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• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005

• 2009

  • September

    • Biennale di Venezia 2009

      A personal view on the Biennale di Venezia contemporary art exhibition.

  • July

    • Calligraphy workshop with Denise Lach in Perce

      Written Textures was the theme of the calligraphy course.

  • June

    • Visual arts and poets at Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal

      Visual artists collaborate with poets.

    • Calligraphy exhibit at Galerie Mile-end in Montreal

      Montreal calligraphy group 'Calmars' exhibits their work.

  • May

    • Montreal Biennale 2009

      Bienual art exhibition in Montreal with the 'open culture' theme.

  • April

    • Exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City

      Exhibition featuring city interventions at the Canadien Centre for Architecture.

    • Calligraphy workshop by Yves Leterme in Montreal

      Calligrapher Yves Leterme teaches gestural writing.

    • Manon de Pauw's life Performance at Uqam gallery Montreal

      Manon de Pauw, Nancy Tobin and Daniele Desnoyers perform at Uqam Gallery.

    • Brazilian artist Paolo C. Penna at Graff

      Paolo C. Penna is presenting his work at Gallery Graff, Montreal.

  • March

    • New York trip in March 2009

      Experiencing culture, art, noise and more in New York City.

    • Flourishing workshop with Luc Saucier

      Calligraphy class with Montreal based Calligrapher Luc Saucier.

  • January

    • Munich culture in january 2009

      Events and exhibitions in Munich during the month of January.

    • Warhol Exhibition in Montreal

      The Andy Warhol exhibition was displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal.

• 2008

  • December

    • Relaunch of brigitteschuster.com 2008

      Relaunch of brigitteschuster.com 2008 with a new Web design.

  • November

    • Expozine Montreal independent book fair

      Annual book fair of fanzines, comics and small presses with over 250 participants in Montreal.

    • Ruling pen expert Thomas Hoyer in Montreal

      Calligrapher Thomas Hoyer is presenting in Montreal.

    • Bonny Baxter at Gallery Graff

      Artist talk by multidisciplinary artist Bonnie Baxter at Gallery and Printing studio Graff.

    • Photolithography Workshop with Carlos Calado at Graff

      Introduction to photolithography at Graff, Montreal, by art printing expert Carlos Calado.

  • October

    • Elmyna Bouchard at Gallery Graff

      Artist talk by etching artist Elmyna Bouchard at Gallery and Printing studio Graff.

    • Georges Schwizgebel Retrospective

      Schwizgebel's animations at Cinematheque quebecoise in Montreal.

    • Tutorial to create a panorama

      Tuturial to stich photos, which are taken with a digital camera, manually in photoshop.

  • September

    • Photo exhibition at Centre de design UQAM

      Photography and installations at Centre de Design UQAM, Montreal.

    • Signals in the dark: Art in the Shadow of War

      A photography and video exhibition about art in/about war to see in Montreal.

    • Quebec Triennal of contemporary art

      Quebec Triennal of contemporary art in Montreal featuring painting, sculpture, video, photography and installation.

  • August

    • Los Angeles, U.S. Siggraph 2008

      Conference for Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Los Angeles.

  • July

    • TypeCon2008: Punkt

      Typography conference in North America.

    • Sophie Calle in Montreal

      French artist Sophie Calle gives artist talk at SAT.

    • Jazz Fest Montreal, Canada

      International Jazz festival 2008 in Montreal.

  • June

    • The black market type print shop at articule

      Exhibition featuring typefaces used by artists at articule, Montreal.

    • Rockness 2008

      Music festival in Rockness 2008 in Inverness, Scotland featuring electronic music from the uk.

    • Photography at Tate Modern 2008

      Street and studio photography exhibition at Tate modern, London.

    • Typo Berlin 2008

      International Design Conference held in Berlin.

    • Berliner Sammlung Kalligraphie in Berlin 2008

      calligraphic collection of Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin

    • National Museums Berlin 2008

      Graphic design, drawings and paintings is shown at National Museums in Berlin.

    • Photography at Hamburger Bahnhof 2008 in Berlin

      Contemporaty German photography at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.

    • Brasil en cena from Brazil

      Performances in Berlin with artists from Brasil

    • Photography at Martin-Gropius-Bau 2008

      Young photography talents show their work in Berlin.

    • Tage der Typographie 2008

      Typography workshops in Germany during the 10th eition of days of typography 2008.

  • April

    • Colin Low presents some of his movies

      Colin Low talks about his 50 years film career and presents his movies at Concordia University, Montreal.

    • Continued Letterpress Workshop with Martin Dufour

      Details from the Continued Letterpress Workshop with Martin Dufour with documentation of single steps in the printing process.

    • Dr. David Suzuki at Concordia University Montreal

      Dr. David Suzuki encourages students to take action in environmental issues.

  • March

    • Bill Buxton lecture at SAT and at UdM in Montreal

      Bill Buxton talks about the 'The Design Eco-System'.

    • Exposition of Geoffrey Farmer, Yannick Pouliot and Arnaud Maggs

      Geoffrey Farmer, Yannick Pouliot and Arnaud Maggs at Montreal's Museum of contemporary art.

