Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals and organisations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

The CCA has collaborated with the Graham Foundation in the past, receiving support for such projects as the Actions catalogue, the oral history research project “Mies and his American Colleagues,” and the forthcoming Architecture in Uniform by Jean-Louis Cohen, a publication accompanying the 2010 CCA exhibition of the same name.

The Graham Foundation will host a series of public programs in relation to the exhibition, to be announced shortly.

Actions: What You Can Do With the City was presented at the CCA from 26 November 2008 to 19 April 2009. Visit www.cca-actions.org for more information and a toolkit to inspire actions in the city.]]> CCA Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:20:44 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/cca-recommends/641-actions-in-chicago http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/cca-recommends/641-actions-in-chicago
Over 40 works from the Gordon Matta-Clark Archive at the CCA form part of two exhibitions presented in the United States and across South America, both of which aim to relate the artist and architect’s work to the immediate urban contexts.

Urban Alchemy/Gordon Matta-Clark, presented at the Pulitzer Foundation in St. Louis, focuses on Matta-Clark’s use of neglected or condemned structures as raw material to represent and reinterpret abandoned sites. In dialogue with the exhibition, related programs address the fate of St. Louis’ neighbourhoods, many of which are currently filled with unoccupied structures and empty lots. The exhibition is on view from 30 October 2009 to 5 June 2010.

Gordon Matta-Clark: Undoing Spaces is the first comprehensive exhibition of the artist to be presented in South America. The exhibition places Matta-Clark’s work at the junction of critical discourses of the European neo-avant-garde and experimental art practices that emerged in New York in the 1970s and 80s, and creates a dialogue between his work and the current South American art scenes. The exhibition also examines the artist’s critique of the collapse of affordable housing policies through the creation of self-sustainable dwellings, an issue that finds resonance today in the urban changes and social demands of many South American countries. Gordon Matta-Clark: Undoing Spaces is presented at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, from 10 November 2009 to 3 January 2010; the Museu de Arte Moderno in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 25 February 2010 to 4 April 2010; and the Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru, from 18 August 2010 to 31 October 2010.]]> CCA Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:57:42 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/cca-recommends/773-gordon-matta-clark-in-st-louis-and-south-america http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/cca-recommends/773-gordon-matta-clark-in-st-louis-and-south-america
John Knechtel, editor of Alphabet City, discusses the publication Water, which considers the current state of this vital substance, from the mythic to the infrastructural. The book launch is part of the ABC Festival 2009: Water with events in Toronto, New York and Montréal including a panel, exhibition, and symposium series about the future of cities’ relationship to water.

Water is the latest release in the Alphabet City publication series, which rethinks central ideas of everyday life such as fuel, trash, and food. Co-published by The MIT Press, each volume addresses a single theme from various perspectives, revealing its processes and possibilities.]]> CCA Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:55:33 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/771-john-knechtel-water http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/771-john-knechtel-water CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and principal of the BAU B-Arquitectura y Urbanismo, speaks about the revitalisation of the city of Barcelona.

Catalan architect Joan Busquets is Urban Planning and Design Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Busquets sat on the juries of the 2004–2005 James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City at the CCA and the 2008 Charrette organised by the Table de concertation du centre-ville Ouest for the redevelopment of the Cabot Square area.

The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, distinguished scholars of international repute are appointed Mellon Senior Fellows during residencies of one to eight months at the Study Centre. As part of their residency, Mellon Senior Fellows deliver a public lecture at the CCA.

Presented in English.]]> CCA Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:29:34 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/study-centre/426-joan-busquets-barcelona-revisiting-the-grids http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/study-centre/426-joan-busquets-barcelona-revisiting-the-grids Caroline Maniaque, CCA Visiting Scholar and architect/historian, presents conclusions on her research project on the reception of North-American architectural culture and counterculture by French architects in the 1960s and 1970s. Using a few American and French publications as examples, she assesses the ways in which ideas passed from one to the other and analyses the transfers, metamorphoses and resistances in their use of images, popular culture and underlying theories.

The CCA Visiting Scholars Program invites scholars at the post-doctoral level to undertake innovative research in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture during residencies of one to eight months at the Study Centre.]]> CCA Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:02:55 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/study-centre/721-caroline-maniaque-modeles-americains-et-transferts-culturels http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/study-centre/721-caroline-maniaque-modeles-americains-et-transferts-culturels Juliet Koss, CCA Visiting Scholar and Associate Professor of Art History at Scripps College in Claremont, California, presents her current research project on the symbolic value of architecture in the Soviet avant-garde.

