Salon Archive
November 10th, 2024: Art Share
This month’s first presenter is Dizz McGruber, who will be sharing some of his recent glitch art with the salon and giving us insight into his creative process.
October 13th, 2024: Art Share
This month’s first presenter was Sydney Green. She will be showing off a few animated shorts funded by the Film Board of Canada, and highlighting her favorite: “Madame Tutli-Putli” Directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski – 2007. Animation aimed at adults is an oft-forgotten art form outside Japan, and tends to take the form of short films funded by governments. Canada does this too, and our country often creates beautiful work that should be celebrated.
Image: “Madame Tutli Putli” Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski (2007)
September 8th, 2024: Art Share
This months first presenter was Dizz McGruber, a glitch artist. He shared some of his recent collaborative work with local artist PJ Patton.
August 11th, 2024: Art Share
Come and share your art or art that inspires you! Our meetups are informal discussions. Some of us bring works in-progress (of any kind or degree of completion) to share and discuss. Sometimes we bring pre-existing works that have had a significant impact on us.
Image: “The Jeonju Pungpaejigwon in Jeonju, South Korea” photographed by Zoran Karapancev
July 14th, 2024: Aura Soave...
Join contemporary composer Brandon Chow as he presents a recording of his recent work, Aura soave…, which was performed at the Academie Domaine Forget in Charlevoix, Québec, as well as a discussion on music and meaning.
Image: “O Concerto” Nicolò dell’Abbate (~1500)
June 9th, 2024: Between Panels
Join comic artist Sydney Green in a discussion about how author Emil Ferris utilizes the gaps between panels to tell stories. How do comic artists pass time between panels? How is motion conveyed? What techniques can be used to bend and break comics into something unrecognizable?
Image: “My Favorite Thing is Monsters” Emil Ferris (2017)
April 14th, 2024: Dreams and Subconscious Thought
In this salon Dizz McGruber would like to confront attendees with the question “Is your work who you think you are, or is it merely a stream of consciousness showing the world how you interpret things around you?”
Is the process of overthinking merely an editing tool seeking to make improvements to your work and process, or is it a blockade of honesty and freedom of creativity? Join us to listen to and share your own ideas about subconscious creativity.
Image: “I Don’t Believe You” Dizz McGruber (2022)
March 10th, 2024: Olivier Messiaen
Join contemporary music composer and WCCS Board President Brandon Chow for a multidisciplinary discussion on the maverick 20th-century French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992). Throughout the discussion, Chow will highlight the influence of Messiaen’s music and musical thinking on his own compositional practice, referring to Messiaen’s groundbreaking 1974 orchestra piece Des Canyons Aux Étoiles as an example.
Image: Olivier Messiaen against Bryce Canyon, Sydney Green (2024)
February 11, 2024:
Live Glitch Art Demonstra-tion
Join host Dizz McGruber in an interactive discussion about creating while unaware of the outcome, and the compromises that we may or may not make to guide that.
Throughout the discussion attendees are invited to help glitch and abstract an image that will be taken that day.
Image: “New Colours”
Dizz McGruber (2019)
January 14, 2024: Issey Miyake
Join us for this month’s salon as we take a look at the works of designer Issey Miyake.
Image: Issey Miyake – Spring Paris Fashion Week 2018
December 9th, 2023: Areas Outside of Your Craft
Many artists draw inspiration from areas outside of their areas of technical focus. For composers and musicians of the past, these have included philosophical, anthropological, geological, biologic or other interests which appear as an outside influence of their works.
Image: Spectrogram of François Bayle – The Acoustic Experience: II. The Language of Flowers (1971)
November 12, 2023: Art in Public Spaces
October 21, 2023: Creativity and Mood
How does your daily mood affect your creative process? Does present day-you ever disagree with the direction yesterday-you took? Do you go through your creative process with tomorrow-you in mind? Do you embrace the changes that you want to make after coming back to a project, or do you stick to the original plan?
