CURRICULUM VITAE
Lectures & Papers Presented
Conferences and Learned Societies
“Erkki Kurreniemi and the Archive,” Critique of Archival Reason 2 European Artistic Research Network in Helsinki, April 2010.
“Screen as World: Terre des hommes as Global Media Experiment,” Screen World Symposium, Concordia University, February 2010.
“Media Art in Canada,” Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC), January 2010.
“Expo 67 and Screen Architecture.” Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Carleton University, May 2009.
“Leona Drive Project.” Urban Mediation: On Suburban Spaces and Cultures Joint Symposium University of Windsor and York University, May 2009.
“Research Roundtable.” The Future Cinema Lab: New Stories for New Screens Symposium, York University, May 2009.
(R) “The New Media City of Expo 67.” Media in Transition 6, MIT, April 2009.
(R) “Living Space: Cinema Architectures of Expo 67.” Visible Evidence XV Conference, University of Lincoln, UK, August 2008.
(R) “Gideon, Tyrwhitt and new Approaches to Urban Studies.” Canadian Communications Association Annual Conference, University of British Columbia (co-presented with Michael Darroch), May 2008.
(R) “Fluid Screens.” Roundtable on “Screen Studies” organized by Charles Acland, Joint Film Studies Association and Canadian Communications Association Annual Conference, University of British Columbia, May 2008.
“McLuhan and the Explorations Group.” Inter(pr)axis Conference,” Ontario College of Art and Design, January 2008 (with Michael Darroch).
“Gideon, Tyrwhitt and the Explorations Groups.” The Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology Conference at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, November 2007 (co-presented with Michael Darroch).
“The Montreal Apartment.” Migrating Media Conference, Ryerson University, September 2007.
“McLuhan and the Multiple Screen.” Global 60s Conference, Queen’s University, June 2007.
“The Visible City.” Urban Methodologies Symposium, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, April 2007.
“Media Specificity and Resistant Obsolescence: The Case of CineCycle.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, March 2007.
“Art as Knowledge System.” (keynote) Artist as Researcher, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, November 2006.
“Ephemeral Art and the Spaces of Film.” Useful Cinema, Concordia University, August 2006.
“Art Interventions and Urban Transits.” Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, May 2006 (organized and chaired panel).
“Cities Roundtable: The Sociable City.” (with Roger Keil, Steven Flusty, Engin Isin and Warren Crichlow) York University, May 2006.
“Visible City Project.” York Research Gallery (at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences), York University, May 2006.
“Electronic Research.” Publishing Workshop, Canadian Communications Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, May 2006.
“Steichen’s Curatorial Practices.” Emotional Geographies, Queen’s University, May 2006.
“Translocal Arts Collectives and New Citizenship Practices.” Urbanscape: Havana Biennale, University of Ottawa, March 2006.
“Digital Technology as a New Language.” 3rd Annual Conference on ICT-Enhanced French Studies: Dialogues Across Cultures, York University, October 2005.
“McLuhan and the Cultural Mosaic,” Intellectuals and Cultural Policy, Cultural Policy Research Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, September 2005 (paper read in absentia).
(R) “The Family of Man: Steichen’s Photography and Affect.” Visible Evidence XII, Concordia University, August 2005 (organized panel on Documentary film and affect).
“Translocal Arts Collectives and New Forms of Art.” Interactiva Festival, Merida, Mexico, June 2005.
Round Table: “Toronto, Memory and Representation.” Voicing Toronto: The City and The Arts, University of Toronto, May 2005.
(R) “Into the Labyrinth: Future Cinemas at Expo 67.” Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Western Ontario, May 2005.
“The Labyrinth Project: Multiple Screens and Architecture at Expo ’67.” Montreal at Street Level, Centre for Canadian Architecture, April 2005.
“New Media: Global Art Resisting.” Symposium on Cultural Dissent, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, March 2005.
“McLuhan and the Death of Art.” McLuhan Festival, TOPIA Panel, November 2004.
(R) “Artists Remaking Urban Spaces In and Through Global Cultural Flows.” Canadianation: Negotiating New Spaces, Politics, and Identities in and through Global Cultural Flows, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, May 2004.
(R) “Film Festivals as Alternative Media.” Global Flows, Dissent and Diversity: The New Agenda, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, Université du Québec à Montréal, May 2004.
(R) “New Media, Global Cultural Flows, and Dissent.” Global Cultural Flows: Concepts, Theory and Strategic Implications, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, March 2004.
(R) “Winged Migration and the Real Film.” Realizing Nature in a Digital Environment Panel, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2004.
“Art Communities and Dissent.” Politics of Dissent, Université du Québec à Montréal, March 2004.
