Education
1988
MSc Visual Studies (Center For Advanced Visual Studies and MIT Media Lab),
Massachusetts Institute of Technology/MIT, Cambridge, USA.
1986 Joint Honours BA - Fine Arts Studio and Psychology, University of Waterloo, Canada.
1979 Electronics Engineering Technology Diploma, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology/NAIT, Edmonton, Canada.
Solo
Exhibitions
2023 New Adventures in Sound Art/NAISA, South River, Canada. O telephone.
2018 Pavillon Président-Kennedy, Partenariat du Quartier des spectacles, Montreal, Canada. Wet, architectural projection
2011 CAN Foundation, Seoul, South Korea. Intersection.
2009 Galerija Kibela, Maribor, Slovenia. Vox Populi,
Badlands and Digestion.
2005 SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Vox Populi
and Intersection.
2004 Jack The Pelican Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Vox Populi.
1999 New York Coliseum, New York City, USA. Fit,
TV Guides and Intersection.
1998 Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada. Skies.
1997 Metrònom, Barcelona, Spain. Intersection
and video tape retrospective.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Unnecessary Signage, Sustained Signage (Nov 15, 2024 - March 23, 2025)
2024 Chilgok Transmedia Festival, Chilgok, South Korea. Wet, These Essences, Burning Too.
2022 Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales- Bogata, Columbia. These Essences.
2021 Future Memories, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong. Sustained Signage, prints.
2020 Glowing Globe--Sound of Silence, Rijeka, Croatia. Given.
2019 Wonderspaces, San Diego, USA. Intersection.
2017 Museum of Saint-Brieuc, France. Wet installation.
Art Rock Festival, Saint-Brieuc, France. Burning Too, architectural projection.
2016 University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria.Sustained Signage and Unnecessary Signage.
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria. Burning Too, architectural projection.
ISEA2016 International Symposium on Electronic Art, Hong Kong. Burning Too, architectural projection.
City University of Hong Kong. Sustained Signage.
2015 AlbumArte/YICCA 2015, Rome, Italy. Unnecessary Signage.
SIGGRAPH Asia, Kobe, Japan. Unnecessary Signage.
In-Daegu Media Facade 2015, Daegu, South Korea.
For All The Museums That Forgot To Offer An Exhibition To Me, architectural projection.
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong. Unnecessary Signage.
2014 Goldsmiths and Courtauld Institute London, “It Looks Like Art,” online exhibition, London, UK.
2013 School of Visual Arts, “Cross Point of E to W--Special Invited Design Exhibition, New York City, USA.
2012 MIM & MORE,
Berlin, Germany. The Collector Series.
2011 SITE Santa Fe,
USA, Benefit Auction. The Collector Series.
ConcentArt,
Berlin, Germany. The Collector Series.
2010 Winter Olympics Cultural Olympiad, Vancouver, Canada. Vested.
Mediations Biennale Poznan, Poland. Vox Populi.
IMO Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark. O telephone sound work.
2009 Move – New
European Media Art, Halle (Saale), Germany. Vested.
ConcentArt,
Berlin, Germany. Vox Populi.
Kunsträume
Burg Eisenhardt, Belzig, Germany. Vox Populi.
SITE
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. annual fundraising auction, Personal Armor.
Hermes'
Ear Festival, Brno House of Art, Brno, Czech Republic. O telephone.
2008 Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland. Fit.
Strictly
Berlin/GdK Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Personal Armor.
2007 Les Chants Mécaniques, Lille, France. O
telephone and Intersection.
Ballhaus
Naunynstraße, Berlin, Germany. O telephone.
2006 Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Vox
Populi.
2005 Name Festival, Lille, France. Vox Populi.
Exploratorium,
San Francisco, USA. Intersection.
2004 FILE, Electronic Language Festival, São
Paulo, Brazil.every-thing.net.
The
Works Festival, Edmonton, Canada. Intersection.
2003 Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, Victoria,
Canada. Digestion.
2001 Riva Gallery, New York City, USA. Digestion.
Art
Future 2000, Taipei, Taiwan. Intersection.
Exit
Art Festival, Cretéil, France. Intersection.
VIA
Art Festival, Maubeuge, France. Intersection.
1999 Siggraph 99/Millennium Motel, Los Angeles, USA. TV Guides.
Kunst
Haus Dresden/Comtec, Dresden, Germany. Intersection.
Taipei
Gallery, New York City, USA. Fit.
1996 Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria. Intersection.
Sonambiente
Klangkunst Festival, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany. Intersection
1995 Images du Futur, Montréal, Canada. Intersection.
SAM
Museum, Osaka, Japan. Fit.
Sound
Symposium, St. John's, Canada. Intersection.
1993 European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany. Intersection.
Images
du Futur 93, Montréal, Canada. Fit.
1988 Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany. Stithy.
