DIGITAL
PROJECTS
A.C.T. for Disarmament benefit
Apocalypse Club, 1991
Director
Alternative Toronto
2016–present
Alternative Toronto is a digital archive and exhibition space that documents Toronto’s arts and activist communities of the 1980s and 1990s. The project uses the Omeka CMS and a community-based archive management process to create digital collections of user-contributed materials. In the project’s first iteration, we collected over 500 unique artifacts, facilitated eighteen collections and co-curated four exhibits.
Alternative Toronto has received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, and was the recipient of an ActiveHistory.ca award for exemplary practices of active history.
Alternative Toronto
2016–present
Alternative Toronto is a digital archive and exhibition space that documents Toronto’s arts and activist communities of the 1980s and 1990s. The project uses the Omeka CMS and a community-based archive management process to create digital collections of user-contributed materials. In the project’s first iteration, we collected over 500 unique artifacts, facilitated eighteen collections and co-curated four exhibits.
Alternative Toronto has received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, and was the recipient of an ActiveHistory.ca award for exemplary practices of active history.
EXHIBITS
Curator/cartographer
Rocky Dobey’s Street Art: A Counter-Map
With Rocky Dobey and Sofia Lopez
2017
This exhibit documented the work of Toronto street artist Rocky Dobey, who has mounted anonymous public installations on the surfaces of the city for the last forty years. It also served as an introduction to Alternative Toronto and its mandate.
Rocky Dobey’s Street Art: A Counter-Map
With Rocky Dobey and Sofia Lopez
2017
This exhibit documented the work of Toronto street artist Rocky Dobey, who has mounted anonymous public installations on the surfaces of the city for the last forty years. It also served as an introduction to Alternative Toronto and its mandate.
Co-curator, with Simon Vickers
Toronto’s Days of Action
2018
This exhibit invited visitors to contribute materials from the historic Days of Action protests against Ontario Premier Mike Harris. The materials reflect a ground-up perspective on the movement that privileges the participation of grassroots community organizations.
A version of this exhibit was mounted by the Hancock Student Advisory Committee at Hart House fron March 6–22, 2020.
Toronto’s Days of Action
2018
This exhibit invited visitors to contribute materials from the historic Days of Action protests against Ontario Premier Mike Harris. The materials reflect a ground-up perspective on the movement that privileges the participation of grassroots community organizations.
A version of this exhibit was mounted by the Hancock Student Advisory Committee at Hart House fron March 6–22, 2020.
Co-curator, with Simon Vickers, Tam Rayan, and Rachele Clemente-Gottardi
OPIRG Toronto: An Activist History
2019
This exhibit featured selected materials from the archives of the Toronto chapter of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group, or OPIRG, and followed a live interactive event the group organized in August 2019.
OPIRG Toronto: An Activist History
2019
This exhibit featured selected materials from the archives of the Toronto chapter of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group, or OPIRG, and followed a live interactive event the group organized in August 2019.
Heritage Toronto
Sounds Like Toronto
2020
Materials from the Lilian Radovac and GB Jones collections at Alternative Toronto are featured in the digital exhibition Sounds Like Toronto, which was produced by Heritage Toronto and Digital Museums Canada.
Sounds Like Toronto
2020
Materials from the Lilian Radovac and GB Jones collections at Alternative Toronto are featured in the digital exhibition Sounds Like Toronto, which was produced by Heritage Toronto and Digital Museums Canada.
AUDIO
VISUAL
Sound check
The Rivoli, 1993
PRESENTED WORK
2024 LVAC Members’ Exhibition
Organizer/curator Moudu Ekhar
LVAC Gallery
October 25–November 3, 2024
I presented three photographs from my chronicity series at the Annual Members’ Exhibition of the Lakeshore Village Artists’ Co-op.
Organizer/curator Moudu Ekhar
LVAC Gallery
October 25–November 3, 2024
I presented three photographs from my chronicity series at the Annual Members’ Exhibition of the Lakeshore Village Artists’ Co-op.
LVAC at 30
LVAC Gallery
September 30, 2023
I organized this pop-up exhibition and panel discussion to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the Lakeshore Village Artists’ Co-op, featuring work by Marshall Gaskin, Ken Kettlewell, Silvina Albert-Fuentes, Shirley Kleber and Pat Lewis.