“The Value of the Parochial.” The Canadian Association of Culture Studies Second Annual Conference, McMaster University, February 2004.
(R) “McLuhan’s Hybrid Energies.” History of Intermediality, Centre de Recherche sur l’Intermédialité, Montreal, November 2003.
(R) “Digital Technologies and Research Methodologies: Virtual Toronto.” Bridges II Conference, Banff Centre for the Arts, October 2002.
(R) “Virtual Cities as Archives.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Toronto, June 2002.
(R) Panel Respondent: “Figural Vocabularies of Gender in 19th Century Science and Technology.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Toronto, May 2002.
“Art Scenes and Everyday Life.” Experimentalism and the Arts, Queen’s University, November 2001.
(R) “Virtual Toronto.” Culture of Cities Project, Summer Institute, York University, June 2001.
(R) “Film Culture in Toronto.” Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference (at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences), Université Laval, Québec, May 2001.
“Film Festivals in Toronto.” Culture of Cities Symposium, Berlin, Germany, July 2000.
“Doctors in 1960s Television Dramas.” Annual Screen Conference, Scotland, June 2000.
(R) “The Nature of Suffering: Anne Claire Poirier’s Loving Documents.” Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference (at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences), University of Alberta, May 2000.
(R) Keynote Speaker: “Physicians as Entertainment.” The Canadian Medical Association Annual General Meeting, Ottawa, June 1999.
(R) Roundtable: “Teaching Women and Film.” Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference (at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences), Université de Sherbrooke, June 1999.
“National Culture and Canadian Identity.” The Image as Flesh: Celebrating the Films of Bruce Elder, Ryerson University, February 1999.
“Rethinking McLuhan.” The McLuhan Lectures, University of Toronto, October 1998.
“McLuhan's Cultural Criticism and the Tradition of Media Studies.” Social and Political Thought 25th Anniversary Conference: The Critique of Relevance and the Relevance of Critique, York University, September 1998.
Chair, Film Studies Association of Canada Session: “Communicating Disease: Women's Health and Media.” Congress Health Colloquium, University of Ottawa, May 1998.
(R) “60 Million Mama’s Boys or The Mechanical Bride.” Annual Conference of the Canadian Communications Association, University of Ottawa, May 1998.
“The Nature of Film.” Useful Images Conference, Oberhausen, Germany, April 1998.
“Cyberfeminism.” Mediated Extentions Conference, ArtSpace Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, July 1997.
(R) “Nature Films.” Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference, Learneds, Memorial University, June 1997.
(R) “From GH to ER: Medicine, Melodrama and Television.” Console-ing Passions Annual Conference, Concordia University, May 1997.
“Gender, Nation, Cinema.” Canadian Cinema: Modes of Address Colloquium, Lonergan College, Concordia University, April 1997.
Panel: “Visual Evidence and New Technologies.” Lonergan Film Lectures, Concordia University, April 1997.
“La vidéo et l’auto-representation.” Colloque Récit d’une Intimite, Université du Québec à Montréal, March 1997.
(R) “David Suzuki’s Television Guide to Genetics.” Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Finland, July 1996.
(R) “History on CD-ROM.” Annual Screen Conference, John Logie Baird Centre, Scotland, June 1996.
(R) “The Ontology of New Technologies.” Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Aesthetics, Learneds, Brock University, June 1996.
“Communications et études cinématographiques.” Association Canadien Français des Arts et Sciences, McGill University, May 1996.
(R) Panel Moderator and Respondent: Modernist Utopias: Postformalism and Pure Visuality Conference, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, December 1995.
(R) “Feminism, Nationalism and Culture: Media Collectives in Quebec.” Annual Conference of the Canadian Communications Association, Université du Québec à Montréal, June 1995.
“The Body as Information.” ReTouch: Art, Gender, Technology Conference, The Public Access Collective, Toronto, March 1995.
Keynote Speaker: “Aesthetics/Institutions.” Canadian Studies Graduate Students Association Conference, McGill University, April 1995.
“The Secret of Life: Genetics and Imaging.” Screen/Sites Conference, Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University, April 1994.
(R) “Cracking the Code: The Popular Discourse of the Body Archive.” Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema Studies, Syracuse, March 1994.
“Art, New Technologies and Access: Art and Money, or What is it Worth?” Innis Centenary Conference, York University, January 1994.
(R) “Video at the National Film Board of Canada.” Annual Screen Conference, John Logie Baird Centre, Scotland, June 1993.
“Community and Art.” Indigenous Media Conference: Images, Identities and Politics, McGill University, March 1992.
“Spectatorship in Cyberspace.” Art as Theory/Theory and Art Conference, University of Ottawa, November 1991.
