jmarches@yorku.ca
Associate Professor, Department
of Film,
York University in Toronto, Canada
Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and
Globalization, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University in Toronto, Canada
Books Authored
Books Edited
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(R) Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema, co-edited with
Susan Lord (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). |
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(R) Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine, and the
Media, co-edited with Kim Sawchuk (New York and London:
Routledge, 2000). |
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(R) Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, co-edited with Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, and Brenda Longfellow (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999). |
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Mirror Machine: Video and Identity. (Toronto: YYZ Books and CRCCII, 1995). |
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Towards the Slaughterhouse of History: Working Papers on Culture, co-edited with Sharon Brooks (Toronto: YYZ Books, 1992). |
Chapters in Books
"Media Studies and Mama's Boys," in Gary Genosko, McLuhan (New York, London: Routledge, 2007).
"Multi-Screens and Future Cinema: The Labyrinth Project at Expo 67," in Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema, eds. Susan Lord
and Janine Marchessault (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007).
“Film Festivals as Cultural Traffic and Urban Encounter,” co-written
with Dipti Gupta in Urban Enigmas, ed. Joanne
Sloan (Montréal: McGill-Queen’s Press, 2007).
"Men in White, Women in Aprons: Utopian Iconographies of TV Doctors,"
in Figuring it Out, eds. Rusty Shteir and Bernard
Lightman (Durham, NH: University Press of New England, 2007).
“Sympathetic Understanding in Tu as crié: Let me go,” in Candid
Eyes: Essays on Canadian Documentaries, eds. Jim Leach and
Jeannette Sloniowski (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003) pp.
211-225.
“Chemistry, Nature and Women: Hand-processed films from the Independent
Imaging Workshop,” in Lux: A Decade of Artist Film and Video, eds.
Steve Reinke and Tom Taylor
(Toronto: YYZ Books, 2001).
“Learning the New Information Order,” in Cultural
Capital: Symbolic Production and Community Formation in the
Technological State, eds. Jody Berland and Shelley Hornstein.
Innis Centenary Series (Montreal, Kingston: McGill-Queens Press, 2001).
“David Suzuki’s The Secret of Life” in Wild Science:
Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media, eds. Janine
Marchessault and Kim Sawchuk (London and New York: Routledge, 2001)
55-65.
Articles
"Translocal Connectivities and Citizenship Practices in the New Media
Arts," in Public: Art/Culture/Ideas 31, 2006.
(DVD publication: www.digipopo.org)
“Film Scenes: Paris, New York, Toronto,” in Public:
Art/Culture/Ideas 22-23: 2002, pp. 56-74.
Other Refereed Contributions
Learned Societies, Conferences
"The Dance of the Anthropoids: Erkki Kurenniemi's World Archive," Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia 2008.
The Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art,
Science and Technology Conference at Haus der Kulturen der
Welt, Berlin, November 2007 (with Michael Darroch).
“The Montreal Apartment,” Migrating Media Conference, Ryerson
University, September 2007.
“McLuhan and the Multiple Screen,” Global 60s Conference, Queen’s
University, June 2007
“Media Specificity and Resistant Obsolescence: The Case of CineCyle,”Society for Cinema and Media Studies,
Chicago, March 2007.
“Art as Knowledge System,” Keynote, Artist as Researcher, Finnish
Academy of Fine Art, November 2006.
“Ephemeral Art and the Spaces of Film,” Useful Cinema, Concordia
University, August 2006.
“Art Interventions and Urban Transits,” Film Studies
Association of Canada Annual Conference, Congress of the
Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, May 2006 (organized
and chaired panel).
“Cities Roundtable: The Sociable City,” (with Roger Keil, Steven
Flusty, Engin Isin and Warren Crichlow), York University, May 2006.
“Steichen’s Curatorial Practices,” Emotional Geographies,
Queen’s University, May 2006.
"Urban Interventions and Citizenship," Cultural Transits
Conference, University of Ottawa, May 2006.
"TransLocal Arts Collectives and New Citizenship Practices," Urbanscape:
Havana Biennale, March 2006.