Addressing the paintings, architectons, and drawings made by Kasimir Malevich in the 1920s and the representation of architecture and construction in Soviet culture of that decade more generally, with particular attention to photographic material in the CCA Collection, and culminating in the journal USSR in Construction (1930-41), the project aims to demonstrate how a wide range of architectural representation, from the most figurative and theoretical to the most literal and concrete, emblematized the construction of the Soviet state.

The CCA Visiting Scholars Program invites scholars at the post-doctoral level to undertake innovative research in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture during residencies of one to eight months at the Study Centre.]]> CCA Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:00:52 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/study-centre/720-juliet-koss-ussr-in-construction-in-construction http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/study-centre/720-juliet-koss-ussr-in-construction-in-construction Carlotta Darò, CCA Visiting Scholar and assistant professor at l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris Malaquais, renders an account of the hypotheses and the richness of paths possible for the study of the development of media and communication, especially acoustic, in the Canadian context and will try to underline the impact of these fields for the domain of architecture.

“The ‘soundscape’ is a neologism first proposed in 1969 by the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer, coined in the aim to create an entirely new discipline. From this moment onwards, the soundscape became the focus of studies and specialized publications looking at the acoustic environment from different viewpoints: architects, urbanists, composers, sociologists, sound engineers…In the 1960s, years marked by great enthusiasm with regard to technological progress, sound as a medium seemed to be controllable and workable, if not immediately then in the not-so-distant future, thanks to new developments in sound recording and broadcasting. The considerations developed at this time regarding the management of “fluids,” acoustic ones among them, quickly sparked a keen interest in the greater ideas of ambiance, atmosphere, and environment among several architects (from Constant to Archigram, and including Nicolas Schöffer, Haus-Rucker-Co, Coop Himmelb[l]au, etc…).

“It was in the heart of Canada that this experimental effervescence began to take shape as a theoretical discussion which would lead to the formation of a new field of study. Between Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and the university in Toronto, Marshall McLuhan, Archie MacKinnon, Buckminster Fuller and Constantin Doxiadis exchanged ideas, concepts and experiences that gave birth to the notion of soundscape and its international proliferation. In 1972, R. Murray Schafer created the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. This project took form thanks to a group of scholars from across disciplines which united in the effort to study the soundscape as an international phenomenon.“

- Carlotta Darò, 2008

The CCA Visiting Scholars Program invites scholars at the post-doctoral level to undertake innovative research in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture during residencies of one to eight months at the Study Centre.]]> CCA Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:58:50 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/study-centre/718-carlotta-daro-pour-une-histoire-du-soundscape http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/study-centre/718-carlotta-daro-pour-une-histoire-du-soundscape Indra McEwen, adjunct professor of Art History at Concordia University, presents part of a current book project whose aim is to examine the politics of Vitruvius’s influence on renaissance architecture and its theory.

“In the service initially of Julius Caesar during his meteoric rise to autocratic rule, Vitruvius wrote in the mid-first century BCE, at the fall of the Roman republic and the beginning the period of one-man rule known as the empire. After Caesar was assassinated, Vitruvius transferred his allegiance to Caesar’s adopted son, Octavian Augustus, the first Roman emperor to whom he dedicated his treatise on architecture. McEwen’s view, argued in her recent book on Vitruvius, is that De architectura was meant to present architecture as the ultimate vindicator of the new autocracy.

“’Rediscovery’ of, and interest in De architectura, far surpassing any recorded in antiquity, began in earnest with the collapse of republican communes and the rise of principalities in the northern Italian quattrocento. In this shift of power structure from commune and the rule of many to principality and the rule of one, it is not difficult to see a mirror of the circumstances – the transition from republic to empire – that first brought De architectura to light in ancient Rome. Indeed, Vitruvius’s close association with Caesar and Augustus played a key role in his appeal in the courts of the new signori, who revered Caesar and Augustus, but especially Caesar, as role models. The quality that, above all, recommended Caesar to his renaissance emulators was the quality of manly courage the Romans called virtus – the quality known in Italian as virtù.

