Habitual Suspects : Deborah Stratman + Steven Badgett, SIMPARCH + Yukon School of Visual Arts

"For the 6th edition of OVER THE WIRE - which pairs internationally acclaimed artists with students at the Yukon School of Visual Arts to create an exhibition through correspondence - Deborah Stratman and SIMPARCH's Steven Badgett directed the students to intervene with the everyday under the premise that 'architecture is frozen habit'" -- p. [2]

Dawson City : Mining the Interpretive Realm of Knowledge

"For the 7th edition of the OVER THE WIRE series, the Yukon School of Visual Arts students collaborated with The Center for Land Use Interpretation. Under a guided project by The Center, the students specifically looked at the Klondike Region with a focus on Dawson City - home of the Yukon School of Visual Arts (SOVA). In order to carry out the project, SOVA students worked in interpretive teams which explored four overlapping layers of land use in the region by separating them into stratified layers: First Nations + Mining + Historical Sites + Tourism" -- p. [1]

Lize Mogel

"Lize Mogel, from NYC, is the eighth OVER THE WIRE artist to work with the students at Yukon SOVA in a series that pairs an international renowned artist with students in the 4D course. Particularly chosen for her political engagement with the environment through the tools of art, Mogel is well known for her counter-cartography series of mapping. For OTW#08, she has conducted a series of work where the students map migratory and moving elements through and around the Dawson City region in the hopes to provide new insight and exposure to a landscape already known by many locals or possibly seen for the first time by those moving through Dawson as visitors" -- p. [4]

The Centre Cannot Hold

"A collection of textual fragments in the style of the Jena Romantics’ “Fragmente aus der Zukunft” is framed by two essays that trace the history of 20th-century military Early Warning Systems. Dr David Murakami Wood, Canada Research Chair in Surveillance Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Surveillance & Society, writes a detailed history of British wireless telegraphy outposts from his research in the National Archives. Charles Stankievech, through his fieldwork method, outlines the architectural shifts in Early Warning Systems starting with WWI sound paraboloids, through WWII cement bunkers, into Cold War geodesic radar domes. The bricolage of literary and theoretic fragments form a ruinous textual landscape for the flaneur to wander through, encountering fields as various as military documents, modernist poetry, science fiction, critical theory and scientific papers (...). " -- publisher's websit