2 THE VOICE, THURSDAY, JAN, 29, 2015 EDITOR KERA PIWOWARSKI-SKOCYLAS Cws The art piece that's watching Sculpture created by Langara students is on display at train station By XIAO XU six-foot surveillance camera art sculpture, created by Langara College fine arts students, eems to burst through the wall of the Langara-49th Avenue Station. The SkyTrain surveillance camera sculpture is named See See TV. Six art- ists - Tasha Braz, Aria Cheng, Beau Gravlin, Hye-Jin Jeon, Brigid Muldoon and Rodin Wong - worked for four months from September to December to complete the artwork. It will be dis- played at the station for six to 12 months, Braz said, and will then be dis- played on Langara campus. Wong, who came r4 4 up with the idea of building the sur- There is veillance camera, a strange said there were two contrasting backand ideas with this forth fin project - people 3 wanting — surveil- people’s lance on criminal thinking] activities and peo- ple fearing con- between stant monitoring of ‘Twanna their daily lives. “There is a fe eel safe e, strange back and but I don’t — forth [in people’s li thinking] between ike my ‘I wanna feel safe, privacy but I don’t like my bei privacy being in- , eng vaded,” Wong invaded. said. The surveillance RODIN WONG camera protrudes from a wall mosaic made up of about 30 ~~ photographs. Braz said the pictures were taken in nearby neighborhoods, SkyTrain sta- tions, and on buses — places that can be under surveillance. Luke Blackstone, Langara fine arts instructor, said See See TV is the fourth art piece that Langara fine arts stu- dents have created in their public art studio practice class for this location. The previous three were called Tread Lightly, Placebo 4.9 and Little Shadow. Many people who walked by the art- work said they liked the sculpture. “Tt’s nice! Out of the ordinary,” said Suzanne Lindsay, a Langara early childhood education student. “Not something you usually see,” she said. Godfrey Cheng, a Vancouver resi- dent said the art piece is very interest- ing. “Tt pertains to us as a society.” STUDENT ARTIST Vacant LSU seats Two positions will remain unfilled after Langara’s by-election since no one is running for them By REBECCA PHAIR those with disabilities will go yet another term without official rep- resentation on Langara’s council. In the Langara Students’ Union by- election, only two of the four available positions had candidates running. Of the six nominees, five were running for the councillor position and one for sec- retary to council officer. This left the anti-racism and diversity advisor, as well as the students with disabilities advisor positions, without representa- tion for the second consecutive year. “Tt’s actually common for those posi- tions to not have candidates. It was the same last year,” said Benjamin Friesen, LSU spokesperson. Jared Braverman, commerce and business student, said Donna Rainford- Cayenne, a staff member on the elec- tion committee, suggested he run for the anti-racism and diversity advisor position. “T was unsure in my abilities to carry out that role and wanted to start out in a position as councillor,” Braverman said. Several of the candidates, including Manvir Kang, Gurpreet Minhas and Harpreet Kaur, said they were unaware the positions were available. Arneet Dua said she was aware of the empty positions, but still decided to run for councillor. Gives diverse students and student “lm new here,” Dua said. “And I want to under- stand how student Li 73 XIAO XU photo Rodin Wong, one of the artists, watched as the art piece slowly moved side to side. Langara student shorts are part of major festivals Several film arts students are included in a TIFF offshoot festival and the Whistler Film Festival By JAMES SMITH chose Langara College student films as part of their programs. Dinner Time, directed by Alexander Mainwaring, is touring with the 14th Annual Canada’s Top Ten Film Festi- val, which is associated with the To- ronto International Film Festival. And Waves, directed by Olivia Todd, played at the 2014 Whistler Film Festival. During the past 10 years, Langara has had students in TIFF four times and in WFF five times, said Garwin Sanford, Langara film arts coordinator. “We have industry standard out- comes,” Sanford said. “That’s the T: major Canadian film festivals strength of the program.” Dinner Time, written by Thanh Nguyen, is a subversive twist on the classic Little Red Riding Hood. It was selected as part of the Student Shorts portion of the festival, which screened in Toronto on Jan. 9 and Vancouver on Jan. 18. The tour hits Edmonton, Cal- gary and Winnipeg before ending in Montreal. Mainwaring said the best part of the Toronto premiere was meeting other filmmakers. “That was so awesome, __ being able to sit down ALEXANDER and chat with them MAINWARING and kind of pick Dinner Time their brains a bit,” director he said. “It was a great experience and I felt like at TIFF, they were so accommodating and so welcoming. Really made you feel at home.” Mainwaring said the encouragement he received in Toronto is typical of his experiences here in Vancouver where people usually try to lift each other up. “Within the film industry people are very supportive,” he said. Olivia Todd’s film Waves, written by Katlin Long- Wright, is the story of a 16 year-old surfer who learns she has breast cancer. It was selected as part of WFF’s Student ShortWork Competi- tion in December. “That was huge,” said Long-Wright. “It was definitely something that said ‘thumbs up, you can do this.’ So we’re pretty excited about that.” Todd said she was surprised at the size of the festival and the amount of support they received from festivalgo- ers. “Unfortunately we didn’t win any- thing, but that’s beside the point,” Todd said. “Just to have it shown is good enough,” she said. 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REBECCA PHAIR photo Some of the candidates, including Gurpreet Minhas, Arneet Dua and Harpreet Kaur, at the All Candi- dates Forum held at Langara on Jan. 22, 2015.