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Courses

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COMS 274 – Intermedia 1

COMS 474 – Intermedia 3

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Portfolio
This site contains video documents, texts and images collected from various recent bioart projects, installation projects, performance art works and net art projects.

Intermedia Production Stream
This site reflects some of the exciting and dynamic work being created by students in the Intermedia Production Stream in the Department of Communication Studies. Also see examples of third year Intermedia students work here.

Fluxmedia
Fluxmedia is a research-creation network that I currently direct and facilitate. The network is made up of artists, scholars, graduate students and research labs engaged with interdisciplinary research across art and the life sciences, including biology, digital and electronic media art, art/sci and transdisciplinary art practices. Research projects initiated through Fluxmedia explore how emerging technologies and biomedia intersect with new modes of visual imaging practices and cultural theory.

Tagny Duff

Assistant Professor

BFA, Intermedia, Emily Carr University of Art and Design

MFA, Open Media (With Distinction), Studio Arts, Concordia University

PhD, Candidate, Humanities Doctoral Program: Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University

My background is in media art with a focus on video, performance, net art, bioart, social sculpture and installation. My research/creation interests focus on visual culture, viral media, Web 2.0, interdisciplinarity, art/sci production and collaboration, post-studio art practice, and the relation between art, technology and science. Topics of interest include surveillance and biopolitics; queer(ing) culture; posthumanisms and changing perceptions of bodies; duration and spacetime; performance, liveness and documentation.
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Current research projects

Principal Investigator: Tagny Duff
Research Assistant: Antonia Hernandez (MA Communication Studies)
- Going Viral: Constructing, manipulating and generating forces of infection across digital and biological media. Funded by a New Scholar Standard Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. (2010-2013)

Principal Investigator: Tagny Duff
Research Assistant: Kendra Besanger (MA Communication Studies)
-Viral BioreMEDIAtion
This research explores and develops the concept of “bio-remediation” as the necessary interrelation between viral and microbial biological and digital media. Specifically, I am interested in working across the notions of bioremediation and remediation to reflect upon the cultural tensions surrounding the use of living systems to revitalize bodies. Funded by Le Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) (2011-2014)

- Fluxmedia is a research/creation network exploring the intersections of art, science and technology. The conceptual focus of Fluxmedia considers how the production and manipulation of wet-ware, life-forms and electronic media instigate cultural, philosophical, aesthetic and ethical concerns in art and culture. Much of the dissemination of research over the next three years will be in the form of workshops, lectures by guest speakers, and collaborative research-creation projects. Fluxmedia currently supports the development and creation of digital imaging with an inverted phase microscope and HD video. Graduate students interested in becoming involved with Fluxmedia are welcome to contact me.

Fluxmedia is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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Selected published chapters in books, journals and catalogs:

Duff, Tagny; Muhling, Jill; Godinho, Maria Grade; Hodgetts, Stuart. “How To Make Living Viral Tattoos”. Leonardo Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST). Spring 2011. Vol. 44, No. 2, Pages 164-165.

“Going Viral: Live Performance and Documentation in the Science Laboratory”. Performance Research Vol. 14, No.4 ‘Transplantations’(eds Ric Allsopp and Phillip Warnell). Routledge. 2009

“Living Viral Tattoos”. EVOLUTION HAUTE COUTURE: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age. Edited by Dmitry Bulatov. Published by the Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Art. 2009. pp 122-123 (Includes text and DVD component).

Revisiting Codpieces: Phallic Paraphernalia: Time, documentation and migration. Ed. Paul Couillard. Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars. Toronto: FADO Performance Art Inc. 2008.Pp 138-147.

FFWD, RWND and Play: Performance art, video and reflections on feminism in Vancouver 1973-1983. Caught in the Act: Performance Art By Canadian Women. Eds. Tanya Mars and Johanna Householder. Toronto: YYZ Books. 2004. Pp 41-53.

Telepresence. Sound in Contemporary Canadian Art. Ed. Nicole Gingras. Montreal: Artexte. 2004. Pg 166-169.

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Recent and upcoming conferences and lectures:

“Human Incubator for Feeding Microbes”. International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA). Istanbul Turkey. September, 2011.

“Cryobook Archives”. Database Narrative Archive (DNA) International Symposium, Concordia University. May, 2011.

Invited guest participant in “The Vibrancy Effect-Expert Meeting.” V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam Holland. April, 2011.

“Generating Fluxmedia”. Visceral symposium. Science Gallery, Dublin Ireland. February, 2011.

“Art, Activism and HIV”. Invited guest lecturer to the HIV/AIDS: Cultural, Social and Scientific Aspects of the Pandemic course at Concordia University. Montreal. November 4, 2010.

“Viral art”. Invited guest lecturer to COMS684 Media research Laboratory. Communication Studies, Concordia University. September 21, 2010.

“Retroviral Assemblages”. Textures. The 6th European Meeting of the Society of Literature, Science and the Arts. June 15-20, 2010. Latvia.

“My Body? My Wetware?” Chair and presenter. Arts interdisciplinaires : Hi-Tech, Lo-Tech, No-tech ? Hosted by Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du Québec, Montreal. May 29, 2010

“Visceral Encounters” Creative keynote. Intersections Conference 2010. Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture at Ryerson and York Universities. Toronto March, 12-14, 2010

“Art, Activism and HIV”. Invited guest lecturer to the HIV/AIDS: Cultural, Social and Scientific Aspects of the Pandemic course at Concordia University. Montreal. January 7, 2010.

“Living Viral Tattoos? Crisis Alert!” Amber Conference, Istanbul, Turkey. November 2009. Held in conjunction with The Amber Arts and Technology Festival.

“Living Viral Tattoos?” International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA), Belfast, Ireland. August 2009
Plenary panel with Andy Miah, Kerstin Mey, Kathy Rae Huffman, Laura Sillars and Anna Dumitriu.

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Forthcoming and recent exhibitions

“Viral Memorabilia”. Solo installation exhibition featuring Living Viral Tattoos, Cryobook Archives and Tissue Culture Point of View. FoFA Gallery. Montreal, Canada. October 2011.

“Mobile human incubator for feeding microbes”, part of BioARTCAMP, Banff National Park, Curated by Jennifer Willet, Incubator Labs in cooperation with The Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada. July 2011.

“Cryobook Archives”, part of Visceral, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. January-February 2011.

“Living Viral Tattoos” exhibited and screened at the Moscow Biennale as part of “Evolution Haute Couture”, curated by Dmitry Bulatov. Sept-Nov. 2009.

“Untitled”. Video screened recently as part of Discoverable sponsored by “Mobile Media Gallery”. Oct 26 and 27, 2009 . Curator: Kim Sawchuk.

“Living Viral Tattoos”, (Installation) selected for the International Symposia of Electronic Art official exhibition program. Belfast Ireland. August, 2009.

“Living Viral Tattoos”. Screened at the IX MediaForum 2008 as part of the Moscow International Film Festival as part of Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the post-biological era. Curated by Dmitry Bulatov and Olga Shishko (Moscow MediaARTLab).

“Living Viral Tattoos”. Kaliningrad Art Gallery. Russia. Exhibited and screened as part of Evolution Haute Couture: Art and science in the post-biological era. Organised by the Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre of Contemporary Arts. Curated by Dmitry Bulatov. 2008.

Last update: April 21, 2011 – 17:37