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Exhibitions

July, 2007 (group)
Prefix ICA

2006 (group)   
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax: The Idea of North. Curated by Rhonda Corvese

2005 (group)   
Galleri F15, Moss, Norway: The Idea of North. Curated by Rhonda Corvese

2003 (solo)
Art Lab, University of Western Ontario: A Chat with the Artist

2003 (group)
Forest City Gallery, London: Thirtysomething anniversary show
Latitude 53, Edmonton: Visualeyez 2003 The Misplacement of Intimacy

2002 (solo)
Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto: 32 (+1) Stories

2002 (group)
Intervention at City Centre Storage, London: Self / Service / Storage

2002
Gallery Stratford & Art Lab: West on 7, South on 4 / North on 4, East on 7

2001 (solo)
BUS Gallery, Toronto: <Re: no subject>

2000 (group)
BUS Gallery, Toronto: Counter Productive

2000
OCAD Gallery, Toronto: Externalized

Screenings / Performances / Interventions / Broadcasts

2005 (web commission)
ULYD Audio Net.Art commission, Radio NRK, Oslo, Norway

2005 (broadcast)
Radio NRK (public radio), Oslo, Norway and Radiorakel 99.3 (feminist radio), Oslo Norway: Fram/Forward

2003 (performance)   
Visualeyez 2003 The Misplacement of Intimacy, Latitude 53: A Date with the Artist

2003 (transmission)           
Pirate radio intervention on the FM dial, London: Frozen Warnings

2002 (performance)           
Masonville Place Mall, London: A Taxonomy of Balloon Animals

2001 (installation)   
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto — Video Party (opening for Video Primer): Confess something to me

2001 (performance)           
a_level, Toronto: The Minneapolis Tapes

Residencies

2005
Office for Contemporary Art, Norway: Independent Studio Program
Notam (Norsk Network for Technology, Audio and Music), audio production residency

Awards (art & design)

2007
Project Grant, Visual Arts, Canada Concil for the Arts.

2006
Short-listed, Emerging Curator Award, Untitled Art Awards, Toronto.

2005
Visual Arts Grant, Jewish Arts Council/UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
Grants to Emerging Film & Video Artists, Ontario Arts Council
Grants to Media Artists, Toronto Arts Council
Travel Grants to Media Artists, Canada Council for the Arts

2002            
Individual Grant, du Maurier Arts Council
Writer’s Reserve Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Nominated, A Space Emerging Artist Award, Toronto

2001
National Magazine Award for Prefix Photo Magazine Design, National Magazine Awards Foundation, Canada

1999
Award of Merit, Advertising and Design Club of Canada
Award of Merit, Applied Arts Magazine

1998            
Award of Merit, 77th Art Directors Annual, New York
Type Directors Club Award, New York
Gold Award, Advertising and Design Club of Canada
Award of Merit, Advertising and Design Club of Canada

Scholarships

2002    
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities
Special University Scholarship, UWO
Sir Edmund Walker Scholarship for Graduate Studies, OCAD

2001   
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities
Special University Scholarship, UWO
Sir Edmund Walker Scholarship for Graduate Studies, OCAD
Dorothy Hoover Scholarship, OCAD
Samuel Lazar Kagan Scholarship, OCAD

2000
Jacques Dagenais Science-in-Culture Tuition Scholarship, OCAD
H.L. Rous Award, OCAD
InterAccess Prize, OCAD

1996
Ontario Scholarship, Society of Graphic Designers of Canada

Curatorial Activities

2005
This must be the place: Canadian new media artists celebrating InterAccess's grant re-opening: InterAccess, Toronto.

2004 (co-curator)   
future_feed_forward: festival of performance & media art: Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario

Bibliography

Bouchard, Gilbert. “Performance Artists Push Boundaries” in Edmonton Journal, May 28, 2003.
Carr-Harris, Ian. “Beauties 1–5,” in Lola 10, Fall 2001, 39.
Corvese, Rhonda. The Idea of North, Halifax: St. Mary's University Art Gallery, 2006.
Couillard, Paul. Visualeyez 2003.
Faeroy, Yngvild and Sossa Jorgensen. The Idea of North, Moss: Galleri F15, 2005.
Huffa, Joanne. “Best Bet: Dana Samuel.” in eye Weekly, April 11, 2002, 57.
Mulholland, Sarah. "Sound Sculptor for InterAccess." in Sketch: OCAD Alumni Magazine, Winter 2006.
Sasani, Mari. “A Date with the Artist.” in Broken Pencil, Fall 2003.

Publications

Ian Carr-Harris: Stride Gallery. Exhibition brochure essay. Stride Gallery, 2006.
Warped: Robyn Foster.
Exhibition brochure essay. Alternator Gallery, 2004.
“Poiesis: Marianne Lovink and Sheila Moss.” Review in Canadian Art, Fall 2002, 142.
“Judy Cheung: Plastic Moment.” Review in Canadian Art, Winter 2002, 84.
George Bures Miller: Simple Experiments in Aerodynamics 6&7 (with Wayne Baerwaldt), Toronto: Mercer Union Catalogue, 2001.
“Waste Management: Art Gallery of Ontario.” Review in FUSE, Vol. 22, No. 4, 2000, 49-50.

Presentations

2006
Panel discussion, "Making Sounds," Dalhousie University Gallery, Halifax.

2005
Artist talk, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, Norway
Interview, SKARadio, Oslo Norway

2004            
Artist talk, Ontario College of Art & Design
Lecturer, OCAD: “Scientific Looking,” in Introduction to Visual Culture (for VISC1B06, Prof. Brian Donnelly)

Curator’s Talk, Forest City Gallery: “Temporal intersections,” part of future_feed_forward: festival of performance & media art, London, Ontario

2003
Panel Discussion, Latitude 53, Edmonton: “Intimacy, the Web and Performance.” (with Cheli Nighttraveler and Mike Hickey).

2002    
Artist Talk and screening, University of Western Ontario: “Random Access: Database and Archive in Art,” in VAH Mass Media and Art, prof. Bridget Elliot.

1991
Molecular Modelling and Animation in Large Year I Chemistry Classes, with Dr. Brian E. McCarry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

Selected professional activities

2005 –
Lecturer, Ontario College of Art & Design, Faculty of Art and Department of Liberal Studies, Toronto

1998
Freelance editing, proofreading, design, consulting

2003 –            
Advisory Council, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto

2006 -- 2007
Lecturer, University of Toronto at Mississauga,Visual Culture and Communication Program / Department of Culture, Communication and Information Technology, Mississauga

2005 – 2009
Director/Curator, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto

2005
Jury member, Trinity Square Video: Liberté / Égalité / Fraternité themed commission

2003 – 2005          
Studio Faculty, Digital Arts, Toronto School of Art, Toronto

2003 – 2005            
Communications Officer, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario

2003 – 2005
Teaching Assistant, Ontario College of Art & Design, Department of Liberal Studies, Toronto

2001 – 2003           
Teaching Assistant, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

2002            
Board of Directors, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario

2000 – 2001           
Board of Directors, Trinity Square Video, Toronto

2000 – 2001             
Designer, Prefix Photo Magazine, Toronto

2000           
Newsbriefs Editor, Prefix Photo Magazine, Toronto

Education

2003            University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, MFA
2001           Ontario College of Art & Design, Associate, Sculpture / Installation