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NUIT BLANCHE 2011
Four groups comprised of undergraduate, graduate and recent graduates particpated in Nuit Blanche in Toronto on October 1, 2011. The video below highlights their installations. Images may be viewed here.
Original music for the "AIRships" installation was composed and recorded by Andrew Azzopardi. The album can be downloaded here.
ILION - 2B CULTURAL HISTORY PLAY 2011
The city of Troy is an ancient place, and a modern one. Heinrich Schleimann, the German archaeologist, Homer, the mythical blind poet, and Achilles, the Greek hero, are each passionately trying to find their way into it. Imagining Troy, they begin recreating the city and its people. As Schliemann investigates ruins, and Homer sings his poetry, the legends and stories grow and come to life between them. Gradually, the ghosts of Greek armies and the shadows of Trojan walls become alive and solid. As Homer and Schliemann struggle to enter the re-imagined Troy, their lives and their quests are woven together. But what, and where, really, is the city?
Each summer, second year students from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, located in Cambridge, Ontario, stage a play as the major term project for their Cultural History course under the direction of Professor Tracey Eve Winton. This year presenting ILION, their version of the legend of the siege of Troy.
View on YouTube (channel hosted by Professor Terri Meyer Boake):
Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four | Part five
CYCLOPS - 2B CULTURAL HISTORY PLAY 2010
The 2010 Cultural History Play, CYCLOPS, under the direction of Professor Tracey Eve Winton. This play is an annual event created in conjunction with the Course ARCH 247. The students are responsible for direction, costumes, props, dialogue, music and writing the script. The video is close to an hour long and is uploaded in 6 parts.
View on YouTube (channel hosted by Professor Terri Meyer Boake):
Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four | Part five | Part six
CHORA - 2B CULTURAL HISTORY PLAY 2008
CHORA from UWSA Class of 2011 on Vimeo. The video was shot and edited by Jamie Usas. The project of the play was a shared effort by Arch 247: Cultural History, under the direction of Professor Tracey Winton, and Arch 293: Design Studio, under the direction of Professor Geoffrey Thun.
UNSILENT NIGHT 2010 - ARCH 443/646: ARCHITECTURE + FILM
This year the students taking Arch 443/646: Architecture and Film, taught by Professor Terri Meyer Boake, undertook to create the major video installation pieces for the City of Cambridge Unsilent Night. This included projections on the CIBC Bank wall across from the School, projections at Cambridge City Hall and the complete "Fremont" type experience along Melville Street.
The Cambridge City Hall and CIBC projections were achieved using pairs of Christie Digital "Roadster" projectors with superimposed images to achieve the brightness over the distance. Smaller projectors were used for the video projections at the School. The installations in the windows of the student lounge were achieved by projecting on the windows that were simply covered with tracing paper. The interactive piece in the shop used Christie Digital Microtiles and Apple Photobooth to engage the Unsilent Night participants.
The video installation links will take you out to YouTube to watch their films. Most have been uploaded in 1080i HD quality, so please check the settings when you initiate play. Enjoy!
INTRO PIECE:
Sponsor Credit Animation - Alexandra Boake
CITY HALL UNWRAPPED - Terri Meyer Boake
View on YouTube
CREEPY CRAWLY SHOWDOWN - Alexandra Boake
View on YouTube
DUCKY SAVES THE HOLIDAYS - Nicole Bruun-Meyer, Andrea Nagy, Sophia Zhu
View on YouTube
RETRO X-MAS - Andrew Dadds, Peter Kitchen, Mark Kim
View on YouTube
GINGERBREAD HOUSE - Elaine Chau, Anne Cheung, Lisa Wong, Ying Xu
View on YouTube
BOXMAN ADVENTURE - Renee Liu, Yifei Yuan, Bei Wang, Sophia Wu
View on YouTube (second video in this set)
SKETCH - James Strong, Nick Savage, and David Domanski
View on YouTube
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS - Connor O'Grady, Andrew Ng, Jay Zhao, Stephen Wenzel
The video for this installation was "flipped" 180 degrees to reflect the original intent of the authors to precisely reflect the interior of the lounge. It was difficult to work with a film that had to be broken into two halves, split in the middle by the brick pier. The image reflects the reality of the performance. The window mullions and impossible to sync computers made this one more challenging to run for the evening.
View on YouTube.
VIRTUAL VILLAGE - Eric Tai, Carlo Pasini
This installation made interesting use of our Christie Digital Microtiles. The tiles were used to line the interior of the ground floor window of the school. Continuing with the theme of "dual-space interaction", they compiled footage of major world winter, Christmas, and New Year's events, and overlayed the live footage on top of the events. Backgrounds included New Year's Fireworks in Sydney and Hong Kong 2010, Dundas Square during Canada's gold medal game against the United States in the 2010 Winter Olympics, Christmas in Florida's Disneyworld, the Christmas tree lighting at New York's Rockefeller Center, and some downtown Christmas light decorations from London, England.
Almost everybody that walked by waved at the camera, many took photos which made it look like they were tourists in the respective background, and many made fun gestures that were unrelated to the background. A few people took the time to "study" the background footage and took the time to position themselves to interact with it--say, making it look like fireworks were shooting out of their head, or flailing about with a giant shining star on your head. We feel this was mostly due to the generally fast passing by of the Unsilent Night participants--as part of such a big crowd, it did not seem that they had enough time to get into the video.
