Curriculum vitae kimberly Anne (Kim) Sawchuk Department of Communication Studies

2012 “I’m G-Mom on the Phone: Remote Grandmothering, Cell Phones and Inter/generational Dis/connections” co-authored with Barbara Crow, Feminist Media Studies, vol. 12, issue 4. 475-489.

2012 “River Flow, Street Flow, Sewer Flow” co-authored Samuel Thulin. Transfers, vol. 2, issue 3. 151-57.

2012 “La grève est étudiant/e, la lutte est populaire: the Québec student strikes,” Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 37, issue 3. 499-504. 

2012 “Animating the Anatomical Specimen: Regional Dissection and the Incorporation of Photography in J.C.B Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy” Special Issue Jackie Stacey and Lucy Suchmann, eds. Body and Society, vol. 18, issue 1. 120-150.

2012 “Research-Creation: intervention, analysis and "family resemblances” co-authored with Owen Chapman, Special Issue on Media Arts Revisited, Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 37, issue 1. 5-26.

2011 “Illustrating Medicine: line, luminance and lessons from J.C.B Grant’s 1943 An Atlas of Anatomy,” co-authored with Nicholas Woolridge and Jodie Jenkinson, Visual Communication, vol. 10, issue 3. 449-462.

2011 “Into the ‘Grey Zone’: Milieus that Matter” co-authored with Barbara Crow, wi: journal of mobile media (www.wi-not.ca) in the Special Issue: “Observing the Mobile User Experience,” Barbara Crow, Benjamin Poppinga, Kim Sawchuk, eds., vol. 5.

2011 “Hands on Knowledge: Tagny Duff and the politics of bioart,” n.paradoxa,. Special Issue: “biopolitics,” vol. 28. 31-50.

2010 “Talking ‘Costs’: Seniors, Cell Phones and the Personal and Political Economies of Telecommunications in Canada,” co-authored with Barbara Crow, Telecommunications Journal of Australia, vol. 80, issue 4. 55.1-55.11.

2009 “At the intersection of Medicine and Art: reflections on anatomical illustration” co-authored with Nina Czegledy, International Journal of Arts in Society, vol. 4. 5-17.

2008 “Artificial Life and Lo-Fi Embodiment: an interview with Melanie Baljko and Nell Tenhaaf,” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal, Special Issue: “Digital Feminisms,” vol. 32, issue 2. 6-17.

2001 “C. Wright Mills: A Political Writer and his Fan Mail,” Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 26, issue 2. 231-253.

2000 “Le genre, le genie et le mythe de l’intellectuel solitaire: les etudes culturelles feministes et les ecrits de C. Wright Mills,” Recherches feministes, vol. 13, issue 2. 13-31.

2001 “The Cultural Apparatus: C. Wright Mills’ Unfinished Work” American Sociologist, vol. 32, issue, 1. 27-49.

1992 "Le marketing du corps: les couches jetables," Sociologie et sociétés, vol. 24, issue 1. 103-112.

1991 "Audio Terrorism: Low Level Flights over Nitassinan," Public, issue 4/5. 115.

1989 "Towards a Feminist Critique of Rock Music: Patti Smith's Gloria ," Atlantis: a women's studies journal, vol. 14, issue 2. 44-54.

1987 "A Tale of Inscription/Fashion Statements," Canadian Journal of Political and Social, vol. 11, issue 1-2. 51-67. Reprinted in Body Invaders, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, eds. (Montréal: New World Perspectives, 1987). 61-77.
Forthcoming

2013 “Tactical Mediatization: Pressures, Push-back and Learning from RECAA,” MediaKulture. (in review).

2012 “Tactile Engagements: an interview with Christina Lammer” in Empathograph. Vienna: Locker. 31-52.

2008 “Uncanny Figures and Mean Body: Nicola Feldman Kiss,” Prefix Photo: a publication of the Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art,” issue 17. 32-54.

2007 “Plug In, Stay Charged, Boot Up: xx energy” XX anniversary issue, Jake Moore, ed. Montreal: studioXX.

2007 “Cell Skins: Marit-Saskia Wahrendorf’s Tactile Fabrications for Cell Phones,” co-authored with Barbara Crow, wi: journal of mobile media, vol. 2, issue 1.

2005 “Sorting it out at the Salvation Army: Reflections on Work, Class and the Art of Research” Public, issue 31.

2003 “Parables of a Bio Tourist,’ horizonzero, issue 6, http://www.horizonzero.ca/textsite/see.php?tlang=0&is=6&file=10.

2003 “Charged heart: the electronic art of Catherine Richards,’ horizon zero, issue 6, http://www.horizonzero.ca/textsite/see.php?is=6&file=3&tlang=0.

1996 “Out of Step: Cathy Sisler’s Risky Deviations,” inversions. 12-21.

1994 "Biological, not Determinist: Nell Tenhaaf's Technological Mutations," Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, issue 75. 10-17.

1991 "Marketing Health care and the Bioapparatus," Bioapparatus, Nell Tenhaaf and Catherine Richards, eds. Banff: Walter Phillips Gallery.

