2469 Atkinson Street Regina, SK S4N 3X6 CANADA
jen@24elements.net

EDUCATION

M.F.A. OPEN MEDIA, Concordia University, Montreal 1996, thesis advisor: Giselle Amantea; dissertation: Symmetry Unlimited, 1995.

A.O.C.A.D. (Associate of the Ontario College of Art) Sculpture/Installation, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, 1992, thesis advisor: Ian Carr Harris

EXHIBITION HISTORY

(solo or collaborative marked with *)

2004 *Distance Made Good: Flowlines, made in collaboration with Jen Southern, Folly Gallery, Lancaster, UK, curator: Taylor Nuttal, and Kathryn Hughes (catalogue in progress)

*GamePlan, public commision, University of Regina, Centre for Kinesiology Fitness Health and Sport

drawing objects, in Thinking Inside the Box, Paved Arts, Saskatoon, curator: Tim Dallett, Director, Paved Arts

2003 Always Already, in To Conjure, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina , Curator: Sigrid Dahl, Independent Curator, Winnipeg

Out Skirts, in That’s Our Wonderful Town, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Curator: Timothy Long, Head Curator Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina (catalogue)

DMG: field Study, in Off the Map, Dunlop Art Gallery, Sherwood Village Branch, Regina, Curator: Ellen Moffatt, independent curator/artist, Saskatoon (publication, in progress)

2002 blender/curler, in Case Studies, Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto, Curator: Patrick Macauley, HarbourFront Art Gallery Director, Toronto

* Distance Made Good made in collaboration with with Jen Southern, The Gallery, Stratford Upon Avon, England, Curator: Annabelle Longborne, Director of The Gallery, Stratford Upon Avon (catalogue); http://www.theportable.tv/dmg2/

*curler, prototype, project room, Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre, Regina, curator: Anna Scott, gallery coordinator, Neutral Ground, Regina

*light circulation exercises, project room, Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre, Regina, curator: Anna Scott, gallery coordinator, Neutral Ground, Regina

2001 two opinions of space, site specific installation, in Petri’s Quadrille’s Zero is Something, Regina, Curator: Jen Hamilton, Independent Artist, Regina (catalogue, in process)

a-junct, site specific installation, sponsored by Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre, for Petri’s Quadrille, Doorway Zero, Regina, Curator, Ruth Chambers, Associate Professor, University of Regina (catalogue, in process)

2000 untitled, zero platform, sponsored by AKA Artist Run Centre, for Petri’s Quadrille’s Doorway Zero, Saskatoon, curator: Ruth Chambers, associate professor University of Regina

always already, faculty exhibition, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Curator: Timothy Long, Head Curator, Mackenzie Art Gallery

1999 “radio ouija board”, in Atomism and Animism, Science Museum, London, England, Curator: Martha Fleming, independent Artist/Curator/Writer , London England

Spirit Branch/Phantom Limb, Dunlop Art Gallery, Lanterns Festival, Regina, Curator: Helen Marzolf, independent curator, Saskatoon

1997 untitled wormhole, for "Browser" for Artropolis, Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, Curators: Kitty Scott and Andrew Renton see:www.celinerich.com/artropolis/artropolis.html

1996 new interpretation “fugue”, Spontaneous Combustion Collective, Mercer Union Retrospective, Mercer Union, Toronto

1995 *Symmetry Unlimited, Bourget Gallery, Montreal, thesis exhibition

“radio ouija board”, Faculty Exhibition Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal

1994 *"Parade", The Bourget Building, Concordia University, Montreal, graduate open house
*"fugue", Galerie Optica, with Michael Buchanan, Montreal, Curator: Lynn Hughes, Optica Board Member, Professor Concordia University

*Intention and Survival, Loggia Gallery, Toronto, Curator: John Massier, Curator Koffler Gallery, Toronto

“fugue”, Atlantis Gallery, London, England, Curator: The Spontaneous Combustion Collective, Toronto

*The Fecundity of Two Ideas, Bourget Gallery, Montreal, Graduate Exhibition Space

