Art from a Northern Colony: Capilano College Faculty & Staff Exhibition

'The Race' A three-monitor video installation by Artist, Toni...

'The Race' A three-monitor video installation by Artist, Toni Latour

Barbara Layne pictured right with Dr Penny Harris

Members of the Illawarra’s artistic community are gearing up for a cool change this week with the opening of an exciting new exhibit from Canada. This fresh range of artwork entitled Art from a Northern Colony: Capilano College Faculty & Staff Exhibition, has just arrived and highlights a diverse range of art including painting, digital print collaborations, sculpture, installation and new media installations.

Closed: Thursday 9 March at 12:30pm by special guest, Associate Professor Barbara Layne, a visiting artist and academic from Concordia University, Montreal.

International Guest Lecturer: Barbara Layne, Associate Professor of Studio Arts at Concordia University and co founder of the Hexagram Research Institute in Montreal will be sharing her research experiences and insight into interactive textiles and wearable computers.

Sponsored by the University Internationalisation Committee, Ms Lane has been invited to Wollongong to speak with academics and students about her research into the fusion of textiles and electronics and also brings with her studies from the research institute Hexagram that she co-founded in Montreal.

Barbara Layne received her MFA in Textile Design at the University of Kansas and is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. She is the Principal Investigator of a major infrastructure grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts du Québec.

Ms Layne’s main research interest is the development of intelligent cloth structures for the creation of artistic, performative and functional textiles.

These fabrics incorporate microcomputers and sensors to create surfaces that are receptive and responsive to external stimuli. Recent explorations feature an array of Light Emitting Diodes that present changing patterns and texts through the structure of cloth. Wireless transmission systems are also being incorporated to support real time communication.

Location:
FCA Gallery
Building 25, Faculty of Creative Arts
Northfields Avenue
Wollongong NSW 2520

Parking: Pay and Display parking is available in the Western Carpark for visitors to the University. View Map

Information:
Tanya Barton
School of Art and Design
Faculty of Creative Arts
Phone: +61 2 4221 5853
Fax: +61 2 4221 3301