Nell Tenhaaf

Nell Tenhaaf is an electronic media artist and writer living in Trent Hills, Ontario. Born in Oshawa, she has also lived in Montreal, Pittsburgh and Toronto. Tenhaaf’s artworks integrate elements from the biosciences and Artificial Life in the form of lightbox displays and interactive sculptures. A survey exhibition of fifteen years of her work entitled Fit/Unfit was shown in several Canadian venues between 2003 and 2008, and she has also shown in Spain, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, and the USA.

In the early 1980s Tenhaaf made pioneering artworks using the Telidon videotex protocol for interactive graphics and text, including public access to her databases via experimental telecommunication networks in Montreal. Her works from the late 1980s through the 1990s are known for their feminist commentary on biotechnology and genetics, presenting these as practices that only complicate how human nature is hybridized and imperfect. Later works represent some of the complex dynamics of life and involve the viewer as one element in a continuous flux, from WinWin (2012) back to the touch-activated video installation UCBM (You could be me) (1999). Tenhaaf collaborates with sound artist John Kamevaar, computer science researcher Melanie Baljko and electronics artist Nick Stedman.

Permanent collections include the National Gallery of Canada, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON, The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Pret d’oeuvres d’art), the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, and the Canada Council Art Bank.

Tenhaaf has published numerous reviews and articles, and was jury chair for the VIDA art and artificial life competition in Madrid from 1999 to 2014. She is Professor Emerita at York University in Toronto.

Nell Tenhaaf's Website

Solo Exhibitions
2022	You tell me that it’s evolution, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2018	Push/Pull: an excitable sculpture, live demo with EEG sonification at LIVELab, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
2012	Life Forms, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, ON
2013	WinWin, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2008	Homeostatic, Tom Thomson Art Gallery/Owen Sound, ON
2007	Fit/Unfit: A Survey Exhibition, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
2005	Flo'nGlo, Paul Petro Contemporary Art
2004	Fit/Unfit, A Survey Exhibition, The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario Fit/Unfit, A Survey Exhibition, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal
2003	Fit/Unfit, A Survey Exhibition, The Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa, ON (catalogue)
2002	dDNA (d is for dancing), Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2001	Quick Fix, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2000	The Empathy Sessions, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto Western Front, Zero Degree Monstrosities, UCBM (You could be me), Vancouver
1999	public video projection developed on-site, MediaArts, St. Louis UCBM (You could be me), Paul Petro Contemporary Art, a co-presentation with the Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto Neonudism, Technoboro, Montreal
1997	Neonudism, InterAccess electronic media arts centre, Toronto
1995	Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal
1993	Galerie Lallouz + Watterson, Montreal
1992	Galerie Samuel Lallouz, In Vitro, Montreal Axe Neo-7, installation videodisque Horror autotoxicus, Hull
1990	Horror autotoxicus, videodisc installation, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver
1988	installation Gramatica, Galerie Oboro, Montreal
1987	A.R.C. Gallery, videotex installation and drawings, Toronto Believable if not always true..., installation videotex, Galerie J. Yahouda-Meir, Montreal
1985	Silence is a Monument, Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal
1982	She was a perfect recluse, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax
1980	Galerie Powerhouse, dessins, Montreal
1979,77	Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal

Two Person Exhibitions & Collaborations
2013	NSF (nous sommes fragiles), Tenhaaf with John Kamevaar audio/video performance in The Box Salon at the Rivoli, Toronto, ON
2001	Quick Fix, with Derrick Hodgson, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
1996	Myths From Cyberspace, with Sylvie Blanger, The Koffler Gallery, curated by Carolyn Bell Farrell, Toronto
1995	50 ml. of Pittsburgh Air, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, CMU Art faculty exhibit, collaboration with Steven Kurtz, Pittsburgh
1994	Nell Tenhaaf/Blair Robins, Glendon Gallery, Toronto
1990	There's a mirror/ear at the end of my bed , SAW Contemporary Artists' Centre,Touch That Dial collaboration with Kim Sawchuk, Ottawa
1985	Filiations , Galerie Powerhouse, collaboration with my mother, Kay Tenhaaf, Montreal
1983	Heros/Heroes, Galerie Articule, Montreal

