Academic Vitae

Areas of Specialization

Theory: Digital Humanities; Media Art History/Criticism; Media & Cultural Studies; Technology & Society; Sound Studies and Experimental Music; Posthumanism; Social and Locative Media;.

Practice: Interdisciplinary Practice; Multimedia (Installation and Performance); Digital Sound;

            Practice-as-Research; Music Composition.

Education

Interdisciplinary Ph.D. (English/Visual Arts) with a concentration in Cultural, Social, and

Political Thought, University of Victoria, 2010

Dissertation title: A Practice-Informed Critique of Technological Posthumanism and its Ideologies

M.Mus., University of Victoria, 2004

Hon. B.Mus., Wilfrid Laurier University, 2002

Publications (refereed)

Monograph:

Humanesis: Sound and Technological Posthumanism. University of Minnesota

Press, ‘Posthumanities’ series (forthcoming, June 2013).

Edited Volume:

Collision: Interarts Practice and Research. Eds. David Cecchetto, Nancy Cuthbert, Julie

Lassonde, and Dylan Robinson. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.

Articles:

"Nonsense Aesthetics: (Imaginary) Living After the Death of Falsity," review essay in

CTheory.net (Oct, 2012).

“Deconstructing Affect: Posthumanism and Mark Hansen’s Media Theory” in Theory, Culture,

and Society. Vol. 28, no. 5 (Sept. 2011), 3-33.

“Sounding the Hyperlink: Skewed Remote Musical Performance and the Virtual Subject”

in Mosaic: a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Vol.42, no. 1 (March, 2009).

"vagant(ana)music: Three (four) Plateaus of a Contingent Music" in Radical Musicology,

Volume 2 (International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle University, December

2007): http://www.radical-musicology.org.uk/

Book Chapters:

"Listening Aside: An Aesthetics of Distraction in Contemporary Music” (co-author, eldritch

Priest) in Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music, edited by Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan, and Nicola Spelman. London and New York: Continuum-Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2013. 

“Melancholy and the Territory of Digital Performance” in Collision: Interarts Practice and

Research. Eds. David Cecchetto, Nancy Cuthbert, Julie Lassonde, and Dylan Robinson. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.

“Introduction,” co-author, in Collision: Interarts Practice and Research. Eds. David Cecchetto,

Nancy Cuthbert, Julie Lassonde, and Dylan Robinson. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.

“Ethical and Activist Considerations of the Technological Artwork” in Transdiscplinary Digital

Art: Sound, Vision, and the New Screen. Eds. Randy Adams, Steven Muller Arisona, and Steve Gibson. Communications in Computer and Communication Science Series. USA: Springer, June 2008.

Other editorial:

Musicological Explorations, Volume 9. Published by the Graduate Students in Music at

the University of Victoria, September 2008.

Significant Academic Awards and Nominations

2012                                        OCAD University Award for Excellence in Early Stage Research

2011                                        CAGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award, Canadian Association of Graduate Studies (awarded to the top Canadian dissertation in the fine arts, humanities, and social sciences category)

2011                                        OCAD University SSHRC Seed Grant

2011                                        Nominated for Non-Tenured Faculty Teaching award, OCAD University

2010                                        Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal Award (University of Victoria; the University’s most prestigious award)

2010                                        Bruns Essay Prize (best essay written while a graduate student), Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (awarded by Katherine Hayles)

Sept, 2008 – Aug, 2010          Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral

                                                Award, $40,000

Sept, 2008 – Aug, 2010          University of Victoria President’s Research Scholarship, $8,000

July, 2010                               Dissertation nominated by the University of Victoria English Department for the Western Association of Graduate Schools Innovation in Technology Award

Sept, 2008 - May, 2009         University of Victoria Graduate Award (Cultural, Social, and

Political Thought), $4,000

April, 2009                             Finalist, George Proctor Prize (best graduate paper, Canadian University Music Society 2009)

Sept, 2007 – Aug, 2008          University of Victoria Interdisciplinary Fellowship, $10,000

Sept, 2007 - May, 2008         University of Victoria Graduate Award (Cultural, Social, and Political Thought), $5,000

Sept, 2006 – Aug, 2007          University of Victoria Interdisciplinary Fellowship, $7,500

March, 2004                           Canada Council Creation Grant, $6,000

Instructional Activities

Teaching and Supervision:

July, 2010 – Present               Assistant Professor of New Media History and Criticism, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and School of Interdisciplinary Studies, OCAD University.  