    • Installation and Performance Festival at Usine-C entitled 'Temps d'images'

      Jan Fabre presents 'L'ange de la Mort' and Kubilai Khan Investigations and Et Ludica the piece Koko Doko.

    • Exhibit entitled 'Reenactments' at DHC/Art Foundation

      Contemporary art exposition at Dhc Art Foundation

  • February

    • Martin Dufour is teaching handset typography and letterpress printing

      Learning of handset typography and letterpress printing at Atelier Circulaire.

    • Belgian choreographer De Keersmaeker and Tale Dolven perform at Usine-C

      FASE, a contemporary dancing show coreographed by keersmaeker at Usine-C.

  • January

    • Theo Jansen and his large-scale kinetic sculptures

      Concordia University's facutly of Fine Arts presents sculptur Theo Jansen.

    • WJT Mitchell at Concordia University

      WJT Mitchell lecturing on 'Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9-11 to Abu Ghraib'.

• 2007

  • December

    • Munich activities around art

      Museums and exhibitions in Munich, Germany, around December 2007.

    • Muniz at Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal

      Montreal's Museum of contemporary art features an exhibition about Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, Thomas Hirschhorn and Sound.

    • Montreal conference about design tendencies

      Conference about design tendencies with Stefan Sagmeister and Scott Burnham.

  • November

    • Black Gold movie by by Marc and Nick Francis

      The movie Black Gold by Marc and Nick Francis was screened at cinemapolitica Montreal.

    • Multi-layer meaning in art and design projects

      Use of personal symbolical language to create meaning in art/design projects demonstrated on the example of Matthew Barney's work.

    • Othello at Usine-c

      William Shakespeare's Othello at usine-c with screenplay by Denis Marleau.

    • John Pilger in Montreal for the screening of 'War on Democracy'

      John Pilger came to the 'Rencontres Internationales du documentaire de Montreal' to present his new documentary.

    • Lecture about Charles and Ray Eames and Interaction Scenarios

      Retrospective videos by the American designers, architect and filmmakers Charles and Ray Eames.

    • Class about Bruce Sterling's Talk at Siggraph 2004

      Bruce Sterling gave a talk at the 31st International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.

    • Interactivity projects with data visualization

      Three projects related to real-time, installation, interaction, experimental typography, Internet, social networking, network

  • October

    • Artist Kurt Hentschlaeger presents performance FEED

      An intense sound and visual performance, which is experienced by all senses.

    • Dalai Lama speaks about Global Citizenship

      Some keywords mentionned in Dalai Lamas speech are non-violence, compassion, trust and avoiding of anger.

    • Typography lectures in Montreal

      Denis Dulude, David Cabianca, Peter Gabor, Ted Harrison lecture about web typography.

    • Events at Montreal's event 'Mois de la Photo'

      Photography exhibitions in Montreal during 6 weeks in autumn.

    • Lecture by Martin Racine about sustainable product design

      Martin Racine is talking about reassembling old and broken objects to new design products.

    • Ulrich Seidl's movie Import Export in Montreal

      At Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal the movie Import/Export is screened

    • Sound design in live performance presentation followed by a student work presentation.

      A lecture about live performance and an interaction exercise.

    • Montreal with its high restaurant concentration offers many favorite restaurants

      Favorite Food Montreal is indicating favorite restaurants, coffee places, snack-food places, and more.

    • Language, Politics, Manifestos - Theory and Praxis during fieldtrips to the Montreal design and art scene.

      Language, Politics, Manifestos - a theory class with the not missing practical part with Inspiration from the Internet, Montreal's contemporary art/design events, lectures and more

    • A lecture with a talk about Food culture and material culture by a Montreal researcher and new brainstorm techniques

      Food culture and material culture followed by a structured brainstorm exercise

    • Brainstorming about Interactivity and Design with collective group participation

      Theories of interactivity class with interactivity brainstorming

  • September

    • Back to etching after a long break

      Back to etching after a three year's break.

  • August

    • Bruce Nauman in Montreal

      Bruce Nauman's retrospective in Montreal.

    • Emily Carr in Montreal

      Emily Carr's retrospective at Montreal's museum of fine arts.

  • July

    • Vieux Farka Toure performes in Montreal

      Vieux Farka Toure performes in Montreal during the ionternational Festival 'Nuits d'Afrique'.

    • Camping at Gatineau Park

      Camping at Gatineau Park in Quebec's East.

    • Dj Dolores at Montreal Jazz Festival 2007

      Dj Dolores performed with the group Aparelhagem at Montreal's Jazz Festival 2007

    • Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid at Montreal Jazz Festival 2007

      Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid at Montreal Jazz Festival 2007

    • Anouar Brahem at Montreal Jazz Festival 2007

      Anouar Brahem performs the album 'Voyage de Sahar' at Montreal's Jazz Festival 2007

  • June

    • 120 Business Cards for the Recycling Bin

      120 Business Cards for the Recycling Bin. A Montreal printing business asserts on its rights and scares off customers.

    • The Swedish jazz quintet Yun Kan 5 in Montreal

      The Swedish jazz quintet Yun Kan 5 in Montreal during the Jazzfestival Montreal 2007.

