My Name is Owen
Daniel Vogel
My Name is Owen (2013)
digital projection with custom software written in Processing and Python
My Name is Owen is an art installation presenting a stream of pseudo-random sentences generated from content on the Owens Art Gallery website. Each sentence is unique, less than 256 characters long, and follows simple word-ordering rules learned from the website text. Sentences can be awkward, funny, profound, familiar, and sometimes even true. The system runs continuously throughout the fifty-one day exhibition. The projection is shown inside the gallery during the daytime and on a north-facing gallery window at night. Approximately 256,227 different sentences are shown in total.
My Name is Owen was shown at the Owens Art Gallery in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada from March 11, 2013 until April 28 2013.
Mount Allison University -- Campus and Tour of Sackville, NB
This is a guided tour through Sackville, New Brunswick and around the major buildings of Mount Allison University.
Music: Revival Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Geoff at Mount Allison is a personal blog about life at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB, Canada.
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Convocation Hall
Athletic Centre
Ralph Picard Bell Library
Crabtree Building
Marjorie Young Bell Conservatory of Music
Avard-Dixon Building
o Ron Joyce Centre for Business Studies
Flemington Building
Barclay Chemistry Building
Owens Art Gallery
Gairdner Fine Arts Building
Wallace McCain Student Centre
Thornton House
Edwards House
Hunton House
Bennett House
Bigelow House
Gemini Observatory
Carriage House
Bermuda House
Cuthbertson House
Pavillion Bousquet
Dunn Centre
Wu Centre
Chapel
Centennial Hall
Bennett Building
Windsor Theatre
Hart Hall
Campbell hall
Windsor Hall
Jennings Dinning Hall
Harper Hall
Downtown Sackville
Sackville Waterfowl Park
Swan pond
Anchorage House
Siftor
Daniel Vogel, Siftor (2013)
interactive digital projection with custom software written in Processing and C++
Siftor is an interactive art installation which provides a serendipitous way to explore 2,706 two-dimensional artworks in the Owens Art Gallery permanent collection. The system tracks movements of people near the display, translating them into different interactions. There are three primary modes to discover (browsing, selecting, and querying) and two special modes requiring the two or three people to coordinate positions. Siftor is always sifting: the bottom visualization is slowly re-ordered according to the average hue, saturation, or value of each artwork in the collection, and artworks are occasionally added and removed from the wall. Usage data gathered during the exhibition is used to explore emerging research questions in Human-Computer Interaction.
Siftor was shown at the Owens Art Gallery in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada from March 11, 2013 until April 28 2013.
GALRC Été 2014
Présentation des activités estivales et de l'exposition Oh, Canada en montre cet été à la Galerie d'art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen. Vidéo réalisée par Élise-Anne LaPlante. Été 2014.
Oh, Canada : du 26 juin au 21 septembre 2014, à la Galerie Sans Nom et la Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen de Moncton, N.-B., la Owens Art Gallery de Sackville, N.-B., et le Musée d'art du Centre de la Confédération, à Charlottetown, Î.-P.-É.
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L’exposition Oh, Canada a été organisée par le MASS MoCA. La commissaire en est Denise Markonish et elle est présentée grâce au généreux appui de la Banque TD et du Conseil des Arts du Canada.
Marshlands Inn - Sackville Hotels, Canada
Marshlands Inn 3 Stars hotel in Sackville, Canada Within US Travel Directory Featuring a fine dining restaurant onsite, this elegant inn is styled in timeless antiques and nestled on 8 manicured acres. Mount Allison University and Owens Art Gallery are less than 10 minutes’ drive away. Free Wi-Fi is provided in each room.Offering wood flooring, each elegant room provides a cable TV at Marshlands Inn. Styled in antique furniture and vintage pieces, the en suite bathroom features a bath.Surrounded by lush lawns and gardens, this white Victorian provides two large verandaswith lounge seating at Inn Marshlands.
The on-site store, Blue Willow Antiques specializes in Canadian glass.
Marshlands Restaurant features upscale dining.
Favorite dishes include crab cakes, seafood casserole and the Fundy Fog dessert.
Fort Beausejour Museum is 15 minutes’ drive away.
Greater Moncton International Airport is 30 minutes’ drive away from Marshlands Inn
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Murmurations
Murmurations
Rita McKeough and Graeme Patterson
September 2016
Owens Art Gallery
Sackville, NB
Multimedia Installation
Art out w(here)?: Mary MacDonald at TEDxFortTownshend 2013
Art Out W(here)?: Mary MacDonald at TEDxFortTownshend 2013
Mary MacDonald is an artist, critic, arts administrator and independent curator currently residing in St. John's, NL. Mary graduated from Mount Allison University (BFA 2006) and continued her practical education through Zwicker's Gallery (Halifax) and the Owens Art Gallery (Sackville). She recently completed her MFA in Criticism & Curatorial Practice at OCAD University and an internship at C Magazine in Toronto. Her most recent project, the W(here) Festival was a performative exploration of rural artistic practices in Pictou County, NS.