In my seminar, I propose to take this notion of virtus as a lens and use it to focus less on the political role of De architectura as such, than on how, if Caesar showed the way to ambitious warlords so too did Vitruvius, ever at the ready as Caesar’s sidekick, show the way to ambitious architects, ultimately uniting prince and architect in a common project whose avowed purpose, now, was di risucitare le virtù, as Filarete would put it in his treatise on architecture of about 1460 – ‘to bring the ancient virtues back to life.’“

- Indra McEwen, May 2008

The CCA Visiting Scholars Program invites scholars at the post-doctoral level to undertake innovative research in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture during residencies of one to eight months at the Study Centre.]]> CCA Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:53:19 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/study-centre/715-indra-mcewen-virtu-vious-roman-architecture-renaissance http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/study-centre/715-indra-mcewen-virtu-vious-roman-architecture-renaissance
The first in a series of Thursday Night Features associated with Intermission: Films from a Heroic Future, an exhibition of films on speed and space from the archives of NASA, the National Film Board of Canada, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and UbuWeb.

On view in the galleries: Atmosphere, a selection of animated films from the NFB and UbuWeb that scratch, morph, shift, and dance through abstract spaces; NFB films on rhythm; and Secrets of Apollo, rare footage shot by NASA from 1966 to 1972, including earthrises over the moon, views from the lunar rover, Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk, and re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere at 40,000 kilometres per hour.

Explore the archives and discover rare footage and experimental material in a cinematic atmosphere, with DJs Alix and Janek Bishop, video projections by Brille Brille, cash bar and popcorn.]]> CCA Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:40:20 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/694-post-vernissage-intermission-films-from-a-heroic-future http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/694-post-vernissage-intermission-films-from-a-heroic-future
2003, 01:23:45, French
Sylvie Groulx
Sylvie Groulx’s The Hasty Man Drinks His Tea with a Fork is a poignant and funny exploration of the modern world’s obsession with speed. Seen through a woman’s nervous collapse, the film asks if we are headed for a burnout because of the very technology that was supposed to free us. Can time be made more human?

The Hasty Man Drinks His Tea with a Fork is part of Intermission’s Thursday Night Features series. From 7 to 10 pm the galleries become spaces for conversation and relaxing, with music and cash bar. The screening is repeated on Saturday, 12 December and Sunday, 13 December at 2:30 pm.]]> CCA Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:15:38 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/666-the-hasty-man-drinks-his-tea-with-a-fork http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/666-the-hasty-man-drinks-his-tea-with-a-fork
This project, developed with Cabinet editor-in-chief Sina Najafi in parallel with his research in the CCA Collection for the magazine’s forthcoming “Bubbles” issue, is informed as much by Cabinet’s approach as its content. Through a wide-ranging, multidisciplinary exploration of the world around us, Cabinet presents an ongoing catalogue of the amazing, the mundane, the peripheral, and the found-by-chance. In this spirit of discovery, Sina Najafi also imagined possible new additions to the museum’s holdings. This wish list, sent to the CCA as a series of postcards each bearing the phrase “Wish it was there,” forms part of this display.

Starting From … is a series that explores current publications on architecture and highlights materials in the CCA Collection. Past editions of Starting From … have focused on a variety of themes, including books by the photographer Lee Friedlander, unusual approaches to travel, and the colour pink in architecture.

Starting From … The Bubble is the result of a conversation between Meredith Carruthers (Coordinator, Programs) and Sina Najafi (Editor-in-chief, Cabinet magazine), with ideas contributed by Lev Bratishenko (Researcher, Programs), Esra Akcan (Visiting Scholar, Study Centre), Louise Désy (Curator, Photographs), Howard Shubert (Curator, Prints and Drawings), and Judy Silverman (Head, Collection Cataloguing).]]> CCA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:51:14 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/exhibitions/741-the-bubble http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/exhibitions/741-the-bubble
The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films linking themes of speed and space. Selected by curators from four archives — NASA, the National Film Board of Canada, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and UbuWeb — the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our past, present and future.

Films are shown in the galleries continuously from Wednesday to Sunday.

Thursday Night Features include Curator’s Choice talks and special screenings in a cinematic atmosphere. Music and drinks.
7 to 10 pm.

Thursday night screenings are repeated on Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 pm.

Free admission to the exhibition and Thursday Night Features.]]> CCA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:21:13 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/exhibitions/664-intermission-films-from-a-heroic-future http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/exhibitions/664-intermission-films-from-a-heroic-future
The exhibition presents three projects dealing with the idea of an adventurous journey that started 40 years ago, after the mission to the moon in 1969: the now legendary project by Alessandro Poli and Superstudio for a highway to connect the earth and the moon; Los Angeles-based architect Michael Maltzan’s design of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Administration Building for NASA that challenges existing models for housing scientific research and proposes a new type of physical environment to facilitate a collaborative research process; and Los Angeles-based architect Greg Lynn’s research and design project for new terminals on both the earth and the moon, which will connect travelers between the two locations.