Group Exhibitions
2013	exhibition of WinWin for launch of Sensorium York University School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design Organized Research Unit, Toronto, ON
2010	thelivingeffect, Ottawa Art Gallery: Push/Pull /Ottawa, ON
2007	Bios 4, CAAC (Centro Andaluz de Arte Contempor neo) /Sevilla, ES
2005	This Must Be The Place, Interaccess Gallery with Vera Frenkel, David Rokeby, Nell Tenhaaf, Norman White /Toronto, ON
2003	Complexity, Samuel Dorsky Museum, SUNY /New Paltz, NY and Federal Reserve Board /Washington, DC The Bigger Picture, Ottawa Art Gallery /Ottawa, ON
2002	Digitized Bodies, Mestna Galerija /Ljubljana, SI
2001	25 Artists, 25 Years: Celebrating the Faculty of Fine Arts, Leonard &Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia, Montreal Digitized Bodies, Ludwig Museum /Budapest, HU
2000	Intimate Perceptions, Interaccess: photos; and Zsa Zsa Gallery: dDNA (d is for dancing), Toronto Odd Bodies, Oakville Galleries, Oakville Odd Bodies, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary Dream Ecology, The Koffler Gallery, Toronto Dream Ecology, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
1999	Contemporary galleries, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Choice, three Canadian artists at Enkehuset Gallery and Gallery Astly, Skinnskatteberg: UCBM, Stockholm The Body In Question, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
1998	Digital Documentary: The Need to Know and the Urge to Show, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Art & Science: Selected Works, Foster Gallery Baton Rouge, LA Interface: Encounters with New Technology, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa Works on Paper, Winters Gallery, York University, Toronto
1997	Like Life, Brighton Media Centre, Brighton, UK Promises of Monsters, Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD
1996	Techno-seduction, The Cooper Union, New York Odd Bodies/Corps etrangers, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Dessins et maquettes de sculpteurs/Drawings and maquettes by sculptors, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal
1995	Que sont les pionnieres devenues?: Centre Copie-Art -Galerie Arts Technologiques, in conjunction with ISEA95, Montreal Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Gallery artists, Toronto
1994	Le corps: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld Le corps: Haus am Waldsee, Berlin Le benefice du doute: Le Sous-sol, Paris Frankenstein: Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph Arte Virtual: 12 Protuestas de Arte Reactivo, Horror autotoxicus, Madrid
1993	Le benefice du doute: Optica, Montreal Body-guard: London Regional Art Gallery, London Angles of Incidence: video reflections of multimedia artworks, document of Horror autotoxicus, Banff
1992	Les Cent jours d'art contemporain, Vues d'ensemble Horror autotoxicus, Montreal
1991-92	Other Frontiers: Species Life, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow Other Frontiers: Species Life, Canada House, London Other Frontiers: Species Life, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris
1991	Liveware: 00 Gallery, Halifax Species Life: Evelyn Aimis Gallery, Toronto
1990	Regeneration: Inside/Outside, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston Species Life, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto The 3-D Image: installation Gramatica, The New Gallery, Calgary
1989-91	Legitimation: Species Life, Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal Legitimation: Species Life, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver Legitimation: Species Life, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary Legitimation: Species Life, London Regional Art Gallery, London Legitimation: Species Life, Vu, Quebec
1989-90	Machinations: Memory Room, Galerie Christiane Chassay, Montreal Machinations: Memory Room, Expression St-Hyacinthe Machinations: Memory Room, Espace Virtuel, Chicoutimi Machinations: Memory Room, Galerie UQAM, Montreal
1989	Beyond Electronics: installation Gramatica, Gallery 1.1.1., Winnipeg
1988	Le Dessin Errant, The Ninth Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition: Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax Le Dessin Errant, The Ninth Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition:Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal Le Dessin Errant, The Ninth Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition: Musee du Quebec, Quebec Canadian Contemporary Works on Paper from the Collection : Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal
1987	Siting Technology: The Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Siting Technology: Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
1986	Women in Adverticity (Eye Revue): Union Station, Toronto
1985	Art is Communications: A Space, Toronto Art is Communications: Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax Pictures of Democracy: Video Cabaret (videotex), Toronto Digicon 85 : Arts, Sciences and Technology Centre, Toronto Collection Pret d'Oeuvres d'art : Musee du Quebec, Quebec
1984	TVOntario broadcast : BETA videotex magazine, Toronto Collection Pret d'Oeuvres d'art : Musee du Bas St-Laurent Riviere-du-Loup Anti-Nuke Show : Galerie Powerhouse (itinerante), Montreal The Artist as a Young Machine: Ontario Science Centre, Toronto Artists Talk About Technology : ANNPAC Conference, Halifax Feministe toi-meme, feministe quand meme : La Chambre Blanche, Quebec
1983	Actuelles 1 : Place Ville Marie (itinerante), Montreal
1982	A l'invitation de Francoise Sullivan : Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal
1981	Five Women Artists : Forest City Gallery, London She was a perfect recluse : Galerie Motivation V, Montreal
1980	Powerhouse a la Salle Tremble, Alma