Mary is currently the Director of Eastern Edge Gallery, Newfoundland and Labrador's only artist-run centre dedicated to the presentation and discussion of contemporary visual art where she helps to facilitate the presentation of exhibitions, events and community programming. Mary's personal research interests include temporary and ephemeral exhibition structures, collaboration with non-arts communities, and artists working within rural communities and contexts.
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Discover art in Sackville
In the 14th of our 20 part video-tip series, fourth-year history and anthropology student Sarah Underhill talks about viewing art in Sackville.
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Video Credits:
Student: Sarah Underhill
Videographer: Nadine Leblanc (eCommunications Coordinator)
Interviewer: Geoff Campbell (Communications Assistant)
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Enjoying Mount Allison University without Alcohol
In this the 18th video in our 20-part tip series, fourth-year honours psychology student and Orientation Chair Aleka Maclellan discusses what students can do to enjoy Mount Allison before they turn 19.
All residence events are generally all-ages. Turning 19 really isn't as life-changing as it's cracked up to be and there's certainly no shortage of things to do before then at Mount Allison.
I would suggest many of the previously noted ideas of what to do in Sackville. For Art lovers there's visiting the Owens, START, and Struts galleries. I would also suggest going out and exploring the region, experiencing theatre, getting involved in club activities, and grabbing a coffee with friends. In first year I often went to movies at Sackville's one-room Vogue theatre, especially the Friday night toonie movies ($2 movies, for non-Canadians). For music, there are wet-dry nights at the Pub and various house events.
New Brunswick
New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick; pronounced: [nu.vo.bʁœn.swik], Quebec French pronunciation: [nu.vo.bʁɔn.zwɪk] ( )) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the Canadian federation that is constitutionally bilingual (English–French). It was created as a result of the partitioning of the British Colony of Nova Scotia in 1784. Fredericton is the capital and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton (Moncton, Dieppe, Riverview) forms the province's largest census metropolitan area. In the 2011 nation wide census, Statistics Canada estimated the provincial population to have been 751,171. The majority of the population is English-speaking, but there is also a large Francophone minority (33%), chiefly of Acadian origin.
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Degrees: Bachelor of Fine Arts
Fine Arts at Mount Allison offers a unique approach for students looking to obtain professional training — combining studio work and instruction with the freedom of an immersive liberal arts and sciences curriculum.
You will develop your creative and critical ability through studio courses in:
• Drawing
• Painting
• Photography (analog and digital)
• Printmaking (lithography, silkscreen, intaglio, relief, and letterpress)
• Sculpture and installation
• Open media
mta.ca/degrees/finearts
Mount Allison University -- Academic Buildings
This is a guided tour through the buildings at the centre of Mount Allison University (between York Street and Main Street).
Music: Revival Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Geoff at Mount Allison is a personal blog about life at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB, Canada.
For the campus map, see:
Convocation Hall
Athletic Centre
Ralph Picard Bell Library
Crabtree Building
Marjorie Young Bell Conservatory of Music
Avard-Dixon Building
o Ron Joyce Centre for Business Studies
Flemington Building
Barclay Chemistry Building
Dunn Centre
Chapel
Centennial Hall
Bennett Building
Windsor Theatre
Hart Hall
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New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick; Canadian French pronunciation: [nuvobʁɔnzwɪk] ( listen)) is one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada.
The indigenous inhabitants of the land at the time of European colonization were the Mi'kmaq, the Maliseet, and the Passamaquoddy peoples, aligned politically within the Wabanaki Confederacy, many of whom still reside in the area.
Being relatively close to Europe, New Brunswick was among the first places in North America to be explored and settled, starting with the French in the early 1600s, who eventually colonized most of the Maritimes and some of Maine as the colony of Acadia. The area was caught up in the global conflict between the British and French empires, including the 1722–25 Dummer's War against New England. In 1755 what is now New Brunswick was claimed by the British as part of Nova Scotia, to be partitioned off in 1784 following an influx of refugees from the American Revolutionary War. Large groups of English, Scottish, and French people had settled and become the majority population by this time. However, as the Catholic French and indigenous peoples had intermarried heavily, they were essentially a Métis.
In 1785, Saint John became the first incorporated city in what is now Canada. The same year, the University of New Brunswick became one of the first universities in North America. The province prospered in the early 1800s due to logging, shipbuilding, and related activities. The population grew rapidly in part due to waves of Irish immigration to Saint John and Miramichi regions, reaching about a quarter of a million by mid-century. In 1867 New Brunswick was one of four founding provinces of the Canadian Confederation, along with Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario.
After Confederation, wooden shipbuilding and lumbering declined, while protectionist policy disrupted traditional economic patterns with New England. The mid-1900s found New Brunswick to be one of the poorest regions of Canada, but that has been mitigated somewhat by federal transfer payments and improved support for rural areas.
As of 2002, provincial gross domestic product was derived as follows: services (about half being government services and public administration) 43%; construction, manufacturing, and utilities 24%; real estate rental 12%; wholesale and retail 11%; agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, mining, oil and gas extraction 5%; transportation and warehousing 5%.According to the Constitution of Canada New Brunswick is the only bilingual province. About two thirds of the population declare themselves anglophones and a third francophones. One third of the overall population describe themselves as bilingual. Atypically for Canada, only about half of the population lives in urban areas, mostly in Greater Moncton, Greater Saint John and the capital Fredericton.