Other Space Odysseys is curated by CCA Director Mirko Zardini and Curator for Contemporary Architecture Giovanna Borasi and is presented in close collaboration with the three architects, who contribute to the design of their respective presentations.]]> CCA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:09:10 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/exhibitions/417-other-space-odysseys-greg-lynn-michael-maltzan-and http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/exhibitions/417-other-space-odysseys-greg-lynn-michael-maltzan-and
Erection
1971, 00:18:07, Film without words
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Time-lapse footage of the construction of the International Hotel in London shot over eighteen months and set to music by Yoko Ono, accompanied by toy percussion instruments.

Fly
1971, 00:25:00, Film without words
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Houseflies explore the body of actress Virginia Lust at their own pace as she lies on a bed.

Apotheosis
1970, 00:18:35, Silent
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono takes a camera and a microphone on a hot air balloon ride in the countryside.

Happy Birthday to John
1972, 00:24:00, English
Jonas Mekas
A film of John Lennon’s 1972 birthday party with Ringo Starr, Allen Ginsberg, and Yoko Ono improvising songs and roaming New York City.]]> CCA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:55:16 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/738-the-films-of-john-lennon-and-yoko-ono-1970-1972 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/738-the-films-of-john-lennon-and-yoko-ono-1970-1972
The Railrodder
1965, 00:24:47, Film without words
Gerald Potterton
Buster Keaton travels across Canada by railroad speeder in one of his last films. A beautiful and hilarious voyage that contains all the physical ingenuity and bravado that made him a famous silent actor, it surveys the landscape of Canada in a frantically lovely way.

This is Not Einstein
2003, 00:51:55, French
Catherine Fol
A young woman searches for meaning through the writings of physicist Albert Einstein. She finds cosmic riddles and childlike wonder in his books, and they influence her voyage in unexpected ways, introducing her to characters from astronomy and mathematics. She follows Einstein to probe the limits of human knowledge and the power of curiosity.]]> CCA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:52:03 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/733-the-railrodder-this-is-not-einstein http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/733-the-railrodder-this-is-not-einstein
2007, 01:44:45, English
Theo Kamecke
Originally made in 1970 as the definitive documentary about the Apollo 11 program, Moonwalk One (Theo Kamecke) was never widely released even though the filmmakers were given unprecedented access to NASA. The only surviving 35-mm print was discovered and remastered in 2007 with additional footage added to complete this amazing time capsule.

Moonwalk One: The Director’s Cut is part of Intermission’s Thursday Night Features series. From 7 to 10 pm the galleries become spaces for conversation and relaxing, with music and cash bar. The screening is repeated on Saturday, 27 February and Sunday, 28 February at 2:30 pm.]]> CCA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:49:18 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/688-moonwalk-one-the-directors-cut http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/688-moonwalk-one-the-directors-cut
Christopher Riley, co-curator of the NASA material presented in Intermission, speaks about the origins of the NASA film archive and its preservation, and explains the technical demands of filming in space and the continuing importance of this footage.

Intermission’s Thursday Night Features series includes curator’s talks and special screenings, offering visitors the chance to see feature films, explore the archives, meet the curators, and discover rare and experimental footage in a cinematic atmosphere. From 7 to 10 pm the galleries shift to become spaces for conversation and relaxing, with music and cash bar. Screenings are repeated on Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 pm.]]> CCA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:48:37 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/685-curator-s-talk-nasa-archive-1966-1972 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/685-curator-s-talk-nasa-archive-1966-1972
UbuWeb founder Kenneth Goldsmith presents four rarely seen films by and about John Lennon and Yoko Ono, whose radical stances toward art and politics fuelled the ethos of UbuWeb, the Internet’s largest avant-garde repository.

Erection
1971, 00:18:07, Film without words
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Time-lapse footage of the construction of the International Hotel in London shot over eighteen months and set to music by Yoko Ono, accompanied by toy percussion instruments.

Fly
1971, 00:25:00, Film without words
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Houseflies explore the body of actress Virginia Lust at their own pace as she lies on a bed.

Apotheosis
1970, 00:18:35, Silent
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono takes a camera and a microphone on a hot air balloon ride in the countryside.

Happy Birthday to John
1972, 00:24:00, English
Jonas Mekas
A film of John Lennon’s 1972 birthday party with Ringo Starr, Allen Ginsberg, and Yoko Ono improvising songs and roaming New York City.