1989 "Shifting Fields: the work of Don Proch within the context of Canadian colonialism," Provincial Essays, vol. 8 (1989).Reprinted in Sightlines, Lesley Johnstone and Jessica Bradley, eds. (Montréal: Artexte, 1994). French translation, Réfractions, Artetexte, 1998.

1987-1988 "Telemarketing and the Disembodied Voice," Border/lines, issue 9/10. 31-35.
Catalogue Essays for Exhibitions

2011 “Cellular Memorabilia: Tagny Duff,” Montreal: Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University.

2009 “Rick Hancox: Apparencies,” Montreal: Media Gallery, Concordia University.

2008 “The Paradox of Mobility: Antoni Abad,” Geneva: Museum of Culture.

2007 “Uncanny figures and mean bodies: nichola feldman-kiss,” in nichola feldman-kiss, mean bodies, Ottawa: Carleton University Art Gallery.

1999 “Memory and Radio: Katarina Soukup,” Montreal: studio XX.

1998 "Facing Death," Patrick Traer Regina: Dunlop Art Gallery.

1997 "Skin Notwithstanding, "Reva Stone and Richard Dyck Calgary: Muttart Gallery.

1997 "Auricle Interchange," Ken Gregory and Janet Cardiff, Calgary: Muttart Gallery.

1997 "Biotourism: travels in Inner Space" Disembodied Mind, Toronto: Interacess.

1996 "Turbulent Matter/s," Transmission:Galerie La Centrale: 1995-96, Montreal: La Centrale.

1995 "Enlightened Visions, Somatic Spaces: imaging the interior in art and medicine," Rx: Taking our Medicine, Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

1992 “Antoinette Herival’s Prairie Carnivalesque,” Regina: Rosemont Art Gallery.

1991 "Painting the Double Standard," Grace Rose Klatt: The Anti-Romantic, Regina: Dunlop Art Gallery.

2002 Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics, Luc Boltanski (Cambridge England: Cambridge University Press, 1999), Canadian Journal of Communications, vol. 27, issue. 93-96.

2000 No Logo, Naomi Klein, (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2000) Canadian Journal of Communications, vol. 25, issue 4. 585-588.

1999 Gender and Discourse, ed. Ruth Wodak (Newbury Park: Sage, 1997), Canadian Journal of Communications, vol. 24, issue 2. 308-311.

1998 “Charged Hearts, Catherine Richards at the National Gallery," Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, issue 89. 49-50.

1996 Wired Women, Morgan Eliot, DoubleX, http://www.studioxx.org/en/fbr/femmes- brnch%C3%A9es-wired-women-film-xx-2-minute-review.

1996 “Barbara Layne and Ingrid Bachman (exhibition), Fault Lines: measure distance place," Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, issue 82, 48-49.

1993 "Post-panoptic Mirror Worlds: an extended review of David Gelertner's Mirror Worlds: or the day software puts the universe in a shoebox," C-Theory.net, http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=230.

1992 "Celeste Olalquiaga, Megalopolis: Contemporary Cultural Sensibilities," Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, issue 68. 76-77.

1992 "Denise Hawrysio: Galérie Articule," Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, issue 67. 39-40.

1991 "Whose Comfort?" Blackflash .

1990 "Entre le Corps et la Matière," Espace (Spring, 1990).

2012 Unravelling Research-Creation: 4 Articulations. With Owen Chapman. Translated into French and Portugeuse.

2010 “Into the Grey Zone: Seniors, Cell Phones and Milieus that Matter,” co-authored with Barbara Crow, for Observing the Mobile User Experience. Proceedings of the 1^st International Workshop held in Conjunction with NordiCHI, ed. B. Poppinga, C. Magnusson, et al., Rejjavik University, Iceland, October 17.

2010 “From Biotourism to Biomediation,” Thomas Soderqvist, ed. Contemporary Medical Science and technology as a challenge to Museums, 15^th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums for the History of Medical Sciences Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen, September 16-18.

1995 "Some Canadian Feminists Intervene in the Datasphere," co-authored with Barbara Crow, for Proceedings: Telecommunites '95: Equity on the Internet, Victoria: University of Victoria, August 19-23.
Notes, Commentary, and Interviews

2012 “Christina Lammer: Tactile Knowledge,” Empathography. (Vienna: Löcker Verlag).

2007 “Materiality, Memory Machines and the Archive as Media,” Old Messengers, New Media, Government of Canada, http://www.collectionscanada.ca/innis-mcluhan/.

1996 "Bye, Bye Barbara," DoubleX, http://www.studioxx.org/en/fbr/femmes-brnch%C3%A9es-bye-bye-barbara.

1995 “Sentimental Histories,” DoubleX, http://www. internauts.ca/~studioxx.

1995 “Dirty Money,” DoubleX, http://www. internauts.ca/~studioxx.

1992 “Audiences, Blockbusters and Communities", Four Documentations, Regina: Regina Works Project.

1992 "Unleashing the Demons of History: An Interview with Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco," Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, issue 67. 22-9.

1992 "Noise and the Acoustic Environment: an interview with Hildegard Westerkamp," with Julia Emberley, Sub-rosa.

1987 “The Seam of the Double Bind,” Impulse.

