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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 two
volumes regarding my work. '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.
Currently I am an Associate Professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design teaching 'Time-Based Media'. I am continuing work on the Negotiations Committee and am the faculty representative on the Pension Committee. I am Facilities Coordinator at Charles Street Video,
an artists 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 'COSMOS MARINER' - this is Bahamas bound for snorkelling. mediaworks and development CARRIER HOTELS (work in progress) is a multimedia project which illustrates internet infrastructure focusing specially on connection points as a locus of control. This media work consists of a topographical image of North America upon which is situated images of major peering 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 facilities contained US based secret NSA (National Security Agency) eavesdropping rooms and which peering point facilities are owned by the Carlyle Group (CRG West), in an overall map of approximately 35 premiere Carrier Hotels located in major urban North American centres. Further developments are under consideration, such as initiating a trace route to view the path one's IP activities such as email, data searches or video viewing, takes through these peering facilities. 'DIARIO ECONOMICO' Lisbon, Portugal, contains an interview by Barbara Barroso which discusses my mediawork and includes illustrations, April 2007 'VCR Story' a piece of creative writing - published in The Capilano Review 2:50 (also web published) Feb 2007. 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. MULTI: Multiple User Laser Texture Interface (system to support collaborative interaction), which I developed with Dr. Wolfgang Stuerzlinger (Computer Science, York University). This collaborative creative and educational tool supports multiple simultaneous users and utilized THE LIBRARY 3D environment. 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 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 I have been invited to the University of Louisville (Kentucky) in Oct 2008, to participate in a conference titled 'The New Work of Composing' - the 2008 Thomas R. Watson Conference an endowed biennial conference in Rhetoric and Composition. Creativity & Cognition Conference: ‘Seeding Creativity – Tools, Media and Environments’, Washington DC panel presentation June 14, 2007 University of Waterloo, Ontario. 'Mediaworks' February 15, 2006. publications My essay titled 'Stock Market Skirt: The Evolution of the Internet, the Interface and an Idea' appears in a text edited by Victoria Vesna titled 'Database Aesthetics - Art in the Age of Information Overflow' University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Soon to be published texts, 'Art and Electronic Media', edited by Edward A. Shanken from Phaidon Press and 'Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts' by V. Vesna & M. Lovejoy, University of Minnesota Press contain reference to my mediaworks. 'The Marker Magazine' Tel-Aviv, Israel, (February 2006). pg. 162 discusses 'Stock Market Skirt' in Hebrew in a recent article. Margot Lovejoy discusses my work in 'Digital Currents' Routledge, UK, 2004. 'Gamers: Writers, Artists, and Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels' edited by Shana Compton from Soft Skull Press discusses my work, 2004. 'Digital Art' by Christiane Paul, from the Thames & Hudson World of Art series (published Fall 2003) is a comprehensive overview of international Media Art which includes reference to my mediawork STOCK MARKET SKIRT. STOCK MARKET SKIRT and THE MEADOW are discussed in 'Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology' by Stephen Wilson (MIT Press, 2002). 'Leonardo: Journal of Science and Art' included an article about my 3D project THE LIBRARY in Vol. 35, No. 2 (2002). An article titled 'STOCK MARKET SKIRT and New Directions' which appeared in Leonardo Online, was a 2004 Leonardo Award for Excellence Nominee. My essay titled 'Bicycle TV' which was originally published in 'Leonardo,' is included in 'Women, Art and Technology' edited by Judy Malloy (MIT Press, 2003). 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). Most recently, '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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