1993 *Critical Mass, Bourget Gallery, Montreal, Graduate Exhibition Space

1992 Adventure Wear, Cold City Invitational, Cold City gallery, Toronto, Curator: Eldon Garnet, Artist, instructor Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto
*Adventure Wear, diorama project space, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Curator: Steve Richards, independent artist, Toronto

1991 *Disturbed Upper Layers, Inglenook Community High School, Toronto
63/91, Ontario College of Art and Design Atrium Gallery, Toronto, ON
Polynomial, Ontario College of Art and Design Atrium Gallery, Toronto, ON, Curator: David Abbecassis, student, Sculpture Installation, OCAD

1990 Urban Eyes, Ontario College of Art and Design Atrium Gallery, Toronto, ON, Curated by Sculpture/Installation students

Video
2003 Closest I’ll Ever Get, and Hotel Intimate, Hotel Movie Show, Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre, Regina, Curator: Brenda Cleniuk, Director, Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre, Screening
2000 *pong@goonhilly, video installation made in collaboration with Louise K. Wilson, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Curator: Anthony Kiendl, Director, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Alberta (catalogue, in process)

Performance
2002 The Manufacturing of Zero, performance, Petri’s Quadrille, Regina, Curator: Michael Toppings, independent (text based) Artist, Montreal

1991 The Piano Mov(i)e, 16 mm finished on video, Ontario College of Art and Design, Film and Video Cabaret, Toronto, Screening

We Shave on Thursdays, 16 mm finished on video Ontario College of Art and Design, Film and Video Cabaret, Toronto, Screening

Web Projects
2005 Jen at Huddersfield AiR, jen05-uk.blogspot.com
2001 Sasketchbook, flash animations, Curated by: Brenda Cleniuk, Director, Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre, Regina; www.neutralground.sk.ca/soil
1997 Flea House, illustration, KITHOMES project, http://www.gas.u-et.com/kithomes/flea.html, curated by: KIT, artist collective, Montreal/UK

COMMISSIONS

GAME PLAN, University of Regina, Kinesiology Sport and Recreation Public Art Work, 2003

AWARDS, Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships (selected)

2005 Individual Assistance Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
Residency Funding, The Media Centre, Digital Research Unit Artist in Residence Program
2004 Thinking Inside the Box residency scholarship, Paved Arts and New Media, Saskatoon, January- February
2003 Joint funding for ITEM project, a NESTA grant through FACT media Centre. Liverpool, UK
Experimental Television Centre residency appointment
Canada Council Media-Arts Travel Grant to Owego, New York
2002 Individual Visual Artist Project Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
Banff Centre for the Arts, “Beauty” residency appointment and scholarship, Banff Oct.- Dec.
Phase One and Two of short list for Artist in Residence in Research (AIRes)Program, Canada Council for the Arts and the National Research Council
2000 Canada Council Inter-Arts Travel Grant, to Goonhilly Earth Station, Cornwall UK
Individual Visual Artist Project Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
1997 Canada Council for the Arts Individual Artist "C" Grant
1994 Teaching Fellowship, Department of Painting and Drawing, Concordia University
Canada Council Visual Arts Travel Grant to London, UK
1992 Ontario College of Art and Design graduating awards: Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal;
Sir Edmond Walker Scholarship; M. Joan Chalmers Award;Emanuel Hahn Award;
H.L. Rous Award for Sculpture

as collective member with Petri’s Quadrille:
project Approaching Zero:
2001 Transdisciplinary Fund Grant, Book Project, Office of the President, University of Regina
2000 Project Assistance Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
Exhibitions, Dissemination, Projects, Canada Council for the Arts, Faculty of Science, University of Regina

conference, exhibition, and residency “Superposition Art and Science Fair, 1998:
1997 Saskatchewan Arts Board, Project Assistance Grant, Petri’s Quadrille
Canada Council Project Assistance Grant, Petri’s Quadrille Art and Science Collective