Projects
1996	Machines for Evolving, New Formations, Winter; Jody Berland, guest editor
1995	Interpenetrations in Cultronix on-line journal Issue Two
1990	Dispersal of a Black Cloud, with K. Gramsci, Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, Spring; Janice Andreae and Marilyn Burgess, guest editors
1990	Project, C Magazine 24, Winter; Jeanne Randolph, guest editor

Publications
2014	"‘Trust Regions’ for Art/Sci" (commissioned), “As Art Is Lifelike: Evolution, Art, and the Readymade” (reprint) and "Art Embodies A-Life: The VIDA Competition" (reprint) in A. Bureaud, R.F. Malina, L. Whiteley (eds), Meta-Life: Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, ALife and the Arts (Leonardo/Olats/ISAST and the MIT Press, e-book).
2012	We Want our Art to (Mis)Behave in VIDA1999-2012: Art and Artificial Life (Madrid: Fundación Telefónica) pp. 78-87. With Melanie Baljko, “Sensory, sonic and symbolic features of a collaborative media art practice,” Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 109-119.
2009	"Outside the Comfort Zone" for Janet Jones: Dada Delirium, touring exhibition organized by the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound.
2008	With Melanie Baljko, “The Aesthetics of Emergence: Co-constructed Interactions” in ACM Transactions on Human–Computer Interaction (TOCHI - Special Double Issue on the Aesthetics of Interaction), Vol. 15, Issue 3, November, pp. 11:1-27. “Art Embodies A-Life: The VIDA Competition” in Leonardo, Vol. 41:1, pp. 6-15.
2003	“Freda Guttman: Notes from the 20th” exhibition pamphlet essay, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto. "Production and Reproduction" in Judy Malloy (ed), Women, Art and Technology (Cambridge: MIT Press/Leonardo), pp. 362-375. “Cybernetic Social Space” in M. Fernandez, F. Wilding, M.M. Wright (eds), Domain Errors!: Cyberfeminist Practices (New York: Autonomedia), pp. 251-256.
2002	"Perceptions of Self in Art and Intelligent Agents" in K. Dautenhahn, A. Bond, L. Cañamero, B. Edmonds eds., Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating relationships with computers and robots (Norwell, Mass: Kluwer Academic Publishers), pp. 235-242.
2001	"Of Monitors and Men and Other Unsolved Feminist Mysteries: Video Technology and the Feminine" (reprint), in Hilary Robinson, ed., Feminism-art-theory: an anthology, 1968-2000 (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 2001), pp. 377-387. "Where Surfaces Meet: Interviews with Stuart Kauffman, Claus Emmeche and Arantza Etxeberria" in Leonardo, Vol. 34, No. 2.
2000	"Gary Evans, Field Work" catalogue essay, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga. (reprint of 1998 pamphlet for Art Gallery of Woodstock exhibit).
1999	Nurturing the Artificial in So, to Speak (Montreal: Artextes Editions, 1999).
1998	Mary Scott: in me more than me, essay (reprint) in Ingrid Bachmann and Ruth Scheuing, eds., Material Matters (Toronto: YYZ). As Art is Lifelike: Evolution, Art, and The Readymade in Leonardo, Vol. 31,No. 5 [refereed journal] and on Leonardo Electronic Almanac. Gary Evans, Field Work catalogue essay, McDonald Stuart Art Centre, Guelph. Interviews with Stuart Kauffman, Claus Emmeche and Arantza Etxeberria: "Semiosis, Evolution, Energy: Interviews with Three Scientists" in Nettime archives (go to January 1998).
1997	Studiolo: The Collaborative Work of Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapointe, review with Camilla Griggers in Fuse Vol. 20 No. 4, 1997. Neonudism in Parachute 85, Jan/Feb/Mar
1996	Mysteries of the Bioapparatus in Immersed in Technology: Art, Culture and Virtual Environments (Banff and Boston: The Banff Centre and MIT Press). Of Monitors and Men and Other Unsolved Feminist Mysteries: Video Technology and the Feminine in Peggy Gale and Lisa Steele, eds., Video re/View (Toronto: Art Metropole and V Tape).
1995	Of Monitors and Men and Other Unsolved Feminist Mysteries: Video Technology and the Feminine in Simon Penny, ed., Critical Issues in Electronic Media (Buffalo: SUNY Press).
1993	Mary Scott, catalogue essay, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton. Simorg Culture, in La Bestiaire/Endangered Species, Parachute 72. Juan Geuer: Investigating Chaos, catalogue essay, The Ottawa Art Gallery.
1992	Mutational Cravings, C Magazine 36, Winter, guest editor Renee Baert. Of Monitors and Men and Other Unsolved Feminist Mysteries: Video Technology and the Feminine, Parallelogramme vol. 18, no. 3, part of inter-magazine project The Video Issue/Propos Video edited by Renee Baert and sponsored by Satellite Video Exchange Society, Vancouver. Nameless, Named: Paintings and Works on Paper by Sheila Butler, catalogue essay, Hart House, University of Toronto.
1991	Virtual Seminar on the Bioapparatus, co-produced with Catherine Richards, Banff Centre for the Arts. Paulette Phillips, performance review, Parachute 63.
1990	A History, or a Way of Knowing in Instabili: la question du sujet, Montreal: Galerie Powerhouse and Artexte. Interpretation/Interpenetration in Texts 3, Calgary. Cultural Space as Sacred Space in Harbour vol. 1, no. 1. Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapointe, exhibition review, Parachute 58. Book review, Parachute 57.
1988	Future-think, exhibition review of Images du Futur, Vanguard, Nov/Dec. Virus, exhibition review of Genevieve Cadieux, C Magazine 18. Sylvia Safdie, exhibition review, Vanguard, Dec/Jan. 1987/88.
1987	Le creux de la vague - Sexisme et feminisme in L'epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou (translation of 1984 Vanguard article). International Artists' Books Contest of Canada, exhibition review, Vanguard, Feb/Mar. Freda Guttman, Guatemala, exhibition review, C Magazine 14. Pandora Re-visited: Art and New Technologies in Journal of Architectural Education, Washington, D.C., Summer.
1985	Defying the Death Machine, interview with Nancy Spero in collaboration with Nicole Jolicoeur, Parachute 39. Defining the Issues in Artists Talk About Technology/Interface: Artistes/Technique, ANNPAC/RACA. Re-telling Pandora: Technology and Myth in Art is Communications, A Space, Toronto. Le reseau parallele au Canada, Cahiers, septembre.
1984	The Trough of the Wave: Sexism and Feminism in Vanguard, Sept. 1984 National Artists' Books Contest, exhibition review, Vanguard, March.
1980	First International Festival of Women Artists, Copenhagen, report, Fuse, Nov.

