Fonds Brian Boigon

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• Fonds: Fonds Brian Boigon, 1981 - 2015

Personnes et institutions

• Brian Boigon (author)
• Brian Boigon (archive creator)

Titre

Fonds Brian Boigon

Dates de création

1981 - 2015

Classification

• archives

Niveau de description archivistique

Fonds

Collation

• 19402 digital files (1.93 GB)
• 493 photographic materials
• Approximately 386 reprographic copies
• Approximately 55 drawings
• 39 audio cassettes
• 36 VHSs
• 31 ephemera
• 11 serials
• 9 artefacts
• 9 SyQuest disks
• 5 Microcassettes
• 5 3.5 inch floppy disks
• 4 Betacams
• 4 sketchbooks
• 4 DATs
• 3 books
• 3 Zip disks
• 2 Video8s
• 1 Hi8s
• 1 MiniDVs
• 1 notebooks
• 0.68 l.m. of textual records

Présentation du contenu

The Brian Boigon fonds, 1981-2010, documents the varied creative and professional projects of artist and design theorist, Brian Boigon. Material in the fonds mainly consists of planning material for the multidisciplinary symposium series Culture Lab, that took place in Toronto from 1991-1993. This project is also documented in the form of audiovisual recordings of the symposiums and related events, press, and participant essays.

The fonds also consists of material relating to two, often intertwined, projects: the Cartoon Regulators and Spillville. The Cartoon Regulators was an ongoing theoretical project investigating cartoon movement in cyberspace while Spillville was the commercial iteration in the form of a children’s television show. Material associated with these projects mainly includes research and sketches. It was decided that each project should be distinct series to respect the original order of the donor. There is minimal born-digital material for the Cartoon Regulators mainly consisting of administration files and academic course planning material for a course taught by Boigon at the University of Toronto.

The bulk of the born-digital material in the fonds is associated with Boigon’s website design and media production company, Roller Coaster Studios. This material includes proposals, marketing plans, and screenshots of websites. A small component of the fonds covers Boigon’s writing and research activities including his involvement with Tokyo-based think tank Urban Design Research Inc. These materials are all born-digital.

Numéro de réference

AP188

Caractéristiques matérielles et contraintes techniques

Original audiovisual materials require specialized equipment for playback and are not available for consultation.

Mode de classement

In 2024, Nina Patterson then arranged material into five series:

Series AP188.S1: Culture Lab

Series AP188.S2: The Cartoon Regulators

Series AP188.S3: Spillville

Series AP188.S4: Roller Coaster Studios

Series AP188.S5: Writing and research

For the digital component of the archive, digital carriers were described as discrete groups and arranged into the appropriate series. In one instance, folders on a carrier were arranged into different series. Within these folders, material has not been rearranged. Physical material has likewise been kept in their original groupings.

Note biographique

Brian Boigon was born on August 14th, 1955 in Toronto, Canada. He studied at the Ontario College of Art (now known as OCADU) from 1973-1976. He went on to receive a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Toronto in 1980. Between 1985 and 1996, Boigon was a Professor of Digital Design in the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto.

Between 1991-1994, Boigon hosted a series of multidisciplinary symposiums called Culture Labs at Toronto nightclub, the Rivoli. Speakers consisted of architects, professors, cultural theorists, and artists.

Boigon sat on the editorial board of ANY Magazine from 1993–2000. Boigon was the New Media Foreign Research correspondent for North America with the Japanese thinktank Urban Design Research Inc. between 1993 and 1995 [1]. In 1995, Boigon served as a design consultant for the Michael Jackson website: HISTory. Boigon was the head of the New Media Centre at the Art Gallery of Ontario between 1996 and 1998.<br/>

In 2002, Boigon became an Associate Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto where he also was the Founding Director of the Inner Outer Space Lab [2]. Boigon has given lectures at Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton Universities. He is the author of several books including The Interopera Reader, We Have Impact, and Speed Reading Tokyo.

[1] Cooper, D. (1994, December 1). Toon Town. Wired. https://www.wired.com/1994/12/boigon/

[2] bio - Brian Boigon. (n.d.). https://cargocollective.com/brianboigon/bio-1

Conditions d’accès

• Digital material can only be accessed on-site. Access to digitized audiovisual materials is available by contacting Reference at ref@cca.qc.ca. Access by appointment only.

Conditions de réproduction

• For copyright information or permission to reproduce material from the fonds, please contact the CCA (reproductions@cca.qc.ca).

Modalités d’entrée

• Gift of Brian Boigon on 9 October 2015.

Historique de la conservation

The archives of Brian Boigon were stored at Boigon's studio in Toronto and packed by the donor until their transfer to the CCA in 2015.

Notes de l’archiviste

• In 2016, Pamela Casey created an inventory, conducted background research, and separated digital material for the fonds. The fonds was processed and described by Nina Patterson in 2024-2025. This processing project was partially funded by a donation from the CCA fundraising Soirée in 2024.

Mention de crédit

When citing the collection as a whole, use the citation: Brian Boigon fonds, Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal. When citing specific collection material, please refer to the object’s specific credit line.

Langue et écriture des documents

English

Note générale

• Certain digital carriers in the fonds were unable to be disk imaged. They were kept in the event that further digital preservation activities could occur in the future. They are not available for consultation. Please contact Reference for further information.