JENNIFER CHAN

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EDUCATION
2006-2010 University of Toronto Mississauga Hons. B.A. Communications, Culture, Information Technology and Art & Art History, Diploma of Studio Art and Diploma of Digital Communication from Sheridan College

Fall 2010: Syracuse University MFA Art Video Candidate

AWARDS

2010 Certificate of Appreciation, University of Toronto Mississauga Accessibility Resource Centre

2009

2008

2007- Present Deans Honors List

2007 UTM Women’s Centre Fall Scholarship

2005 South Island School Awards: · Media Studies Best Film, Media Studies Academic Award, Design and Technology

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Screenings

Performance

Curation
February  2010– Present loadbang, DIY Curatorial project, Butcher Gallery, Toronto.

Exhibitions

Meadows Community Centre, Mississauga, January 16 2010.

Published

Present

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

July 2009-January 2010
Vtape Video Resource Centre Curatorial Incubator v. 7
· Themed curatorial research and presentation of anti-social video art

February- August 2009
Curatorial Internship, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre

June-August 2009
Individual research topic: New Media Art Curation, advised by Professor John Ricco, University of Toronto Mississauga.

May-August 2008
Research Opportunity Program: Digital Media Teaching initiatives, UTM, Supervised by Professor Anthony Wensley.

Winter 2009
Research Internship, Vtape Centre for Video and New Media

January 2009
Participant, UN@UTM McGill Model United Nations Conference

February-June 2008
Volunteer teaching assistant, Grade 10 Academic Art classes. Father Michael Goetz Secondary School, Mississauga.

May 2007
Textbook editing, “Understanding Human Communication” 1st Ed. for Professor Joel Moody

RELATED ACTIVITES

Present  Gallery assistant, Administration and Outreach, Gallery TPW

May 14-16 2010 Artist assistant to Lyla Rye, Event documentation for curator Heather Nicol at "Art School Dismissed", Toronto.

February-April 2010

CCIT Student Advisory Committee member

March 2010
Videographer, Visiting Artist lectures: Vera Frenkel

November 2009
Introduction, Visiting Artist lectures: Geoffrey Pugen, Sheridan College.

October 2009
Photographic documentation, ScotiaBank NuitBlanche, Zone C, Curator Makiko Hara

September 2008-May 2009
Web design internship, Hunter And Cook quarterly art publication (http://www.hunterandcook.com)

May - June 2009
Volunteer gallery attendant, “awashawave”, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga.

December 2008 -April 2009
Art & Art History department representative, UTM CCIT Media Generator steering committee

January 2009
Event Volunteer, “The Gossip of Colin Campbell: Performance of Gender” Day-long symposium at Gladstone Hotel, Toronto.

December 2008
Jury member, 1st Annual Juried Photographic &New Media Show. Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga.

November 2008
Promoter, Blackwood Gallery and Reel Asian Film Festival Spotlight video artist Paul Wong reception, University of Toronto Mississauga.

Fall 2007
Freelance photojournalism, The Medium, University of Toronto Mississauga.

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cullen, Lauren. UTM Women’s Centre Fall Newsletter, December 2007.
Finley, Erin. Gallery 1313 Newsletter, Winter 2008.
Sandals, Leah.
–“Duly Noted: Young folks say Frak the Internet” Unedit my heart. December 12, 2009
http://neditpasmoncoeur.blogspot.com/2009/12/duly-noted-young-art-folks-say-frak.html
Shishikura, Reina. “Tying the knot on campus” The Medium. University of Toronto Mississauga. November 2009.
Sing Tao Daily News. October 22nd 2008, Toronto.
Zhou, Yan. “Have you ever been binarized? A Review of Jennifer Chan’s Rare” January 29, 2010.

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERING

September 2008
Team Leader, “UTM oUTreach” day of community service

June 2008
Tree-planter, Evergreen, Mississauga

2006 – 2008
Sex education counselor, event promoter and volunteer, UTM Sexual Education Centre

2006-2007
Volunteer, designer and event promoter, UTM Women’s Centre

2006 & 2007

Volunteer, Peel Golf Course Reforestation, “UTM oUTreach”, Brampton

Sponsored Walker, AIDS Toronto AIDS Walk, Toronto