ARTS DIGITAL STRATEGY
2012 to 2017
VUCAVU.com
- Product Designer and UX Manager for the Canadian Coalition of Independent Media Arts Distributors (CCIMAD/CCDIAM) – online streaming media art distribution platform called VUCAVU. http://vucavu.com
Fall 2015
West Kootney Cultural Sector Marketing Tool Research
- Working with the West Kootney art institutions, vendors and local businesses to conduct research for the production of a cultural marketing tool.
Multiple Years
LIVE2017, LIVE2015, LIVE2013, LIVE2011, LIVE2007 Performance Art Biennale
- Archive and Event website – (strategy, design and coding)
Summer 2014
Requiem for a Glacier
- Online Exhibition Website – http://requiemforaglacier.com
VIVO Media Arts Centre
- Art institution website – http://www.vivomediaarts.com (strategy, design and coding)
Summer/Fall 2013
Andrew Bartos
- Artist/composer portfolio website – http://andrewbartos.com
MetroQuest
- Engagement city planning tool – http://metroquest.com
March 2013
Vancouver Art Gallery
- Touch screen application for “Grand Hotel” exhibition. (strategy, design and coding)
2012/2013
National Film Board
- Creative strategy for a sound based Interactive Documentary called “By Philip”
Summer 2012 – Online strategy, WordPress, and design
- Oxygen Art Centre – http://www.oxygenartcentre.org
- Author Deryn Collier – Writer website
- Small Town Films – Filmmaker website
Winter 2012
Museum of Anthropology
- iPad Biographic Photo Installation for Kesu: Doug Cranmer Exhibition (design and coding)
2011 to 2004 (truncated)
- Museum of Anthropology, Online Exhibition Catalogue for Border Zones (design and coding)
- Hunt & Gather website http://desiringproductions.com/handg (design and coding)
- LIVE Biennale website http://desiringproductions.com/live2007 (design and coding)
- Core Book website (design and coding)
- Bark Design Collective website (design and coding)
- National Film Board – The Ties That Bind Interactive Documentary (director, user experience designer)
- Everywhere Is Not Everything Internet Documentary – http://www.everywhereyouwanttobe.net (graphic design, Flash programming, co-director)
- Woodwards Protest Internet Documentary (director, designer, coding)
- IMPACS (information design, project management)
- Tides Canada Foundation (information design, project management)
- Vancouver Social Purchasing Portal (information design, project management, HTML wire framing)
- Sierra Club of BC (information design, project management)
EXHIBITIONS
August, 2016
vertigo digression number three
- Performance and exhibition, Skalar Artist Residency, Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland. https://vimeo.com/182193747
March 14, 2014
permanent deviation
- Ongoing net.art project. Exhibition at VIVO Media Arts Centre. http://www.permanentdeviation.com.
don’t, stop (multiple)
- Interactive, sound, sculpture in collaboration with Emma Hendrix. http://desiringproductions.com/portfolio/dont-stop
- Exhibition at Fish Factory, Stöðvarfjörður, East Iceland
- Exhibition for Nuit Blanche Winnipeg (Sept 2014)
- Exhibition for Vancouver New Music, Scotia Bank Dance Centre (Oct 2012)
- Exhibition at Fylkingen in Stockholm, Sweden (Dec 2011)
- Exhibition for Vancouver Women In Film, Vancity Film Centre (Dec 2008)
- Exhibition at the CSA Gallery, Vancouver, BC (Nov 2007)
December 15, 16, 2011
Funhouse/Tradeshow
- Performance art and exhibition of don’t, stop at Fylkingen in Stockholm, Sweden
July 15, 2011
noise/denoise
- An installation supporting Centre A’s Co-Lab Workshop and Exhibition Project. In collaboration with Emma Hendrix. Curated by Debra Zhou. Documentation: http://desiringproductions.com/portfolio/noisedenoise
August 2011 to 2014
iDon’t Stop
- iPhone application created to mimic the installation version of don’t, stop. Supported by the British Columbia Arts Council. In collaboration with Emma Hendrix. Documentation: http://desiringproductions.com/portfolio/idont-stop
November 2010
39bpm
- Sound installation at Richmond Art Gallery, curated by Noxious Sector (Ted Hiebert and Doug Jarvis) Documentation: http://desiringproductions.com/portfolio/39-bpm
April 2008 to April 2009
Permanent Change
- Interactive piece using business cards and a voice mail box. The randomly distributed business cards suggested to the finder that they change the original greeting or leave a message. The messages and greetings were constantly changing and being spontaneously managed by the public.
September 2006
Serious Culture II @ Interurban Gallery, Vancouver, BC
- Solo show. Completed with financial assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts Media Arts Section. http://desiringproductions.com/portfolio/serious-culture
May 2005
Serious Culture @ Bain Matheu, Montreal, QC
- Concordia Graduate Technology and Design Group Show. Sensor based video sculpture that induces collaborative drawing. Interaction design thesis work at Concordia University specializing in participatory art forms.
Performance Video (VJ) 2000 to present
- vertigo digression number three with Emma Hendrix, Skálar, East Iceland
- Vertigo with Emma Hendrix, Destroy Vancouver XVI, Vancouver, BC
- New Forms In Dub I, II, III, IV, V for the New Forms Festival, Vancouver, BC
- Circus Maximus with the Experimental Music Collective and Edgeffect @ the Western Front
- Open Inputs @ SOMA, Vancouver, BC
- New Orchestra Workshop Society @ the Jazz Cellar, Vancouver, BC
- VOLVO YCC Concept Car PR Event
- Miniature Research Project – Concordia University(video performance)Musical, theatrical and video research group at Concordia University lead by Professor PK Langshaw and Liselyn Adams.
