The Details On August 20th, please join us in the Integrated Motion Studio at Emily Carr University on Great Northern way to see the work that our visiting artists and designers have been producing. The event will run from 6-8pm with individual presentations followed by a panel discussion. 

The Presenters

TOM CHUNG - B. 1990 in Vancouver BC, Tom Chung is an independent industrial designer who established his eponymous studio in 2016. Based in Toronto the studio maintains a focus on material objects and interior space with an emphasis on experience. Forming a unique design process which combines contemporary culture and local industry, the studio creates context driven industrial design pieces for domestic, institutional and public environments.

MANON FRASER - Stated on her Degree from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, it appears that Manon Fraser is a graphic designer. The world of graphic design is much more than its dictionary definition; the art or skill of combining text and pictures in advertisements, magazines, or books. For Manon, it deals with varying degrees of transferred information ~ body to body, body to device, device to body, device to device and so on. Her practice engages with these relationships, oscillating between the engaged and seemingly aloof to her inform her design propositions. From this, her work materializes in a multitude of forms, each actively seeking to warp sight and provoke new perspectives.

PETE FUNG HO CHING - Pete Fung Ho Ching is a Netherland based conceptual designer who works with culture(s) as material in creating critical engagements that collectively rethink everyday realities. His previous work saw him investigating the gestural narrative of our tech-social mode of existence, unpacking the production of everyday representation and decentralizing the legitimacy of museum spaces to name a few. He see design as a methodology used to look at the world rather than a means to an end.

KATE METTEN - Kate Metten’s phenomenological research is rooted in the shared materiality between painting and ceramics, art and science, the landscape and psychogeography. Through objects and site-specific installations, Metten’s work explores abstraction and material hierarchies. Her sensitivity to material and form utilizes an abstract vernacular to address Modernism, geological time, ideas surrounding the still life and concrete painting. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Metten has a BFA in ceramics and painting from Emily Carr University. She studied ceramics at Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina and Concordia University, Montreal. She received funding through BC Arts Council’s early career development program to apprentice with second generation potter Gailan Ngan. Metten’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at NCECA: The Form Will Find Its Way: Contemporary Ceramic Sculptural Abstraction, Katherine E Nash Gallery, Minneapolis. Other exhibitions include her solo show Untitled Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, and Leaning out of Windows: Art and Physics Collaboration at Emily Carr University, Vancouver. Kate Metten is a recipient of the Thelma Ruck Keene Memorial Award for Ceramics. She is currently artist in residence at the Burrard Arts Foundation.