2012 Regarding the Consultation on Proceeding to establish a mandatory code for mobile wireless services: Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2012-557,

11 October 2012 and CRTC 2012-557-1, 1 November 2012, co-authored with Catherine Middleton, Tamara Shepherd, Leslie Regan Shade, Barbara Crow.
2011 “Privacy, Communication and Seniors,” Report prepared for PI: Les Jacobs, York Centre for Public Policy and the Law, “Privacy Rights Mobilization among Marginal Groups: Fulfilling the Mandate of PIPEDA,” Office of the Privacy Commission of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 25 pages, co-authored with Barbara Crow.
Encyclopedia Entries

Forthcoming:

2012 “Picasa” for the Encyclopedia of New Media Terms, co-authored with Magdalena Olszanowski.

1986 “Power/Knowledge/Capital: The Bovey Commission and Educational Policy in Ontario,” Social and Political Thought Working Papers, Issue 2 , The Politics of the University, George Free, ed. 1986.

Isabelle Brabant, "Reflections on pain in Childbirth," When Pain Strikes, Bill Burns, Cathy Busby and Kim Sawchuk, eds.

2012 Rouge Ta Rue (an animated video collaboration with Alison Loader, Matt Soar, Owen Chapman, Mathew Sutherland, and Magda Olszanowski) in DEMOSCROSCOPE (Video program, installation), Joyce Yahouda Gallery, Belgo Building (5^th floor), 372 Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Montreal, October 13-November 3^rd, https://vimeo.com/44139694.

2012 Rivieres Perdue/Lost Rivers, Oeuvres Interactif/Projects Web, Festival Nouveau Cinema Montreal, October 10-21, www.nouveaucinema.ca/2012/fiches/fnc-lab/175.

2012 MemorySpace: private memories, public history, Atwater Public Library and Community Centre, workshops on digital scanning for seniors (June 2012); Curatorial workshop with seniors group (July 2012); Exhibition production (August 2012); Exhibition (September 20-October 7, 2012).

2012 Talking about Elder Abuse, screening for 7^th Annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, an exhibition and series of performance at the Galleries du Parc, June 14.

2012 Lost Rivers: La Petite Riviere St. Pierre (Andrew Emond Sam Thulin), DHC-PHI, for Nuit Blanche, Montreal in conjunction with the exhibition Chronicles of a Disappearance, February 25.

2011 Fanciful: small media moments Media Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal. Co-curated with Rae Staseson, February 7-April 15, http://coms.concordia.ca/category/media-gallery.

2011 Marconi’s Ruins, (Michael Longford and Robert Prenovault) Media Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, co-curated with Rae Staseson, February 7-April 15, http://coms.concordia.ca/category/media-gallery.

2010 Media Hot and Cold, A Mobile Art Campaign using a Bluetooth server. K-Space, Multimedia University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 25-March 3.

2009 Discoverable, A mobile art campaign in conjunction with the President’s Conference Series. Mobile Media Gallery, Montreal, Concordia University, Loyola/ SGW, October, http://www.mobilemediagallery.org.

2009 Apparencies, An exhibition by Richard Hancox , Communication Studies Media Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal. Co-curated with Rae Staseson. Photography exhibition, website, audio/podcast and online and print catalogue, October 25-December 15, http://coms.concordia.ca/category/media-gallery.

RESEARCH ARTS, DESIGN and MULTIMEDIA

2012 Talking about Elder Abuse. A 5 minute video filmed, edited and produced by RECCA (Ressources ethnoculturelle contre l’abuse envers les aîné/es) in collaboration with the Mobile Media Lab and The Digital Literacy Project (Atwater Library and Computer Centre) who supplied student labour, equipment and training in shooting, scripting, editing, and post- production. Talking About Elder Abuse featured on World Elder Abuse Day, June 15. See www.a-c-m.ca.

2012 Montreal in/accessible. A collaborative project with Antoni Abad (Barcelona) and RAPLIQ. A team of 6 participants/researchers I the project use mobile phones, and megaphone, a unique android application, to document the systemic barriers they face in the Montreal urban landscape. www.megafone.net/montreal.

2012 Barrière!/Barrier! A series of video capsules, in production, these mini-documentaries feature 5 minute interview the participants in the megafone project. In it they discuss the many ways cities exclude people in wheelchairs from full participation in public life. Produced with Laurence Parent (co-director), Joëlle Rouleau (cinematography) and Ben Spencer (sound).

2012 Activist Ageing: participatory ICTs and older adults. An ongoing series of collaborative research projects with RECAA that provide ICT training for this organization assisting them in their mandate to combat elder abuse and foster a culture of respect. The results, thus far, are a 5 minute video “Talking about Elder Abuse,” a one day exhibition and celebration in collaboration with World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, a photographic series, and participation in documenting a new project on intergenerational respect, The Golden Feedback Loop, produced in collaboration with students from James Lyng High School. See www.a-c-m.ca.

2012 MemorySpace. An exhibition and series of workshops, by and for seniors, with 4 components: a workshop on digital scanning of photographs (including a “how-to” manual) ; a workshop on making an individual slideshow from these photographs; a curatorial workshop for the production of a collective exhibition, and finally the exhibitions that was comprised of 2 slideshow projects of selections by seniors, an interactive touchscreen, a www.memoryspace.mobilities.ca.