Intermission’s Thursday Night Features series includes curator’s talks and special screenings, offering visitors the chance to see feature films, explore the archives, meet the curators, and discover rare and experimental footage in a cinematic atmosphere. From 7 to 10 pm the galleries shift to become spaces for conversation and relaxing, with music and cash bar. Screenings are repeated on Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 pm.]]> CCA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:47:50 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/670-curator-s-talk-the-films-of-john-lennon-and-yoko-ono-1970 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/670-curator-s-talk-the-films-of-john-lennon-and-yoko-ono-1970
A survey of avant-garde films about motion, from the simple techniques of early films like those of the Lumière brothers, to contemporary films that make no reference to three-dimensional reality. In between there are composites like Peter Gidal’s anti-illusionist film Clouds, and Fatboy Slim’s Weapon of Choice music video with Christopher Walken.

Motion Studies is part of Intermission’s Thursday Night Features series. From 7 to 10 pm the galleries become spaces for conversation and relaxing, with music and cash bar. The screening is repeated on Saturday, 23 January and Sunday, 24 January at 2:30 pm.

Danse serpentine
c. 1897-1899, 00:01:10, Film without words
Auguste & Louis Lumière
Hand-tinted film of a dancer performing a serpentine dance in the style of Loie Fuller, a famous 19th century dancer who performed with coloured projections. Catalogue Lumière N°765-II Rome.
© Association frères Lumière – France.

NY, NY: A Day in New York
1957, 00:15:25, Film without words
Francis Thompson
A relatively early colour film about New York City using kaleidoscopic techniques to show city icons in a new light.

Breakaway
1966, 00:05:18, Film without words
Bruce Conner
A playful film in which a young woman (Toni Basil) moves at impossible speeds in various states of undress while Ed Cobb’s “Breakaway” plays… then the assemblage of motion and sound runs backwards.

Clouds
1969, 00:08:45, Film without words
Peter Gidal
A sparse film of clouds shot with a handheld camera, Clouds heightens the viewers’ awareness of the screen, the camera, and their bodies.

Weapon of Choice
2001, 00:03:39, English
Spike Jonze
Christopher Walken performs a swing-from-the-rafters dance solo in a hotel lobby for this classic music video for Fatboy Slim. Courtesy of EMI Music Canada.

My Desktop OS X 10.4.7
2007, 00:04:40, Film without words
JODI
Typically shown online, the work of Dutch computer artists JODI (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) subverts computer conventions and intervenes in the everyday spaces of the digital desktop.

Solo
1997, 00:06:52, Film without words
William Forsythe
The film of a virtuosic solo dance performance by choreographer William Forsythe where the camera roams his body, capturing strange views of a wild dance.

Hand Movie
1966, 00:06:17, Silent
Yvonne Rainer
Shot while dancer Yvonne Rainer was recovering from surgery, Hand Movie has her moving the only part of her that could still dance: a hand.

Organism
1975, 19 min 22 s, English
Hilary Harris
New York City seen as a system like a body or an anthill. People and machines play tiny parts that together create an enormous and complicated whole.]]> CCA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:47:04 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/669-motion-studies http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/669-motion-studies
Film treasures from Walt Disney’s Tomorrowland, constructed in 1955, two years before Sputnik 1 was launched. This area of Disneyland was a corporate showcase for optimistic imaginings of America’s future, and included four films featuring scientist Wernher von Braun describing his rocket systems, space station, and moon mission plans.

Disney’s Tomorrowland is part of Intermission’s Thursday Night Features series. From 7 to 10 pm the galleries become spaces for conversation and relaxing, with music and cash bar. The screening is repeated on Saturday, 19 December and Sunday, 20 December at 2:30 pm.

Man in Space
1955, 00:34:00, English
Ward Kimball/Walt Disney
Including a brief history of rocketry up to that date, Man in Space focuses on the challenges of space medicine and warns of the dangers of smoking in space!

Man and the Moon
1955, 00:21:10, English
Ward Kimball/Walt Disney
With an amusing animated overview of humanity’s long fascination with the moon, Man and the Moon concludes with Wernher von Braun’s plans for a rocket trip around the moon.

Mars and Beyond
1957, 00:30:00, English
Ward Kimball/Walt Disney
Life on other planets is the subject of this classic Disney short film featuring Garco the robot. What begins as a sober history of humanity’s search for extraterrestrial life gradually succumbs to a madcap zoo of alien creatures.

