Park: Greenroom and Grow
An exhibition at Emily Carr Institute Concourse Gallery: A Model of Collaboration for Great Northern Way Community (GNWC)
Sponsored by ECI's Centre for Art and Technology (CAT) in collaboration with University of British Columbia (ISIT) and Surrey Art Gallery.

ECI faculty Fiona Bowie and Julie Andreyev share common research areas in interactive projection, the use of sensors and effect generators and object-based projection surfaces. These interests are a natural match with ECI's Centre for Art and Technology's current initiative to support faculty research involving interactivity and themes of 'embodiment', environment and ethics. The project is being offered as an experimental model for the development of a collaborative support structure within the GNWC community. There are two research components to the project: Greenroom and Grow. Each of these components explores different aspects of the theme: "park". The components also build on and inform the whole thematic through demonstrating two departures from a common starting point.

Grab your lunch from the Buchanan Courtyard and hop on the bus for a quick run in the sun down to the Spanish Banks Beach, located just 5 minutes away from the UBC campus.

To commemorate the discovery of the Spanish explorers in 1972, the British named this particular shore, Spanish Banks. It was known simply as Pookcha by the Native Americans meaning 'the back of the rising whale” Spanish Banks is now a wonderful retreat for those who wish to escape from the hard pace of city life.

The beaches are blessed with long, wide sandy stretch of land. If you go during low tide, you could almost imagine reaching the middle of the bay. Going out west, the beach narrows into a rocky swath which is barely visible during the high tide.