2012 Rouge Ta Rue (an animated video collaboration with Alison Loader; Matt Soar; Owen Chapman, Mathew Sutherland and Magda Olszanowski) in DEMOSCROSCOPE (Video program, installation) Joyce Yahouda Gallery, Belgo building (5th floor), 372 Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Montreal, October 13 – November 3, https://vimeo.com/44139694.

2012 Out of the Mouths of Casseroles. Two collaboratively co-edited special issues of wi: journal of mobile media. These were not peer-reviewed, but were produced in within a 2 month period in response to the educational debates on tuition fee increases in Québec as well as Bill 78. The two issues include photography, video, animations, sound works, theoretical analysis, manifestos and poetry from students, academics, artists and activists (with Owen Chapman, Alison Loader, Magdalena Olszanowski, and Ben Spencer), www.wi.mobilities.ca.

2011-2013 Audio-Mobile. This mobile phone application allows for dynamic, geo-located, tagged field recordings to be uploaded onto a collaborative map, via the iPhone (with Owen Chapman, PI, Zachary Patterson and Charity Marsh, collaborators). www.audio-mobile.org.

2011- 2014 Virtual Daylighting. This project involves geo-locating 5 buried rivers traversing the island of Montreal, archival research that is transformed into multi-media files that can be accessed on location with the mobile phone, and the creation of a mobile phone application, connected to a database and website, that allows users to explore these subterranean rivers. Original soundscapes that explore the augmented reality features of the iPhone have been produced, and will be added over the next year. The Mobile Media Lab is co-producing this project with Catbird Productions, a Montreal documentary production house. Funded by SSHRC, the project was exhibited at DHC-Art, Feb 2012. The first iteration of the application, Lost Rivers, was available Oct 15, 2012, on iTunes, for free, and subsequent iterations incorporating more complex augmented reality functions are planned for future iterations. With collaborators Katerina Soukup. Jonathan Bélisle, Jonathan Grenier. See https://vimeo.com/50777166.

This Mobile Media Lab’s mobile phone technology, expertise, and student power is being used to help produce the Burgundy Jazz project, an interactive, cross-platform documentary that explores the history of Jazz in Montreal. The documentary is being produced by Catbird Productions in association with the Mobile Media Lab. Radio Canada is now a co-sponsor and the project will be launched to the public in July 2013. At research stage, website in development.

2005-2007 The Haunting. Designer and project coordinator with B Crow, M Longford and D MacIntosh. Exhibited, October 31, 2009, at le Pick Up, Montreal, http://www.the haunting.ca.

2005 Salvation Works: A weblog and experimental research performance conducted as a part of the exhibition Used Goods, Salvation Army/Articule Gallery, November 5-21.

1995-1998 studioXX : Co-founded a bilingual digital arts and resource centre by and for women in Montreal. The studio’s mandate is to open a space of critical and informed dialogue about new technologies and to offer different levels of computer know-how and access to women. The studio’s activities comprise monthly get-togethers to discuss new works (les femmes branchées); a weekly radio show (XX files); affordable workshops on computer use that incorporates feminist pedagogy; a website; and a fanzine (DoubleX).

1989-1991 The Post-Modern Commotion: Writer, Co-host and Producer: an experimental performance group and weekly radio show (on CKUT radio), with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Andreas Kitzmann, and Michael Boyce.

1991 Take it in/Don’t Take It. An interactive, electronic art work using sensors, sound and cibachrome photograph, with Nell Tenhaaf. SAW gallery, Ottawa.

2011 “Life on M.A.R.s: Media Arts Revisited in Canada,” Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, November 23.

2011 “Digital Feminisms: peer-review as feminist practice,” Gender, New Media and Technology Symposium, Departments of Communications and Literature, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, October 13.

2010 “Trial by Facebook: surveillance, law and the news,” Department of Women Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, September 17.

2010 “From Biotourism to Biomediation,” Transatlantic Mediations, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, May 14-18.

2010 “Mobile tales: two or three things I know for sure,” National Film Board/studioxx, First Person Digital, ONF/NFB cine-roboteque, Montreal, Quebec, February 7.

2009 “Weathering the Process: embodiment and mobility”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, March 5.

2008 “On the Marconi Trail”, The Italian Institute for Culture, November 8.

2005 “Making Waves: the metaphor of the wave in feminist theory and practice,” Feminism and Rhetoric, University of Michigan Technological Institute, Houghton, Michigan, October 8.

2005 “Radio Hats and Wireless Rats,” Sampling the Spectrum, Society for Art and Technology, Montreal, Quebec, May 8.

2012 “Collaboration, New Media and Trust: lessons from Lost Rivers,” with Jonathan Bélisle and Katerina Soukup, Festival of New Cinema, Montreal, October 15.

2010 “Into the Grey Zone.” Nordic Workshop on Mobile Users. Rejkyavik, Iceland, October 18.

2010 “The Canadian Journal of Communications: A History,” Conference of European Educators, Hamburg, Germany, October.

2010 “From Biotourism to Biomediation,” Contemporary Medical Science and Technology as a Challenge to Museums, 15^th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums for the History of Medical Sciences Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, September, 16-18.

2010 “Seniors and Cells,” Cultures of Movement, Royal Roads College, Victoria, British Columbia, April 8- 10.

