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website last updated 3 January 2016
See the first five featured posts for an overview of artistic works, for recent academic activity (besides teaching) see below…
For 2016, I expect to take part in at least one conference (Domitor) and one group exhibition (Maison de la culture Laval). Otherwise, its time to complete the doctoral thesis!
Paper Presentations
- “Archiving Failure (paper panel)” and “Mobile Media Archaeology (workshop)” Media Art History Conference “Re-Create 2015.” Montreal, 5-8 November 2015.
- “Becoming Caterpillar: Surrealist explorations in Entomology and Media Art.” Society for Animation Studies Annual Conference “Beyond the Frame,” Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, 13-16 July 2015.
- “Silk screens, caterpillars and animating an interspecies collaboration.” Screen Conference, “Screening Animals and the Inhuman” University of Glasgow, 26-28 June 2015.
- “Obscured And Uncovered:Women and the Splendid Camera Obscuras of Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh.” HoMER Network (History of Moviegoing, Exhibition, and Reception) Conference, “What is Cinema History?” University of Glasgow, 22-24 June 2015.
- “A Short Stop before the Exhibitionary Complex.” Lost Museums Symposium, Brown University, 7-8 May 2015.
- “Experiments in 3d: An Unknown McLaren,” SCMS Montreal Host Event (presenter & event co-organizer), Concordia University, 28 March 2015
- “En Masse: The Social Animal Network.” (with Chris Plenzich) AHGSA (Art History Graduate Student Association) Annual Conference, “Constellations, Clusters, Networks,” Concordia University, 5-7 March 2015.
- “Caterpillar Choreography” CAA (College Art Association) Annual Conference, New York, 11-14 February, 2015.
Exhibitions
- Cross-Pollinated: Hybrid Art Abuzz (curated by Lynn Tomlinson), Centre for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, Baltimore, Sept-Dec 2015
- En Masse, FOFA Gallery, April-May 2014
- Mass Transit in Mobile Interventions for Performigrations, April 2014 +, Montreal (YUL), Bologna (BLQ)
Publications
- Loader, “Re: Animating Moths.” Animation Studies Online Journal, 9, Dec 2014.
- Elena Raznovan “A Caterpillar’s Life…under the microscope.” Concordia News, 27 May 2015.
- WeSauce “Circles|This World of Ours [Mass Transit remixed],” 24 April 2015.
- Irene Blei Canadá cuadro a cuadro. Animadores y animadoras del National Film Board. Argentina: Wolkowicz, 2014. (I’m profiled on pages 187-191)
At the CAA conference (13 Feb 2015, NYC), demonstrating how Chris Plenzich and I are making projection screens from uncombed silk for the En Masse exhibit. (I’m in my bright red Canadian plaid blazer.) Photo by Craig Saper.
At the SCMS host event (I’m in the lower left corner doing the introduction for the Experiments in 3D: Norman McLaren screening). Photo by Jelena Popovic.