Symposium Update #5: Final Program
(29/4/07. Subject to minor adjustments)
THURSDAY 3rd MAY
5-7pm Logo Cities Gallery Reception
(Registered participants and special invitees only)
VAV Gallery, 1395 René Lévesque Blvd. W.
FRIDAY 4th MAY
NB All panels will take place in the J.A. de Sève Cinema (Library Building LB-125) at 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
8.15am Registration table opens
8.45am Words of welcome: Dr Matt Soar (Concordia University)
PANEL 1 (9am-10.30am) Signs in/and the Community: Interpretation and Critique
Moderator: Kim Sawchuk (Concordia University)
Darren Wershler-Henry (Wilfrid Laurier University) Sonic Signage: [murmur], the refrain, and territoriality
Ann McDonald (Northeastern University) Whose Skyline? Public private light, sign as sensor and node
Karen Lewis (University of Kentucky) Yellowtown: The aesthetics of poverty, the graphic design of urgency
Stuart McKee (University of San Francisco) Street Democracy
SHORT BREAK
PANEL 2 (10.45am-12.30pm) Global Histories and Geographies of Lettering and Signage
Moderator: Monika Kin Gagnon (Concordia University)
Vishal Rawlley (artist/producer, Mumbai) Typocity: A documentation and analysis of typefaces in public spaces of Mumbai
Shannon Mattern (The New School) Calligraphic Qatar: National typography and civic identity
R. Hakan Ertep (Izmir University of Economics) Chaos or Homogenisation? The role of store signs in transforming urban fabric in Beyoglu, Istanbul
Bernard Zirnheld (Yale University) Coming To Life: Advances in Reprographic Technology and the Architecture of Fin-de-siecle Paris
Alessandro Colizzi (L’Université du Québec à Montréal) Local Idioms from the Netherlands
LUNCH (on your own)
ROUNDTABLE (1.30pm-3.00pm) From Signs of Life to Signs of Excess: Contemporary Perspectives on ‘Logo Cities’
Matt Blackett ( Spacing magazine, Toronto)
Chris DeWolf (journalist, Montréal)
Johanna Drucker (University of Virginia)
Bill Kovacevic (Enseignes Transworld, Montréal)
KEYNOTE (3.15pm-4.45pm)
Johanna Drucker (University of Virginia)
Title tba
Friday screening 7.30pm (J.A. de Sève Cinema)
Behind the Bright Lights (Handy (Jam) Organization, 1935) 7:09
Enjoy (Gordon Winiemko & Julie Wyman) 14:00
Whizeewhig (Chihcheng Peng, 2002) 3:00
Lost Buildings (Ira Glass, Chris Ware and Tim Samuelson, 2004) 22:35
Fliengenpflicht Für Quadrat Köpfe (Stefan Müller, 2004) 10:43
[Interstitial: Flatland (Chihcheng Peng, 2001)]
SATURDAY 5th MAY
NB All panels will take place in the J.A. de Sève Cinema (Library Building LB-125) at 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
8.30am Registration table opens
PANEL 3 (9.00am-10.30am) Documenting and Archiving Signs: Streets, Malls, Campuses, Harbours
Moderator: Michael Longford (Concordia University)
Tom Russotti (Rutgers University) Brooklyn Storefronts and Signs
Patricio Davila (Ontario College of Art & Design) A Thick Coating of Signs: Travels through suburban strip malls
Nancy Marrelli (Concordia University) The Evolution of Concordia University Logos and Signage
Laurie Churchman (University of Pennsylvania) TYPE AHOY: Technology, perception, and originality in boat graphics
SHORT BREAK
PANEL 4 (10.45am-12.15pm) Media/Culture: Past, present, future
Moderator: Chantal Nadeau (Concordia University)
Michael Golec (Iowa State University) “Enjoy Coca-Cola,” the Discourse of the Other, and Lacan in an American City
Sarah Teasley (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) Silent Film and Commercial Art as Urban Intervention in Interwar Japan
Will Straw (McGill University) Letters of Introduction: Film credits and cityscapes
David De Benedetto (Red Dye Studio, NYC) Typographic Historiography: Ideology and the cinematic assumptions of future urban signage
LUNCH (on your own)
PANEL 5 (1.30pm-3.00pm) Design and Signs: Perspectives on/from Professional Practice
Moderator: François Gagnon (Université de Montréal)
Alex Bitterman (Rochester Institute of Technology) Defining Place Branding: A practical taxonomy for professionals and the public
David Gibson (Two Twelve Associates, NYC) People and Places: Signs symbols and landmarks, New York, Beijing, Dubai
Louis-Charles Lasnier (Atelier Louis-Charles Lasnier, Montréal) Signalisation intérieure, Nouvelle gare d’autocars de Montréal
Will Temple (North Carolina State University) Placing Demands: Challenging legibility in public space
SHORT BREAK
PANEL 6 (3.15pm-4.45pm) Artworks and Interpretations
Moderator: Rhona Richman Kenneally (Concordia University)
John Armstrong & Paul Collins (Toronto and Paris) Painting in Public: An illustrated overview of collective and individual artwork
pk langshaw and Carlos Pineda (Concordia University) in significant sites of mexico
Joey Medaglia (Ryerson University) Explorations in Deconstruction/Reconstruction
Maroussia Lévesque and Jason Lewis (Concordia University) Cityspeak
7.30pm: The Québec premiere of Helvetica
Hall Building H-110, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
NB The screening will immediately be followed by a Q&A with Gary Hustwit (director of Helvetica , Brooklyn) and Hélène L’Heureux (Interaction/design, Montréal; directeur, Société des designers graphiques du Québec)
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