PUBLICATION CREDITS, interviews, reviews

Joanne Skidmore radio interview, university commission,CBC Regional Arts Report, Feb. 26, 2004
Phillipe Santerre ” about drawing objects” for ZIGZAG, Radio-Canada, television interview, Feb. 2004
Jen Southern, “Distance Made Good,” a-n magazine, October 2003
Emma Posey, “Memory Maps,” Distance Made Good catalogue essay, 2003
David Maddox 'A tale of two Stratfords', Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, 11th July 2002
About Town, TV Interview “Petri’s Quadrille’s zero project” SCN TV, Regina, SK, October, 2002
Jack Anderson, “How do we know what to believe?,” The Leader Post [Regina], December 17, 2000.
Jack Anderson, “’Changing Times’ revealing, informative“ The Leader Post [Regina], April 13, 2000.
Anne-Marie Garceau, "La Fuite de la Conscience." ETC [Montreal], February-May, 1995.
Stephane Aquin, "Michael Buchanan, Jennifer Hamilton" Le Voir [Montreal], April 20, 1994.
Marie-Michelle Cron, "Michael Buchanan, Jennifer Hamilton" Le Devoir [Montreal], April 24, 1994.

PROFESSIONAL AND ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Artist Residencies

Interactive City, Cardigan, Wales, Aug-Sept, 2005

Satellite_Bureau, Neutral Ground artist run centre, Regina, SK, Mar- April, 2005

Artist in Residence,Digital Research Unit , The Media Centre, Huddersfield, England, January - March, 2005

ITEM research, Grizedale Art Centre, Grizedale Forest Cumbria, UK April, 2004

Thinking Inside the Box, Paved New Media Centre, Saskatoon, January -February, 2004. Max Intensive; Basic STAMP and Electronics residency.

Experimental Television Center, Owego New York, video with FLASH experiment project, in collaboration with text based artists Lori-Jo Anderson, April 2003

“Beauty” Thematic residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, October-December, 2002

SOIL digital media suite and Neutral Ground ( artist run centre), New Media project development, August 2001-January 2002

Department of Visual Arts, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Intermedia January 1997 - June 1999

Exhibitions Curated, with Petri’s Quadrille

Superposition: the Art and Science Fair, Galleria Mall, off-site gallery, Petri’s Quadrille, 1997

Zero is Something, for Approaching Zero, site-specific locations, Regina Petri’s Quadrille, 2001

Conferences (paper delivered)
2004 “Distance Made Good Installation Art using GPS technology, NEW FORMS conference, Vancouver

"Distance Made Good: liquid spaces", Ciberart-Bilbao, “Challenges for a Ubiquitous Identity,” Conference, Bilbao Spain

Presentations
2005 Jen the Digital Research Unit Artist in Residence, The Media Centre, Huddersfield, England

Art for Lunch, The University of Regina, Visual Arts Department

2004 Off Site Virtual Boot Camp, “Geodetic Project accelerator presentation”, Banff New Media Institute, TR Labs Regina

About “ITEM” drawing device for the creation of an exhibition technology, Grizedale Arts, Grizedale, Cumbria, UK

About “drawing objects” and other trials in studio, artist talk, Art 401, University of Regina

Kinesthetics and Public Art, artist talk, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina

2003 What is Public Space? panel discussion, Sculpture Conference, University of Regina

2002 “Amenable Interactivity”, Art 100, University of Regina
Envisioning Information- artist talk, studio class, University of Regina

2001 Poster Session: the amenable screen: interactivity and art, Neutral Ground, Regina Media Lounge Series, Regina

2001 “about a-junct and the Approaching Zero project”, a Petri’s Quadrille panel presentation, for Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre Architectural Series, Regina

2000 “the concepts of space, art, technology”, panel discussion, moderated by Jeanne Randolph, and “the development of pong@goonhilly”, with Louise K. Wilson for Space Camp 2000, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina

The Concept of Authenticity in Edward Curtis’ Photography, Anthropology lecture, University of Regina

1998 Introduction to the Intermedia Idea, Art History, University of Regina

Visiting Artist Lectures
2002 Potentia and Discernible Space- artist talk, Huddersfield University, Huddersfield

“Sensed Based Imaging: a proposed art and science Project,” Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council, Victoria BC and Institute for Chemical Processes, and Environmental Technology at the National Research Council, Ottawa for the Artist in Residence initiative (AiRes)

