exhibitions and performances

2007

High Tea with Miss Canadiana, Rightfully Yours’, Curated by Tejpal Ajii, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto

Sync, collaboration with Jim Ruxton, Art & Science Symposium, University of Alberta

The Final Frontier installation and performance, W.A.R.C. Gallery and Nuit Blanche Festival, Toronto

Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour, Queen West Art Crawl, Toronto

Sync , collaboration with Jim Ruxton, Pure Data Conference 07, SAT, Montreal

The Final Frontier , performance, Toronto, Ontario/Lethbridge, Alberta

Sugar Shack , Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour ,   21 Group Exhibtion, Curated by Elwood Jimmy, Dunlop Gallery, Regina

Sugar Shack , Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour ,   21 Group Exhibtion, Curated by Elwood Jimmy, Aspace Gallery, Toronto

Sugar Shack , Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour ,   21 Group Exhibtion, Curated by Elwood Jimmy, Paved Arts, Saskatoon

2006

Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour, Miss Candiana tours University College , University of Toronto

Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour, High Performance Rodeo presented at the Epcor Centre by One Yellow Rabbit, Calgary

Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour, The Seventh Annual Bill Huffman Awards for Excellence , VMAC Gallery, Toronto

Petition: Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour, I Represent , A Space Gallery, Toronto

2005

Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour, Toronto Alternative Art Fair , Toronto

Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour, M:ST Performance Art Festival, Calgary/Banff

Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour, Extravaganza, Harbourfront Centre, York Quay Gallery, Toronto

Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour, Arte Nuevo Interactiva 05, Centro Cultural Olimpo, Merida, Mexico

Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour, On Transit:Narrativas visuales en Norteamerica, Centro Estal delas Artes, Mexicali, Mexico

The Colour Line, teletaxi curated by Year Zero One, Dare Dare, Montreal

Suit of Armour, in collaboration with Nancy Paterson, Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston

Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour, Racing the Cultural Interface:African Diasporic Identities in the Digital Age, curated by Dr. Sheila Petty, Mount Saint Vincent University, Regina

The Hero Project, curated by Natalie Wood, Women's Art Resource Centre Gallery, Toronto

2004
The Red White and Beautiful Tour, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts

Sync , Low Hanging Fruit, electronic installation in collaboration with Jim Ruxton, DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto

Miss Canadiana: Red White and Beautiful Tour, Racing the Cultural Interface:African Diasporic Identities in the Digital Age, curated by Dr. Sheila Petty, Soil Digital Media Gallery, Regina

Sync version I, Tekhe, collaborative mixed media installation with Jim Ruxton at Harbourfront, Uncommon Objects Gallery, Digiffest 2004:On the Move

2003
Red Heat/Heisse Glut, performance in collaboration with composer Paulo Chagas, Interaktions/Labor: experimental research lab in the abandoned Göttelborn Coal Mine, Germany

Miss Canadiana, performance and installation, for Interaktions/Labor: experimental research lab in the abandoned Göttelborn Coal Mine, Germany

Miss Canadiana, Transmedia 2002:15 seconds of fame, public art on a video billboard, Toronto

Miss Canadiana, public intervention, Free Manifesta art festival, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany

2002
Miss Canadiana, public intervention, Parliament Hill, Ottawa

Suit of Armour, DVD installation, collaboration with cyber-feminist, Nancy Paterson, Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph

2001
Suit of Armour, DVD installation, collaboration with cyber-feminist, Nancy Paterson, Mental Equipment exhibition curated by Sarah Quinton, York Quay Gallery, Toronto

Eve, mixed media installation, She Said Boom Storefront Window, Toronto

2000
Born into Braiding, mixed media installation, Past Present Exhibition curated by Steve Heineman, York Quay Gallery, Toronto

1996
Unhumankind, net.art, A Space Gallery, Toronto

Rave New World, cdrom, Trinity Square Video Media Forum 96, Design Exchange, Toronto

1995
Ode, 16mm film transferred to video, IFVA Showcase and Mediatheque, Toronto

1993
Ode, 16mm film transferred to video, Theatre Centre Free 4 All Festival, Toronto

Feeling Mantaray, mixed media installation, Symbiosis Collective exhibition, The Great Hall, Toronto

Things we never think about, site specific installation at The Theatre Centre, collaboration with electronic artist, Jim Ruxton, Mercer Union off site exhibition, Toronto

curatorial projects

2007  
Whose Body is it Anyway, a presentation of works by Jack Butler and Monir Moniruzzaman for Subtle Technologies Festival, at InterAccess Gallery, Toronto

2006  
The Exchange Project, a presentation of performance by Nancy Nisbet for Subtle Technologies Festival, Toronto

scale, a presentation of   works by artists and scientists for Subtle Technologies Festival   at InterAccess Gallery, Toronto

2005
Timescale, a presentation of three of Juan Geuer's works for Subtle Technologies Festival at Emmersive Gallery, Toronto

2004
Tekhne, co-curated with Melanie Egan and Beth Alber explores the intersection between electronic media art and craft, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto

2003
Signal, an exhibition of telepresence and telerobotic works - co-curated with Michael Alstad, presented by Year Zero One, InterAccess and The Subtle Technologies Festival, Toronto

2002
Transmedia 2002: 15 seconds of Fame, co-curated with Year Zero One collective, Toronto

2001
Subtance, an exhibition exploring the interplay between the virtual and the real - co-curated with Michael Alstad, presented by Year Zero One, InterAccess and The Subtle Technologies Festival, Toronto

Skinjob, an exhibition of works by artists who use technological tools to explore the skin as a coded terrain and to examine the experience of being human in a digital world, Toronto

1996 - present
Year Zero One, a Canadian collective operating as a network for the dissemination of net.art, electronic media art and digital culture, founding member, Toronto

community media

2004
The Story Project, developed and co-facillitated a community media lab in partnership with Jennifer La Fontaine at Central Neighbourhood House to enable communities to use digital media to tell their stories.

