Janine Marchessault

CURRICULUM VITAE

Publications

Books

Ecstatic World: In an Ecology of Images (manuscript in progress).

(R) Marshall McLuhan: Cosmic Media (London: Sage Publications, 2005).

Edited Collections

Cartographies of Place: Ways of Representing the Urban, co-edited with Michael Darroch (in progress, eighteen original essays).

Multiple Screens @ Expo 67, co-edited with Monika Gagnon (in progress, six original dossiers, interviews with artists, and critical essays).

(R) Locating Migrating Media, co-edited with Greg Elmer, Charles Davis and John McCullough (Lexington Press, 2010).

(R) Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema co-edited with Dr. Susan Lord (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). (second printing)

(R) Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine, and the Media, co-edited with Kim Sawchuk (New York and London: Routledge, 2000).

(R) Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women’s Cinema, co-edited with Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, and Brenda Longfellow (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999).

Mirror Machine: Video and Identity (Toronto: YYZ Books and CRCCII, 1995).

Towards the Slaughterhouse of History: Working Papers on Culture, co-edited with Sharon Brooks (Toronto: YYZ Books, 1992).

Chapters in Books

(R) “Poetics of Place in Montreal Films.” Migrating Media. ed. Greg Elmer (forthcoming Lexington Press, 2009).

(R) “Translocal Transits in Toronto Art Practices.” Transits: Canada/Brazil. ed. Walter Moser. (Ottawa: University of Ottawa, forthcoming 2010).

(R) with Michael Darroch. ”Anonymous History as Methodology: The Collaborations of Siegfried Giedion, Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, and the Explorations Group (1951-53).” Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology. eds. Andreas Broeckmann and Gunalan Nadarajan Weimar: VDG Verlag, 2009. 9-27.

(R) with Dr. Susan Lord. “Introduction to Fluid Screens.” Fluid Screens: Expanded Cinema. eds. Susan Lord and Janine Marchessault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 3-25.

(R) “Multi-Screens and Future Cinema: The Labyrinth Project at Expo 67,” Fluid Screens: Expanded Cinema, eds. Susan Lord and Janine Marchessault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 29-51.

(R) with Dipti Gupta. “Film Festivals as Cultural Traffic and Urban Encounter.” Urban Enigmas. ed. Johanne Sloan. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007. 239-254.

(R) “Men in White, Women in Aprons: Utopian Iconographies of TV Doctors.” Figuring it Out. eds. Rusty Shteir and Bernard Lightman. Durham, NH: University Press of New England, 2006. 315-336.

(R)“Mechanical Brides and Mama’s Boys: Gender and Technology in Early McLuhan.” Marshall McLuhan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory, vol. II. ed. Gary Genosko. New York and London: Routledge, 2005. 161-180.

(R) “Sympathetic Understanding in Tu as crié: Let Me Go.” Candid Eyes: Essays on Canadian Documentaries, eds. Jim Leach and Jeannette Sloniowski. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. 211-225.

“Women, Nature, and Chemistry: Hand-processed Films From Film Farm.” Lux: A Decade of Artist Film and Video. eds. Steve Reinke and Tom Taylor. Toronto: YYZ Books, 2000. 135-142

(R) “Learning the New Information Order.” Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art. eds. Jody Berland and Shelley Hornstein, Innis Centenary Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000. 168-176.

(R) “David Suzuki’s The Secret of Life: Informatics and the Popular Discourse of the Life Code.” Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine, and the Media. eds. Janine Marchessault and Kim Sawchuk. New York and London: Routledge, 2000. 55-65.

(R) “Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema: From Introspection to Retrospection,” Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women’s Cinema. eds. Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, and Janine Marchessault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. 135-147.

(R) “Spectatorship in Cyberspace: The Global Embrace.” Theory Rules: Art as Theory, Theory and Art. eds. Jody Berland, Will Straw, and David Tomas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. 223-241.

“Amateur Video and the Challenge for Change.” Mirror Machine: Video and Identity, ed. Janine Marchessault. Toronto: YYZ Books and CRCCII, 1995. 13-25.

“Jacques et Novembre: The Emergence of a New Paradigm.” in Dialogue: Cinéma canadien et québécois/Quebec and Canadian Cinemas. eds. Michael Dorland and Pierre Veronneau. Toronto: MediaTexte Inc./Cinematheque Quebecoise, 1987. 223-229.

Articles

(R) “Of Bicycles and Films: The Case of CineCycle” Public: Art/Culture/Ideas 40 2010: 93-104.

(R) “The Value of the Parochial: Film and the Commonplace.” MediaTropes Vol 2, No 1 (2009): 24-36.

(R) “McLuhan’s Pedagogical Art.” Flusser Studies 06 (2008): 1-13.

(R) “Manufacturing Humanism: Steichen/Burtynsky.” Prefix Photo 15 (2007): 54-67.

(R) with Susan Lord, “Translocal Connectivities and Citizenship Practices in the New Media Arts.” Public: Art/Culture/Ideas Digipopo 31 (2005): (DVD publication www.publicjournal.ca)

“A Tribute to Robin Wood.” CineAction 71 (Winter 2007): 29-30.

“Film Scenes: Paris, New York, Toronto.” Public: Art/Culture/Ideas 22/23 (2002): 58-75.

(R) “Sympathetic Understanding in Tu as crié Let Me Go,” Canadian Journal of Film Studies 10.2 (2001): 21-35.

(R) With Haidee Wasson. “Eyewitness History: New Technologies and the Production of Visual Evidence.” Convergence (Fall 1998): 17-23.

“The Women’s Liberation Front of Quebec.” Public: Art/Culture/Ideas 14 (1996): 36-48.