Course Topics:           Writing and Rhetoric (100 level)

Visual Studies II: Critical Frameworks (100 level) Technology and Digital Culture (300 level)

Histories and Theories of Contemporary Music (300 level)

Critical Posthumanism (400 level)

Sound Art and Digital Media (400 level)

Sound Art, New Media, and Politics (600 level)

Critical Theory Seminar (600 level)

Graduate Supervision (completed and ongoing):       

Kimberley Armstrong, CADN (Committee member)

Susan Campbell, IAMD (Internal external)

Fareena Chanda, IAMD (Committee member)

Elizabeth Coleman, DFI (Committee member)

Patrick DeCoste, IAMD (Principal Advisor)

Caoimhe Morgan-Feir, CADN (Committee member)

Heather Nicol, IAMD (Committee member)

Zachary Pearl, CCP (Committee member)

Frank Tsonis, IAMD (Principal Advisor)

Alexei Villa, IAMD (Committee member)

Brittany Wray, IAMD (Principal Advisor)

Andrew Zealley, IAMD (Principal Advisor)

                                                Undergraduate:

                                                            Sona Safei-Sooreh, Sculpture (thesis committee)

Liam Wylie, Sculpture (thesis committee)

Invited Classroom Lectures:

“Aurality and Digital Culture,” DIGH 5000 – Issues in the Digital Humanities (Prof. Brian Greenspan), Carleton University (seminar given via video conference). April 2013.

"Conflicting Temporalities in Contemporary Digital Music," SCTM 2B91 - What is Time? (Prof. Robin Kingsburgh), OCAD University. September 2012.

“Exurban Spaces and a Politics of Sound," VISA 4056 - Time-Based Art: Sound for Artists II (Prof. Marc Couroux), York University. March 2012.

 “Posthumanism and Aurality in New Media”, Seminar in Contemporary Composition (Prof. Christopher Butterfield), University of Victoria. November 2011.

 “Reflections, Refractions, and Echoes of Posthumanism in Cybernetic Art,” Contemporary Arts and Technologies - FACS 2500 (Prof. Marc Couroux), York University. November 2010.

"The Sound of Digital Technology: Privilege, Meaning-Production, and Sound in New Media," Music and Meaning - HUM313 (Prof. Dylan Robinson), University of Toronto. February 2010.

Juried Research Presentations, Panels, and Invited Lectures

“Performance and Enaction in Writing Sonic Materialities,” American Comparative Literature Association (“Shifting Positions—Writing Materialities of Sound” panel), University of Toronto. April 2013

Invited public lecture. "Humanesis and the Sonic Effect: Operational Listening in Digital Culture," Trent University. February 2013.

Invited lecture, "Affective Listening and the Technological Nonsconscious," University of Toronto, School of Music doctoral seminar series, February 2013.

Invited public lecture, “Listening to Wearable Technologies: Bodies, Sound, and the Politics of Vision,” Toronto Wearables Meetup, Social Body Lab, OCAD University. November 2012.

“Listening to Communities in the Nonlinear Compositional Network of Exurbia,” Cage Credo 100 Conference, University of Toronto. October 2012.

“Networked Affect and Digital Bodies: Listening Awry in Skewed Remote Musical Performance,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Wisconsin. September 2012.

Panel chair, “The Nonhumanity of Sound,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Wisconsin. September 2012.

Panel participant, "McLuhan and Music," Canadian University Musicological Society, Wilfrid Laurier University. May 2012.

Invited keynote address, "Sound as transmission: towards and away from non-cochlear sound art," Trans-X Symposium (NAISA), Toronto. May 2012.

"The sonic effect: Exurbia and the problem of medial specificity in music and sound art," International Perspectives on Music and Canada, Wilfrid Laurier University. May 2012.

Invited lecture, "Sounding Posthumanism: Deconstruction and Affect in Skewed Remote Musical Performance," University of Waterloo. January 2012.

 “Embodiment and Meaning in Katharine Hayles’s Posthuman Trilogy,” Transforming the Human, Dublin, Ireland. October 2011.

“Networked Communication in the Aural Topography of Exurbia,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Waterloo, Canada. September 2011.

Invited panelist, “Sound, Music, and Digital Affect: Reflections on Works in Progress,” Thinking {Aesthetics} Politically, University of Victoria (co-panelists: Arthur Kroker and Tim Murray). April 2011.