Eyes in Outer Space
1959, 00:25:00, English
Ward Kimball/Walt Disney
An animated film made two years after the launch of Sputnik 1 and speculating on possible uses for satellites, from military spying to controlling the weather.]]> CCA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:45:20 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/667-disneys-tomorrowland http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/667-disneys-tomorrowland
Albert Ohayon and Marc St-Pierre, English and French film collection analysts at the National Film Board of Canada, introduce the NFB archive and two of their favourite films about the pace of life: The Railrodder starring Buster Keaton, and Catherine Fol’s This is Not Einstein.

The Railrodder
1965, 00:24:47, Film without words
Gerald Potterton
Buster Keaton travels across Canada by railroad speeder in one of his last films. A beautiful and hilarious voyage that contains all the physical ingenuity and bravado that made him a famous silent actor, it surveys the landscape of Canada in a frantically lovely way.

This is Not Einstein
2003, 00:51:55, French
Catherine Fol
A young woman searches for meaning through the writings of physicist Albert Einstein. She finds cosmic riddles and childlike wonder in his books, and they influence her voyage in unexpected ways, introducing her to characters from astronomy and mathematics. She follows Einstein to probe the limits of human knowledge and the power of curiosity.

Intermission’s Thursday Night Features series includes curator’s talks and special screenings, offering visitors the chance to see feature films, explore the archives, meet the curators, and discover rare and experimental footage in a cinematic atmosphere. From 7 to 10 pm the galleries shift to become spaces for conversation and relaxing, with music and cash bar. Screenings are repeated on Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 pm.]]> CCA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:43:41 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/665-curator-s-talk-the-search-for-meaning http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/665-curator-s-talk-the-search-for-meaning
Jeremy Kinney, curator in the Aeronautics Division of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, provides an introduction to the archive. Followed by a 1928 promotional film on the first transcontinental air travel service, Coast to Coast in 48 Hours.

Coast to Coast in 48 Hours
1928, 00:30:00
Ford Motor Company
A promotional film that follows the route of Transcontinental Air Transport’s New York to California service as passengers flew by day and rode the rails by night. At the time, the film was distributed to entice a generation unfamiliar with air travel to take to the skies. Today, Coast to Coast in 48 Hours shows us how technology and speed were heroic indicators of progress.

Intermission’s Thursday Night Features series includes curator’s talks and special screenings, offering visitors the chance to see feature films, explore the archives, meet the curators, and discover rare and experimental footage in a cinematic atmosphere. From 7 to 10 pm the galleries shift to become spaces for conversation and relaxing, with music and cash bar. Screenings are repeated on Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 pm.]]> CCA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:42:12 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/668-curator-s-talk-the-dawn-of-air-travel http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/668-curator-s-talk-the-dawn-of-air-travel
1928, 00:30:00, English
Ford Motor Company
A promotional film that follows the route of Transcontinental Air Transport’s New York to California service as passengers flew by day and rode the rails by night. At the time, the film was distributed to entice a generation unfamiliar with air travel to take to the skies. Coast to Coast in 48 Hours shows how technology and speed were heroic indicators of progress.]]> CCA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:41:28 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/736-coast-to-coast-in-48-hours http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/736-coast-to-coast-in-48-hours
Inspired by the exhibition Speed Limits, the workshop explores the universe of French cinematographer Jacques Tati and questions aspects of modern life. By examining various themes such as circulation, standardization, and automation in the home, students discover Tati’s critical works, composed of images of the modern world that illustrate the strength and limits of the cult of speed.]]> CCA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:59:04 -0500 http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/595-stop-motion http://www.cca.qc.ca:80/en/education-and-events/595-stop-motion
Many efforts have been made throughout the 20th century to organise daily life into independent blocks of time for living, working, recreation, and circulation. Candidates for the Summer 2009 research residencies on the theme of Time Schedules were invited to formulate a research proposal about the significance of this conception of time for today’s design practice.

The recipients of the 2009 Power Corporation of Canada Award are Martin Hogue, University of Toronto, Michael Lis, University of British Columbia, and Samantha Lynch, University of Manitoba. The students are in residence at the CCA from 1 June to 31 August 2009.

Concurrent to the 2009 residencies is the exhibition Speed Limits, from 19 May to 12 October, which addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information.

Power Corporation of Canada Awards encourage students at the Masters level in Canadian architectural schools to become acquainted with the CCA Collection and public programs through a collaborative project of three months at the Study Centre.
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