Conor Sampson / CS Design wins public installation competition in Calgary
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A team that brings together top talent in art, engineering and architecture from Montreal and Calgary will be the creators of one of the flagship spectacles at . Their project, called Skybridge Syncopation, will turn one of the Plus 15 walkways into a large-scale interactive work for a week in September 2018, and will be developed over the course of the year through the Big Bang Residency Program, a Beakerhead and Banff Centre collaboration.
The winner of the 2018 competition is a team led by Montreal lighting artist Conor Sampson [BArch 1996, Adjunct Professor], a principal at [which includes graduates Anne-Marie Paquette, Nancy Elias, and Paul Poirier], one of the partners in the interactive lighting installation at Beakerhead 2017 – the giant teeter totters. Other team members are Marc Boutin, an award-winning Canadian architect based in Calgary; Daniel Iregui, an artist based in Montreal; and two engineers. Thomas Egli (who teaches in the Faculty of Engineering at McGill] is with EGP Groupe based in Montreal, and Geoff Bouckley is with SMP Engineering in western Canada.
The Big Bang Residency team is provided with a one-week all-expense paid residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, valued at $15,000, a budget of $50,000 for artist fees, materials and supplies. The program is supported by the Remarkable Experience Accelerator, a joint initiative of Calgary Arts Development and the Calgary Hotel Association.
