The AccessFabrik Lab website launched the week of August 1, 2006. The research lab, located in the Rogers Communcations Centre, develops collaborative research projects in the world of interactivity and multimedia design. The AccessFabrik team uses the Access Grid and 3D design programs to explore the impact of web technologies on collaborative industrial design and manufacturing.

To go to the AccessFabrik website click here.

The Faculty of Communication and Design, and the School of Radio and Television Arts, welcomed 2 new research chair positions to the University in the summer of 2004. Dr. Charles H. Davis, and Dr. Greg Elmer, assumed the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Research Chair in Media Management and Entrepreneurship and the Bell Globemedia Research Chair in the Creative Use of Advanced Technology respectively.

In 2005, the Faculty of Communication and Design, together with the School of Journalism, welcomed Dr. Abby Goodrum. Dr. Goodrum was appointed the Velma Rogers Graham Research Chair in News Media and Technology and is a Faculty member in the School of Journalism.

To go to Charles Davis' site click here.

To go to Greg Elmer's site click here.

To go to Abby Goodrum's site click here.

The Infoscape Research Lab hosts research projects that focus on the cultural impact of digital code. The lab engages in software and other new media tool develpment, code mapping, interface design and new media content analysis.

To go to the Infoscape Reseach Lab site click here.

Please direct questions regarding the Infoscape Research Lab to Greg Elmer: gelmer@ryerson.ca.

Two book chapters by R. Bruce Elder appeared in James Miller, ed., Dante & the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of Transgression. The first, “Brakhage and the Works of Energeia,” explored the idea of energeia in late classical and medieval poetics and the resonances of that idea in writings of the Open Form poets and in filmmaker’s Stan Brakhage’s work. The second, “Letter to Dr. Archie Henderson” was on the influence Dante’s Commedia, and Pound’s Cantos had on Elder’s film cycle, The Book of All the Dead. In September, another book chapter, “Brakhage: Poesis” appeared in David James, Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker.

In June, Prof. Elder took up the position of the Ryerson Director of the York University/Ryerson University Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture.

To go to Bruce Elder's site click here.

In July, the Festival De Tous Les Cinémas presented Prof. Elder’s Eros and Wonder. In December, Paris’ Festival des Cinémas Différents presented the completed sections (Surprised by Joy, Crack, Brutal Grief, Infunde Lumen Cordibus and Eros and Wonder) of Elder’s new film cycle, The Book of Praise. Elder’s participation in the later festival was funded by the Canadian Consulate in Paris.

In March of this year, Prof. Elder held a public talk and screening on “Absolute Film Show of Dec, 1925: The Dream of Pure Abstract Cinema and Its Widespread Repudiation” at the Goethe Institute, Toronto.

In May he presented a paper, “Dante, Brakhage and the Open Form Poets” at the annual conference of the Canadian Society of Italian Studies, a member society of the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences. At the request of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, he gave another talk at the Congress, on his current film and multimedia project, which had been awarded a Creation/Fine Arts Research grant in the first round of granting under that program.

In June, he presented a paper, “André Bazin and Aesthetics of Chiasmatic Encounter,” at the annual conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, held this year in Helsinki. He also presented a talk on his Fine Arts Research/Creation project for a meeting of the SSHRC Council, for a session organised to showcase research to the Council.

In September, Prof. Elder presented a paper on Hollis Frampton’s Zorn’s Lemma at an invitational conference on the Neo-Avant-garde, held at the University of Edinburgh.

To go to Bruce Elder's site click here.

Under the theme of "Sound and Image: Film Theory and Practice Across Disciplines," the Laterna Magica Association conference was held in Hungary in September 2003. At this conference, Bruce Elder of Image Arts presented "Body, Language and Rhythm: Film Aesthetics."

Image Arts' Lila Pine combined new media and the age-old practice of story telling to produce an installation about her Aunt Lila that was exhibited at the Interactive Art Institute in Malmo, Sweden in June 2002. Starting as a documentary on family secrets, the project evolved into an installation through a process Pine calls "storyliving."

Along with Tim Jackson of Image Arts, Pine is principal investigator on an initiative entitled New Media Studios for Evolving Stories as Interactive Art housed at the Rogers Communications Centre and the School of Image Arts. The studio, which is the only one of its kind, has received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Innovation Trust.

Click here for the full article on Lila Pine and click here for more information about the studio.

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