 “Posthumanism and Politics of Disjunction in Locative Art,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Indianapolis. October 2010.

 “Affectivity and Intermediation in Skewed Remote Musical Performance,” Critical Digital Studies Workshop (co-chaired by Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, and Sara Diamond), OCAD University. October 2010.

 “Exclusion and Privilege in Ollivier Dyens’ Scientific Construction of Technological Posthumanism,” Strategies of Critique Conference (graduate conference), York University. April 2010.

 “Bodily Spacing: Mark Hansen’s Affective Posthumanism in Lazzarini’s Skulls,” McGill University English Graduate Student Conference, Montréal. February 2010.

Seminar participant, “Public Access to Knowledge" (led by Brent Nelson), McGill University English Graduate Student Conference, Montréal. February 2010. 

"From Genes to Memes: The Scientific Posthuman of Darwinian Evolution," Midwest chapter of the Modern Language Association ("Posthumanism Today" panel), St. Louis. November 2009.

 “Relational Ontologies: Judith Butler’s ‘Turn’ in Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s The Trace,” Association for Canadian College and University Teachers of English, Ottawa. May 2009.

 “Music and Catachresis: Lachenmann’s …zwei Gefühle… in the Theatre of Judith Butler,” joint session Canadian University Musicological Society/Canadian Society of Aesthetics (finalist, George Proctor Prize for best CUMS graduate student paper), Ottawa. May 2009.

 “What are the Digital Humanities? Toward a Practice-based Definition,” contributing author to poster presented by Ray Siemens to the Society for Digital Humanities. April 2009.

 “Skewed Remote Musical Performance and the Posthuman,” Interactive Futures 2007, Victoria, Canada. November 2007.

 “Detritus from (or a Meditation on) Content, Context, and Digital Art,” American Comparative Literature Association. April 2007

 “Ethical and Activist Considerations of the Technological Artwork,” Interactive Futures 2006, Victoria, Canada. January 2006.

“Gender and the Paradigmatic Limitations of 'Musical Knowledge' in the Recorded Medium,” In & Out of the Sound Studio, Concordia University. July 2005.

 Co-authored paper, “A Dialogue on Performative Musicology,” Collision Symposium, Victoria Canada. September 2005.

Practice-Based Research

Fall 2011                     Co-creator and conceptual designer of Exurbia, web-based relational

sound-editing interface project commissioned for Audio Space 2011, Open Space Artist-Run Centre (Victoria).

2007 - current             Co-composer, creator, and conceptual designer of Skewed Remote Musical

Performance, networked electronic music premiered at San Diego Spring Festival (Victoria/San Diego).

May 2010                   Co-creator, Agential Recombinant, interactive sound, video, and

architectural performance-installation (Victoria, BC).

April 2009                  Electronic composer, creator, and conceptual designer of Moment

                                                Forum, a multimedia performance-installation presented at the

                                                Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre at the University                                                  of Sussex.

April 2007                  Co-performer, creator, and composer of mnemosyne space

(version III), a multimedia performance-installation presented at American Comparative Literature Association (Mexico).

May 2005                   Co-performer, creator, and composer of mnemosyne space (version

                                                II), a multimedia performance-installation presented at the

                                                University of Victoria.

May 2004                   Co-performer, creator, and composer of mnemosyne space (version

I), a multimedia performance-installation presented at The International Federation for Theatre Research (Russia).

Selected Artistic Presentations

Oct. 2011 – ongoing    Exurbia, interactive online exhibit (with William Brent) hosted by Open

Space Artist-Run Centre.

Feb. 2012                    Composer, Sessile Blur for keyboard and electronics, Pendulum Ensemble

(Toronto, ON).

Aug. – Oct. 2009        Co-curator, Eidola, multimedia exhibition presented at Open Space Artist-

Run Centre.

Nov. 2008                   Composer, creator, and conceptual designer of KeyGen, for quartet and

electronics (Victoria, BC).

Jan. 2006                     Composer of Athabaska, for orchestra, finalist in Victoria Symphony’s

national Reel Music competition.

Jan. 2005                     Composer of music for short film Once A Fish, directed by Ling Chiu.

Screenings at Vancouver and Victoria International Film Festivals, the L.A. Asian Film Festival, and CityTV.

April 2004                  Co-performer, creator, and composer of CDL, multi-media performance-

installation (Victoria, with assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts).

Jan. 2004                     Composer of Context Dictates Landscape?, Victoria Symphony.