“Digital Technology as a New Language,” 3rd Annual Conference
on ICT-Enhanced FrenchStudies: Dialogues Across Cultures, York
University, October 2005.
“McLuhan and the Cultural Mosaic,” Intellectuals and Cultural
Policy, Cultural Policy Research Centre, University of
Warwick, Coventry, England, September 2005 (paper read in absentia).
“Affective Structures in The Family of Man,” Visible Evidence
Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, August
2005.
Organized panel on Affect and Documentary Media.
“Revisiting Labyrinth and Expanded Cinema,” Film Studies Association of
Canada Annual Conference, Congress of the Humanities and Social
Sciences, University of Western Ontario, May 2005.
“Labyrinth at Expo ’67,” Montréal at Street Level,
Canadian Centre for Architecture, March 2005.
“Toronto Cinema," Voicing Toronto, University of
Toronto, May 2005.
“Artists Remaking Urban Spaces in and through Global Cultural
Flows,” Canadianation: Negotiating Relations Between Nations
in and through Global Cultural Flows. Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs, Harvard University, May 2004.
“Winged Migration and the New Digital Environment,” Society for
Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2004.
Organized panel on digital media and nature films.
“McLuhan’s Hybrid Energies,” Intermédialité et
histoire, CRI, Université de Montréal, November
2003.
"McLuhan and the Explorations Group," Bridges II Conference,
Banff Centre for the Arts, October 2002.
"Virtual Cities as Archives," Mind Technologies,
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Toronto,
June 2002.
Panel Respondent, “Figural Vocabularies of Gender in 19th Century
Science and Technology,” York University, May 2002.
“Art Scenes and Everyday Life,” Keynote, Experimentalism and
the Arts, Queens University, November 2001.
“Virtual Toronto,” Summer Institute, Culture of Cities Project, York
University, June 2001.
“Film Culture in Toronto,” Film Studies Association of Canada
Annual Conference, Congress of the Humanities and Social
Sciences, Université Laval, Québec, 2001.
Journals and Special Issues Edited
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Co-editor with Aleksandra Kaminska and Jason Rovito. "Public?" Public:
Art/Culture/Ideas no. 37, 2008. |
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Co-editor with Saara Liinamaa and Karyn Sandlos. "Urban Interventions." Public:
Art/Culture/Ideas no. 32, 2006. |
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Co-editor with Saara Liinamaa. "Localities." Public: Art ,
Culture, Ideas no. 29, 2004. |
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Co-editor with Will Straw. "Cities/Scenes." Public: Art, Culture, Ideas no. 22-23, 2002. |
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Co-editor with Susan Lord. "Light."
Public: Art, Culture, Ideas no. 18, 1999. |
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Editor. "Québec." Public: Art, Culture, Ideas no. 14, 1996. |
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Editor. "Love." Public: Art, Culture, Ideas no. 10, 1994. |
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Co-editor with Sylvie Bélanger, Christine Davis, Mark Lewis and Tom Taylor, "Carnal Knowledge." Public: Art, Culture, Ideas no. 3, 1989. |
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Co-editor with Sylvie Bélanger, Christine Davis, Mark Lewis and Tom Taylor. "The Lunatic of One Idea." Public: Art, Culture, Ideas no. 2, 1988. |
Reviews, Short Essays
“Manufacturing Humanism: Steichen/Burtynsky,” Prefix
Photo, 16: 2007,
pp. 24-35.
"Lynne Cohen," ArtForum, May 2002.
“Christine Davis,” ArtForum, October 2001.
Catalogue Essays
“Images@20,” (with Marc Glassman), Images Broadsheet,
2007.
“Christine Davis and the Secret Life of Screens,” Christine
Davis, Presentation
House Gallery, Vancouver
2007, pp. 46-55.
“The Mall and the Camp—The Art of An Te Liu,” (Mercer Union
Publications, 2004), pp. 3-8.
“Darwin’s Image: The Evolving Nature of Cinema,” 44th International
Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, 1998, 93-97.
Public Talks / Invited Lectures
“The Place of the New in New Media,” Havana Art
School, December 2007.