“David Suzuki’s The Secret of Life: Informatics and the Popular Discourse of the Life Code.” New Formations 19 (1996): 120-29.

(R) “Reflections on the Dispossessed: Video and the ‘Challenge for Change’ Experiment.” Screen (Oxford) 36 (Summer 1995): 131-46.

“On Hannah Arendt: Thinking In My Identity Where Actually I Am Not.” Public 12 (1995): 14-27.

“Imagining the New Information Order: ‘You Will,’” CineAction 33 (1994): pp. 53-57.

“The Naked Eye Redressed: Invisibility and Redemption.” Public Art/Culture/Ideas 7 (1993): 21-37.

“Incorporating the Gaze: Interactive Video and Other Death Drives.” Parachute 65 (Winter 1992): 23-28.

“Feminist Art and the Politics of Authorship.” Open Letter Eighth Series 4 (1992): 82-90.

“Reach Out and Touch Someone: Interactive Reality at the End of History.” M5V 2 (Winter 1991/1992): 18-24.

“Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema: From Introspection to Retrospection.” CineAction 24/25 (1991): 30-37.

“Is the Dead Author a Woman? Some Thoughts on Female Authorship” Parallelogramme 15.4 (February 1990): 10-19.

“Writing Feminist Histories: ‘The Burning Times’ and ‘The Company of Strangers,’” CineAction 23 (1990): 70-73.

“An Erotics of Space: The Cinematic Apparatus in the Aura of Science,” Public Art/Culture/Ideas 2 (1989): 87-98.

“‘Les matins infidèles’: Patriarchy and Photography.” CineAction 18 (1989): 69-71.

“The Critic’s Choice: Things Great and Not So Great.” CineAction 15 (1988): 8-12.

“Your Life is a Film.” CineAction 12 (1988): 39-43.

“In Search of It All.” CineAction 10 (1987): 6-11.

With Marc Lewis and Andrew Payne. “Public Imaginary.” Parachute 48 (Fall 1987): 21-25.

“Sans Soleil.” CineAction 5 (1986): 2-6.

“Poo-pooing the Phallus: Karen Finlay’s Performance Art.” Border/lines 5 (1986): 23-25.

“Inventing Paradox: Celine and Julie Go Boating.” CineAction 3/4 (1986): 84-90.

Reviews

“Lynne Cohen: National Gallery of Canada.” ArtForum International 40. 9 (May 2002): 187-88.

“Christine Davis: The Power Plant.” ArtForum International 40. 2 (October 2001): 164.

“Patricia Zimmerman’s Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film,” (book review) Screen (Oxford) 37, no. 4 (Winter 1996): pp. 419-23.

“Elaine Frigon/Lynn Hershman.” Trans-mission: La Centrale 1996. Montreal: La Centrale, 1996. 77-78.

“Christine Davis.” Parachute 69 (Winter 1993): 43.

“Two Feminist Documentaries,” CineAction 21 (1991): pp. 47-51.

“Reason Into Passion: Wieland at Crossroads,” Border/lines 1 (1985): pp. 35-36.

Catalogue Essays

“Ecstatic Universe: Bataille’s Negative Ecology,” The Universal Code, (Power Plant Catalogue: 2009).

“Images @ 20,” (with Marc Glassman), Images Broadsheet, 2007.

“Christine Davis and the Secret Life of Screens.” Christine Davis: Projections, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, 2006, pp. 29-35.

“The Shopping Mall and the Camp—The Art of An Te Liu” (Toronto: Mercer Union Publications, 2004): pp. 3-8.

“Darwin’s Image: The Evolving Nature of Cinema,” 44th International Short Film Festival (Oberhausen, Germany, 1999): pp. 93-97.

“Making Room for Nature,” Digital Gardens (Toronto: The Power Plant, 1996): pp. 61-73.

“The Body in Bits,” Frankenstein: Explorations in Manipulation and Surrationality (Guelph: Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 1994): pp. 15-26.

“Place Setting: The Site of Seeing in Citer le lieu,” Sylvie Bélanger Works (Alberta: Lethbridge Gallery, 1993): pp. 10-18.

Journals and Special Issues Edited

Co-Editor: Flusser Studies Special Issue on McLuhan 06: (2008).

Co-Editor with Aleksandra Kaminska and Jason Rovito: SPECIAL 20TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE Public 37: Art/Culture/Ideas. (Fall 2008).

Co-Editor with Saara Liinamaa and Karyn Sandlos: Public 32: Art/Culture/Ideas, “Urban Interventions” (2006).

Co-Editor with Saara Liinamaa and Christine Shaw: Public 29: Art/Culture/Ideas, “Localities” (2004).

Co-Editor with Will Straw: Public 22/23: Art/Culture/Ideas, “Cities/Scenes” (2002).

Co-Editor with Susan Lord: Public 18: Art/Culture/Ideas, “Light” (1999).

Editor: Public 14: Art/Culture/Ideas, “Quebec” (1996).

Editor: Public 10: Art/Culture/Ideas, “Love” (1994).

Co-Editor with Marc de Guerre: Public 4-5: Art/Culture/Ideas, “Sound” (1991).

Co-Editor with Sylvie Bélanger, Christine Davis, Mark Lewis and Tom Taylor: Public 3: Art/Culture/Ideas, “Carnal Knowledge” (1989).

Co-Editor: CineAction 30, “Framing the Family” (1992).

Co-Editor: CineAction 24/25, “Feminist Cinema” (1991).

Co-Editor: CineAction 16, “Canadian Cinema” (1989).

Co-Editor: CineAction 10, “Sex” (1987).