2009 “What’s age got to do with it?: seniors and cell phones,” Add Labor and Stir, Panel, Association of Internet Researchers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 6-8.

2009 “Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy” Archives and the Canadian Narrative - Re: Telling Canada's Stories Mount Alison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, June, 1-5.

2009 "Regional Archives in the Digital Universe" Archives in Canada Conference Series (ACCS), 3rd Biennial Conference, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, June 10 - 12.

2009 “On the Marconi Trail,” The Marconi Galaxy: culture, technology, myth, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, April 27-28.

2009 “Illustrating Medicine”, Automation/Animation Symposium, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom, April 10.

2009 “Digital Publishing,” Program in Canadian Studies, University of Selisia, Katowice, Poland, March.

2009 “Feminist Science Studies,” Program in Canadian Studies, University of Selisia, Katowice, Poland, March.

2008 “The Hand that Holds the Phone: marketing the cell to seniors,” International Association of Media and Communication Researchers, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, July 23-27.

2008 “Mobile camera phones, city space and embodied communities: Antoni Abad’s canal*ACCESSIBLE,” IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 08), Citizens, Groups, Communities and Information and Communication Technologies, Fredericton, New Brunswick, June 26-28.

2008 “Aesthetics and Ethics: the writing of Nancy Shaw,” Canadian Communication Association, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 4-6.

2008 “Seniors and Cells,” Canadian Communication Association, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 4-6.

2008 “Affective Alliances and Effective Communication: The Art of Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge,” Rethinking Labour: labour, affect and material culture, American Studies Program, University College of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, April 18-20.

2007 “Leave it to beavers: Animals, Icons and the Canadian Communication Industry,” with Barbara Crow, Narrating the Nation, Reus, Spain, October.

2007 “Leave it to beavers: masculinity, sexuality and selling the cell,” with Barbara Crow, Canadian Communication Association, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, June 1-3.

2007 “Hybrid media and the Learned Journal,” Library and Journals Association, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, June 1-3.

2007 “Technological Convergence” Film Studies Association of Canada/Canadian Communication Association, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, June 1-3.

2007 “Out in the Cold: endothermic embodiment, meteorological mediations and locative media,” Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms, OCAD, Toronto, Ontario, March 22-25.

2006 “Gendering Media Governance”, Parallel Convergences: a conference on media policy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, November 11.

2006 “Wikis as an online collaborative tool,” with Barbara Crow, Association of Internet Researchers, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, September,.

2006 “Participant Creation: Evaluating mobile users,” Association of British Geographers, London University, London, United Kingdom, September 1.

2006 “Participant Creation: evaluating mobile users,” Canadian Communication Association, York University, Toronto, Ontario, June 1.

2006 “Inter-mediality and the science of life,” Film Studies Association Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, February.

2005 “Up Close, Big but Not Impersonal: artists and electron scanning microscopes” University Art Association Annual Conference, special session on medicine and representation, Victoria, British Columbia, November 12.

2005 “Participant Blogservation: Sorting it out at the Salvation Army,” Visible Evidence, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, August 23.

2005 “Iconic Images and Celebrity Science,” Canadian Communication Association, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, June 1.

2005 “Disney-space” special panel with Communications and Environmental Studies, Canadian Communication Association, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, June 1.

2004 “Enthusiasm Unbridled: Tanya Mars’ performance practices,” Canadian Communication Association, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, June.

2004 “Entrails and Orifices: Mona Hatoum’s corps étranger,” Skin: text, texture, textuality, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of London, London, United Kingdom, April 13-15.

2003 “Body Worlds”, Canadian Communications Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June.

2003 “Regulating the Traffic in Organs,” International Communications Association, San Diego, California, May 25-29.

2002 “Biotourism and Conceptual Personae,” Conjunctures in Cultural Studies, Montreal, Quebec, October 8-10.

2002 “Size Matters,” Quintessence: The Clumpy Matter of Art, Science and Data Visualization, Banff Centre for New Media, Banff, Alberta, September 13.

2001 “Theorizing the Inner Body: feminist mediations,” Institute for Cultural Research and Film Studies, Feminism and the Visual Arts Series, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, November 21.

2001 “Biotourism in a global context,” Bioforum, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary, October 25.

2001 “New media activism,” New Media New Cinema, Ex-centris, Montreal, Quebec, August.

2001 “Interdisciplinarity,” Special Panel on the Future of Film Studies, Film Studies Association, Laval Quebec, May 27.

2001 “Biotourism,” ACFAS, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, May 16.

2001 “Giganticism and the Museum,” Conjunctures: A Cultural Studies Symposium, Tampa, Florida, March. .

2000 “C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Crisis,” Canadian Communications Association, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, June.

1999 “Biography and History: C. Wright Mills,” Canadian Communication Association, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, June 3.

1999 “Of Biotourism and Body-ROMS”,Gendered Landscapes, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May.

1999 “Biotourism,” International Communication Association, San Francisco, California, May.

1998 “On C. Wright Mills,” The Relevance of Critique and the Critique of Relevance, Social and Political Thought Programme, York University, Toronto, Ontario, September 12.

1998 "Epistolary Epistemologies: Letters to Mills," Convergences: A Cultural Studies Symposium, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, May 7-21.