“distance made good” and “Two Opinions of Space”, residency talk, Banff Centre for the Arts thematic Residency

1999 Spooky Action at a Distance: Chaos and Imagery Manipulation, (revised) independent slide lecture and demonstration, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge

1994 artist talk, New Gallery, Calgary

Professional Service
Film juror, Saskatchewan Film Pool Collective, Regina, 2003
Petri’s Quadrille, Chairperson, 2000-2003

CARFAC Saskatchewan, Board Member 2000-2001
Media arts juror, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina, 2001

Committee Service, University of Regina
Ad Hoc Committee for the Creation of multimedia Institute at the University, Nov. 1998 - Feb. 1999
Curriculum Committee, Faculty of Fine Arts, September 1998 - May 1999
Fifth Parallel Faculty Representative, Department of Visual Arts, Sept. - Dec. 1998; Feb. - May, 1999.
Visiting Artist Coordinator, Department of Visual Arts, January 1998 - June 1999
Visiting Artist Committee Secretary, Department of Visual Arts, June - Dec. 1997

Facilitation/Coordination visiting lecture, the University of Regina Visual Arts Department
Vikky Alexander, visiting artist, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, March 1999
Kim Sawchuk, visiting lecturer from Concordia University, Montrèal, March 1999
Robert Prenovault, visiting artist, Montrèal, February 1999
Michael Buchanan, visiting artist, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Jan. 1999
Ian Carr Harris, visiting artist, Ontario College of Art and Design Toronto, January 1999
Sheila Butler, visiting artist, University of Western Ontario, London, November 1998
Jeanne Randolph, visiting critic/writer/psychoanalyst, University of Toronto, Toronto, Oct. 1998
Katie Campbell, visiting artist, Emily Carr School of Art and Design, Vancouver, September 1998
Ingrid Bachmann, visiting artist, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, March 1998
Nobuo Kubota, visiting artist/performer, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, January 1998

Professional Affiliations
Petri’s Quadrille, art and science collective Regina, Founding Member, 1997- present
CARFAC Saskatchewan, member, 2000 - present
Universities of Art Association of Canada (UAAC), 1997-1998

Training/Education
MAX/Basic Electronics residency workshop, PAVED Saskatoon, January, 2004

Tinkering, Sensors, MAX, and Machines, how to apply and use MAX programming in installation, audio, and video installation, Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre February 2001

Instituting the Write Traits: Informational Writing Rubric, Staff Development, Escuela Campo Alegre, Caracas, Venezuela November 1999

Assessing Student Learning, Staff Development, Escuela Campo Alegre, Caracas, Venezuela, September 1999

Teaching in Higher Education, five day seminar, Teaching Development Centre, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan August 1998

Teaching in Higher Education, four day seminar, Teaching Development Centre, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan September 1997

Intermediate Summer French Immersion, Université de Quebec à Chicoutimi July,1995

Symposiums (attended)
Consciousness Reframed 3, Centre for the Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (Caiia), University of Wales College, Newport Wales, August, 2000
International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Montreal, September, 1995

Writing
Zero is Something, catalogue essay, Petri’s Quadrille Approaching Zero project, (catalogue forthcoming) 2004
pong@goonhilly, Dunlop Art Gallery Exhibition catalogue essay written in collaboration with Louise K. Wilson, 2003
Cribsheet. Concordia Textile Exhibition Catalogue insert, Goldsmith’s College [London, England], 1995.
The Pea: notes on how to imagine a film in your head (a silent movie). Ideas and Debates: A Journal of Art Writing, O.C.A.D.: Toronto. Spring Issue No. 4, 1992.
We Shave on Thursdays. Ideas and Debates: A Journal of Art Writing, O.C.A.D.: Toronto. Spring Issue No. 4, 1992

TEACHING
University Appointments
Sessional Instructor, Drawing, foundation session 001 and 002
Fall semester 2003, Department of Visual Arts, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan

Sessional Instructor, Foundation Studies, 3 Dimensional Design, session 001
Winter semester 2002 and Fall semester 2001

Department of Visual Arts, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan

Assistant Professor (term appointment) Intermedia, Foundation Studies 3D and 2D, and Drawing
January 1997 - June 1998 ; July 1998 - June 1999 (appointment extended);
Department of Visual Arts, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan

Graduate Teaching Fellow, 2D and 3D Foundation Studies
1994-1995, Department of Painting and Drawing, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

Related Teaching
Mentor, visual art, Canadian Artist Representation Saskatchewan (CARFAC) mentorship program
September 2001- June 2002
Met with emerging artist; conducted weekly studio/meetings; helped to determine goal setting tasks for project and professional activity; co-wrote a developmental plan; critiqued work; fostered professional local networks.

