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I am a Toronto based electronic media artist working primarily in the field of interactive installations (catalog Surrey Art Gallery). I received my Ph.D (Dec 09) in Communications & Culture from York University with a thesis entitled Bandwidth is Political: Reachability in the Public Internet. I received a two year SSHRC post-doctoral award for research at the iSchool, Faculty of Information University of Toronto. My postdoctoral research paper entitled 'Walled gardens: The new shape of the public internet' was presented at the iConference 2012 - February 7-10, 2012 in Toronto and was published in the iConference Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. I've been invited to present a new paper "Veillances: Protocols and Network Surveillance" at the Experts' Workshop, "Theory of Broadband: Regulation, Networks and Applications" at the Columbia University Center for Tele-Information, Thursday, May 30- Friday, June 1, 2013. This two day by-invitation workshop is designed to bring together up to a dozen experts and is held at Columbia University in New York, NY. It is sponsored by the Institute for Information Policy at Penn State University (IIP), and the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI). The Workshop is one of a series of events on "Making Policy Research Accessible," organized by the IIP, with the support of the Ford Foundation and the Media Democracy Fund. Presenters at the workshop will be invited to submit their completed papers for review by the Journal of Information Policy. As of June 2012 I am co-investigator on IXmaps research funded by the Office of Privacy Commission Canada with Andrew Clement Ph.D at the Faculty of Information University of Toronto. I am an Associate Professor at OCAD University teaching 'Time-Based Media'. I am Facilities Coordinator at Charles Street Video, a media access centre in Toronto. I have also developed a course titled 'Creativity and New Media' in which students are required to work through various methodologies of creativity, at Seneca@York.
I am currently working on a new creative text which may become a dramatic prose work titled 'The Bottlestoppers'. Also, I am working on 'The Black Pearl' - this is Bahamas bound for snorkelling.
mediaworks in development
IXmaps is a project to geographically visualize the routes taken by end user's URL requests over the internet presenting information about fundamental core internet exchange points along the way. Project goals are to render visible to users interesting aspects of the internet core related to everyday usage, e.g. surveillance, deep packet inspection, carrier hotel ownership; so as to counteract the tendency to regard the internet core as an immaterial, virtual, placeless 'cloud'; promote an understanding of the internet core amenable to public policy engagement and develop a research tool for conducting critical internet backbone investigations.
guest lectures I've been invited to present a new paper "Veillances: Protocols and Network Surveillance" at the Experts' Workshop, "Theory of Broadband: Regulation, Networks and Applications" at the Columbia University Center for Tele-Information, Thursday, May 30- Friday, June 1, 2013. I presented a keynote at the University of Tennessee's NEXUS conference in March 2012 and a lecture at Stetson University's Digital Arts Program Deland, Florida April 2012. In September 2011 I presented 'IXmaps: do you know where your packets go?' to students of the Digital Media Program at the University of Florida and an Xmaps pre-conference workshop at the IR 12.0 annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in Seattle, Washington Oct 10-13, 2011. exhibitions An installation-demo of IXmaps was presented at the Ontario Science Centre October 13, 2012. The demo is reviewed at What's Your Tech.ca. Previously IXmaps has been exhibited at the 2011 Annual Cyber Security Forum - "Securing the Cyber Commons: a Global Dialogue" March 27-28, 2011 sponsored by the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. publications In 2012 my postdoctoral research paper entitled 'Walled gardens: The new shape of the public internet' was published in the proceedings for the iConference 2012 in the ACM Digital Library.In 2009, Gallimard - Editions Babylone & the L’Oreal Foundation published my text - 'Sex, danger, women & machines', In Future/Projections: 1000,000 years of beauty. Azoulay, E. (Ed.) Paris, France. p. 104. My essay 'Stock Market Skirt: The Evolution of the Internet, the Interface and an Idea' appears in: 'Database Aesthetics - Art in the Age of Information Overflow' edited by Victoria Vesna, University of Minnesota Press, Fall 2007. References to my mediaworks are included in Edward A. Shanken's ‘Art and Electronic Media’(Phaidon Press, Themes and Movements Series), Spring 2007. The text serves as a comprehensive survey of the use of electronic media in art history and contemporary practice. 'DIARIO ECONOMICO' Lisbon, Portugal, contains an interview by Barbara Barroso which discusses my mediawork and includes illustrations, April 2007. 'VCR Story' (creative writing) - published in The Capilano Review 2:50 (also web published) Feb 2007. ‘Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age’ by Margot Lovejoy, Routledge (UK) 2004 discusses my mediaworks. 'Digital Art' by Christiane Paul, from the Thames & Hudson World of Art series published Fall 2003, is a comprehensive overview and history of international Media Art which includes my mediawork ‘Stock Market Skirt’. Article entitled 'Bicycle TV' which was originally published in 'Leonardo,' is included in 'Women, Art and Technology' edited by Judy Malloy (MIT Press, 2003). STOCK MARKET SKIRT and THE MEADOW are discussed in 'Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology' by Stephen Wilson (MIT Press, 2003). My work is discussed in ‘Gamers: Writers, Artists, and Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels’ edited by Shanna Compton, Soft Skull Press 2004. Article entitled 'Be There Now: Telepresence Art Online' by David Pescovitz (which was originally featured on the website of the California Arts Council) is included in an Apr 1999 issue (Vol.XXXII #205) of FLASH ART (Milan). This article includes STOCK MARKET SKIRT among mediaworks by several other California-based artists. My mediaworks are discussed by Simon Penny in his text ‘Critical Issues in Electronic Media’ Buffalo, SUNY Press 1995. STOCK MARKET SKIRT is also featured in articles appearing in issues of the bi-monthly fashion/art journal DUTCH (Amsterdam) 1999 and in TEMA CELESTE (Milan) June 1999. A paper which I have written situating Cyberfeminism within postmodern culture, titled 'Curly, Larry & PoMo' was initially available electronically in the inaugural issue of the Ohio State University online journal 'Astrolabe.' 'Curly, Larry & PoMo' was a follow-up to an earlier paper titled 'Cyberfeminism' which was published in the journal FIREWEED (Summer 1996). 'Cyberfeminism' was included in a book titled Cyberfeminizam, published by the Centar Za Zenske Studije, Zagreb, in 1999.'Cyberfeminism' was also published in a collection of papers presented at the 'Sense of the Senses' Congress in Bonn, Germany. This collection, published in Fall 1998 by Steidl, is titled 'Der Sinn der Sinne.'
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