I am working on Fever at the "Almost Perfect" co-production residency at the Banff New Media Institute in June 2009
I'll be presenting Fever and Northern Crossings at ISEA2009 in Belfast, Ireland in August 2009
I'm showing at the Women In Technology Exhibition at the Beverley Arts Centre in Chicago, Aug-Sept 2009
I'll be presenting at the Digital Art and Culture conference in Irvine, California in December 2009
is a locative art walk for two sides of the Atlantic -- Signal Hill in St.John's Newfoundland and Poldhu Cove in the UK -- both are the locations where Marconi claims to have sent his first transatlantic wireless signal. The audience has two prescribed routes following 'inscriptions' in the land (trails, rings made by the old towers) and the audience views footage shot at the other location as well as other material. "Fever" contains a loose narrative that considers the 19th century frenzy of exploration, speculation, and battle for control and colonization of North American land and communications while also exploring other topics inspired by the sites and Marconi (his speculative nature and his philandering). This project includes a printed map, letterpress folder and lasercut obect which can be used for geocaching at the sites. I'm developing the piece now for Flashlite and Mscape and hopefully also using MEE. Fever is the last project in my Marconi Trilogy.
is an interactive sculpture/audio/video installation project that will also have a locative element for people in the northern Canadian communities it intersects with. NX follows paths that cross and define Canadian spaces in the North (e.g., paths of 'exploration', communication, forced migration of First Nations people, mineral exploration and development, DEW LIne stations, shifting borders of ice and snow, changing migration patterns of animals and birds, paths of oil pipelines) . The project considers the impact and changes these effect upon the idea of North and a Northern sense of place and self. In 2008, I followed the Northwest Passage in Canadian Arctic, gathering GPS locations and shot footage up in there as well as in Northern Alberta where I grew up. This material is being combined with research materials for the proect. The sculpture has hand-created pieces as well as rapid-prototyped pieces, and sound/video will be generative from sensor input from the sculpture. Extra material from this piece will be used later for an artist's book on the project.
is a video project using cell-phone footage shot primarily at sites of oil extraction and refining (e.g., TarSands) in Northern Alberta, many sites close to where I have lived there, combined with kitsch imagery of Northern animals and life. Some of the clips were initially included in the show RealTime08 at the Dallas Contemporary which traveled to the Pompidou Centre (Paris) Pocket Film Festival in June 08. I'm turning this into a single channel and multichannel video piece but it works nicely as a generative piece. RealTIme08 curator Dean Terry said this about the project in an interview in the CAA New Media Caucus's Media N Online Journal: "In my view she produced many of the most compelling visual images of the show, in particular images of cold, snow-swept Canadian landscapes being reformed by development and other marks placed on it by people and their machines."