RESEARCH
Publications
Journal articles and selected public scholarship
“Detour: After Impairment Theory (for Jonathan Sterne).” Communication, Culture & Critique 19:3 (September 2026): 192-193.
“Food First, Then Archives: Precarity and Community Memory.” With Simon Vickers. Active History, July 7, 2021.
“Re/mediating the Archive: Building Alternative Toronto.” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 32:1 (Winter 2018): 97-110.
“Muting Dissent: New York City’s Sound Device Ordinance and the Liberalization of the Public Sphere.” Radical History Review 121 (January 2015): 32-50.
“À qui la rue?: On Mégaphone and Montreal’s Noisy Public Sphere.” Sounding Out! February 24, 2014.
“Mic Check: Occupy Wall Street and the Space of Audition.” Communication and Critical / Cultural Studies 11:1 (January 2014): 34-41.
“Agitato.” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 28 (Fall 2012): 223-224.
“The ‘War on Noise’: Sound and Space in La Guardia’s New York.” American Quarterly 63:3 (September 2011): 733-760.
Reprinted in: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies. Eds. Kara Keeling and Josh Kun, 289-316. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Reprinted in: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies. Eds. Kara Keeling and Josh Kun, 289-316. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
PROJECTS
A.C.T. for Disarmament benefit
Apocalypse Club, 1991
Alternative Toronto
2016–2020Alternative 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-driven archive management process to create digital collections of user-contributed materials. In the project’s pilot phase, we collected over 500 unique artifacts, facilitated eighteen collections and co-curated four exhibits. The project is currently on hiatus.
Alternative Toronto 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. I’ve been invited to speak about the project at the AGO, Interference Archive, and a special plenary session of the Association of Canadian Archivists. It’s also the subject of several dissertations.
Exhibits
Curator
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 at United Steelworkers Hall 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 at United Steelworkers Hall in August 2019.
Heritage Toronto
Sounds Like Toronto
2021
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
2021
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.
