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I am a Toronto based electronic media artist working primarily in the field of interactive installations. ART METROPOLE is currently selling three volumes regarding my work: 'Database Aesthetics - Art in the Age of Information Overflow' edited by Victoria Vesna (University of Minnesota Press), ISBN: 0-8166-4118-8.'Digital Art' by Christiane Paul (Thames and Hudson, History of Art Series), ISBN 0500 203679 and 'Mediaworks: Nancy Paterson' (Surrey Art Gallery), ISBN 0-920181-50-3.
I'm giving a talk at Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre Mar 25 at 7 pm regarding the IXmaps project. I have a co-authored paper accepted at the Surveillance & Society conference in London (UK) at the City University so I'll be in attendance April 13 -15, 2010. Another paper acceptance has been received from the Program Committee of ED-MEDIA 2010 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications in Toronto June 28 - July 2, 2010. I am currently working on a new creative text which may become a dramatic prose work titled 'The Bottlestoppers'. Also, I am working on 'Carpe Diem' - this is Bahamas bound for snorkelling.
mediaworks in development
IXmaps is a project which illustrates Internet infrastructure focusing on exchange points as a locus of control. This work consists of a geographic map of North America, upon which are situated images of major peering exchange points called Carrier Hotels. Each Carrier Hotel is seen as a graphic of the exterior of the actual real estate. For example, a view of the front of the building at 151 Front Street Toronto, or an image of the tower at 1 Wilshire in Los Angeles. The interactivity so far, consists of clicking to see which exchange points contains US based secret NSA (National Security Agency) eavesdropping rooms and which exchange points are owned by the Carlyle Group (CRG West), in an overall map of approximately 35 premiere Carrier Hotels located in major North American cities. Further developments such a user initiated trace-route, to view the path one's Internet activities such as email, data searches or video viewing take through these peering facilities, are being implemented with funding from the SSHRC ITST program. IXmaps is under the Information Policy Research Program (IPRP) at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. exhibitions March 2007, CYBERFEMINISM PAST FORWARD, Austrian Association of Women Artists, Vienna, AU. Nov 18 - Dec 15, 2006, DRESSING ROOM - large colour photographs shot in cooperation with the WHCT (Women's Hockey Club of Toronto) presented at the WARC Gallery. (Press Release) Over the Fall and Winter of 2005/6 I worked on a series of large photographs titled 'Dressing Room'. Shot in cooperation with the lesbian/gay positive Toronto Women's Hockey Club, the work consisted of images of women in various stages of dressing for a hockey match as well as in action on and off the ice! These photographs were on display at the WARC (Women's Art Resource Centre) Nov 18 - Dec 15, 2006. Read the press release here. In the Summer of 2005 I installed a site-specific outdoor sculpture titled 'Not Waving, Drowning' at the Tree Museum near Gravenhurst, Ontario. In Oct/Nov 2004, STOCK MARKET SKIRT was included in an exhibition titled Collision6 which took place at Art Interactive (Cambridge, MA). This exhibition included mediaworks from the Collision Collective, a group of MIT-affiliated artists. In February 2005, SUIT OF ARMOUR, a collaborative project produced with Camille Turner, was exhibited at Modern Fuel Gallery in Kingston, Ontario. A
video/dance/robotics project titled COPPELIA.
This was a BRAVO! production which utilized an ORAD CyberSet at Seneca@York for
compositing and features original audio, has been screened at Festivals such
as The Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video (2001) and in 2003
at the IMMAGINARIA Film Festival in Italy.
guest lectures January 2009 lecture titled ‘Networks as Metaphors’ presented to the Digital Media Program at the University of Florida. Presentation at the October 2008 Thomas R. Watson Conference at the University of Louisville. This endowed biennial conference in Rhetoric and Composition was titled 'The New Work of Composing'. Creativity & Cognition Conference: ‘Seeding Creativity – Tools, Media and Environments’, Washington DC panel presentation June 14, 2007. publications My essay titled '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. ‘Art and Electronic Media’(Phaidon Press, Themes and Movements Series), Spring 2007. Edited and with a survey essay by Edward A. Shanken (Professor of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design, editor of Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness); it serves as a comprehensive survey of the use of electronic media in art history and contemporary practice. It includes references to my mediaworks. '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 titled '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 titled '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.' This paper was subsequently translated into German, and is available in a book titled VISION.RUHR: KUNST MEDIEN, published by Kultur & Projeckte Dortmund, in May 2000. '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 CYBERFMINIZAM, 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.' 'Cyberfeminism' is available online here. Papers include:
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