Nevertheless, there was a great general public impression, the kids, in particular, loved it, many lingered around with their friends to play and experiment with the setup. Although not to the degree we would have liked, we definitely achieved our goal of getting people to interact in two spaces simultaneously. We also thought it was great that so many people were able to see and get photographs of themselves participating in an installation.
View on YouTube.
Some press from the night:
http://www.cambridgereporter.com/news/article/226167
http://www.therecord.com/videozone/304852
http://www.cambridgenow.ca/npps/story.cfm?nppage=2068
UNSILENT NIGHT 2009 - INSTALLATION BY VERA GUO
Vera Guo, a student in the Masters Program, created this video installation for the 2009 Unsilent Night that was held in Cambridge on December 21. The installation featured Darcy McNinch as an elf, projected with equipment from Christie Digital, onto the Grand River side wall of the CIBC at Main Street.
More on Unsilent Night. link
ARCH 443/646: ARCHITECTURE AND FILM 2009
Students in the film course have just completed a study of films based on the theme "Manipulated Realities". The students create a series of architecture music videos based upon this theme. Their web essays can be viewed at this link.
Find out more about the course! A compilation DVD with all films from the course is available for loan in our Musagetes Library.
The links below will take you to versions of the videos produced for this course, hosted on YouTube and Vimeo. Enjoy!
| Manifested Dreams Miklos Csonti |
| Neopolitan Dreams Chris Mosiadz + Kevin Lisoy |
| Out of Focus Anne Ma + Ryan Yeung |
| Oath to Truth Taehyung Richard Kim |
| If They Hear Not Moses Tania Fuizie + Sam Sutherland |
Wide Asleep Joel DiGiacomo |
I John Lee + Alejandro Fernandez |
Fake Your Beauty Holland Young |
ARCH 247: CULTURAL HISTORY 2009
"EKSTASIS"
The following links will take you to the various scenes from the 2B Cultural History Play. YouTube Channel hosted by Professor Terri Meyer Boake.
Scene One:
The dual personification of Dionysius reminds Agave, gripping her dead son in her arms, of the furious and chaotic nature of the god's worship.
Scene Two:
Pentheus condemns Kadmos and the maenads worshipping Dionysius in a ritualistic dance and has them arrested for conspiracy against the state.
link to video
Scene Three:
Dionysius appears and taunts Pentheus to free the prisoners as he resists Agave's pleas to release Kadmos and the maenads.
link to video
Scene Four:
Dionysius appears and tries to convince Agave to kill the drunken soldier who interrupted the dance of the maenads and attempted to rape Megara.
link to video
Scene Five:
Dionysius appears and persuades Pentheus to stop the soldiers from killing Agave, whose identity is then discovered by the king.
link to video
Scene Six:
Dionysus enters the bedroom of Pentheus and convinces him to join the ritual and dance with the maenads under the disguise of a woman.
link to video
Scene Seven:
Agave murders Pentheus in a hostile, frenzied ritual when she and the maenads discover that he is a man.
link to video
ARCH 443/646: ARCHITECTURE AND FILM 2008
Students in the film course have just completed a study of films based on the theme "it's a very very mad world". The students create a series of architecture music videos based upon this theme. Their web essays can be viewed at this link.
Find out more about the course! A compilation DVD with all films from the course is available for loan in our Musagetes Library.
The links below will take you to versions of the videos produced for this course, hosted on YouTube and Vimeo. Enjoy!
| Bang Bang Anna-Joy Veenstra + Morgan O'Reilly |
| Everything Ray Wang + Eric Lajoie |
| Brain Damage Mike Taylor |
| Dream Sequence Lisa Rajkumar-Maharaj |
| Overdose Andrea Lam + Andrea Murphy |
| The Space Between Us Bi-Ying Miao + Jane Wong |
| Talk Show Host Allan Wilson |
| Close the Door Elfie Kalfakis |
| Kitchen Play Tyler Bowa + Andrew Azzopardi |
| Watch UR Step Elaine Lui |
ARCH 443/646: ARCHITECTURE AND FILM 2007
Students in the film course have completed a study of films based on the theme "How Uncanny". The students creatde a series of architecture music videos based upon this theme. Their web essays can be viewed at this link.
Find out more about the course! A compilation DVD with all films from the course is available for loan in our Musagetes Library.
The links below will take you to versions of the videos produced for this course, hosted on YouTube and Vimeo. Enjoy!
| Digital World Nightmare Paula Lee |
| Goodnight Seattle! Evelyn Lo + Ben Wong |
ARCH 443/646: ARCHITECTURE AND FILM 2006
Students in the film course have completed a study of films based on the theme "Dystopia + Fear". The students creatde a series of architecture music videos based upon this theme. Their web essays can be viewed at this link.
Find out more about the course! A compilation DVD with all films from the course is available for loan in our Musagetes Library.
The links below will take you to versions of the videos produced for this course, hosted on YouTube and Vimeo. Enjoy!
| Wildcat Michael Lin + John Lee |
| Deep Blue Day Joel DiGiacomo |