1998 "The Office as a Collection: The C. Wright Mills Archive" Textual Encounters of the Archival Kind, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. April 17- 19.

1997 "Gendered Blindspots on the Information Highway," Digital technologies, Women and Texts: Languages, Technologies, Communities, Leeds University, Leeds, England, July 2-5.

1997 "Fantastic Voyages and Inner Space," Screen Studies, John Logie Baird Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, June 27-29.

1997 "C. Wright Mills' Cultural Apparatus," Canadian Communication Association, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, June.

1997 "Out of Step: Cathy Sisler's video performances, " What's So Funny?, Console-ing Passions, Montreal, Quebec, May 1.

1997 "Death, Decay and Memory: Seven Days Under Mavis," Time and Value, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, April 10-13.

1996 “Wounded States,” Wild Biology, Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Tampere, Finland, July.

1996 “More than machines,” Art and Politics, Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Tampere, Finland, July.

1996 “Wounded States,” Canadian Communications Association, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, June.

1994-1995 "Blindspots on the Information Highway," Double Trouble: Feminism and Representation, The Universities Art Association Conference, Guelph, Ontario, November 4, 1995; Retouch: Art, Gender and Technology, Public Access Collective, Toronto, Ontario, March 11, 1995; Canadian Women Studies Association, June 1995; International Communication Association, Albequerque, New Mexico, May 27, 1995; Media Futures: policy and performance, Institute for Cultural Policy, Griffiths University, Brisbane, Australia, July 7, 1994.

1995 "Critical Frictions, Connective Affinities," International Society for the Electronic Arts, Montreal, Quebec, September.

1994 "Abject Subjects," Picturing Knowing: Work, Sex, and Therapy, University Art Association of Canada, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 5.

1994 "Virtual Feminism/s: Art, Technology and Other Sacred Cows", Harold Innis and Intellectual Practice for the New Century: Interdisciplinary and Critical Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, October 13-16.

1994 "Representation in the Marketing Matrix," International Communication Association, Sydney, Australia, July 13.

1993 "Nights at the Circuits," Art and New Technologies, The Society for Aesthetics Ottawa, Ontario, May 31.

1992 "Seniors: Age, Identity, and Target Markets," Images of Aging: A Symposium, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, May 26.

1991 "Marketing Culture In These Dynamic Times," Glasnot and the Global Village, York University, Toronto, Ontario, February 19.

1989 "The Responsibility to Speak, The Responsibility to Listen: Jeannette Armstrong's Slash," National Symposium on Aboriginal Women of Canada: Past Present and Future, The University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Oct. 20.

1989 "Revealing Truths: Spinoza and Althusserian Marxism," Marxist Scholars Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, March 16.

1988 "The Politics of Epistemology: A Feminist Deconstruction of Max Weber's Fact/Value Distinction," The Barbarism of Reason: Conference on Max Weber and the Enlightenment, York University, Toronto, Ontario, October 23.

1988 "Le Scandale du Corps Répondant: Shoshanna Feldman's Lacanian Seduction," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Oct, 1988 and the Association Canadienne des Sociologues et Anthropologues de Langue Francaise (ACSALF), University of Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick, May.

1988 "Laissez Parlez les Murs: The Battle of Signs in Montréal," Strategies of Critique, York University, Toronto, Ontario, March.

1987 "Telemarketing and the Disembodied Voice," Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March, 1988; Strategies of Critique, York University, Toronto, Ontario, March.

1987 "Displacing Woman as Fetishistic Object: Patti Smith's Gloria," Popular Culture Association, Montréal, Québec, March.

2009 “Research Creation and Knowledge Mobilization,” Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 3.

2009 “The Ends of Privacy”, Concordia University, President’s Conference Series, Every Breath You Take, Montreal, Quebec, November 4.

2006 “User Research in Locative Media,” Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Alberta, November 18.

2005 “Celebrity Science,” Film and Media Studies, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, October 25.

2005 “Feminism and Communications Studies in Canada,” Trackings, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, October.

2005 “Into the Biomatrix: medicine and the media arts in Canada,” Vienna University, Vienna, Austria, May 28.

2004 “An Anatomy of Controversy: Gunther Von Hagens’ Body Worlds and the British Press,” Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, November 4.

2004 “Ironic Empiricism: Theodore Wan and the medical photograph,” Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Quebec, October 25.

2004 “Celebrity Science and Iconic Images: Looking at Life,” as part of the Medical Imprints Exhibition, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, September 18.

2004 “Conceptual Personae,” Department of Art History, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, February 9.

2003 “Biotourism,” Bruce Mau Institute of Design, George Brown College, Toronto, Ontario, June 23.

2002 “Pedagogy of the Grotesque,” Department of Communications and Art History, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, November 27.

2002 “Women and science,” Science Fair, studio xx, Friday, March 22.

2002 “Dorothy Allison’s Two or Three Things I know for Sure,” Discourse and Representation Working Group, Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, April 5.

1999 “The Pain of Politics,” Art Gallery of Ontario, special panel discussion of When Pain Strikes, Toronto, Ontario, June 17.

1999 “The Pain of Politics,” Chapters Bookstore, special panel discussion of When Pain Strikes, Ottawa, Ontario, April.

