Professor Brenda Brown
Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
304B Architecture 2 Building
t 204.474.6338
f 204.474.7532
brownb@cc.umanitoba.ca
www.bbldar.com
Education
B.F.A. (High Hons.) (Virginia Commonwealth University)
M.A., M.F.A. (University of Iowa)
M.L.A. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
landscapes, sounds, rivers and ice
Brenda Brown describes her landscape design art research as “an ongoing grappling to reveal and interpret landscape ecosystem phenomena, processes and relationships, an endeavor that inevitably also involves considerations of human perception, engagement, use and understanding.” For the past several years she has been especially concerned with landscape sounds – how they can be revealed and what they can reveal about the natural and cultural processes and interactions of that landscape.
Her Spring Ice exhibit, from March 23 - April 30, 2010, included sound and image projection installations in the Russell Building’s two foyers, the Engineering atrium stairway, and the exterior entry of Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art downtown, as well as in Architecture 2 Gallery. The ‘spring ice’ of the title refers to Winnipeg’s spring river ice and its breakup which Professor Brown documented via sound and photographic images in 2008 and 2009. These documentations were the basis for five sound and video compositions that alternated at each site. As part of Spring Ice new works by composers Michael Matthews of the University of Manitoba and Richard Festinger of San Francisco State University premiered at the concert Ice on March 31 at Eva Clare Hall, Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music at University of Manitoba. Excerpts from Brown’s sound recordings were essential elements in both works and Brown collaborated with the composers in finding and selecting the texts used.
Her sound and text work, SPRING IS COMING I MISS YOU was part of the exhibit REAL(ists), at Selby Gallery at Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida, January 15 - February 16, 2010. Her project documentation booklets were exhibited at the Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras, in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico from January 18 - February 24, 2010, during which time she was artist-in-residence there.
304B Architecture 2 Building
t 204.474.6338
f 204.474.7532
brownb@cc.umanitoba.ca
www.bbldar.com
Education
B.F.A. (High Hons.) (Virginia Commonwealth University)
M.A., M.F.A. (University of Iowa)
M.L.A. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
landscapes, sounds, rivers and ice
Brenda Brown describes her landscape design art research as “an ongoing grappling to reveal and interpret landscape ecosystem phenomena, processes and relationships, an endeavor that inevitably also involves considerations of human perception, engagement, use and understanding.” For the past several years she has been especially concerned with landscape sounds – how they can be revealed and what they can reveal about the natural and cultural processes and interactions of that landscape.
Her Spring Ice exhibit, from March 23 - April 30, 2010, included sound and image projection installations in the Russell Building’s two foyers, the Engineering atrium stairway, and the exterior entry of Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art downtown, as well as in Architecture 2 Gallery. The ‘spring ice’ of the title refers to Winnipeg’s spring river ice and its breakup which Professor Brown documented via sound and photographic images in 2008 and 2009. These documentations were the basis for five sound and video compositions that alternated at each site. As part of Spring Ice new works by composers Michael Matthews of the University of Manitoba and Richard Festinger of San Francisco State University premiered at the concert Ice on March 31 at Eva Clare Hall, Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music at University of Manitoba. Excerpts from Brown’s sound recordings were essential elements in both works and Brown collaborated with the composers in finding and selecting the texts used.
Her sound and text work, SPRING IS COMING I MISS YOU was part of the exhibit REAL(ists), at Selby Gallery at Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida, January 15 - February 16, 2010. Her project documentation booklets were exhibited at the Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras, in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico from January 18 - February 24, 2010, during which time she was artist-in-residence there.
Spring Ice exhibit, March 23-April 30, 2010, included sound and image projection installations in the Russell Building's two foyers, the Engineering atrium stairway, and the exterior entry of Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art downtown (shown above), as well as in the ARCH 2 Gallery