Team
Kim Sawchuk P.I.
Kim Sawchuk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University and the current editor of the Canadian Journal of Communication and as the co-editor of wi: a journal of mobile media. Kim is the author of numerous articles and edited collections that examine the intersection of art, medicine and technology. Much of her work is explicitly feminist and much of it is concerned with exploring the potential of new technology as an explicit part of a qualitative methodological practice. Her most recent publications include “The Paradox of Mobility” (forthcoming, 2008); “Performance (Art) a Method of Inquiry” (From the Iconic to the Ironic: Tanya Mars, 2008); “Uncanny Figures and Mean Bodies: nichola feldman-kiss” (Prefix, 2008) and “Ironic Empiricism and the Model Patient: The Photographs of Theodore Wan” (Verkörperungen, 2007) and “Feminism in Waves: the origins of a watery metaphor (Open Boundaries, 2007). She is the co-editor of When Pain Strikes (University of Minnesota Press, 1999); Wild Science: reading feminism, medicine and the media (Routledge, 2000) and Verkörperungen/Embodiment (Løcker, 2007). In addition to her research on the body in communication, with a special interest in anatomical imaging, Kim has written extensively on mobile media technologies and practices. Kim is the Principal Investigator for the Illustrating Medicine project and director of the Mobile Media Lab- Montreal.
Nina Czegledy
Nina Czegledy, media artist, curator and writer works internationally on collaborative art&science&technology projects. She has produced time based and digital works, won awards and, exhibited widely. She has lead and participated in workshops, forums and festivals worldwide. Her academic lectures lead to numerous publications in books and journals on five continents. “What will you do to cool the earth?” a public art project in collaboration with Greg Judelman and Daniel Barber was commissioned by the City of Toronto(2007). Czegledy Her Aurora Feast Public Art Project was developed in collaboration with a team of international experts. It has premiered at Heureka the Finnish Science Centre (2006) and been shown at the Govett Brewster Gallery, New Zealand (2006) and the Waves Festival in Latvia (2006). Czegledy exhibited her work as part of the ICOLS group in Australia and the US (2004-2005). She has shown with the Girls&Guns collective’s in Europe (2005). Resonance, the Electromagnetic Bodies Project, Digitized Bodies Virtual Spectacles and the Aurora projects reflect her art&science& technology interest. These projects focus on the changing perception of the environment and the human body and are presented via on-line and on-site events internationally. Over the years, Czegledy curated over 35 digital art and video programs presented in more than 30 countries and initiated Points of Entry, the first Canadian/ Australian/New Zealand digital arts collaboration. She is the president of Critical Media a Canadian based Knowledge Institute. She curated circuit4.ca a digital culture database for the Canadian Heritage Network. Czegledy, is a Senior Fellow, KMDI, University of Toronto, Associate Adjunct Professor Concordia University, Montreal, Honorary Fellow, Moholy Nagy University of Design, Budapest, member of the international space art network, co-chair of the Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) and ex-officio chair of ISEA.
Nicholas Woolridge
Nancy Marrelli
Nancy Marrelli is the Director of Archives at Concordia University.
Nancy actively participates in professional activities with many archival associations in Canada, the US, and internationally, working and publishing in English and French particularly in the areas of archival preservation, copyright, and audiovisual archives. She has been a speaker at a wide variety of workshops and conferences. She is the chair of the Canadian archival community copyright committee. She chairs an International Council of Archives Archival Solidarity Committee that aims to co-ordinate foreign assistance efforts in the international archives community for developing communities and communities in transition. She has worked with a number of dance organizations to address their audiovisual archival needs.
In addition to professional publications Nancy has published on Montreal history, including most recently: Stepping Out; the Golden Age of Montreal Nightclubs, 2004; Building Concordia: Concordia University As Seen Through Its Buildings/L’Université Concordia à travers l’historique de ses bâtiments, 2004; Montréal Photo Album: Photographs from Montréal Archives/Montréal: Un album de photos; Photographies provenant de dépôts d’archives montréalais; and she co-edited edited The Scots of Montreal; A Pictorial Album, 2005. Nancy and her partner, Simon Dardick, are the owners and publishers of the Montreal publishing house Véhicule Press for which she also does editorial work. Nancy lives in a late Victorian limestone house in downtown Montreal. For fun she loves to travel, cook, garden, and hunt for antique dishes, linens, and lace.
Brian Sutherland
Mél Hogan
Mél Hogan is a PhD candidate in the Joint Doctorate in Communication at Concordia University. Her research focuses on online distribution models, digital archives, queer art collections and copyright. Hogan is also a media activist; she is the founder of nomorepotlucks.org, contributor to artthreat.net, and sound technician and co-host for radio show Dykes on Mykes. Her community work and academic writing converge on issues of technological appropriation by marginal communities, intellectual property debates, art, digital repositories and creativity online.
For IM, she photographs, documents, and archives the project’s trajectory, manages the IM website, has helped sort, number and organise the collection, and will be co-presenting at various conferences.
Collaborators
- Anne Agur
- Margot MacKay
- David Mazierski