Your monthly source for all the news from your favourite Library + Archives!
Resources
• Take a look at some of the new books & Artists’ Books that we added to our collections this month!
Services
• There are open hours in the Archives, Artists’ Books, + Special Collections Room every weekday from 2:00pm – 3:00pm. These hours give you more access to our Special Collections, including rare books, artists’ books and magazines, records, archival materials and items from the print collection. You can also get help with your research at the same time!
• Need help with your research, but don’t want to come to the Library? Try using AskAway, our research help chat! This service is monitored by your real human ECU Library staff most afternoons, and if you reach out outside those hours (or if we miss your message) you’ll be connected with a library professional from another B.C. post-secondary institution.
Events + Exhibitions in The Library + Archives
Musqueam activist Audrey Siegl will be available in the library for one-on-one meetings on Thursday, March 19 from 1:00pm – 4:00pm. Contact Ana Diab if you would like to sign up for a 15-minute visit.
Woven Forms
An exhibition from Heather Young’s Industrial Design 3rd Year Core Studio: Place Based Design class.
March 2nd – 6th, located at the Library entrance.
- All objects tell a story through their design, materials, and use. Students were asked to source plant materials locally and build a wearable object that interacts with the human body. Iterations exercised a diverse range of generative making capabilities by testing and prototyping. Students were challenged to reconsider ideas about longevity, lifespan, and use, and let the place and materials speak and inform the work.
Before it fleets, as it fleets
Curated by Tami Han featuring artwork by Tami Han, Hee-won Shin, Daisy Kim, Ashley Chung and Jeongyun (Cece) Choi.
March 9th – April 2nd, in the Library Mezzanine.
- Humanity has entered an era of collecting: in the internet age, the act of collecting data has become both ubiquitous and unusually simple. However, the fundamental distinction exists between human and Artificial intelligence in this process. We do not merely collect ‘data,’ but rather the human involves assembling beautiful and ephemeral emotions.
- Before it fleets, as it fleets attends to things that we might lose and have lost in the rapid change of time. It raises a critical question about how to truly collect and preserve those fleeting experiences. This is especially pertinent, given the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence, the pure function of the algorithms is notably influencing negatively on the essence of judgment and the taste. While the use of Artificial Intelligence may interfere in the process of those vital developments, ultimately, we need to delve into the sublime depth of human emotions that the technology can never reach. Each artwork by the five artists in Before it fleets, as it fleets connotes the artist’s subjective meanings, offering personal narratives and inviting audiences to a journey to investigate their own personal memories and emotions in the past.