"The Explorations Group," (with Dr. Michael Darroch) International School for New Media, the University of Lubeck, Germany, November 2007.
"Digital Aesthetics and Fluidity," University of Philadelphia, November 2007.
"Art as Knowledge System," (keynote) Artis as Researcher, Finnish Academy of Fine Art, November 2006.
"Multi-Screens and McLuhan," McLuhan Lectures, Faculty of Information
Studies, University of Toronto July 2005.
“Trans-local Arts Collectives and Citizenship Practices,” Interactiva
Conference, Mérida, Yucatán, June 2005.
“Film Festivals as Global Flow and Identity Formation,” Robarts Centre
Symposium on Global Cultural Flows, York University, March 2004.
“McLuhan, Cosmic Media and the Future of Globalization,” Weatherhead
Center For International Affairs, Canada Seminar, Harvard University,
November 2003.
“Cosmic Media: Multiplicity, McLuhan, Miracles,” Lecture, Institute for
Research in the Humanities, University of Manitoba, November 2002.
Conferences Organized
Digital Differential: Art and Citizenship in Havana,
Helsinki and Toronto, York University, June 2008 (with guests
from Havana, Helsinki and other parts of the Americas and Europe), with
Dr. Susan Lord.
Migrating Media, International Conference on Transnational
Media Productions, Ryerson University, September 2007, Steering
Committee.
Symposium: New Methdologies and Urban Studies, (invited
members from York University and Queen’s University), York University,
April 2007.
Urban Interventions: A Symposium on Art and the City (a two
day public event held at the Drake Hotel in Toronto that brought over
twenty artists and theorists together to discuss civic and civil
issues), April 2005.
Urban Field Speakers Series (at Prefix Institute of
Contemporary Art, Toronto). Organized monthly international public
lectures on Art and the City, 2006-2008 with Scott McLeod (curator).
Curation
“In the House on the Street,” Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film,
Symphony in the Barn, Durham Ontario (program of films and videos)
August 2004.
“Canadian Video Art,” Second Annual Festival of Video,
Trivandrum, India May 2003
(two programs of Canadian Video from the Archives)
Being on Time: An Exhibition of 12 site specific installations
at Central Technical Highschool (Canada Council for the Arts) November
2001.
Audio-Video Production
Multimedia (producer)
Projected Cities, three site specific interventions in
the City of Toronto by members of the L.O.T. Media Collective, York University.
A) Ground—Archeological performance engaging with
Aboriginal Settlement at Baby Point;
B) Rythmanalysis of surfaces and alleys presented as part of Alley
Jaunt, August 2007;
C) Bees and Cells—a sound sculpture, exploring radiation levels in
Toronto.
Visible City Archive. An on-going research
archive that collects interviews and artists’ materials related to
creative spaces in the city and new forms citizenship (Toronto,
Helsinki, Havana), and Projected Cities experiments.
Density+Proximity+Tension: A Multimedia Study of Six Toronto
Neighborhoods, CD-ROM.
Six multimedia essays produced in collaboration with twenty students
involved in the Culture of Cites Project (2004).
Forthcoming Contributions
(R) "The Value of the Parochial," in Future Cities,
eds. Imre Szeman and Shirley Madill (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, forthcoming).
“Resistant Obsolescence: The Case of CineCycle,” eds. Charles Acland
and Haidee Wasson (California: University of California Press,
forthcoming).
“Media Studies and Mama’s Boys,” in Gary Genosko, McLuhan
(New York, London: Routledge, forthcoming).
“Translocal Art and Mobile Media in Toronto,” ed. Walter Moser, Urban
Transits (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, forthcoming).
All Fall Down (co-writer with Philip
Hoffman, director)—a history of 19th century land rights claims in
Southern Ontario, Film, 90 minutes, 2009.
Books in progress:
Liquid World, Cinematic Humanism (manuscript in
process).
Urban Mediations: Art, Ethnography and Material Culture (co-editor with Dr. Michael Darroch).
Art, Citizenship and Global Culture (co-authored
with Dr. Susan Lord).
