Since the early 2000s, I have developed a collaborative approach to working with artists to bring unique projects to fruition. This work began independently, first alongside my friend Anne Clark developing the Remix project and later as I combined live performance and media art curation through the Mixed Tape project. I began working as the Artistic Director of Artengine in 2005 and in 2020 transitioned to the Co-Director with my long time collaborator and friend, Remco Volmer. Beyond the deep engagement with the complicated intersection of art and technology, Artengine has experimented with new ways of producing and presenting media arts in the city of Ottawa.
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Entanglements
This exhibition focuses on our entanglement with ecological communities. These artists draw our attention to ecological precarity and suggest how reconceptualizing interspecies entanglements could catalyze alternate futures. It was was produced through my work at Artengine in collaboration with Celina Jeffery.
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Ludic Fields
Ludic Fields is an interactive public art project I led at Artengine in collaboration with Andrew O’Malley and Lateral office. This media art installation piece was on display from July to November 2017 in three key sites in Ottawa: Ogilvy Square, Baseline Transit Station and Blair Transit Station.
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We Make The City! We Are The City!
We Make The City! was a festival of participatory art I produced at Artengine. https://www.wemakethecity.ca Highlights for me were: A commission to Jesse Stewart to create a musical score to make the city playable. See the score and video here. An open source design campaign in which the public contributed posters. You can see the…
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Mixed Tape 2005
VIDEO ART YOU CAN DANCE TO MIXED TAPE: a new style VJ performance by Ryan Stec For this unique outdoor screening, I reached back into the 70s and 80s generations of video history to create a new viewing experience. This one-time only event was more than just a screening – it was a live set.…
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Remix 2002-2005: a cancon makeover
Remix was a simple and direct concept. Each year a diverse range of artists, in both practice and perspective, were commissioned to Remix the same hour of pirated television using only the cassette provided to them. The program ran for four years and targeted the wide range of Canadian cultural content including the National News…