NEWVIEW School Canada Info Session

Meet the lead lecturers and organisers of Canada's newest xR School and learn about the NEWVIEW Curriculum.

Who is it aimed at?
XR developers, artists, designers: potential students

Why should I attend?
Are you a creative, designer, or artist looking to develop advanced skills in 3D creation, digital practice, 3D animation and virtual world building? Attend our info session and learn about the NEWVIEW SCHOOL set to take place in Summer of 2022. Meet the instructors and learn details about the anticipated curriculum.

Speakers:
Tobias Williams - Artist and Educator:

Tobias Williams is an artist and educator based in Toronto, Canada. He holds an MFA from York University and currently works as an instructor at OCAD U, Humber College and Toronto School of the Arts. His work has been shown both locally and internationally including exhibitions at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin as part of Transmediale, Material Art fair in Mexico City, The Brandscape In Toronto and the AGM in Mississauga. Tobias’s art and research practice uses XR, 3d rendering and animation to explore the relationship between art, society and technology. Recent projects of his have focused on topics such as the history of Blockchain, the influence of platform based algorithms on contemporary visual culture and the ontology of virtual art spaces.

David Han - Media Artist, Scholar and Educator:

David Han is a media artist, scholar and educator whose work employs emerging technology to explore the boundaries between computation, cinema and immersive media. His current practice employs a formalist approach to explore the unique affordances of virtual reality (VR) and aims to understand and expand the range of possibilities for creative practice in VR.

Here are some useful links for this session:
https://newview.design/en/school/toronto-2022