Oliver Botar, University of Manitoba

Research

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Latest funding

Creative and cultural ecosystems on the prairies
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$20,000
Training for modernity: Moholy-Nagy and the onslaught of the digital
SSHRC · 2013 · Principal investigator
$178,627
Biocentrism and biomorphic modernism
SSHRC · 2003 · Principal investigator
$61,248

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Creative and cultural ecosystems on the prairies

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Grants

Keywords: arts ecology; cultural ecology; indigenous cultural ecologies; creative economy; community engagement; social impacts; vitality index; social network analysis; community; sustainability; artist work patterns

$20,000

Training for modernity: Moholy-Nagy and the onslaught of the digital

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Botar, Oliver A.I.

Keywords: Moholy-Nagy; Laszlo; digital technology; sensory adaptation; sensory overload; new media; digital media; expanded cinema; Bauhaus; film; installation art; multi-media

$178,627

Biocentrism and biomorphic modernism

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Botar, Oliver A.I.

Keywords: biocentrism and modernism; biomorphic modernism; biocentrism; modernist art; modernist design; modernist architecture; modernist planning; modernist photography

$61,248

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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