1999 “Why Pain,” special panel discussion of When Pain Strikes” Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, February.

1998 “Of Biotourism and Body Roms,” School of Art and Visual Culture, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, November 22.

1998 “Crossing the Line: Feminism, Journalism and the Tabloids,” John Abbott College, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, October 21.

1998 "Wounded States," Seminar in Political Communications, Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, March .

1997 “Death and the Maidens,” Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta, September 25.

1997 "Biotourism and the Body Sublime," The Disembodied Mind, Interaccess, February 7.

1996 "Bye Bye Barbara," What Can A Man Say?, Espace Geordie, December. 15.

1996 "Fantastic Voyages: biotourism in film, art and medicine," Lonergan Institute at Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, November 25.

1996 "Shoulder Checking on the Information Highway," (with Sheryl Hamilton) Doctoral Pro-Seminar, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, March 27.

1995 "Sentimental Histories," Anne Harbuz: Inside Community, Outside Convention, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library, Regina, Saskatchewan, November 25.

1995 “National Hurts," RX: Taking Our Medicine, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, October 25.

1994 "Art in the Datasphere," Interaccess, Toronto, Ontario, December 3.

1993 “The One that Got Away,” with Sandra Buckley, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, November 18.

1992 "Le marketing du corps", seminar en Sociologie des systemes symbolique, Université du Montréal, Montréal, Québec, November 10.

1992 "Essential Differences: From Robert Bly to Mary Daly", Fellows Forum on Public Policy Series, The School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, October 28.

1992 "Representations of Gender and Race Across Several Media: The Conspiracy of Silence," Dimensions of Literacy in a Multicultural Society, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, October 3.

1991 "Psychoanalysis and the Self as Image," Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, July 20.

1991 "Technology, Body, Landscape: Global Cultures," Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, May 27.

1991 "Audiences, Blockbusters and Communities," Regina Works Project, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, April 2.

1989 "Marketing Research," invited lecture for the Department of Comparative Literature, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, October 2.

1988 "Languages of Power: Tele/tale Signs," Department of Sociology, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, April.

2004 “Communications and Cultural Studies,’ Canadian Communication Association, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June.

2002 “The Canadian Journal of Communications,” Canadian Communications Association, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, June.

1998 "Survival Strategies for Feminists in the Academy," Women’s Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, March.

1998 "Art Criticism and Digital Technologies," Artexte, March.

1997 “Chronotopia: timely tales in the age of ones and zeroes,” Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary Alberta, September 25.

1994-1995 Moderator and Panelist (with Ingrid Bachmann), Persistent Dispositions: technetronic identities, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California, November 7, 1994- January 15, 1995.

1993 "Cyberspace, Virtual Reality, and the Body," organized by The McLuhan Institute, Toronto-Montréal, February 12.

1990 "Radio Rountable," Touch that Dial: Creating Radio Transcending the Regulatory Body, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, August 8.
Respondant

1995 “Technologie et le corps,” Corps/Corpus, Département de Literature Comparé, Univerisité de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, February.

1992 "Deconstructing Constructionism", La Ville en Rose, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, November 13.

1990 “Flesh and Interference: The Politics of Noise," Affirmations: Strategies of Critique V, York University, Toronto, Ontario, April 5.

1989 "Special Session on Gossip," Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, " Women and the Philosophy of Language, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, September 23.
Moderator

1997 “The Fashion Industry,” Women and Texts: Technologies, Communities, Languages, Leeds University, Leeds, United Kingdom, July 4.

1997 “Communication Theory,” Canadian Communication Association, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, June.

1996 “Teaching Tools for the Twentieth Century: technology, pedagogy, citizenship,” Canadian Communications Association, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, June.

1996 “New Technologies,” Canadian Communications Association, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, June.

1996 “Policing the Boundaries of Modernity/Anti-Modernism and Artistic Experience,” The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, April 26.

2012 World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, a one day celebration of ageing and inter-generationality produced in collaboration with RECAA (Ressources Ethno-culturelle Contra l’Abuse des Aînés), Galeries du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, June 14.

2011 Active Ageing, Mobile Technologies, a one-day symposium, Hexagram, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, October 27.

2011 “Aesthetics and Praxis,” with Bronwen Lowe and Jill Didur, special stream of papers for the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies, October.

2011 “ICTs and Ageing”, a week-long workshop and one-day symposium with Mireia Férnandez-Ardévol, IN3, Open University, Catalonia, Spain, July 2- 9.

2009 “Cultural Production” with Bronwen Lowe and Monika Gagnon, special stream of papers for the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, October.

2009 “Infrastructures of Mobility,” a weekend symposium on the move to wireless media, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, November 7-8.

2008-2009 “Mobile Media, 2008,” a bi-weekly lecture series with workshops and seminars for the Mobile Media Lab, 2008- 2009. Hexagram/Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.

1998 “Textual Encounters of the Archival Kind: A Symposium on Archival Methods in Cultural Studies,” with Bruce Russel, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, April 18-20.

1991-1992 “The Seen and the Said: Feminist Perspectives on Subjectivity and Culture,” Organizing Committee for a symposium and class with Meaghan Morris, Kaja Silverman and Lynn Spigel held at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.

