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Office: CJ 4.415 Please contact me by email if you’d like to meet or talk by phone between semesters. Courses Fall COMS 325 – Research Methods in Communication & Cultural Studies Year COMS 830A – PhD Forum/Forum doctorale Links Canada & the Films of Expo 67 Adventures in Research Creation (ARC) Archiving R69: Made in Korsakow Monika Kin GagnonAssociate Professor
Current Research Canada and the Films of Expo ’67 is examining several Canadian films and Pavilions from Expo ’67, including multi-screen Labyrinth, A Place to Stand, Polar Life, The Telephone Pavilion’s Canada 67 made in 360-degree Circlevision (produced by Disney), and The Christian Pavilion’s The Eighth Day. The project is a collaboration between Concordia and York, with researchers Janine Marchessault, Seth Feldman and Caitlin Fisher. Recently Completed Projects [Archiving] R-69 completed an unfinished 16mm film shot between 1969-1972 by my late father, artist, Charles Gagnon, a film originally named after a large format red painting by Yves Gaucher: R-69. Filmmakers Mary Stephen and Olivier Asselin, and sound artist, Raymond Gervais contributed to the DVD project, Charles Gagnon: 4 Films, which premiered in March 2010. Charles Gagnon: 4 Films was screened regularly at the Musée d’art contemporain in Fall 2010. Books With Richard Fung, 13 Conversations About Art and Cultural Race Politics. Montreal: Artextes Editions, 2002. Translated into Territoires et Trajectoires. Adapted and translated by Colette Tougas. Montreal: Artextes Editions, 2006. Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press/Artspeak/ KAG, 2000. Essays and Book Chapters “The Christian Pavilion at Expo ’67: Notes from Charles Gagnon’s Archive”, in Expo 67: Not Just a Souvenir. Eds. Rhona Richman Kenneally and Johanne Sloane (UofT Press, 2011). “Living Archives at the First Nations Garden, Montreal Botanical Garden,” Public 41 (Summer 2010). “The Persistence of Spectatorship: the Racialized and Ethnicized Gaze,” in Precarious Visualities: new perspectives on identification in contemporary art and visual culture. Eds. Christine Ross, Olivier Asselin, Johanne Lamoureux (Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, 2008). “Cinematic Imag(in)ings of the Japanese Canadian Internment,” in Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen, ed. Elaine Chang (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2008). “Tender Research: Field Notes from the Nikkei Internment Centre,” Canadian Journal of Communication 31.1 (Spring 2006). http://www.cjc-online.ca/viewissue.php?id=113 “The Capacity of Cultural Difference (with Scott Toguri McFarlane),” for the “Minister’s Forum on Diversity and Culture,” Dept of Canadian Heritage, April 2003, Ottawa and “Cultures, Diversity and Everyday Life,” with Council of Europe, May 2002, Montréal. http://www.pch.gc.ca/special/dcforum/info-bg/05_e.cfm Art-related Essays “Posthumous Collaboration (for Nancy Shaw),” in Prefix Photo 20 (Fall 2009). “(Media) ‘History from Below’: From the Snaphshot to the Home Movie in Jamelie Hassan’s Installations, in Jamelie Hassan: At the Edge of Words (London ON: Museum London, 2009). “The Enchantments of Richard Fung’s Unsettling Landscapes (after JMW Turner),” in Richard Fung (Hamilton: McMaster Museum of Art, 2008). “Duels, Dualities and Intertextuality in the Media Works of Stephen Foster,” for Stephen Foster (exhibition brochure), Auckland: MIC Toi Rerehiko, 2007. “Book and Exhibition Review: Janet Cardiff: The Walk Book and Her Long Black Hair,” Senses and Society 2.1 (July 2007): 259-263. Upcoming and Recent Conference Papers “Unfinished Films in the Multimedia Archive,” Visible Evidence 18, NYU, August 2011 “Creative Archiving in the Multimedia Archive: Animating ‘Canada and the Films of Expo 67,’” (with Mary Elizabeth Luka), Re-Animating the Archive, UCLA, Los Angeles, Nov 2010 “Reconstructing Two Immersive Multimedia Pavilions from Expo ‘67: The Christian and Telephone Pavilion,” Media in Transition 6, MIT (Cambridge MA), Apr 2009 “Posthumous Cinema: Unfinished Films and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s White Dust from Mongolia,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (SCMS), Tokyo, May 2009 “Reconstructing Two Immersive Multimedia Pavilions from Expo “67: The Christian Pavilion and the Telephone Pavilion,” Media in Transition 6, MIT Boston, April 2009 “Posthumous Collaboration/Posthumous Cinema: Memory, Afterlife and Moving Images,” ISEA Singapore, July 29 2008 “Posthumous Collaboration: In Honour of Nancy Shaw,” Canadian Communication Studies Association Annual Conference, University of British Columbia, June 5 2008 “The Cinematic Imaginary at Expo “67,” Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference, University of Saskatchewan, May 30 2007 Last update: November 29, 2011 – 8:00 |
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