PhD defended!
Joint PhD in Communication Concordia University (2008–2012) // Doctoral Thesis Accelerator Award, Concordia University (2011-2012) // Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship (2008-2011) // Concordia University Graduate Fellowship (2008-2010) Masters in Media Studies Concordia University (2005–2007) // J.W. McConnell Memorial Graduate Fellowship (2006-2007) // Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada Graduate...
Infographics: Creation as Research
I’ve been working on visually representing the trajectories–including crashes and invisible failures–of online video art archives in Canada for my research-creation thesis. Soon available in high res for download, but right now in low res draft form: http://www.wayward.ca/wayward/notes/video-cache-infographics/
S= (KN+KT)R: CAM MATAMOROS, FOUR YEARS LATER
‘Every school-day for 3 weeks i got up and made a 3 minute recording of where i thought i would be in 4 years when i finish my degree. an attempt to create routine, an anchor/reference point for the present and stability and hope for the future. then i edited out everything that wasn’t an...
Errors, Failures, Glitches: Another Collection
I’ve started collecting screen grabs of error messages, impasses, glitches, and so on…
Google Suggestions: Archive of Tech Sense
“Never forget that Google collects data for a commercial purpose. It is not a public archive. Besides this, the Google search engine is getting more and more ‘polluted’, coming up with useless and predictable search outcomes.” - Lovink — Archive of Google’s Tech Sense 2012 coming soon… Tech Sense 2011 Tech Sense 2010
CACS 2011: Mobile Archive
Canadian Association of Cultural Studies (CACS)/ L’Association canadienne des études culturelles (ACÉC) Biennial conference McGill University, Montreal | Nov. 4-6, 2011 Building upon Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s concept of the ‘enduring ephemeral,’ (2008) and Lev Manovich’s ‘anti-narrative logic of the Web’ (2001) this presentation outlines the possibilities for time travel through the interface of the world’s largestonline...
Google Suggestions: Archive of Human Sense
“Never forget that Google collects data for a commercial purpose. It is not a public archive. Besides this, the Google search engine is getting more and more ‘polluted’, coming up with useless and predictable search outcomes.” - Lovink — Archive of Google’s Human Sense 2012 coming soon… Human Sense 2012 (currently being archived…) Human Sense 2011 Human Sense 2010...
Circuit Benders, Overloaders, and Switchers
Panel – Circuit Benders, Overloaders, and Switchers 2011-10-22 16:00 - 17:30Participantes:Eliane Ellbogen Dayna McLeod jake moore Mél Hogan With Krista Lynes, moderator Rather than circuit breaking, then, this panel seeks to address alternative strategies in feminist thinking, production and exhibition: circuit bending, overload or switching. Locating feminist action in critique and disruption—in being “circuit breakers” in the networked society—runs...
VIDEO CACHE+SAW Video’s New Website Launch
Video Cache Curated by Penny McCann, Video Cache is a digital video screening comprised of ten works from the original SAW Video Mediatheque launched in 2004. Video Cache was presented in November, 2010 at Montreal’s Groupe Intervention Vidéo as part of Wayward, a collaborative project by Mél Hogan and Nikki Forrest. Wayward is Hogan’s doctoral research creation play...
Multi-modal publishing @ U of Oregon
Gender, New Media and Technology Symposium Feminist Publishing in the Digital Age I’m planning to talk about nomorepotlucks, a Canadian online and print-on-demand queer/feminist publication. My plan is to focus on some of the practicalities of launching, maintaining and updating a free online/pod journal, do a kind of show&tell, and cover some of the following points: • open...
Conference: We Demand (Vancouver)
WeDemand-MacPheeHogan Download PDF of our talk. “We Demand” History/Sex/Activism in Canada/« Nous demandons »: Histoire/Sexe/Activisme (Film Program: Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street) Thursday, August 25, 2011 7:30pm: “We Demand… Moving Images”: An Illustrated Lecture by Tom Waugh Tom Waugh, renowned film scholar and Concordia University Research Chair in Sexual Representation and Documentary, will open the...