Jan. 2003                     Composer of Milo’s Baton, a multimedia musical theatre work for

children commissioned by NUMUS, Waterloo.

Research Clusters, Governance, Service, and Professional Activities

Assessment activities:

Editorial Advisory Boards (ongoing):             Evental Aesthetics

                                                Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism

Manuscript Assessment (ongoing):                Theory, Culture, and Society

CTheory.net

The Senses and Society

Abstract Assessment:                                     International Computer Music Conference. 2012.

Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium. 2012.

Faculty Teaching Review of Daniel Newman, 2012.

Graduate Program Governance:

Graduate Program in Criticism and Curatorial Practice Program and Admissions Committees. Since January 2012.

Graduate Program in Contemporary Art, Design, and New Media Program and Admissions Committees. Since September 2011.

Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design Program and Admissions Committees. Since September 2011

Co-author, "Exectuive Summary of IAMD Thesis Guidelines" (outcome from ad hoc committee), November 2012.

Digital Futures Initiative Graduate Admissions committee, OCAD University. 2011.

Other Governance:

Faculty At-Large Senator, OCAD University. 2012-2013.

School of Interdisciplinary Studies Curriculum Committee. 2012-2013.

Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and School of Interdisciplinary Studies Development/Succession Committee. 2012-2013.

Senate/Board Liason and Honorary Degree Sub-committees. 2012-2013.

Senate IQAP Peer Assessment Sub-committee. 2012-2013

Faculty of Liberal Studies Standards and Policy Committee, OCAD University. 2011-2012.

Curriculum Review Committee, New Media, OCAD University. 2011-2012.

OCAD University Academic Policy and Planning Committee. 2010-2011.

Conference Organization:

Conference Manager/Founder, Duration (Before and) After Media, OCAD University. August 2011.

Conference Assistant, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria. 2007-2008.

Conference Assistant, Interactive Futures 2007, Victoria, Canada. 2007.

Co-founder and -organizer, Collision Symposium for Interarts Practice and Research, University of Victoria. 2005-2006.

Other:

Consultant for Canvas Learning Management Systems (ad hoc committee), OCAD University. 2011-2013.

Participant, Critical Code Studies online workshop, led by Mark C. Marino (USC). February 2012.

Completed TCPS2 Research Ethics Board Tutorial, 2012.

SoundSeminar, Multi-institutional research group (York/Ryerson/OCAD: Leslie Korrick (founder), Marc Couroux, David Lieberman, Christoph Migone, Frank Russo). Since 2011.

Faculty Research Presentation, OCAD University Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and School of Interdisciplinary Studies. October 2011.

Research presentation, Digital Futures Immersion Workshop. August 2011.

Instructor/Group leader, Advanced Transition Program for First Generation Students (organized by Zev Farber), OCAD University. 2011.

Instructor/Group leader, New to OCADU Compass Program for First Generation Students (organized by Zev Farber), OCAD University. 2011.

Panelist for Listen-In!, a symposium on film and music hosted by the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival. February 2006.

Artist Talks, Reviews , Catalogues, Responses, and Informal Writiing

Regular contributor to www.theocculture.net, a collaborative blog (with eldritch Priest and Marc Couroux) on sound, new media, and hyperstition. Ongoing.

Exurbia artist talk presented at Open Space Artist-Run Centre in conjunction with the OFF LABEL digital arts festival, Victoria, Canada. November 2011.

 ‘Review of The Tuning of Place: Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media by Richard Coyne’ in The Information Society: an international Journal, 2011.

‘Derrida and Luhmann in a Theatre of Posthumanism,’ review of What is Posthumanism? by

Cary Wolfe (University of Minnesota Press) in The Goose: journal for the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada, 2010.

‘Invited Response to “Digitization and Concept” by Harry Lehmann’ in Search: Journal for New

Music and Culture (‘Search Dialogue Section’), September 2010.

‘Eidola: Exhibition Catalogue’ (with Ted Hiebert). Open Space Artist-Run Centre, 2009.

‘Voice++ at Open Space’ (event review).  Musicworks 97. 

‘Wind Shadows: The Barton Workshop by Alvin Lucier (recording review). Musicworks 95.

 ‘Speaker Swinging/Piano Mechanics’ by Gordon Monahan (recording review).  Musicworks 94.

“Identity Space”, interactive seminar presented as part of Anti-Racist Feminisms and Democratic Futures (Prof. Jo-Anne Lee), University of Victoria.

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