1990-1991 “Communities in Crisis: Healing Ourselves,” Concordia University/Waseskun House (Conference Planning Committee), Montreal, Quebec.
Panel Organizer

2012 Ageing Communications, panel submitted to Canadian Association of Communications, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, May 30.

2012 Ageing Cultural Studies: panel submitted to Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Paris, France, July 2-6.

2011 Communications and Mobility: four sessions for the Canadian Communications Association with Philip Vannini, June.

2006 When Hybrid media Meets Scholarly Text,with Richard Smith; Andreas Kitzmann; Matt Soar; and Janine Marchessault, at Canadian Communications Association, York University, Toronto, Ontario, June.

2005 Celebrity Cultures, with Will Straw and Line Grenier, Canadian Communications Association, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, June.

2004 “Attitude: feminism and performativity,” Canadian Communications Association, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June.

2003 “Sensuous scholarship and physical culture,” Canadian Communications Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June.

2003 “Law, medicine and the body,” International Communication Association, San Diego, California, May.

1999 “Feminism and Science,” International Communication Association, San Francisco, California, May.

1997 “What's So Funny?” Console-ing Passions, Montreal, Quebec, May.

1996 “Wild Biology: Feminist Readings of Science, Medicine and the Media,” Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Tampere, Finland, July.

1996 “Teaching Tools for the Twentieth Century: technology, pedagogy, citizenship,” Canadian Communications Association, Brock University, St, Catharines, Ontario, June.

1992 “Out of the Closet and onto the Screen: Queer Representations in Popular Culture,” Canadian Communication Association, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, P.E.I, June 3-5.

1990 “Flesh and Interference: The Politics of Noise,” Affirmations: Strategies of Critique V, York University, Toronto, Ontario, April 5.
Reviews of Wild Science

Canadian Journal of Communications

Reviews of When Pain Strikes:

National Post, Globe and Mail,

Hour Magazine

Shelley Pomerantz, Arts Report, CBC Montreal,

2010 - present Faculty of Arts Research Committee

2009- present Media Gallery Committee

2007 Chair, Department Hiring Committee, Communication Studies

2002- 2003 Chair, Department Personnel Committee

2001. 
      Graduate Programme Director, Joint PhD in Communications Concordia/UdeM/UQAM
      

2001. 
      Graduate Programme Director, PhD in Communications, Concordia
      

1998-99 Chair, Department Personnel Committee

1997-98 Chair, Department Personnel Committee,

1993- 1995 Chair, Departmental Appraisal Committee

1994-96 Graduate Programme Director, Masters in Media Studies

1993-94 Chair, Colloquia Committee; Fellow of the School of Community and Public Affairs

1990-91 Chair, Departmental Personnel Committee
Committee and Governing Body Membership: (e.g. Committees, Council, Senate)

2010- present PhD Committee, Communications Concordia

2010-present Arts and Sciences, Research Awards Committee

2009 Graduate Awards Committee

Department Hiring Committee, CRC

2008 Information Committee, Communication Studies

2007 Department Hiring Committee Member, Communication Studies

2006- 2008 New Members Committee, Hexagram Concordia/UQAM

2004- 2008 MA in Media Studies Committee, Concordia

2003- 2006 BA Committee, Cultural Studies, Concordia

1999-2001 Graduate Awards Committee

2000. 
      Graduate Awards Committee
      

1997-1998 MA Committee; PhD. Committee

1997-1999 Department Personnel Committee

1995-96 University Appraiser: Seagram Grant, Ad Hoc Committee on Innovation and Incentive

HIV/AIDs Advisory Committee

1994-95 HIV/AIDs Advisory Committee

1992-93 Fellow of the School of Community and Public Affairs; CUFA Council, Colloquium Committee

1991-92 Fellow of the School of Community and Public Affairs.

1990-91 Liaison, Permanent Review Committee, Status of Women in Fine Arts

Library Representative , Curriculum Committee

Research-Creation in Communications: For the past twenty years I have been involved in the intersection between art and new media. This has lead to the influential article on research-creation, with Dr. Owen Chapman, which circulated widely as a key text for students before its recent publication in the Canadian Journal of Communications. I have just completed a special issue on the subject for the CJC, with a former student Dr. Andrea Zeffiro. The result is the legitimation of this methodology at various institutional levels and participation on numerous MA and PHD committees. Impact: Policy changes at the University and in the Joint Doctoral Program on the inclusion of research creation; guidelines for journals to peer-review in these areas.

2010: Studio XX and NFB, First Person Digital Jury 2009, 2010, 2011: SSHRC Postdoctoral Committee

1995-96 "Discover the Cyborg in You" (with Barbara Crow) Three hands-on workshops on using the internet, for women in communication studies, two on navigating the World Wide Web and one on hypertext mark-up language.

1990-95 "How Do I Look? Film and Video Series" a festival of feminist student film and video works jointly presented by female students in fine arts and communication studies. Invited guests over the four years duration of this project included Sara Diamond; Cheryl Dunye; Jin me Yoon, Cathy Quinn; Anne Golden; Marilyn Burgess.

1990- 95 “mediatribe.” This undergraduate journal of student writing was initiated in my first year at Concordia.