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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 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 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. NSA surveillance, deep packet inspection (DPI), 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; develop a research tool for conducting critical internet backbone investigations, for presenting findings publicly as well as enroll others (users, activists, researchers) in building a database of internet sites of interest.
IXmaps is affiliated with The New Transparency Project: Surveillance and Social Sorting project at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto and the project is hosted at OCADU. The project team consists of Prof. Andrew Clement, Ph.D, Faculty of Information and Coordinator, Information Policy Research Program as well as Assoc Prof. Nancy Paterson, Ph.D, OCAD University and post-doctoral fellow, Faculty of Information. guest lectures 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. Also I’ve been invited to give a keynote at the University of Tennessee's NEXUS conference in March 2012. I presented an IXmaps poster at the Diverse conference Dublin City University, June 28-30, 2011. In June 2010 I presented a paper titled ‘Interrogating Internet Infrastructure’ at ED-MEDIA 2010--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunication, in Toronto. In March 2010 I gave a draft lecture of the above paper at InterAccess - Media Arts Access Centre, Toronto. In April 2010 a co-authored paper with Dr Andrew Clement and Dr David Phillips from the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto titled 'IXmaps: Interactively mapping NSA Surveillance points in the internet cloud' was presented at the Surveillance & Society conference, City University, UK. exhibitions In addition to presenting a keynote at the University of Tennessee's NEXUS conference in March 2012, I’ll be exhibiting IXmaps at a local university gallery venue.
Upcoming 2013, I’ve been invited to participate in an exhibition titled ‘Women/Art/Technology’. The exhibition, with an accompanying catalogue, is being produced by the Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers University. The exhibition, catalogue, and surrounding events will be presented at the Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ in Spring 2013. publications In 2012 my postdoctoral research paper entitled 'Walled gardens: The new shape of the public internet' will be 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.' 'Cyberfeminism' is available online here. Other papers
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