Selected Performances
2011 CAN Foundation, Seoul, South Korea. Digestion, with Soo-jung Kae.
2009 Brno International New Music Festival, Brno,
Czech Republic. Badlands.
2006 Sklenëná Louka, Brno, Czech Republic. Digestion and Badlands.
2005 Intro Festival, MIllenáris Park, Budapest,
Hungary. Digestion and Badlands.
2003 Western Front, Vancouver, Canada. Digestion
and Badlands.
Sonic
Light Festival, Amsterdam. Netherlands. Badlands, with Ikue Mori.
2001 EI, New York, USA. Digestion and Badlands,
with Kathleen Supové.
NYU
Frederick Lowe Theatre, New York and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/RPI,
Troy, NY, USA.
Technophobe
and the Madman, collaborative project.
2000 Thai Elephant Conservation Center, Thailand. Elephant
Keyboard.
1994 Sound
Symposium, St. John's, Canada. A Structural Theory of Emotions,
with Trevor Tureski.
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.
Québec, Canada. Oh
toi qui vis là-bas!, with Geneviève Letarte.
1992 Siggraph/NYC at Pace University, New York
City. Fortex2.0, with Nick Didkovski and Ben Neill.
SIGCHI
'92, Monterey, California. A Structural Theory of Emotions, with
Trevor Tureski.
1991 Western Front, Vancouver, Canada. Fortex and
Static Boy, with Amy Denio.
1990 New Music America 1990, Montréal,
Canada. Beat and Cloudmouth,
with
Tom Dimuzio and David Rokeby.
Festival
International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, Victoriaville, Canada.
Media
Play and Cloudmouth, with George Lewis.
Computer
Music Festival, Seattle, Washington, Media Play and Cloudmouth,
with George Lewis
Verona
Jazz Festival, Verona, Italy. The Empty Chair, with George Lewis.
STEIM,
Amsterdam, Netherlands. Media Play: Given the television.
A Space,
Toronto, Canada. Given the trombone and the television & And
Sum,
with George Lewis.
Art
Institute of Chicago, USA. And Sum, with George Lewis.
The
Kitchen, New York City, USA. The Empty Chair, with George Lewis.
1989 New Music America 1989, New York City, USA.
And Sum, with George Lewis.
Alternative
Museum, New York City, USA. Ducks Against Glass, with George
Lewis.
The
Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada. Underground Orpheus, with Canadian Electronic Ensemble.
1988 Media Lab/MIT, Cambridge, USA. Nose Against
Glass, with George Lewis.
Selected Video Screenings
2019 Balance-Unbalance conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Sustained Signage.
2016 University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. Sustained Signage.
2014 Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art, Canada. documentation of installations and performances.
2009 Experimenta 2009, Bangalore, India. Vested (documentation).
2008 Club Transmediale, Berlin, Germany. Elephant
Keyboard.
Rokolective,
Bucharest, Romania. Elephant Keyboard.
2002 Urban Drift, Berlin, Germany. Excity.
2001 Pause-Sign International Experimental
Music Festival, Budapest, Hungary. Elephant Keyboard.
2000 ZKM Media Art Award Nominations, national TV broadcast,
Südwest. Germany. Intersection.
Alternativa
Music Festival, Prague, Czech Republic. Elephant Keyboard.
1999 Visions Underground, Paris, France. Excity.
1998 LUX Centre, Spacejunks: electronic
art scene from Quebec. London, England. Excity.
1997 Galerie Off-Off, Experimental Moving
Images From Canada, Copenhagen, Denmark. Excity.
1996 World Wide Video Festival, The Hague,
Netherlands. Excity.
Champs
Libre-Electronic Art Festival, Montréal, Canada. Excity
and Oh toi qui vis là-bas!,
1995 Electronie d'Arte e Altre Scritture,
Rome, Italy. Video Installations and Performances.
1994 Graphics '94, Banff, Canada. A Structural Theory
of Emotions.
1992 Interactiva Conference, Köln,
Germany. A
Structural Theory of Emotions.
1991 ICMC(International Computer Music Conference) at
McGill University,Montréal, Canada. Fortex.
Artransitions
Conference at CAVS/MIT, Cambridge, USA. Orpheus: Current Diversions.
The
Powerplant, Toronto, Canada. Certainty Persuaded Me, And
Sum and Nervous Oprheus .
Selected Conference and Panel Presentations
2020 Glowing Globe--Sound of Silence Symposium, Rijeka, Croatia.
2020 International Image Festival, Manizales, Colombia.
2018 Transcultural Exchange International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts, Quebec City, Canada.
2016 ISEA2016 International Symposium on Electronic Art, Hong Kong. ‘Unnecessary Signage' and 'The
Meaninglessness of Meaningful Media’. Hong Kong.