(R) “Murder by Television: The Promise of Cyberspace.” Annual Conference of the Canadian Communications Association, Learneds, Queen’s University, June 1991.
(R) “Is the Dead Author a Woman?” Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference, Carleton University, June 1990.
(R) “Staging the Victim: Lyotard’s Acinema.” Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference, University of Regina, June 1989.
“The Struggle for Locality.” Conference on Public Art, Trent University, June 1987.
(R) “Jacques et Novembre.” Joint Conference of the Association Québécoise des Etudes Cinématographiques and the Film Studies Association of Canada, Université Laval, Quebec, May 1986.
Public Talks and Invited Lectures
“Learning from Leona: Suburbs and Art,” University of Buffalo Reading Group in Cultural Studies of Space (keynote), April 2010.
“Expanded Cinema,” and “The end of Cinema: McLuhan and the Digital”, two lectures delivered at the Escuela Internacional de CIne y Television (EICTV), La Habana, Cuba, January 2010.
“What Art Can Tell Us About Urban Planning, ” Roundtable Creativity in the Suburbs, Willowdale Library, October 2009.
“Ephemeral Art in the Digital Age.” Art Metropole and SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre), Reply: All, June 2009.
Participant, “Forum Expanded: Digital Media and The Work of Michael Snow.” Berlinale Film Festival, Berlin, February 2009.
Invited Speaker, “The Place of the New in New Media.” University of Pennsylvania, November 2007.
“Marshall McLuhan: Art as Epistemology,” Cultural Policy Forum, Centre for Media and Culture in Education, University of Toronto, December 2005.
Invited Speaker: “McLuhan’s ABC,” Dudley Cinema at Sponto Gallery, Los Angeles, California, November 2005.
Public Interview: “MESS (Media Ecology Super Sessions) on Cosmic Media,” epOxybOx Gallery and Studio, Los Angeles, California, November 2005.
Invited Speaker: Marshall McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club, Abbot-Kinney Memorial Library, Los Angeles, California, November 2005.
Invited Speaker: “Visual Culture and Visual Research,” Graduate Program in Communication and Culture, York University, November 2005.
Invited Speaker: “Translocal Arts Collectives and Practices of Citizenship.” The City Seminar, York University, October 2005.
Invited Speaker: “Screens and McLuhan’s Hybrid Media.” The McLuhan Lectures, University of Toronto, July 2005.
Invited Speaker: “Visible City Project.” Speakers’ Series, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University, September 2004.
“Film Festivals as Global Flow and Identity Formation.” Robarts Centre Symposium on Global Cultural Flows, York University, March 2004.
Invited Speaker: “McLuhan and Cosmic Media.” Distortion Speakers’ Series, Department of Art History and Communication, McGill University, 2003.
Invited Speaker: “McLuhan and Perception.” The Independents, Department of Film, York University, Fall 2002.
Invited Speaker: “Cosmic Media: Multiplicity, McLuhan, Miracles.” Culture and Diversity—Speakers’ Series, Institute for the Humanities, University of Manitoba, November 2002.
Seminar Participant: “Dramatizing Illness: Medicos and the Popular Culture of TV Doctors.” Seminar for Advanced Research: Figural Vocabularies of Gender in Science, Medicine and Technology, York University, January 2002.
Invited Speaker: “Doctor TV: Comparing Canadian and American Popular Medical Culture.” Bethune College Lectures, York University, January 1999.
Guest Lecture: “Community Video.” Department of Fine Arts, Concordia University, October 1997.
Roundtable: “The Public Discourse on Art.” Speaking Volumes Exhibition/Roundtable, Oboro Gallery, Montreal, January 1997.
Guest Lecture: “Community Television in Canada.” Department of Film, Concordia University, March 1996.
Invited Speaker: “The New Body Language: Genetics and Representation.” Department of Visual Arts, University of Ottawa, February 1996.
Guest Lecture: “Art and Feminism.” Graduate Program in Fine Arts, Concordia University, March 1995.
Guest Lecture: “Public Access: Rethinking Access.” Canadian Cultural Studies Seminar, Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University, October 1994.
Invited Speaker: “New Technologies, New Bodies.” Graduate Program in Communication Studies, McGill University, October 1994.
Invited Speaker: “The Photographs of Etienne-Jules Marey.” Mercer Union Gallery Lectures, Toronto, January 1993.
Guest Lecture: “News and New Technologies.” Department of Film, York University, April 1991.
Invited Speaker: “Interactive Culture.” Department of Comparative Literature, University of Syracuse, March 1991.
Guest Lecture: “Women’s Cinema.” Department of Film, York University, November 1990.
Respondent to Laura Mulvey at the Counter Talk/Public Access Lecture Series, Toronto, April 1988.