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Professors Jessica Thompson and Jane Tingley will be presenting interactive artworks at the International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2014 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The overarching theme of ISEA2014—Location— weaves local UAE tradition and history into the global context of new media science, art, and technology.

Based on a True Story, an immersive installation made for the Wassaic Project’s summer exhibition (2014) was housed on the 7th floor of an old wooden grain elevator.

You Are My ___

MFA student Jennifer Akkermans will be part of Flirting with the Arts, an arts workshop marathon featuring 30 arts facilitators and workshops, happening on November 1st in downtown Kitchener. 

October 8 – 10, 2014
Department of Fine Arts

David Blatherwick is part of the group show Eau at Association Art Mandat is Barjols, France

Jessica Thompson's artwork Freestyle SoundKit (a wearable sound piece that generates electronic bass beats as users move through urban environments) is featured in a book released last month.

Make: Wearable Electronics: Design, prototype, and wear your own interactive garments by Kate Hartman

Lisa Birke is the winner of the 2014 Carmichael Juror's Prize at the Orillia Museum of Art & History for her video red carpet.

Jessica Thompson has been invited to present on her practice at the 8th annual Locus Sonus Symposium in Aix-en-Provence, France, from April 16 - 18.  Locus Sonus is a research group whose main aim is to explore the relationship between sound and place.   http://locusonus.org/w/index.php?page=Symposium8
 

The exhibition Éveil/Alive by the curator Sylvie Parent will take place from March 13 to June 1, 2014 at Serviço Social do Comércio, SESC Santana in São Paulo, Brazil.