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An Indigenous Film School in Ontario Goes to Venice

Azure Magazine

The institute was founded in 2002 by Dr. Shirley Cheechoo, a multi-award-winning Cree actor, artist and filmmaker who wrote, directed and starred in the 2001 film Bearwalker , the first dramatic feature film to be made by an Indigenous person in Canada. The school decided they’d rather have the bear sculpture instead.)

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Meet the Jury of the 2023 AZ Awards!

Azure Magazine

We are pleased to welcome this superlative group of leaders in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, interiors and product and furniture design to adjudicate the submissions to our international program, now in its 13th year. If you haven’t already, you can enter the AZ Awards at awards.azuremagazine.com!

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‘Art Is Art’ Celebrates the Vast and Varied Creativity of Hundreds of Disabled Neurodiverse Artists

Colossal

More than 135 people currently participate in its programming, learning techniques across painting, drawing, clay, textiles, and more. Another chapter is dedicated to Camille Holvoet, who’s been working with the organization since 2001, and creates mixed-media renderings of pills and syrups to remedy any issue.

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“I Want My Buildings to Change Their Moods”: A Conversation with Dong Gong

Azure Magazine

Following Tsinghua, Dong acquired his second master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2001, after which he apprenticed at MeierPartners and Steven Holl Architects in New York. For me the problem is very tangible; I focus on the site, program, people, quality of light, air and so on. Seashore Chapel.

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Where did this interaction come from??—?a brief history of interaction design

UX Collective

Max Ernst put an ax beside his sculpture to be used by the visitors “in case they did not like the object”. Happening In the early 1960s , Nicolas Schoffer created the series of “CYSP” (Cybernetic-Spatiodynamic) sculptures capable of responding to changes in sound, light intensity, color, and movement, of the audience.