Assistant Professor Charles Stankievech, director of the Daniels Faculty's Visual Studies program, has been awarded the prestigious Audain Distinguished Artist-in-Residance program for Spring/Summer 2016.

The mandate of the residency is to bring renowned contemporary artists to Vancouver and to support the creation of new works. This week, Stankievech gave a public lecture in Vancouver titled "CounterIntelligence: A Glossary of Doubled Agency." His work addresses the way artefacts of warfare have helped us understand culture in conflict and the meanings they have when placed in the context of museum or art exhibition. It asks the question: what is the contemporary role of the exhibition as caught in the no-man's land between the didacic museum and the conceptual gesture?

On April 2, Stankievech will be speaking at the first annual Translations Symposium at The University of Waterloo School of Architecture. This year's symposium, Representing Ambience Today, will investigate contemporary representations of architecture's milieu. Stankievech will be part of the panel discussion titled "Atmospheres - the ambience of matter," which will explore the physical characteristics as well as the social and cultural characteristics of materiality in contemporary architectural investigations.