May 5 and 6, 2007


Weston Family Innovation Centre – Level D, Ontario Science Centre

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The economy, technology and morality are in a state of flux but can we change? As individuals? Communities? Nations? Open your mind through exciting displays and experiences by young artists, designers, inventors and scientists at the Fusion Festival.

Fusion 2007 program
 Saturday, May 5
11 a.m.Introduction of Fusion Projects and Participants
12 p.m.Participate in a Collaborative Art Project!
Dave Kemp and Kevin Robbie will lead a collaborative activity.
1 p.m.Public Challenge Zone Workshop
Bring out your hidden creative scientist! Followed by screening of OSC.TV, a fusion of science and comedy, including the "Periodic Table of Rock" and "The Muscle Hustle."
2 p.m.Meet April 2
Watch Science Centre staff transform faces using cutting-edge aging software.
3 p.m.“Nebula Remix”
Performance/installation by David Porter and Campbell Foster Nebula Remix is an exploration in particle theory and feedback sonics.
4 p.m.Dedicated to the Revolutions: Songs and Demonstrations from the Past
Small Wooden Shoe Company
5 p.m.Opening reception for Image Matter @ !DEA Gallery
 Saturday and Sunday, May 5 – 6
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.Fusion Festival Showcase

See the future of art today, with a range of exhibitions, displays, performances and creations that showcase the talent of young artists from Toronto high schools, undergraduate and postgraduate programs. All exhibitions and performances work to blur traditional boundaries between art, science, design and technology.

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Son of a Butcher, Laurie Petrou, Ryerson/York University
Educing Idiosyncrasy, Chloe Gedmintas & JQ Smith, Ryerson University
Hemodialysis Project, Karen Fan, Sheridan College
The New Green, Maria Ussel, George Brown College
After Indigenous to Modern, Melanie Day
Robotic Search and Rescue, Ryerson University
Augmented Reality, Helen Papagiannis, Ryerson University and York University
Changing the World One Stick At a Time, Octavia Coleman, Don Mills Collegiate Institute
Lo-Fi Collaborative Agent Populations, Nell Tenhaaf's team, York University
Virtual Career Network, Carolyn Steele, York University
Passerine Sculpture Garden, Karen Abel, York University alumnus
Dedicated to the Revolutions: Songs and Demonstrations from the Past, Small Wooden Shoe Company
Positive Youth Project, CATIE
Jewelry Collections Inspired by Modern Architecture and Organic Landscape, Benedetta Covanti, Ryerson University
Global 360, School of Journalism, Ryerson University
FNS Civic Engagement, Flemingdon Neighborhood Youth
Fashion Projects, International Academy of Design and Technology

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10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Drop-In On-site Challenges

Fusion visitors can participate in special challenges at the Weston Family Innovation Centre where art and science will be mixed together in new and unexpected ways.
 Image Matter @ !DEA Gallery

Exhibition by Dave Kemp and Kevin Robbie
A collaboration between a visual artist and a physicist specializing in nanostructured materials, the Image Matter exhibition depicts fascinating microscopic edge-on views of a variety of photographic media.
 The Whispering Tree

Installation by artists Lori Beckstead and Dave Rose. Inspired by the Uduk tribe beliefs, the Whispering Tree absorbs the sound around it, and then retransmits secrets told to it as a continuous soundscape.
 Anatomies

Exhibition by Gail Wight
Striking large scale photographs of disassembled toys call to mind human anatomy charts. Wight, a Stanford University professor, uses art to explore biology and the history of science and technology.

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Call for project submissions – Fusion 2008: Blue Planet

Thank you to all Fusion 2007 participants

Thank you very much to all Fusion participants for making this year's event a great success! Ontario Science Centre visitors have enjoyed interacting with an excellent selection of competing projects, as well as all of the non-competing demos and installations.

We are pleased to announce the results of the Fusion competition:

In category A, the FNS Civic Engagement project by Flemingdon Neighbourhood Youth came in first place, while Changing the World One Stick at a Time, by Octavia Coleman, came in second.

In category B, Robotics Search and Rescue by the Ryerson Team and Augmented Reality by Helen Papagiannis tied for first place, while Dedicated to the Revolutions by Small Wooden Shoe came in second. Lo-Fi Collaborative Agent Populations by Nell Tenhaaf's team, Passerine Sculpture Garden by Karen Abel, and Son of a Butcher by Laurie Petrou all tied for third place. Project Positive Youth Project by CATIE was recommended for Honorable Mention.

Thank you very much to the Judges:

  1. Dave Kemp, master's candidate in visual studies / collaborative program in knowledge media design (KMD), University of Toronto
  2. Kevin Robbie (Ph.D., PEng), Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Materials and associate professor, Queen's University department of physics.
  3. Michael Page, professor at Ontario College of Art Design and president of Photonix Imaging Inc.
  4. Rohan Jayasekera, consultant, and co-founder of Sympatico
  5. Robin Uchida, partner, Torch Partnership
  6. Dave Campbell, speedcuber, national record holder for Rubik's Cube and co-founder of CanadianCUBING.com*
  7. Hayley Fromstein, student, OSC Intern
  8. Andy Ma, student, OSC Intern
  9. Ross Zevenhviren, student, OSC Intern
  10. Kathy Nicholaichuk, AV producer, Ontario Science Centre
  11. Anna Relyea, associate director of strategic communications, Ontario Science Centre
  12. Lynn Row, director of operations and service management, Ontario Science Centre

*Thank you to Mike Begonui, art student at York University, for relieving Dave Campbell.

For more information, please contact us by email: fusion@osc.on.ca

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