Transcultural Exchange International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts, paper presentation ‘The
Meaninglessness of Meaningful Media’. Boston University. Boston, USA.
Transcultural Exchange International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts, panel moderator for ‘Public Art; Public Space’. Boston University. Boston, USA.
2015 Art and Public Space Symposium, City University of Hong Kong--School of Creative Media.
Hong Kong, SAR China.
Live-I Workshop: XBox Kinect & The Dramaturgy of Tracking. Reed College, Portland, USA.
2014 Histories, Theories and Practices of Sound Art Curating Conference, Goldsmiths, London, UK.
Siggraph Asia 2014, Special Session: Digital Arts and Multi-Disciplinary Practice: Shenzhen, China.
VSMM 2014--International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia--Creative Arts & Design.
Hong Kong, SAR China.
Real Time Visuals Conference, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.
Vs. Interpretation Festival and Conference, Agosto Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic.
2013 Hanyang International Design Conference, Hanyang University, Ansan, Korea. keynote speaker.
International New Media Art Symposium: Game & Art, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea.
2008 Academy of Fine Arts, Inter-active
Art Media Conference, Krakow, Poland.
Mediascape, Novigrad Lapidarium Museum, Novigrad-Cittanova, Croatia.
2007 Interactive Futures, University of Victoria, Canada.
keynote speaker.
2003 Victoria Independent Film and Video
Festival, Victoria, Canada. keynote speaker.
Alberta
Media Arts Alliance Society, Medicine Hat, Canada,
annual conference. featured artist.
2001 Siggraph 2001, Los Angeles,
USA.
Interactive
Screen, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada.
2000 S.W.A.T. Think Tank Panel,
Artists Space, New York, USA.
Living
Architecture, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff,
Canada.
Video
Art 2000, Contemporary Museum/University of Baltimore
Maryland County, Baltimore, USA.
1999 Siggraph 99-Alias Wavefront
Education Summit, Los Angeles, USA.
Savoir
Faire: Immersive Laboratory Think Tank, Banff Centre
for the Arts, Banff, Canada.
Pong
Festival, Brown University, Providence, USA.
1998 Electronic Arts: A Visual
Revolution, Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee, USA.
International
Symposium on Electronic Art/ ISEA, Liverpool, England.
1997 Florida Art Education Association,
Orlando, USA. keynote speaker.
1993 Conference on Dance and Technology,
with
Myron Krueger and David Rokeby. Vancouver, Canada.
1992 Third International Symposium
on Electronic Art-TISEA,
workshop
on interactive video. Sydney, Australia.
1991 United States Institute of
Theater Technology. Boston, USA.
1990 Siggraph 90, Interactive
Art and Artificial Reality, panel discussion. Dallas,
USA.
Selected Guest Speaker
2023 Concordia University, Department of Music, Montreal, Canada.
2022 Concordia University, Department of Music, Montreal, Canada.
2019 McGill University, School of Architecture, Montreal, Canada.
2015 Live-I Workshop. Reed College, Portland, USA.
2012 Universität der Künste/ Udk Berlin, Germany.
2011 DukSung Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea.
2009 Hansei University, Seoul, Korea.
Brno
House of Arts, Brno, House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic.
CIANT,
Prague, Czech Republic.
2007 University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada.
Simon
Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. "The Ethics
of Aesthetics."
Emily
Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada.
2006 Academy of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Banská
Bystrica, Slovakia.
Comenius
University, Faculty of Philosophy, Bratislava, Slovakia.
2005 SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. "The
Ethics of Aesthetics."
Intro
Festival, Millenáris Park. with Jozef Cseres,
Budapest, Hungary.
University
of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA.
2004 Klangvisionen, Sound Art Symposium, Cologne, Germany.
"The Aesthetics of New Media."
EM Media,
Calgary, Canada. "The Aesthetics of New Media."
Alberta
College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada.
2003 Jihui Digital Salon/Parsons School
of Design, New York City, USA.
Academy
of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic.
Janacek
Academy of Music, Brno, Czech Republic.
Faculty
of Fine Arts, Brno, Czech Republic.
Banff
Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada. "Aesthetics
of New Media."
2001 MIT, Center for Advanced Visual
Studies, Cambridge, USA.
School
of Visual Art (SVA), New York City, USA.
Banff
Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada.
2000 Transart Communication Festival, Nové Zámky,
Slovakia.
Galéria
Priestor for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia.
1997 Institut Universitari de l'Audiovisual/I'Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Metrònom,
Barcelona, Spain.
1995 University of Toronto, Canada.
1994 Sound Symposium 7, St. John's,
Canada.
1992 Simon Fraser University, Vancouver,
Canada. 5 Day workshop on interactive installations.
1990 School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, USA.
1989 Harvest Works/Studio Pass, New
York City, USA.
Bell-Northern
Research, Toronto, Canada.
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