Art Workshop Leader, visual art, Mendel Art Gallery, Tale of Two Valleys web project
May, 2002
This multimedia project was created through a partnership between the Bert Fox Composite High School in Fort Qu’Appelle and the Mendel Art Gallery. Through a series workshops over two months six students from Bert Fox created online artworks that addressed their perspectives on the history of Qu’Appelle Valley; published in collaboration with Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre; see http://quappelle.mendel.ca/youth/

Middle School Art Teacher, Escuela Campo Alegre, American International School, Caracas, Venezuela
August 1999 – June 2000
Taught introductory level drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture, and multi-media units to middle school students.

Substitute Teacher in Special Education, Art, and French, E.J. Dunn Junior High School, Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada
February - May 1996
Coordinate-ordinate and facilitate course material in new environment; develop steady rapport with seventh and eighth graders in short period of time
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Fiber Structures third year undergraduate class, Department of Sculpture, Ceramics, and Fibers, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
September 1993 – May 1994

Bookmaking Workshop Instructor, introductory session, Department of Painting and Drawing, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
June 1994, June 1993
Workshop was given to Foundation students; taught simple book binding techniques and procedures

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Fibers 200 undergraduate course
September 1992 - May 1993
Department of Sculpture, Ceramics, and Fibers, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

Graduate Research Assistant, Project: "Casting the Net: Bodies and Gestures in Technological Spaces." 1995; Gathered and catalogued data from internet based sources regarding the use of textiles and their correspondence to web ideology; funded by Concordia University. Project Leader: Barbara Layne
Department of Ceramics,Sculpture, and Fibers, Concordia University, Montreal Quebec

Related and Technical Experience
2004 Unit Publicist/ Associate Producer trainee, “Landscape as Muse”, 291 Film Company, Regina
2003 Art Department Co-ordinator/2nd Assistant Art Director, pre-production film, SUN/GFT Film/Hollywood Flies, Regina, June - Sept.
Second Assistant Art Director, pre-production tv series, Corner Gas/Verite Films, Regina, May - June
2000 Scenic Painter/Carpenter Assist, Myth Quest/ Mind’s Eye International, Regina, Oct. – Dec
1999 Electronics co-instructor (with Michael Buchanan), University of Regina, Visual Art Department,
1996 Gallery Assistant/Preparator, Or Gallery, Vancouver, May – September
1995 Installation Technician, Ingrid Bachmann at Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Nfld. May
Installation Technician, Laurel Woodcock at La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, January
1994 Video Coordinator/Stills Photographer, "Earth: A multimedia Guide for a Changing Environment" interactive CD project On/Q Corporation, Montreal Summer 1994
Electronics/Installation Technician, Corrine Corry New Gallery, Calgary May; Galerie Optica, Montreal, November 1993
1993 Assistant for chat room project "Nomad Web: Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up", Concordia University – Banff Centre for the Arts, Concordia Bulletin Board, September 1993 – May 1994
1992 Metal Shop Assistant, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, January – May

Travel
UK: Huddersfield, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Lancaster, Morecombe, Bath, Stratford Upon Avon, Oxford, Cambridge, Birmingham, Exeter, Lizard, Totnes, Newport, Bristol, and London
Venezuela: Caracas, Margarita Island, Tucacas, Morrecoy
Caribbean: Trinidad, Tobago, Curacuo, Aruba, Cuba
Italy: Turin, Milan, Rome, Florence, Offagna, Venice, Perugia
France: Paris
Germany: Berlin

Languages
Conversational Italian, intermediate level French and basic Spanish