Graduate Students
Erik Conrad PDF Print
graduate student

PhD SIP Concordia

Theater, physical compuitng, media choreography

Erik Conrad is an artist and PhD student at the Topological Media Lab (Concordia University) researching the relationship between the phenomenal understanding of the body and the experience and understanding of space. His background is interdisciplinary, including a MS Information and Computer Science from University of California Irvine’s Arts, Computation and Engineering program, MS Information Design and Technology from Georgia Tech, and BA Visual and Performing Arts from University of Maryland Baltimore County. Conrad has presented internationally at SIGGRAPH and ISWC, and his most recent work, TactileSpace, has been exhibited at the Beall Center for Art and Technology in California.

 
Harry Smoak PDF Print
graduate student

PhD SIP Concordia

Scenography, Architecture, Communications, Media

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Harry Smoak is a SIP PhD student and practice-based researcher at Concordia University.  He is interested in the relationships between communications and information technologies, public infrastructures and interactive systems and is currently researching ways in which critical infrastructures interact with changing concepts of performance, particularly in the changing context of urban ecologies and their impact on our senses and our bodies.

 
Jennifer Spiegel PDF Print
graduate student

philosophy, environmental activism, experimental performance

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Jen is a PhD student at Goldsmith College, Centre for Cultural Studies.  She is interested in the relationships between theatre, philosophy and biopolitics, and is currently researching the way public art/participatory performance interacts with changing concepts of ecology.  Recently she has been involved in devising performance pieces with a "Theatre and Philosophy" group, exploring themes of rhythm and ritual.  She is keen to continue exploring, both through discussions and practice-based research, with TML.
 
Flower Marie Lunn PDF Print
graduate student

MFA Fibres

Fibers based soft architecture, embeded circutry

Flower Marie Lunn is an emerging installation artist who focuses on fibres-based soft architecture. She received her BFA from Concordia in 2006. She most enjoys the poetics of nature appearing in contemporary spaces - a becoming-biological, becoming-molecular, becoming-planetary.

 
Doug Van Nort PDF Print
graduate student

Ph.D. Music Technology
McGill

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Doug Van Nort is a sound artist and researcher currently working on
adaptive systems for musical improvisation, gesture and sound
analysis/synthesis, critical studies of sound/music technologies and
continuing creative performance/composition practice. He holds advanced
degrees in pure mathematics and media arts, and is currently finishing
a Ph.D. in Music Technology within the Input Devices/Music Interaction
and Sound Processing and Control Laboratories at McGill University's
faculty of music.

 
Steven Dow PDF Print
graduate student

PhD Student HCC

Sensing technology, Max/MSP, Jitter, mixed reality applications

Steven is a first year PhD student in Human Centered Computing.  He has an M.S. in HCI from GT and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from U. of Iowa. Steven helped develop the TinyOS sensing platform for TML and is interested in new forms of physical and digital media.

 
Soyoung Park PDF Print
graduate student

PhD SIP Concordia


 

 
Magda Wesolkowska PDF Print
graduate student

PhD Built Environment, University of Montreal

Anthropology, design, fine arts, biology

Ambient dynamics and architectural prostheses for long term care facilities for patients with Alzheimers. Media Choreogrphy.

 
Freida Abtan PDF Print
graduate student

DCART Concordia 2005

Digital music, composition, media choreography,Jitter

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After a first degree in maths (combinatorics) at Waterloo, and a second in the DCART Fine Arts program at Concordia, Freida is studying music composition at Université de Montréal.

 
Elena Frantova PDF Print
graduate student

Masters CS student
 Concordia University


Elena completed her BFA in Computational Arts and is currently enrolled in Master's program in Computer Science at Concordia University. She is exploring the possibilities of using responsive environments to study human un/consciousness. Elena collaborates with Dream and Nightmare Laboratory since 2005.  

 
Michael Fortin PDF Print
graduate student

Masters CS Student
Concordia University


Michael has expertise and interest in computer graphics, artificial intelligence and artificial life. He has developed some core optimizations of the physics and time-based video computation, as well as GL projects. He is working on some applications of machine vision as part of the Oxygen media choreography team.

 
David Jhave Johnston PDF Print
graduate student

Ph.D. Concordia

Physical compuitng, web

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Jhave has worked in computer science and fine art. He created the remixed stream from the TML's Summer Workshop 2005, as well as the process of Remedios' Terrarium, a TML group show in March 2008.

 
Troy Rhoades PDF Print
graduate student

MA Film Concordia 2006

Experimental cinema and video

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Troy came to study film and philosophy with Erin Manning at Concordia, and is writing about Delueze and cinema. He has developed techniques for nomadic film and video.

 
Nadine Asswad PDF Print
graduate student

MA Film Concordia 2006

Literary theories of semiotics; contemporary dance and cinema

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After studies in literature at Université de Montréal, Nadine came to study film and philosophy with Erin Manning at Concordia. She is a principal of the SenseLab. Nadine is writing a thesis on movement, cinema, Bergson and Deleuze.

 
Shermine Sawalha PDF Print
graduate student

  Graduate Certificate in Design
Concordia

Theater, physical compuitng, media choreography

Shermine Sawalha BFA in Digital Image /Sound and the Fine Arts. Currently enrolled in the Digital Technologies in Design Art Practices Graduate Certificate Program and her second undergraduate degree in Contemporary Dance at Concordia University. Her interest in physical movement, space, and the body, has helped her visualize and create interactive spaces and video effects,concentrating on her research projects in constructing responsive environments.

 
Justyna Latek PDF Print
graduate student

Graduate Diploma CS
 Concordia University


Justyna Latek is a multidisciplinary artist with an undergraduate degree in Art History and Visual Arts  and a Graduate Certificate in Design. She is currently in the graduate program of Computer Science at Concordia University and an artist-member of the Topological Media Lab. She works in photography, video and responsive installations. She has obtained grants from CALQ (Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec) and CIAM (Centre Inter-universitaire en Arts Médiatiques), and her work was co-produced by Videographe and Daïmon.  Her work has been shown in Canada, the United States, France and Spain.