Peter Sramek is a photographic artist who has taught creative, conceptual and technical aspects of the medium in diverse courses at OCAD University in Toronto for over 45 years. He is a founding member of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography which began with a group of his OCA students.
Sramek’s photographic practice spans interests from history, to urban spaces, to social and gender issues and the aesthetics of everyday life. Handmade artist books form a portion of his output. Walking as a meditative and observational practice has resulted in a series of books from different world cities, as well as multiple series of black and white panoramas, one of them created during a 300 km walk through the countryside of Japan. Objects and the meaning they assume in our lives return in his most recent project, Object Lessons, which considers how objects carry our memories and relationships in times of loss.
As senior professor emeritus at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Canada, cultural diversity and global exchange are important teaching directions with the development of the International Art Collaborations Network. There are always many ideas and projects in process. There is always lots to talk about together.
Web: sramek.ca Instagram: @sramek.art International Collaborations: INTACnet.org
Walter Bergmoser is an experimentally-oriented artist who has his strength in research in phenomenology and perception and how we, as human beings, perceive things in daily life. Bergmoser has taught internationally, including in South Korea and the Czech Republic and as a guset professor in China and Canada. He has been an active partner in the INTAC program for the past dozen years since its inception. Bergmoser is currently Vice Dean and Academic Leader for the Campus Berlin of the University of Europe for Applied Sciences (UE) which role is enhanced by his extensive experience and continually active practice in the fields of Art and Photography. His innovative, and often humorous, explorations into portraiture and self-portraiture are central to the workshop weekend at Shigabau Creek.