Anthony Reimer

We’re Hiring!

The Integrated Arts Media Labs have received funding to hire a student assistant for the Winter 2022 Term. The successful applicant will help provide services and support for lab operations such as photographic printing, equipment loans, troubleshooting computer problems, and general maintenance of the labs. Preference is given to majors in Art, Music, Drama, and/or Dance (graduate or undergraduate). You must be a current UCalgary student to be hired.

To apply (or if you have questions), contact Head Technician Anthony Reimer in person during business hours or via email at iaml [at] ucalgary.ca. Interviews are ongoing. We expect to hire someone on or before December 15.

Fall Break

Fall Break is a chance for students to catch up on their work, and this year it will also be a chance for our technician to catch up on his sleep. Here are the scheduled service hours for the week of November 8:

Monday 08: No services (card access only)
Tuesday 09: 13:30-16:00 (card access at other times)
Wednesday 10: 09:00-16:00 excluding lunch
Thursday 11: University closed (Remembrance Day)
Friday 12: No services (card access only)

Assignment Drop Box help added

If you are struggling to hand in your first assignment to the AssignmentDropBox on the IAML Server, we’ve updated the help page with some clarifications and an additional section on using the AssignmentDropBox folder (TL;DR: Drag and Drop on the AssignmentDropBox folder, don’t open it).

Improvements!

While you were off campus, we spent a lot of time (and money!) improving the Integrated Arts Media Labs. Here are the highlights:

Every student station in both labs now has, at minimum, one 27-inch display. In the Main Lab, all student stations have a HiDPI (Retina) display.
We have added 10 Apple Silicon Mac mini computers, mostly in the Main Lab. These will offer great performance for years to come.
The capacity of the Main Lab has been increased to 22 student computers.
The remaining Intel Mac mini computers (all located in the Small Lab) have been upgraded to use an internal 480 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) instead of the original Fusion Drive. This should improve performance on these older machines.
All Lab computers are running Apple’s latest operating system, macOS Big Sur. (The hallway computers will run macOS Catalina until they are replaced.)

Summer Schedule

Access to services will be limited for the remainder of the Summer. Here is the schedule by week (subject to change):

Week of July 26: Closed (staff vacation)
Week of August 2: Closed (University closed August 2, staff vacation other days)
Week of August 9: Staff available by appointment
Week of August 16: Staff available by appointment Monday to Wednesday (staff vacation Thursday and Friday)
Week of August 23: Staff available Thursday (after 10:00) and Friday by appointment (staff vacation Monday through Wednesday)
Week of August 30: Block Week course in Main Lab Tuesday through Thursday (no drop-in access), access to services Monday and Friday by appointment
Week of September 6: University closed Monday (Labour Day). Fall Classes begin Tuesday.

Face Covering Still Required

Irrespective of other campus, city, or provincial guidelines, a face covering will be continue to be required in the Art Building using the Campus Face Coverings Protocol establish originally on 2020 November 24. This means masks must be worn at all times when indoors in the Art Building unless you are in an office, lab, or studio completely by yourself.

At this time, it is expected that this policy will be in place until at least 2021 August 30.

All Classes Online as of May 5

As per Alberta Health pandemic-related restrictions, all classes are now being offered online only. However, if you need access to Lab computers to do your class work, this is still possible.

We can arrange to give you card access to the Main La b (after you complete a safety orientation);
You can remote control our Lab computers (or, in some cases, computers in the Arts Faculty Computer Lab);
You may be able to obtain free or discounted software for your own computer.

Ask your instructor for details or contact us directly.

Service Schedule April 2021

The Main Lab will be open for services on the following dates and times as we approach the end of the Winter Term (subject to change):

✔︎ Wed., March 31	09:00-15:30
✔︎ Thu., April 1	09:00-16:00
✔︎ Tue., April 6	09:00-16:00
✔︎ Thu., April 8	09:00-16:00
✔︎ Mon., April 12	11:00-16:00
✔︎ Tue., April 13	09:00-16:00
✔︎ Mon., April 19	09:00-16:00
✔︎ Wed., April 21	09:00-12:00
✔︎ Fri., April 23	10:00-16:00

The Head Technician will take a lunch break around noon hour on each of those days.

Please remember to maintain a 2 metre distance between all people in the Lab as much as possible. You should not be having close conversations or sharing computers even if you are wearing a mask.

The lab will be closed for the week of April 26 due to staff holiday time. No services will be available.

End of Fall Term

As a part of our end-of-term cleanup, the following will occur/has occurred:

All local user accounts on Lab computers will be deleted on December 18.
All user files stored on the Server will be removed on January 4.
Access to the ZBrush licenses for students in Art 323 will end on December 18.
Computers will be shut down as of December 18.
No services will be available until January 4.

Pay with Unicard!

Effective immediately, you can pay for services in the IAML with your Unicard. Historically, the IAML has only accepted cash, so if you did some printing and weren’t carrying cash, it would have required a trip to MacEwan Hall to get money from an ATM. Now that we accept Unicard, you have the option to load your Unicard with any amount online if you have a credit card. As well, if you go to the Service Centre on the main floor of International House (formerly Hotel Alma), you may load your Unicard using credit, debit, or cash.

Until at least the end of March, we will continue to accept cash in the IAML.

For more information on Unicard or to check your account balance, visit https://www.ucalgary.ca/ancillary/unicard/my-account.

For students in the Department of Art, you will be able to pay with your Unicard for any services provided by the Art technicians (photography, woodshop, metal shop, printmaking). Art Department chits are no longer for sale, but you may still use existing chits until the end of the Winter Term.