- Vertigo @ BLIM Video performance piece performed to Intermission’s improvised electro acoustics.
- Intermission, numerous, 2000 to 2005
INTERMISSION ARTIST COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
August 2004
Event @ Electric Railway Building
- Group photo show featuring Anxiety Photographic Series
September 2003, September, 2005, September 2006
Mercury Theatre @ Cathedral Park, Dunsmuir & Richards (video curator)
- Visuals mixed live from submissions by Vancouver Artists to depict Vancouver as a Sci-fi landscape.
July 2003
Shuffle @ Intermission Studio
- A collaborative drawing and open-invitational happening.
March 2003
RAW ON for Signal and Noise and Video In Studios
- Happening/Fluxis/Performance art pushing the limits of the everyday.
June 2002
Spot @ Stanley Park
- A public performance interrupting the anthrax fear culture following 911. Composed for TVFrames – CityTV televised feature on Intermission.
April 2002
Anamorphosis @ Havana Theatre
- The debut of a new cinematic form as part of the Vancouver New Music ongoing series experimental music, the anamorphosis performance addresses the imminence of the real. 80min live improvised video and sound performance @ Havana Theater.
July 2001
Flaj @ Intermission Studio
- An evening of fashion showcased a collection of original pieces by seven emerging artists and designers.
June 2001
Prohep @ Western Front
- An audience participation piece using 40 couches to create an evening of everyday theatre.
EMPLOYMENT
March 2000 to present
Desiring Productions (http://www.desiringproductions.com) – Arts Digital Strategist and Independant Creative Director
- User experience design, product design, technical consultant, graphic design, installation, photography, video, writing.
March 2012 to 2014
Vancouver Art Gallery
August 2007 to April 2010
Kinzin.com / Uniserve Communications Corp.
- Interaction and Participation Designer – Social Network Development for Web 2.0
August 2005 to August 2007
VIVO Media Arts Centre
- Events and Exhibition Coordinator
EDUCATION
Sept 04 to 05
Concordia University – Graduate Certificate in Digital Art Technologies in Design Art Practice.
- Participatory art practice
Dec 94 to Aug. 95
Applied Arts Multimedia Centre Diploma
- Video, graphics and multimedia.
Sept. 90 to Aug. 94
University of Manitoba – Bachelor of Arts
- Political Science and English.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
July 2016
Canada Council for the Arts Media Arts Travel Grant
- Skálar Sound Art Residency, East Iceland
March 2013
CreativeBC – Arts Innovation Fund
- Artist In Residence for permanent deviation, VIVO Media arts
March 2013
British Columbia Arts Council
- Media Arts Project Grant for an interactive installation
August 2011
Canada Council for the Arts Media Arts Travel Grant
- Performance and Exhibition Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
August 2010
British Columbia Arts Council
- Project Grant for and iPhone App called i don’t stop
November 2008
2008 Japan New Media Arts Festival
- Art Division Jury Recommended Works for don’t, stop (2007).
October 2008
Canariasmediafest
- Media Arts Contest Selection for don’t, stop (2007).
July 2006
Canada Council for the Arts Media Arts Travel Grant
- Travel Grant toward speaking at Perform.Media (Indiana University)
June 2006
Canada Council for the Arts Media Arts Project Grant
- Project Grant toward the completion of Serious Culture II.
January 2005
CIAM (Centre interuniversitaire des arts mediatiques) Award (Montreal)
- Project Grant toward the completion of Serious Culture.
September 2004
Dora and Avi Morrow Award for Excellence in Visual Arts (Montreal)
January 2004
British Columbia Arts Council
- For Everywhere You Want to Be an Internet documentary about credit card culture.
February 2003
BC Film
- Travel costs to pitch Everywhere You Want To Be in Byron Bay, Australia
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Nov 2015
Commedia Convergence, McGill, Ottawa
Panel: Getting Out of the Box: Experimental Approaches to Programming
May 2009
Pecha Kucha, Volume 6
February 2007
Artist Talk, Emily Carr Institute
September 2006
Perform.Media, University of Indiana, USA, http://performthemedia.net
- Presented participatory art practices within the context of performance theory.
September 2005
Collision: Interarts Research and Practices, University of Victoria, BC
- Presented results of Serious Culture graduate thesis project in the areas of interaction design and participatory art practices.
March 4, 2005
VAV Gallery, Montreal, QC
- Presented the problems and possibilities of interventionist and political art work.
September 2004
Media Democracy Day, Montreal, QC
- Presented accessibility and usability on the internet.
July 2002
Australian International Film Conference, Byron Bay, Australia (pitch)
- Invited to pitch “Everywhere You Want To Be” an Internet documentary about credit card culture.
May 2002
Hot Docs Cyber Docs – Cyber Pitch, Toronto, ON (pitch)
- Invited to attend the Canadian Documentary Film Festival to pitch “Everywhere You Want To Be” interactive documentary.
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
VANDOCUMENT – http://vandocument.com/2014/03/permanent-deviation, 2014
Vantage Point Exhibitions in Print, Lateral Learning: A Course on Pedagogy, Community, Disaster and Art, Vantage Art Projects, 2010
Bachelor Machines – http://www.bachelormachines.org/juliegendron.html, 2008
INSTRUCTION AND INDEPENDENT CURATORIAL
Winnipeg Nuit Blanche Artist Committee, 2017
VIVO Media Arts
- Video Performance
- HTML / CSS
Emily Carr University
- DIVA 300 / Digital Visual Arts: Advanced
- ISMA 207 / Video for Social Media
New Forms Festival Exhibition Curator, 2008