Lectures and Panels
2018	The Basement Tapes: Media Arts Reunion, at InterAccess. Curators, artists, and artworks active between 1980-1989, representing Toronto's early electronic arts scene. Talk on my Telidon work, Toronto, ON A-B-Z-TXT interdisciplinary typography school, presentation on Telidon artists in Toronto in the 1980s, Toronto, ON Ideas Digital Forum organized by Ontario Association of Art Galleries and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery. State of the Field: panel moderator, Oshawa, ON Artificial Imagination symposium on artistic practice, machine learning and artificial intelligence organized by ArtEngine: panel moderator, Ottawa, ON
2014	lecture “Stretching the Envelope of New Media Art”: invited speaker in Killam Lecture Series co-sponsored by the Dalhousie Art Gallery and the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
2013	Hexagram-Concordia Distinguished Speaker Series, in collaboration with Hexagram \| CIAM and Phi Centre, Montréal, QC: lecture “When Materialities Multiply: Chaos and Promise between the Computational and Biological Arts”; and round-table “When Forms of Life Collide” in HEXA_OUT series. OCAD University Digital Futures Initiative TalkxTalk speaker series, with Melanie Baljko, Toronto, ONo
2011	artist’s talk and panel discussion on the state of new media art at Ottawa Art Gallery, thelivingeffect, Ottawa, ON
2009	Art Meets Science plenary lecture, York University 50th Anniversary event, Toronto, ON
2008	artist's talk at Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
2007	artist’s talk at Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON guest lecture in Women, Art, Technology series, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2005	panel on low-res signal in Images Festival, with John Kamevaar and Gebhard Sengmüller, Toronto, ON
2004	artist’s talk at Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON
2003	artist’s talk at St. Norbert Arts Centre, Winnipeg, MB
2002	Artificial Stupidity, paper on relationality in a-life art, Banff, AB Shifting Practices, RCA Visual artist-run centre, panel, St. John's, NL ARCCO conference: Convergence, artist-run centres meeting, Ottawa, ON
2001	artist's talk at Ryerson Polytechnic University Toronto
2000	American Association for Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposia, paper/video presenting my work, Falmouth, Mass. artist's talk at SUNY Visual Art Dept. Buffalo, NY Growing Things: The Cultures of Nano Tech, Bio Tech & Eco Tech Meat Art, paper/video presenting my workBanff Zero Degree Monstrosities, Clinical Trial symposium Vancouver College Art Association Annual Meeting, panel, Negotiating the Tensions Between Two Divergent World Views -- Art and Science chaired by Margot Lovejoy, New York
1999	artist's talk at Washington University St. Louis, MO Brown Bag Seminar Series, speaker, Atkinson College Art and Technology program, York University, Toronto Invencao: Thinking the Next Millenium, paper and two panels at combined ISEA/Caiia/Leonardo conference [invited guest at Leonardo editorial board meeting, Rio de Janeiro], Sao Paulo Art ex Machina: Art and the New Media, colloquiam at Carleton University (Carleton Gallery), Ottawa Des souris et des oeuvres, colloque on new media and Internet in university art programs, UQAM, Montreal workshop on Net cams, Technoboro Kool-aid series, Montreal
1998	artist's talk in "Art and Science" course, OCAD Toronto panel, "Scope as Trope" in ISEA98Terror Manchester, UK artist talk at InterAccess, Tactile Video series, Toronto Okanagan University College (talk and crits) and Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC talks at McGill University (graduate students) and Universite de Montreal, Montreal
1997	Imaging the Future, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Femmes-branchees at Studio XX, talk on Neonudism, Montreal Wildest Dreams: Conversations about Art and Technology, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ont. Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life, poster Brighton, UK Technology Cheated my Image symposium, University of Windsor School of Visual Arts, Windsor panel in conjunction with Promises of Monsters Rockville, MD College Art Association Annual Meeting, panel The Artificial Life Class chaired by Roy Ascott, New York
