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Janine Marchessault [22.1mb]
Gunalan Nadarajan [41.9mb]
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Janine Marchessault is the director of the Visible City Project + Archive which is examining new practices of media art in a variety of urban contexts. As Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization, Marchessault is investigating how the information society is redefining the artist’s role and shaping urban contexts. She is also a co-investigator on the Future Cinema Lab, a joint research project with Film Professors John Greyson and Caitlin Fisher, based in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University. Marchessault is the author of Marshall McLuhan: Cosmic Media (Sage Publications, 2005) and co-editor of Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 2007); Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media (Routledge, 2000); and Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women’s Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 1999). She is a founding editor of the arts journal Public: Art/Ideas/Culture and a past president of the Film Studies Association of Canada. Marchessault has two book projects in progress. Ecstatic Worlds: 20th Century Utopian Film Projects examines collective experiments with film and media that have been driven by aspirations for universality. Urban Mediations: Art, Ethnography and Material Culture, an interdisciplinary collection that she is co-editing, situates different historical and methodological currents in urban media studies.
Gunalan Nadarajan, an art theorist and curator from Singapore, is Vice Provost for Research at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Arts). Prior to joining MICA, Gunalan was Professor of Art and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the College of Arts and Architecture, Penn State University. His publications include Ambulations (2000), Construction Site (edited; 2004) and Contemporary Art in Singapore (co-authored; 2007), Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology: Historical Investigations on the Sites and Migration of Knowledge (co-edited; forthcoming, 2009) and Handbook of Visual Culture (co-edited; forthcoming, 2009) and numerous catalogue essays and academic articles. His writings have been translated into Mandarin, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Serbian, Russian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. Gunalan has curated twenty international exhibitions including Ambulations (Singapore), 180KG (Jogjakarta), Negotiating Spaces (Auckland) and media_city 2002 (Seoul). He was contributing curator for Documenta XI (Kassel, Germany), the Singapore Biennale (2006) and served on the jury of a number of international exhibitions, like ISEA2004 (Helsinki / Talinn), transmediale 05 (Berlin) and ISEA2006 (San Jose). He was Artistic Co-Director of the Ogaki Biennale (2006), an international exhibition of media arts in Japan and most recently, Artistic Director of ISEA2008 (International Symposium on Electronic Art) in Singapore. Gunalan’s current research interests include contemporary painting, art and biology, human-machine interfaces, robotic arts and toys.
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