Unlike the other Maritime provinces, New Brunswick's terrain is mostly forested uplands, with much of the land further from the coast, giving it a harsher climate. New Brunswick is 83% forested, and less densely-populated than the rest of the Maritimes.
Tourism accounts for about 9% of the labour force directly or indirectly. Popular destinations include Fundy National Park and the Hopewell Rocks, Kouchibouguac National Park, and Roosevelt Campobello International Park. In 2013, 64 cruise ships called at Port of Saint John carrying on average 2600 passengers each.
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The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester. The University of Manchester is a red brick university, a product of the civic university movement of the late 19th century.
The main campus is south of Manchester city centre on Oxford Road. In 2016/17, the university had 40,490 students and 10,400 staff, making it the second largest university in the UK (out of 167 including the Open University), and the largest single-site university. The university had a consolidated income of £1 billion in 2016–17, of which £262.1 million was from research grants and contracts (6th place nationally behind Oxford, UCL, Cambridge, Imperial and Edinburgh). It has the third-largest endowment of any university in England, after the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. It is a member of the worldwide Universities Research Association, the Russell Group of British research universities and the N8 Group. For 2018–19, the University of Manchester was ranked 29th in the world and 6th in the UK by QS World University Rankings. In 2017 it was ranked 38th in the world and 6th in the UK by Academic Ranking of World Universities, 55th in the world and 8th in the UK by Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 59th in the world by U.S. News and World Report. Manchester was ranked 15th in the UK amongst multi-faculty institutions for the quality (GPA) of its research and 5th for its Research Power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.The university owns and operates major cultural assets such as the Manchester Museum, Whitworth Art Gallery, John Rylands Library and Jodrell Bank Observatory and its Grade I listed Lovell Telescope.The University of Manchester has 25 Nobel laureates among its past and present students and staff, the fourth-highest number of any single university in the United Kingdom. Four Nobel laureates are currently among its staff – more than any other British university.
New Brunswick | Wikipedia audio article
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New Brunswick
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written
language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through
audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio
while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using
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In case you don't find one that you were looking for, put a comment.
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SUMMARY
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New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick; Canadian French pronunciation: [nuvobʁɔnzwɪk] ( listen)) is one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada.
The indigenous inhabitants of the land at the time of European colonization were the Mi'kmaq, the Maliseet, and the Passamaquoddy peoples, aligned politically within the Wabanaki Confederacy, many of whom still reside in the area.
Being relatively close to Europe, New Brunswick was among the first places in North America to be explored and settled, starting with the French in the early 1600s, who eventually colonized most of the Maritimes and some of Maine as the colony of Acadia. The area was caught up in the global conflict between the British and French empires, including the 1722–25 Dummer's War against New England. In 1755 what is now New Brunswick was claimed by the British as part of Nova Scotia, to be partitioned off in 1784 following an influx of refugees from the American Revolutionary War. Large groups of English, Scottish, and French people had settled and become the majority population by this time. However, as the Catholic French and indigenous peoples had intermarried heavily, they were essentially a Métis.
In 1785, Saint John became the first incorporated city in what is now Canada. The same year, the University of New Brunswick became one of the first universities in North America. The province prospered in the early 1800s due to logging, shipbuilding, and related activities. The population grew rapidly in part due to waves of Irish immigration to Saint John and Miramichi regions, reaching about a quarter of a million by mid-century. In 1867 New Brunswick was one of four founding provinces of the Canadian Confederation, along with Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario.
After Confederation, wooden shipbuilding and lumbering declined, while protectionist policy disrupted traditional economic patterns with New England. The mid-1900s found New Brunswick to be one of the poorest regions of Canada, but that has been mitigated somewhat by federal transfer payments and improved support for rural areas.
As of 2002, provincial gross domestic product was derived as follows: services (about half being government services and public administration) 43%; construction, manufacturing, and utilities 24%; real estate rental 12%; wholesale and retail 11%; agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, mining, oil and gas extraction 5%; transportation and warehousing 5%.According to the Constitution of Canada New Brunswick is the only bilingual province. About two thirds of the population declare themselves anglophones and a third francophones. One third of the overall population describe themselves as bilingual. Atypically for Canada, only about half of the population lives in urban areas, mostly in Greater Moncton, Greater Saint John and the capital Fredericton.
Unlike the other Maritime provinces, New Brunswick's terrain is mostly forested uplands, with much of the land further from the coast, giving it a harsher climate. New Brunswick is 83% forested, and less densely-populated than the rest of the Maritimes.
Tourism accounts for about 9% of the labour force directly or indirectly. Popular destinations include Fundy National Park and the Hopewell Rocks, Kouchibouguac National Park, and Roosevelt Campobello International Park. In 2013, 64 cruise ships called at Port of Saint John carrying on average 2600 passengers each.