1996	artist's talk in conjunction with Myths from Cyberspace, Koffler Gallery, Toronto Digital Dreams, conference on art, science and technology Newcastle-on-Tyne Interpenetrations: Art, Science, Cultural Theory, panel organizer and presenter, ISEA96, Rotterdam
1995	Que sont les pionnieres devenues?, panel organized by CRITIQ in conjunction with ISEA95, Montreal The subject under surveillance, panel, Floating Gallery photo-festival and symposium, Winnipeg University of Western Ontario, Art Department, artist's talk and student critiques, London
1994	Carnegie Mellon University Art Department, lecture Pittsburgh Art and Virtual Environments Symposium, Centre for the Arts, Banff Deuxieme rencontres internationales art cinema, art s video, art ordinateur, Videotheque de Paris, table ronde, Paris
1993	University of Reading, artist's talk and student crits Reading, England Sheffield Hallam University, artist's talk and student crits Sheffield, England Ecole des Beaux Arts, conference et critiques Dijon, France Intervenante, performance d'Orlan transmise de New York au Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Jan van Eyck Akademie, artist's talk, Maastricht, Holland Utrecht Universtiy, gender and technology program Utrecht, (Prof. Rosi Braidotti), artist's talk, Holland Artist's talks, Vilnius, Lithuania Images de la Nature, table ronde, Societe de l'esthetique Montreal Universite Concordia, guest in MFA Video class, Montreal Universite Concordia, guest in Feminism inhabits Technology, Communications Dept., Montreal The Ordering of Bio-space, paper, College Art Assoc. Seattle Cyberspace, Virtual Reality and the Artist, videoconferencing panel, Toronto and Montreal
1992	The Ordering of Bio-space in Transcending Cyberspace, symposium organised by Inter/Access, Toronto Artist testimonial dans Points de forces: les centres d'artistes, colloque organisee par R.C.A.A.Q. et La Centrale, Montreal Simulation and Immersion in Virtual Space, National Gallery of Canada (for Land, Spirit, Power exhibition), Ottawa Respondent for panel Gendered Space, in Architecture + Culture symposium, Carleton University, Ottawa Les Cent jours d'art contemporain, artist's talk, Montreal Galerie Samuel Lallouz, artist's talk, Montreal Mount Allison University, artist's talk and student crits, Sackville NSCAD, artist's talk and student crits, Halifax
1991	Banff Centre for the Arts, artist's talk Banff Simon Fraser University, artist's talk and student crits, Vancouver Invited panelist with Madelon Hooykaas and Elsa Stansfield, La Centrale, Montreal UniversiteConcordia, guest in Women and the Fine Arts Montreal
1990	Artspeak, artist's talk with Johanne Lamoureux Vancouver Women, Aesthetics, Theory, Practice, panel in Canadian-German symposium on feminist aesthetics, Goethe Institute, Toronto Theory Invasion, panel, Concordia Fine Arts, Montreal The Banff Centre, Art Studio, invited artist, Banff
1989	Invited panelist with Nancy Spero and Margaret Harrison, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Woman as Television, reading for The Postmodern Commotion, CKUT Radio McGill, Montreal Gallery 1.1.1., artist's talk, Winnipeg
1988	Mackenzie Art Gallery, artists' panel Regina Dalhousie University Art Gallery, artist's talk Halifax
1987	Walter Phillips Gallery, artist's talk, Banff The Ethics of Being an Artist, CARFAC panel, Ottawa Inter/Access, videotex workshop, artist's talk, Toronto
1985	Video Inn, videotex workshop Vancouver
1984	Plug-In Gallery/MAWA, talk on art and feminism Winnipeg Premiere Biennale de l'Est du Quebec, panel L'art, lieu Riviere-du-du pouvoir Loup Artists Talk About Technology/Interface: artistes/technique, ANNPAC/RACA panel, Halifax
1983	Institut Simone de Beauvoir, talk Montreal La Chambre Blanche, artiste invitee Quebec Art and Feminism, ANNPAC/RACA, panel chair Kingston
1982	Art et feminisme, Musee d'art contemporain, panel Montreal
1980	First International Festival of Women Artists, talk Copenhagen