2003
Linker Workshop, organized and assistetd mervin Jarman visiting artist from Mongrel, who facillitated a workshop for youth for Regent Park Focus enabling them to create their own interactive digital projects

The Container Project, a mobile media arts lab in rural Jamaica initiated and coordinated by mervin Jarman from the UK based (h)activist group, Mongrel. Participated as international collaborator in boot-up workshop.

related community projects

2001 - 2004
Calico, developed and facillitated a venue for artists from marginalized communities to market, show and sell their work to the public.

2003
Sketch, developed and prototyped skill-building and marketing programs for young artists at an art studio for street-involved and homeless youth.

public presentations

2008

Keynote address, Day for the Elmination of Racism, Norquest College , Edmonton

Break-out Session Panel, Art at the Hub, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto

Guest Lecture, Ontario College of Art and Design

Guest Lecture, University of Toronto

Guest Lecture, Centennial College

Marketing Workshop Facilitator, Women’s Leadership Conference, George Brown College

2007

Panel Discussion for 21 Group Exhibition, Dunlop Gallery, Regina

Art & Science Symposium, University of Alberta

Panel Discussion, The Art of Representation/Representation of Art, Aspace Gallery, Toronto

Alberta Media Art Society Annual General Meeting, University of Lethbridge

Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge

Panel Discussion of The Global Soul, University of Toronto

Coding Cultures D/Lux, Australia

2006
Canadian Studies and Visual Studies Department, University of Toronto, Toronto

2005
North Preston Community Centre, North Preston, Nova Scotia University of Lethbridge, Alberta

Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax

Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax

2004
Art for Lunch Speaker Series, University of Regina, Saskatchewan

Dak’art lab, La Biennale de l’art Africain contemporain, Dakar, Senegal,

2003
Skinning our Tools: Designing for Context and Culture, Banff New Media Institute, co-presentation with mervin Jarman and Sonya Clark

Alumni Lecture Series, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto

1998
Museums and the Web co-presented paper with Michael Alstad Web Specific Art - The development of a New Genre

Communities Virtual, Desh Pardesh and InterAccess, panel member discussing virtual communities

residencies

2007
Artist-in-Residence, Broken Hill Art Exchange, Australia ,

2006  
The Container Project - a media lab in shipping container in Jamaica

2004-2006
Artist in Residence, Central Neighbourhood House, a social agency in downtown east Toronto

2004
Self - Directed Residency, Banff Centre for Visual and Media Arts

Visiting artist, Interaktions-Labor, a media lab in an abandoned coal mine in Germany

Curatorial resident, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Gallery

2003
Visiting artist, Interaktions-Labor, a media lab in an abandoned coal mine in Germany

Visiting artist, The Container Project - a media lab in shipping container in Jamaica

1999-2001
Textile Studio resident, Harbourfront Centre

reviews

The Prairie Dog, A Complex Mosaic Artists bring wit and insight to the multicultural experiment, Geregory Beatty, November, 2007

The Lethbridge Herald, Coulee Landscape offers inspiration for Toronto artist's latest creation, June 30, 2007

Alienated Cosmopolitans, Mark Cheetham, The Walrus, May, 2007

The Globe and Mail, Highlight: The Lens: Race is a Four Letter Word, Henrietta Walmark, February 2007

Miss Canadiana comes to Halifax, Citizenshift,

Saturday Night Magazine, Sarah Titel, Crowning Glory , November   2005

Montreal Mirror, Artsweek, Montreal, July, 2005

Breakfast Television, City TV, Toronto, June 2005

Radio Canada International, interview by Carmel Kilkenny,Spotlight, Toronto, February, 2005

TV Ontario, interview by Mary Ito, More to Life, Toronto, February 26, 2005

Now Magazine, Catherine Farquarshon, Heroic Heights, Toronto, February 3, 2005

The BayToday, Dean Lisk, Miss Canadiana has North Bay roots, North Bay, February 8, 2005

The National Post, R.M. Vaughan, Not a Cape in Sight: Black women artists redefine the heroic, January 29, 2005

The Globe and Mail, Guy Dixon, Beauty Queen with an Edge, (.pdf 160KB), February 3, 2005

The Chronicle Herald, Elissa Barnard, Here she comes, Miss Canadiana, Halifax, January 7, 2005

HFX/The Daily News, Shauntay Grant, All bow to Miss Canadiana, January 6, 2005

The Globe and Mail, Guy Dixon, Boring cab ride? Teletaxi will entertain you,Toronto, October 21, 2003

The Varsity, Lizzie McNeeley, Hail art cab ,Toronto, October 23, 2003

CBC radio, Brent Brambury, Go, Toronto, July1 2003

The Globe and Mail, RM Vaughan, So this is fame? 15 Seconds on the street, November 2, 2002

The Toronto Star, Peter Goddard, Fleeting Fame, Toronto, October 28, 2002

Eye Weekly, RM Vaughan, Micro Movies take Art to the Street, Toronto, October 12, 2000