Education

Master’s of Design (Fine Arts), Concordia, Montreal, Sept 2019 - June 2022

• Thesis explores the use of walking, debris collection, and paper making as collaborative materially engaged methods for uncovering and propagating hidden narratives within urban spaces

• Member of Milieux research-creation clusters Le Parc and Textiles & Materiality 

 

Undergraduate Degree in Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Sept 2005-April 2010

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Professional Experience​

• Teaching Assistant, Javascript Object Oriented Coding, L. Wilkins, Concordia University, Montreal Jan 2023 - present

• Teaching Assistant, Art and the Anthropocene, S. Jovanovic, Concordia University, Montreal, Jan 2023 - present

• Designer & Programmer, Raspberry Pi Video Wall, TAG Research Cluster of Milieux Institute, Montreal, Aug. 2022 - present

• Website & Audio Design, Fred Wah Archive, D. Fong, Concordia University, Montreal, Mar. 2022 - present

• Website Designer & Management, learningwiththestlawrence.ca & re-imagine.ca, K. Vaughan, Montreal, Dec. 2019 - present

• Teaching Assistant, The City After Dark, K. Herland, Concordia University, Montreal, Sept - Dec 2021 & 2022

• Research Coordinator, Materials & Materiality Research Chair, A. Jarry, Concordia University, Montreal, Sept. 2021 - May 2022

• Highschool Teacher, Digital Arts, Youth Fusion, Montreal, Sept. 2021 - Jan. 2022

• Teaching Assistant, Design Practices, M. Andraos, Concordia University, Montreal, Fall term 2020

 

Exhibitions, Publications, Workshops, and Residencies 

• Participant and Exhibition of Desire Lines: Vent Mapping, Bodies of Water: Sketching Desire Lines, Oxygen Art Center, Montreal & BC, Nov. - Dec. 2022 (Funded)

• Workshop facilitator of paper-making with flowers and debris, Marigold Project, Detroit (MI), Oct. 2022 (University funded travel)

• Workshop facilitator of debris filled paper mappings, in.situ Symposium, Concordia University, Montreal, Sept. 2022 (Funded)

• Co-facilitator, with Permission to Play,  of “playfully disobedient” walking tours, Fringe Arts Bath Festival, England, June 2022 (University funded travel)

• Facilitator of Public Mapping Workshop, Rencontres Emergence/y, Hexagram, Montreal, May 2022 (Funded)

• Exhibition of research-creation mappings, In the Middle Chimera, Milieux Institute, Montreal, May 2022 (Funded)

• Presentation of electronic paper research, Textile Science Symposium, Alberta, February 2022

• Artist Collaborator, Reframing the Past (Wales + Canada), January 2022 - July 2022

• Playground Collective Postal Service Public Intervention, Funded by the Scotland Arts Council, March 2022 - July 2022

• Researcher & Artist, Pulpy Circuit, Concordia University, Montreal, (upcoming) December 2021 

(Presentation of a funded research creation project that involves the use of paper making with electronics and debris)

• Paper Making Workshop Facilitator, POP Montreal, August 2021

• Researcher & Designer, Narrative Debris Master’s of Design Exhibition, Online, April 23 2021 

(Presented thesis research creation work that involves the use of participatory audio walks, mapping, papermaking, debris collection and participatory kits to explore new ways of relating to and learning with urban spaces)

• Facilitator, Papermaking Workshop, Milieux Institute (online), February 18 2021

• Performance & Creative Writing, MetroIntimacy, Saint Laurent Metro, Montreal, April 2020

• Creation & Performance, Be The Wall, 4th Space Concordia & city streets, Montreal, November 2019 

(Used audio recordings of ambient street sounds and myself asking questions, a soundboard, and simple circuitry to animate a suit painted to hide my “humanity”)

• Artist & Facilitation, Gender Buzz Exhibition, Venus Envy, Ottawa Ontario, June 2019 (A collection of illustrations that explore a feminist perspective on honeybees and their lives in general)

• Participant & Performer, Beetime Artist Residency, Santa Lucia, Spain, October 2017