Grants & Awards
2006	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Research/Creation grant, 3-year project on “Conversing with abstract artificial agents” with Dr. Melanie Baljko, Dr. Kim Sawchuk, John Kamevaar
2005	Canada Council for the Arts/Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council New Media Initiative, 3-year project in collaboration with co-PI Dr. Melanie Baljko (Computer Science) Ontario Arts Council, Integrated Arts – Research and Development, with John Kamevaar
2002	Canada Council, Media Arts - Production Grant
2000	Canada Council, Travel Grant York University Merit Award
1998	Canada Council, Media Arts - Integrated Media York Universtiy Junior Research Fund Award
1997	SSHRC Small Research Grant, for Web site
1995	Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, arts mediatiques
1994	Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, Aide aux artistes professionnels
1993	Canada Council, Paris studio Canada Council, Media Arts - Integrated Media
1992	Corel Systems Award, for Bioapparatus project, with Catherine Richards and The Banff Centre for the Arts1992 Ministere des Affaires culturelles, Soutien a la pratique artistique, longue duree
1991	Ministere des Affaires culturelles, Soutien a la pratique artistique, courte duree Canada Council, Visual Arts, B Grant
1990	Ministere des Affaires culturelles, Soutien a la pratique artistique, courte duree
1989	Canada Council, Multidisciplinary, B Grant Ministere des Affaires culturelles, Soutien a la pratique artistique, courte duree Canada Council, Multidisciplinary, Project Grant
1988	Ministere des Affaires culturelles, Accessibilite, Bourse de projet Bourse d'etudes superieures, Fonds F.C.A.R., Quebec
1987	Canada Council, Multidisciplinary, Travel Grant Bourse d'etudes superieures, Fonds F.C.A.R., Quebec
1985	Canada Council, Project Grant
1984	Ministere des Affaires culturelles, Ressources techniques (research in 3-D computer imaging, Universite de Montreal) Canada Council, Media Arts - Integrated Media
1983	Canada Council, Media Arts - Integrated Media
1982	Canada Council, Project Cost Grant
1979	Ministere des Affaires culturelles, Aide aux artistes

