Tag Archive for the term: communication

Another in this new series of conversations with artists crammed round the web cam, this time I sit down with the awesome ladies of Influx Dance to talk about parenting, the accessibility of dance, the communication and beauty in sign gesture, and their love of the Montreal Fringe:

Sarah and Risa are prepping a fun project that’ll show up on the blog soon, so I won’t say too much…But it got me thinking about what blogs can do for artists. Here’s a very simple thought I had about a way for artists to use/think about blogs.
A blog is a place to show and […]

According to cleanliness laws in the Plateau Montreal, it is illegal to stick, staple or nail anything to public property. Like the other boroughs that address postering, the Plateau lumps “affichage sauvage” together with graffiti and tagging. This betrays the city’s complete failure to grasp the role of postering, and to address and regulate it in a relevant way.

You can listen to all the contradictory advice in the world and you still won’t “make it”. What to do? Non-advice on finding a happy medium in your art and your mind with Mess. Montreal.
In.Sight : The Art of KISSing
I consider it to be the golden rule of communicating, and it’s always worthy […]

On Friday, March 9th, from 12h00 - 13h15 JAY MOWAT — a fellow alumni of Concordia’s Communications Studies program — will be giving a 75 minute seminar on “backpack journalism.” Come with your lunch and your questions.
PLACE: CJ3.306
Communication Studies/Journalism Building
Loyola Campus, Concordia U
TIME: Friday, March 9th 12h00 - 13h15

Jay Mowat will speak […]

Last Wednesday I went on a field trip (how old am I) to the Rare Books and Special Collections Division of the McGill McLennan Library.
I was visiting with a class on the “Materiality and Sociology of Text” so we mainly focused on the process of making printed books. We looked at the library’s collection […]