01-03.2010 :
residency @ studioXX (Montreal, Canada)
28.11.2009 :
presenting paper: Haunted profiles;
Social networking sites and the crisis of death
@ re:live09 conference (Melbourne, AUS)
> re:live 2009 conference referred proceedings
25.11.2009 :
presentation archives seminar at Victoria University (Melbourne, AUS)
21.11.2009 :
TRINKNICS workshop at miss despoinas hacklab (Hobart, AUS)
25-31.10.2009 :
residency at _____-micro research with aether9 group (Berlin, D)
15-22.08.2009 :
connected domes workweek (noisy plants) along with stefanie wuschitz @ OKNO (Brussels, B)
07.2009 :
VACATION (totally offline!!! :)
07-15.06.2009 :
workshops @ /ETC Umeå (Umeå, S)
03-05.2009 :
workshop: Portable Pixels and Worn Out Sounds along with kristina andersen @ the Netherlands Media Art Institute (Amsterdam, NL)
14.03-05.04.2009 :
exhibiting a version of spectres? in Rietveld's DOGtime teachers exposure (Censored pornography) @ De Service Garage (Amsterdam, NL)
03-07.03.2009 :
genderchangers @ winter camp! (Amsterdam, NL)
16.01.2009 :
presenting thesis paper: Praise the Media! Mediated Mourning Rituals and the Acceptance of Death @ Specters, Hauntings and Archives Conference : University of Amsterdam (NL)
23-5.10.2008 :
train journeys screening @ Simultan04 Festival (Timisoara, RO)
28.09.2008 :
aether9 performance @ hamra street -outdoor screen of el medina theater (Beirut, Lebanon)
08.2008 :
month stay at the rustines | lab of perte de signal (montreal, CAN)
26.07.2008 : aether9 presentation @ ISEA (Singapore)
05.06.2008 :
threads/ @ blaak10 gallery
...along with pieces by Walter Langelaar (Netherlands), Tsila Hassine (Israel), Shahee Ilyas (Maldives), Nancy Mauro-Flude (Australia) in a show called GPS at the blaak10 gallery (Rotterdam, NL)
04.05.2008 :
'spectres?' installation in collaboration with Peter Venus + Reni HofmŸller, part of Soundscape #1 at ESC im labor in graz (A) also presented during the Galerientage (Graz, A)
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bit about me...
occupation(s)
i pursue my art practice (media/installation/contextual art), i have taught at the willem de kooning academie (media design minor / software), and at the rietveld academy (communication / theory). i also routinely give workshops (i.e. html/css, soldering).
education
> media design ma from the piet zwart institute in rotterdam, NL.
thesis project: spectres?
> bachelor in fine arts at concordia
university, majoring in design art.
ideacritik
i conjured up the name ideacritik mainly because of my penchant for conceptual thinking and sharp sense of critique.
herstory
i grew up and studied in montreal, at first to become a commercial pilot and then in various faculties at concordia university.
i then moved to australia, living and working in melbourne, doing a whole
range of things, from tomato picking to graphic and web design (for
common ground publishing). i came to the netherlands to complete my masters degree in media design @ the piet zwart institute.
i am now based in rotterdam (NL) / montreal (Canada) working as a freelancer. the hats include media artist, teacher, web/graphic designer and workshop facilitator. i am also a member of genderchangers (a collective of women which promote the exchange of technical skills between women), and aether9 (a collaborative art project exploring the field of realtime video transmission).
ethos
i continue to think that getting to know the context in
which you are working as extensively as possible is essential to a good design practice. only when the context
shapes the design, can one create work which in turn can then come back
towards the context and reciprocally function within it. rather than an
isolated designer/artist, operating over and above the conditions which allow
for their work, contextual design/art allows for the entire range of
influences and limitations to be realised, thus showing the real nature
of the relations involved. this way there is no end result, but rather
a continuous process of design/art in which one can no longer separate
between creation, production and usage, and the entire community becomes
involved in the process.