ECHO Banners

As a collaborative project aimed at bridging aspects of the arts and sciences, culminating in the design and production of twenty three 39” x 72” (94 x 183 cm) banners, Ziegler undertook the ECHO Banners project as a Terry Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund Project (TLEF) with UBC Sustainability. Films, lectures, and student-directed research, as well as critical readings and discussion regarding questions of biodiversity and sustainability, informed visual explorations in drawing, printmaking, painting and digital imaging, in two third-year Visual Arts courses. Students in these courses also led tile-painting workshops and discussions, regarding GVRD flora and fauna, involving the UBC student community at-large. First-year Visual Arts students produced further images of GVRD flora and fauna.

The project drew in participation by more than two hundred and twenty five UBC students, faculty and staff, during the period of one year, and was undertaken in conjunction with Dr. David Ng of the Michael Smith Laboratories and Heather Scholefield of the Campus Sustainability Office. Marijke Nap, the Print Media Technician, generously provided technical assistance throughout the project and led the digital printing of the banners at the AHVAT Print Media Research Centre.

1. View of three Echo Banners in the window of the AMS Gallery at the University of British Columbia, April 2007.

9. IsoType, a reconceptualized exhibition of 20 banners from the Echo Banner Project, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Vacnouver, BC., fall 2011through early 2012.

 

 

2. Installation view of the ECHO Banners, AMS Gallery.

3. Preserve , ECHO Banner designed by visual art students Jesse Nguyen and Robert Yau, 94 x 182.9 cm (36 x 72”), printed on recyclable banner material.

4. Pollution , ECHO Banner designed by Barbara Zeigler and Marijke Nap, 94 x 182.9 cm (36 x 72”), printed on recyclable banner material.

5. Plan , ECHO Banner designed by visual art student Kathryn Blair, 94 x 182.9 cm (36 x 72”), printed on recyclable banner material.

6. Collaboration , ECHO Banner designed by visual art students Sally I Lang Song and Nancy Chang, 94 x 182.9 cm (36 x 72”), printed on recyclable banner material.

7. Eco-nomics, ECHO Banner designed by visual art students Cynthia Eng, Stacey Randall, and Carol Lee, 94 x 182.9 cm (36 x 72”), printed on recyclable banner material.

8. Colonization, ECHO Banner designed by visual art students Angela Sterritt and Stephanie Brown, 94 x 182.9 cm (36 x 72”), printed on recyclable banner material.

12. Echo Banners, close up installation view of mock up of banners suspended and viewed from two sides.

11. Echo Banners, mock up of installation proposal for banners to be suspended and viewed from two sides.

 

10. IsoType, installation view, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Vancouver, BC., fall 2011 through early 2012.