LVAC Gallery
September 30, 2023
I organized this pop-up exhibition and panel discussion to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the Lakeshore Village Artists’ Co-op, featuring work by Marshall Gaskin, Ken Kettlewell, Silvina Albert-Fuentes, Shirley Kleber and Pat Lewis.
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Commissioned sound transcription
Virtual Encounters
Curator Christine Negus
London Ontario Media Arts Association
March 1–31, 2023
I contributed an experimental sound transcription to accompany an online screening of Kite’s Grave Tending Song, which was presented as part of LOMAA’s Virtual Encounters series with the support of VibraFusionLab.
Virtual Encounters
Curator Christine Negus
London Ontario Media Arts Association
March 1–31, 2023
I contributed an experimental sound transcription to accompany an online screening of Kite’s Grave Tending Song, which was presented as part of LOMAA’s Virtual Encounters series with the support of VibraFusionLab.
Machine Listening
Commissioned text
Everyonce
Curator Mitchell Akiyama
Trinity Square Video, June 14–July 27, 2019
This speculative piece imagines a visit to a newly completed smart city development and what the refusal of acoustic surveillance technologies might sound like.
Commissioned text
Everyonce
Curator Mitchell Akiyama
Trinity Square Video, June 14–July 27, 2019
This speculative piece imagines a visit to a newly completed smart city development and what the refusal of acoustic surveillance technologies might sound like.
Archival contributor
Alien She
Curators Astria Suparak + Ceci Moss
Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University
September 21, 2013–February 16, 2014
Touring exhibition 2014–2016
I contributed archival materials to this exhibition on the artistic and cultural influence of the Riot Grrrl movement, as seen through the work of seven contemporary artists.
Alien She
Curators Astria Suparak + Ceci Moss
Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University
September 21, 2013–February 16, 2014
Touring exhibition 2014–2016
I contributed archival materials to this exhibition on the artistic and cultural influence of the Riot Grrrl movement, as seen through the work of seven contemporary artists.
Contributing cinematographer
The Underground Project
Directors Fedele Spadafora + Stefanie Schairer
Visions in New York City, Macy Gallery
November 2–13, 2009
The Underground Project was a New York City/Berlin-based art project that brought people together to investigate human behavior in the underground transit systems of cities around the world. My contribution documented the Parc metro station in Montreal, Quebec.
The Underground Project
Directors Fedele Spadafora + Stefanie Schairer
Visions in New York City, Macy Gallery
November 2–13, 2009
The Underground Project was a New York City/Berlin-based art project that brought people together to investigate human behavior in the underground transit systems of cities around the world. My contribution documented the Parc metro station in Montreal, Quebec.
Distraction Factory, 1994–1999
Distraction Factory was an experimental music project that merged field recordings, electronics and noise.
The group performed as part of the 1995 Freedom in a Vacuum Music Series at Toronto's Music Gallery, and is featured on the retrospective CD compilation A Blind Man's Gallery of Mirrors (VACCD.05).
Distraction Factory was an experimental music project that merged field recordings, electronics and noise.
The group performed as part of the 1995 Freedom in a Vacuum Music Series at Toronto's Music Gallery, and is featured on the retrospective CD compilation A Blind Man's Gallery of Mirrors (VACCD.05).
Mourning Sickness, 1987–1994
Mourning Sickness was a feminist collective that combined postindustrial music, politics, spoken word and performance art.
Discography:
Reaching Climax Alternatively (cassette), 1987
A Delectible Detriment (cassette), 1988
The CIA Tapes (cassette compilation), Bluurg Records 1988
Ya Ma Bzzzz (cassette compilation), Fans of Bad Productions 1991
Nihil Obstat (CD, unreleased), Death of Vinyl 1993
Mourning Sickness was a feminist collective that combined postindustrial music, politics, spoken word and performance art.
Discography:
Reaching Climax Alternatively (cassette), 1987
A Delectible Detriment (cassette), 1988
The CIA Tapes (cassette compilation), Bluurg Records 1988
Ya Ma Bzzzz (cassette compilation), Fans of Bad Productions 1991
Nihil Obstat (CD, unreleased), Death of Vinyl 1993