Playfully, hello = hi = hey = how are you = what’s up = friends...HELLO acknowledges that this is the first cohesive introduction of the 2015 /2016 MFA and MDES Interdisciplinary program’s work to the larger OCAD student body and faculty. Initially considered to be a shout to attract attention, the word “hello” continues to grow in its potential to signify inclusivity as well as speak to the wonderful diversity of knowledge, skill sets, and perspectives represented through the work.We invite you to engage with the show and then say “hello” so that we can continue the conversations that work to inform our evolving practices.

Written on behalf of IAMD first year cohort by Jill Price (BFA 93, OT 2007, MFA 2017)

TOM FEILER www.tomfeiler.com> Tom Feiler is not a horse of course. He is a photographer and filmmaker. He is allergic to real horses. But what is a real horse…Tom Feiler rambles on at times leaving him hoarse.> I am inspired by the opportunity for misdirection; a viewer assumes one truth about an image or text which then, only upon reexamination, forces them to re-consider their expectations of what they are seeing or reading.

QENDRIM HOTI> I combine different materials to create an alternate reality because I take things that are lost in the everyday very seriously. Your nostalgic link to my work is very important to me.

JILL PRICE> Hello, my name is Jill Price. Currently working part-time as a curator and edu-cator, my MFA has me exploring the im-portance of archiving within the seeking and communication of knowledge > Utilizing shadows as my vehicle, I am ex-perimenting with different materials and methods to index and infer how intercon-nected, affected and affecting we are within our perspective landscapes.

DAVID CONSTANTINO SALAZARwww.projectsalazar.com > Salazars experience as a foundry man at MST Bronze Art Foundry, and as a sculptor for Mocidade, one of Rio de Janeiro’s top samba schools for Carnival inform his research. > In both video performances, Salazar uses his body to visually explore the relationship between the self, the body and external social influences. His research involves the visual language found in fables and the use of anthropomorphic characters.

IVETA KARPATHYOVAwww.ivetaka.com > I worked as an illustrator and graphic designer in Paris, Montreal and California until joining OCAD U to pursue an MDes. As a dancer and kung fu practitioner my interdisciplinary practice focuses on the visual translation of movement and fluidity through hand-drawn animation. In the physical practice of disciplines tied to embodied knowledge, I exlore their interconnection through the lens of semi-otics, learning process and performance.

KARINA ISKANDARSJAHwww.karinais.com > Hi there! My name is Karina, an interdisciplinary artist from Singapore/Indonesia. My art practice thus far has contemplated collective memory, heterotopias and psychogeography. However, since migrating to Canada I have been increasingly interested in exploring notions of displacement, particularly in relation to land, nationhood, political borders and citizenship.

JULIAN MAJEWSKIwww.ArtHappens.ca > With considerations towards methods of production and systems of legitimacy Majewski’s work is ultimately combined with undertones of deconstruction via disassembly and reassembly. Majewski’s work largely employs the use of pro-longed interactions with a created ob-ject, further transforming it and facilitating an adaption towards a new use. Working with construction hoarding and industrial reuse; the process intends to balance use value, preservation and composition; concluding its transformation and obtain-ing its association with artistic intervention.

ANNETTE MANGAARD > Annette Mangaard is a Danish born Canadian artist filmmaker whose work has been shown around the world at art galleries, cinematheques and film festivals. Installation work has been shown in the UK, Australia, Argentina and Canada. Retro-spectives of her films have been shown in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Vancouver.> Mangaard is currently working on a series of time-based media installations that in-vestigate the affect of exposure to images of the natural world on the human psyche.

PASCALINE J. KNIGHT> Pascaline combines drawing, montage, print and writing through an interdisciplinary approach. She takes everyday objects and situations that underscore the ambiguous boundary between the commonplace and the tragic. She works with lines of time and thinking, subjecting these ephemeral concepts to drawing processes connected to measure, scale and proportion. These installations are iterations around language that attempt to circumscribe the void and trace an open space for the articulation of subjectivity.

MAX LUPO> Hi there, I’m Max Lupo, an emerging artist from Barrie, Ontario currently completing an Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design from OCADu. These days, I make a range of interesting inventions which are used in my performative installations.> In my recent work, I explore notions of interaction, adaptation, and nostalgia. Often, the power of my inventions reside in their ability to subvert the user’s feelings of nostalgia and novelty, by providing an experience which contrasts with the expectation of the object.

CARLINA CHEN> Born, raised and grown up in Taiwan, i chose to immigrate to Canada to pursue my creative practice. i currently live in Toronto. > Reality feels bleak, i want to hide.i return to my childhood house i grew up in but can never go back to.Though those happy, simple days are long lost, memories still comfort.i submerge to the past to gain strength.

SAMANTHA SHERER> I make objects that touch people. My interest? The interface between object and person. Cups that pour into your mouth, a pot that filters the water you drink… Having worked with Art & Mental Health through arts therapy and Craft & Physical Health through ceramic water-filters, I’m now curious about the intersection of Design & Community Health. In my design practice, I observe the relationship between consumption and community, exploring building objects that foster community health.

FALLON ANDY> Fallon Andy is Anishinaabe from Couch-iching First Nation in Treaty #3 Territory. Their work Land Becomes Ghost examines the dominant discourses surrounding re-source extraction sites in British Columbia. Fallon’s work curates temporal and aural formulations from the land in their piece.”

MEL WORKU> Operating out of Toronto, I have been making films since the age of 16. Having received a BA (Hons) from the University of Toronto in Cinema Studies and English Literature, I now find myself in the midst of a Master’s program at OCADU. Working with film and installation, my work has a special focus paid to the nature of spectatorship and the discursive behav-ioral vocabulary that has emerged in the wake of cinema’s ever evolving relation-ship with its public.

ELI SCHWANZ> Eli Schwanz’s practice explores animation, projection and patterning. He’s interested in how a viewer’s alignment with a piece can expose animation in both stillness and motion.> This candle, continually lighting, extinguishing and relighting, expresses the artifice and romanticism of animation and its oft inability to escape genre forms. We wait between states, trusting that the candle will come on again, trusting that we will pass through the brief period of darkness. These cycles may be comforting and confining.

KATRINA TOMPKINS> Katrina studied Furniture Design at Sheridan College and has worked with commercial clients, residential clients and community organizations. Katrina has visited the wood studios at Anderson Ranch (Colorado), Haystack Mountain School of Craft (Maine) and has received several awards. > I make furniture because the process of making and engagement in the workshop nourishes some aspect of being that requires stimulation as much as tedium, disappointment as often as reward, solitude and community.

ALEXANDRA MAJERUS> Alexandra Majerus is a multidisciplinary artist who engages with the construct of Western culture with a focus on the Caribbean.> Beach uses a photo of Accra Beach, Barbados as generic - able to represent Paradise - and as a specific location. Using the tropes of vacation photogra-phy: 4x6 print, postcard-like white borders and super-saturated colours, Beach is installed as a horizon. Collected memories of Accra are narrated onto the images to create a space in which lived experience - good, bad, exciting, mundane - enters into the privileged stereotype of paradise.

MARIAM MAGSI www.mariammagsi.com> Born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan and currently living in Toronto, Canada, Mariam Magsi is a multimedia visual artist, investigating questions related to gender, sexuality, patriarchy, culture, identity and immigration through photography, film, sound, video art, performance, documentary and cultural research. Magsi has exhibited her works in Amsterdam, New York, Toronto, Paris (Louvre) and her photographic endeavors have been recognized and awarded by Pride Photo Awards (advised by World Press Photo).