnston street // vancouver b c v 6 h 3 r 9 1 Emily carr institute // fall 2006 > Agreement opens president’s message doors to yukon colleGe students hurricane katrina Emily Carr Institute has entered into a transfer The Sunday New york Times Magazine of august 27th credit agreement with Yukon College (YC). had a poignant and profoundly disturbing article and Beginning September 2007, YC will offer first photo essay on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina year courses equivalent to ECI’s Foundation with particular emphasis on what happened to the program (first year), making students eligible children of the families that were displaced by the to apply directly to ECI’s second year. The storm. The images were very powerful and the reality agreement is for six years, but may be renewed of what happened, the incompetence of the recovery upon the mutual agreement of ECI and YC. effort and the lack of attention to the families struggling to remake their lives is disturbing and shocking. According to Monique Fouquet, ECI’s Vice- President, Academic, “We are pleased to The images made me angry, but also made me feel offer this collaboration with Yukon College. quite hopeless. Journalists have still not learned that This agreement will promote access to our shocking images achieve their effect, but little else. programs and will enable a greater number The personal stories of the children were heart- of students to have the opportunity to study breaking and I felt the need to do something, but at Emily Carr Institute.” other then sending money to the relief effort or DR. RoN BURNETT, ECI pRESIDENT writing this short comment, my options remain limited. This agreement adds to the Institure's strategic If each village were to become the center of new and partnership with other academic institutions to This is indeed the challenge of the next few years. imaginative activities directed toward social change expand its role as a leader in art and design How can the information we receive be translated and equity, then there would indeed be opportunities education. In 2005, ECI and North Island College from our personal experiences into action? I have no to support people in need wth a more determined launched a joint BFA program. A similar pat answers to this question. a disturbing pattern has effect and impact than is presently possible. old agreement is under development with emerged over the last decade or so. More information definitions of community and social transformation will University of Northern BC in Prince George to has not led to more knowledge. Instead, it has led have to change within the context of what has now offer a BFA in creative writing and fine arts, to increasing and sometimes deadly tribal activity. become a world that is largely dependent on images starting in the fall of 2007. These tribes range from small groups to larger ones, and networks of communication. It seems pretty but their common characteristic is a lack of direct clear that critically informed and creative people will response to crucial issues and internally-based and have to lead the charge as this process accelerates. > Korean trip solidifies parochial notions of community and society. Their artists have always had the ability to envision the partnerships worlds are centered on their own and sometimes future. They have of course been wrong sometimes, narrow concerns. Globalization, it seems, is actually but at the moment new strategies are needed to This summer, Dennis Burke, Associate Dean, returning us to a more medieval practice of village understand and act upon the events, natural, human and Elizabeth Edward, Director of Continuing life, the only difference being that today’s villages are and cultural, that threaten to overwhelm not only how Studies, traveled to Korea to attend the Seoul not constrained by national boundaries. we live, but how we see ourselves. International Cartoon and Animation Festival. While there, they met with Wayne Robson, Canada’s Senior Trade Commissioner in Seoul and Hyun-Ju Lim, Trade Commissioner, where they gained valuable insight into Canada-Korea new chief industry + research relations through their discussions. officer appointed Dennis and Elizabeth met with representatives from Kangwon National University, with whom ECI has just launched a new industry and research they signed a memorandum of understanding to initiative to support the Institute’s core faculty and create custom programs, and Sungshin Women’s student body, its inaugural Masters Degree program, University. A proposal is underway with both and the new Intersections Digital Studio research universities for custom programs for the Korean facility. leading this new initiative, as Chief Industry students for spring 2007, and for faculty + Research officer, is Catherine warren, president exchanges in the near future. “The benefits of of fanTrust Entertainment Strategies. Catherine has exchanges are substantive," noted Elizabeth, led advances in digital media and education since "Students are exposed to other perspectives 1985 in North america and Europe. She brings to while faculty are exposed to both alternate the new role of CIRo a significant track record in teaching methodologies and different business and non-profit development combined with approaches to creating their own work.” interdisciplinary research, publishing and a strong academic background in the arts and sciences. > Online learninG Catherine will focus on expanding research innovation, receives Grant building industry alliances, and customizing job placements for Masters students.