Collections
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown PEI The Glenbow Museum, Callgary, AB The Surrey Art Gallery, B.C. The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Canada Council Art Bank Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Collection Prêt d’œuvres d’art) Private Collections

Administration
1999-2014	Jury Chair for Vida/Life 2.0 to 16.0, international Artificial Life art competition, sponsored by Fundación Arte y Tecnología de Telefónica, Spain
1999	Mentor in Residence, Mentoring Artists for Womens' Art, Winnipeg, one-month stay advising four local women artists and additional studio visits Artistic director and jury head of Life 2.0, art and a-life international competition, Madrid
1998-	Advisory Board, New Media, Ryerson Polytechnic University
1997-	Board of Directors (Editorial Board), Fuse Magazine, Toronto
1996-97	Contributing Editor, Fuse Magazine, Toronto
1995-97	Cultronix collective, production of cultural studies e-journal, Carnegie Mellon
1994	Conseil d'administration/Board of Directors, PRIM, Montreal
1990-91	Co-organizer with Catherine Richards of Bioapparatus residency, seminar and publication at The Banff Centre for the Arts
1988-94	Conseil d'administration/Board of Directors, Artexte Centre d'information
1987-88	Co-directrice/co-director, Artexte, Montreal
1986-87	Documentaliste/database development, Artexte, Montreal
1987-93	Co-director with Catherine Richards of Project 0.1.0., research on the interrelation of culture and new technologies
1985-86	Conseil d'administration/Board of Directors, Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal
1983-84	Membre du comite organisateur, Anti-nuke Show, Galerie Powerhouse
1983-85	Reseau informatique/Data Network committee, ANNPAC/RACA
1981-83	Representante regionale pour le Quebec, ANNPAC/RACA
1980-83	Coordinatrice/coordinator, Galerie Powerhouse
1977-80	Coordinatrice assistante/assistant coordinator, Galerie Powerhouse

Teaching
2018-	Professor Emerita, York University, Toronto
2011-2018	Professor, York University, Toronto
2000-2011	Associate Professor, York University, Toronto
1997-00	Assistant Professor, York University, Toronto
1994-97	Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
1990-92	Professeur remplacant/Replacement Professor, University of Ottawa
1989-90, 92-94	Chargee de cours/part-time teacher, University of Ottawa
1985-90	Chargee de cours/part-time teacher, Concordia University, Montreal