    • Pindemonium 03 event in Montreal

      Pindemonium 03 event 2007 at articule in Montreal.

    • Felix Kubin Concert in Montreal

      Felix Kubin performes at Sala Rosa in Montreal.

    • Pecha-Kucha Night in Montreal

      Pecha-Kucha Night 2007 took place at SAT in Montreal on June 15, 2007.

  • May

    • Concept development in Marketing and Advertising

      Concept development in Marketing and Advertising revealing the advertising concept, strategies to catch attention/interest and examples of formal techniques of visualization.

    • RoCoCoCamp in Montreal

      RoCoCo, the RecentChangesCamp Montreal, was held from May 18th to May 20, 2007, at SAT.

    • Screening of the movie Helvetica

      Screening of the movie Helvetica in Montreal, a movie by Gary Hustwit.

  • February

    • Goethe at Usine C

      Goethe's Werther was presented at Usine C. Classic German literature was shown in a contemporary way.

    • Je Ne at Usine C

      'Je ne, laboratoire d'un teatre poetique', a real time video and sound installation was presented at at Usine C.

    • Montreal - UNESCO City of Design

      Conference held by Marie-Josee Lacroix entitled 'Montreal, UNESCO city of Design: A dream or a reality for the future?' on February 19th, 2007.

  • January

    • Chocolate Fish Desktop-Wallpaper Design

      Chocolate Fish Desktop Wallpaper design for download for Pc and Mac containing fish illustrations, designed by Brigitte Schuster.

    • UNESCO Design Cities

      The Cities of Design Buenos Aires, Berlin and Montreal are members of the 'The UNESCO Global Alliance's Creative Cities Network'. Factors such as talent, tolerance, diversity and technology play an important role in becoming a Design City.

    • Relaunch of brigitteschuster.com

      Relaunch of brigitteschuster.com, my design and art portfolio. Coding by Sarven Capadisli, design by me.

    • Montreal Events - November and December 2006

      Cultural Events in Montreal such as movies, theater, trade fairs, art in November and December 2006.

    • Cultural Life during my Paris trip

      Cultural Life in Paris during my trip in November 2006, including photography and art exhibitions, and restaurants.

• 2006

  • November

    • My Locations Montreal Places photography project in a Parisian gallery

      "Locations. Special Montreal Places" by Brigitte Schuster will be shown in Paris during the photography festival 'Mois de la Photo-OFF' in November 2006.

  • October

    • Ming Liangs new movie I dont want to sleep alone

      The Malaysian-born Taiwanese director Ming Liang's movie "I don't want to sleep alone" at the Festival Nouveau Cinema on October 28th, 2006.

    • Paul Kunigis and Jeszcze Raz at Club Soda

      Paul Kunigis, a Montreal based pianist, singer and songwriter, performed at Club Soda in Montreal.

    • Atom Egoyan personnaly presents his experimental movie Citadel

      During the 35th Festival Nouveau Cinema in Montreal Atom Egoyan presents his movie Citadel with Arsinee Khanjian in the main role.

    • DJ Shadow back in Montreal after 9 years

      DJ Shadow played at Metropolis in Montreal on October 13th, 2006. He showed his music in solo performance, but also in cooperation with two singers.

    • Photographies of Darren Ell at Dazibao

      Dazibao inaugurated on Thursday October 12th, 2006 the show 'Between States' by Darren Ell who documents foreign individuals in Canada.

    • Massive Attack concert at Metropolis

      Massive Attack played at Metropolis on October 9th, 2006. The show was accompanied by a visual presentation on stage.

    • Interfaces Montreal at SAT

      Interface[s] Montreal is an event, which assembles the latest innovations in the field of digital interfaces, where experts and creators gather.

    • Chantal Akerman at Cinematheque Quebecoise

      Chantal Akerman gives a retrospective at Montreal's Cinematheque Quebecoise. I saw 'Saute ma ville' (1968) and her most recent movie 'Là-bas'.

    • Usine C project Roy

      The contemporary dance project Roy was shown on September 27th, 2006 at Usine C in Montreal.

  • July

    • Second Hand Fashion

      This article is part of the project Montreal Experiences and Lifestyle. It is about Second hand fashion and why it is such a popular trend.

    • Soccer everywhere during the World Cup

      I was shooting shop windows in Munich during the World Cup 2006. The soccer ball is always present, often in form of products.

    • Cook solo or hit the restaurant

      This article is part of the project Montreal Experiences and Lifestyle. I tested if it is cheaper to cook solo or to go the restaurant.

  • May

    • Montreal Experiences and Lifestyle

      Montreal Experiences and Lifestyle is a research to find out more about the North American lifestyles compared to the European.

• 2005

  • October

    • Montreal Personal experiences and observations

      Street Graffiti by Roadsworth in form of barrages, loudspeakers, barbed wire, tightrope, cameras, flowers directly paint on the street asphalt.

    • Favela Ilha de Deus documentary

      The organization Caranguejo Uca in Recife, Brasil, was supported by the sales of t-shirts and bags, which were sponsored by "casadobrasil" in Munich.