Biography
I am an artist, producer and designer working in both research and production. Beginning my relationship to the moving image through documentary, my practice has slowly expanded off the edges of the screen, increasingly combining light, color, structure and material with deeper consideration of site and the city.
Since 2018, I have been teaching foundational courses in art and technology in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa. You can find out more about my teaching here, or dig deeper into my online companion to the 1st year course, Art, Time and the Technological Imagination. It is the city of multiplicity called Fabula Ding and acts as a poetic teaching companion to the class.
I have also been heavily involved in the artist-run culture of Ottawa, Canada since 1998, and in 2005 became the Artistic Director of Artengine, a non-profit center for art and technology, and since 2020 have been Co-Director there with my long time friend and collaborator, Remco Volmer. In my role at Artengine, I have developed an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to project production that includes festivals, symposia, workshops, interactive public art, commissions for non-traditional venues and innovative models for service delivery and knowledge sharing.