Solo catalogues, Feature articles, Solo exhibition reviews
Janice Andreae, Legitimation review, Parachute 61, 1991. Stephane Aquin, "Science et Realite", critique d'exposition, Voir mai 1993. Stephane Aquin, "Le facteur realite", critique de In Vitro, Voir 21 mai 1992. Stephane Aquin, critique d'exposition, Voir juillet 1995. Daina Augaitis, exhibition catalogue for Siting Technology, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, 1988. Rose Marie Arbour, Francine Couture, "Table ronde: questions a trois artistes sur la creation", Possibles vol. 9, no. 2 (hiver 1985). Nancy Baele, "Rare white-gloves exhibition emphasizes one-on-one contact with art", review of De Causis et Tractatibus, Axe Neo 7 Art Contemporain, Hull, The Ottawa Citizen, April, 1994. Nancy Baele, "National Gallery prints, drawings live up to exhibit's Odd Bodies title", The Ottawa Citizen, Dec. 1, 1996. Renee Baert, exhibition review, C Magazine, Winter 1996. Renee Baert, exhibition catalogue for Legitimation, Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, 1989. Renee Baert, radio interviews for Legitimation, CKUT Radio McGill (The Postmodern Commotion), Nov. 1989, and Radio Canada (Pr�sence de l'art), Dec. 1989. Bruce Barber, "Technophiles, Technophobes and Technocrats" in Fuse Fall 1984. Catherine Bedard, "Une heraldique du malasie/A heraldry of malaise", catalogue essay for Le Benefice du Doute, Optica, Montreal et Centre d'Art Contemporain d'Herblay, France (Les Cahiers des Regards), 1994. Judith Belanger, "Traits d'esprits", critique de Le Dessin Errant, Voir 19 mai 1988. Serge Berard, critique d'exposition, Parachute Ete 1987. Georges Bogardi, exhibition review, The Montreal Star March 21 1979. Nancy Campbell, exhibition catalogue for Frankenstein: Explorations in Manipulation and Surrationality, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, 1994. Christine Conley, exhibition catalogue for Regeneration, Agnes Etherington Art Centre,Kingston, 1990. 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Book Chapters, Articles, Symposium Reports
Rose Marie Arbour, Dossier \| Féminin pluriel et féminismes en arts visuels au Québec on esse arts + opinions (http://esse.ca), 2013. Cadence Kinsey, “Matrices of Embodiment: Rethinking Binary and the Politics of Digital Representation” in Signs, Vol. 39, No. 4, Summer (The University of Chicago Press), pp. 897-925, 2014. Tanja Nusser, Wie Sonst Das Zeugen Mode War: Reproduktionstechnologien in Literatur und Film (Frieburg i.Br./Berlin/Wien: Rombach Verlag KG), pp. 149-151, 2011. Ingeborg Reichle, Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art (Wien/New York: Springer), 2009, various pages. Caroline Seck Langill, "Negotiating the hybrid: art, theory and genetic technologies" in AI & Society, Vol. 20, No. 1, January 2006 (Springer London), pp. 49-62. Edward Shanken, ed., Art and Electronic Media (London and New York: Phaidon Press), in section “Charged Environments,” pp. 96-119, 2009. Johanne Sloan, “Relations, 1988: Photographie, postmodern, feminist” in Journal of Canadian Art History, Vol. XXXVI:1, 2015. Ingeborg Reichle, Kunst aus dem Labor: Zum Verh ltnis von Kunst un Wissenschaft im Zeitalter (Vienna: Springer-Verlag, 2005). Ingeborge Reichle, "Where Art and Science Meet: Genetic Engineering in Contemporary Art" in Kunst Texte, 2/2003; abridged and translated for Media Art Net. Jools Gilson-Ellis, "Loa and behold: voice ghosts in the new technoculture" in Digital Creativity (UK: Routledge), Vol. 12, Issue 2, June 2001, pp. 77-88. Helga Pakasaar, "Technology Cheated my Image Symposium," Windsor Review, Vol. 31 No. 1, Spring 1998.