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JG Mair: Tuesday 21 Feb 2023 at 2:00 pm

Room 311, Brimacombe Building, 2355 East Mall, UBC

Timothy Taylor: Tuesday 4 Apr 2023 at 2 pm

Room 311, Brimacombe Building, 2355 East Mall, UBC

Scott Billings: Tuesday 18 Apr 2023 at 3:30 pm

Room 311, Brimacombe Building, 2355 East Mall, UBC

Artist Talks: jg mair, Scott Billings and Timothy Taylor

  • jg mair

    jg mair is a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist and media designer specializing in mixed media, web and audio. He has a BFA from the University of Victoria and a BEd from the University of British Columbia. mair has been working in the areas of both traditional and digital contemporary art and as a sound designer for various game studios developing titles for publishers including Apple, Electronic Arts, Microsoft and Netflix. mair has had exhibitions and residencies in Canada, USA, South Korea and Japan.

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  • Timothy Taylor

    Timothy Taylor is an Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor at the School of Creative Writing. He is also a bestselling and award-winning author of eight book-length works of fiction and nonfiction, a prolific journalist, and creative nonfiction writer. In addition to his writing and teaching at UBC, Taylor travels widely, having in recent years spent time on assignment in China, Tibet, Japan, Dubai, Brazil, the Canadian arctic and other places. He lives in Point Grey Vancouver with his wife, his son, and a pair of Brittany Spaniels named Keaton and Murphy.

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  • Scott Billings

    Scott Billings is a visual artist, industrial designer and engineer based in Vancouver. His sculptures and video installations have been described as existing somewhere between cinema and automata. Centering on issues of animality, mobility and spectatorship, Billings’s work examines the mimetic relationship between the physical apparatus and the virtual motion it delivers. In what ways does the apparatus itself reveal both the mechanisms of causality and its own dormant animal quality? Billings addresses this question under the pursuit of the technological conundrum and a preoccupation with precise geometry and logic. Billings holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia, a BFA from Emily Carr University and a BASc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He teaches at UBC and Emily Carr as a sessional instructor.
    Billings is represented by Wil Aballe Art Projects.

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Join us for a series of artist talks hosted at UBC’s Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (Blusson QMI). Our current cohort of Ars Scientia artists-in-residence have formed collaborative partnerships with scientists and engineers while embedded at Blusson QMI.

Artist Talk with jg mair, Tuesday, 21 February at 2 pm

Please join visual and media artist jg mair for a discussion about his art practice and experiences as a collaborative participant in the Ars Scientia residency. As part of his talk, mair will present one of his major works, Chroma Chamber, a web-based new media art installation that investigates human expectations of vision and machine algorithms by programmatically collating real-time Google image results to surround the viewer with the distilled colour of the words they speak. Visit Blusson QMI for more details.

 

Artist Talk with Timothy Taylor, Tuesday, 4 April at 2 pm

Please join UBC School of Creative Writing associate professor and bestselling author Timothy Taylor for Momentum Space: Reflections, Speculations, and Encounters, a discussion of why working with QMI and the Belkin is of such specific interest to him as a writer. Taylor will address key aspects of his writing history that orient him towards investigation and to seeking immersive experiences in unfamiliar professional environments. Taylor will reflect on past collaborative projects with the Belkin involving other artists and academics, as well as a family connection in the world of optical physics, reactions to QMI’s Laboratory for Atomic Imaging Research and Crystal Growth Lab, and his enthusiasm for the aesthetic appeal of certain key instruments used at QMI. Finally, Taylor will offer a glimpse of the residency output, Momentum Space, a book in preparation with artist jg mair.

 

CANCELLED – Artist Talk with Scott Billings, Tuesday 18 April at 3:30 pm

Please join Scott Billings for Latent Life, a presentation based on his recent research in the Ars Scientia residency. Drawing from a 1933 lecture in which Neils Bohr asserts that the impossibility of using a physical explanation for the phenomenon of life is analogous to the insufficiency of using a mechanical analysis to understand phenomena of the atom, Billings will discuss his seemingly conflicting dual practice as both visual artist and mechanical engineer. Reflecting upon a preoccupation with the animality of cinematic machine, among (many) other things, Billings will relay his recent direct experience with photonic writing at QMI’s NanoFab Lab and the wonderful new conundrum of making and exhibiting micro-sculptures that are far too small to see with the naked eye.

 

Ars Scientia is a tripartite partnership between UBC’s Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Belkin that seeks to foster knowledge exchange across the arts, sciences and their pedagogies by pairing artists and scientists in six-month residencies to explore the potential for academic art-science collaborations.

Image (above): An Ars Scientia collaboration between visual artist JG Mair and physicist Alannah Hallas at Blusson QMI; the two worked together in Hallas’s lab to turn “insightful failures” of high-entropy oxides (a type of quantum material) into an artist’s medium – paint. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography

  • jg mair

    jg mair is a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist and media designer specializing in mixed media, web and audio. He has a BFA from the University of Victoria and a BEd from the University of British Columbia. mair has been working in the areas of both traditional and digital contemporary art and as a sound designer for various game studios developing titles for publishers including Apple, Electronic Arts, Microsoft and Netflix. mair has had exhibitions and residencies in Canada, USA, South Korea and Japan.

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  • Timothy Taylor

    Timothy Taylor is an Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor at the School of Creative Writing. He is also a bestselling and award-winning author of eight book-length works of fiction and nonfiction, a prolific journalist, and creative nonfiction writer. In addition to his writing and teaching at UBC, Taylor travels widely, having in recent years spent time on assignment in China, Tibet, Japan, Dubai, Brazil, the Canadian arctic and other places. He lives in Point Grey Vancouver with his wife, his son, and a pair of Brittany Spaniels named Keaton and Murphy.

    Read More

  • Scott Billings

    Scott Billings is a visual artist, industrial designer and engineer based in Vancouver. His sculptures and video installations have been described as existing somewhere between cinema and automata. Centering on issues of animality, mobility and spectatorship, Billings’s work examines the mimetic relationship between the physical apparatus and the virtual motion it delivers. In what ways does the apparatus itself reveal both the mechanisms of causality and its own dormant animal quality? Billings addresses this question under the pursuit of the technological conundrum and a preoccupation with precise geometry and logic. Billings holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia, a BFA from Emily Carr University and a BASc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He teaches at UBC and Emily Carr as a sessional instructor.
    Billings is represented by Wil Aballe Art Projects.

    Read More

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