JENNIFER CHAN

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EDUCATION

2006-present 
University of Toronto Mississauga, joint program with Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning                                                

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

2009

2008

2007, 2008. 2009 Deans Honors List

2007 UTM Women’s Centre Fall Scholarship

2005 South Island School Awards: Media Studies, Best Film in Media Studies, and Design & Technology

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

Performance
  • “Throw up: A lecture on the Ethics of Gastro-intestinal Self-care (and Cultural Recycling)”,“Up, Up and Away”, UTM Inset Space, January 2010.
  • “Lights Out!” Camera Bar, Queen St. West, Nuit Blanche. October 2009.
  • FADO Performance Art Centre’s 3rd Annual “Valentine-Oh-Grams!!!”, February 14, 2009. Toronto.

Screenings

  • Art’s Birthday, Erin Meadows Community Centre, Mississauga, January 16 2010.
  • Both/And: Food and Drink” January 2010, University of Toronto Arts Centre.
  • “Please Shoot Me!” Hart House Film Board, University of Toronto. Hart House, November 2009.
  • ArtsFest, 2007 & 2008. University of Toronto Mississauga.
  • Arts After Dark 2007. University of Toronto Mississauga.

Curation

  • "Trivial Pursuits: Mass Distraction", 9th Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto.
  • “VIDI THIS! VIDI THAT!” Curatorial incubator v.7. University of Toronto Landscape and Architecture Building. January 30, 2010.

Exhibition

  • University of Toronto Chancellor's Exhibition March 2009
  • “Both/And: What is Beyond Multiculturalism?” University of Toronto Arts Centre, February 2009
  • “Sex & Erotica” at Gallery 1313, Queen Street West, Toronto, February 2008
  • Sheridan College First and Second year Art & Art History Exhibition 2008

Published

  • ArtPolitic.org Webzine Issue 1: Majority http://www.artpolitic.org/?id=772
  • Buff Magazine. UTM Art & Art History Sheridan 2007, 2008, 2009.

RELATED ACTIVITES

Present
- Vtape Video Resource Centre Curatorial Incubator v. 7 "Frak Facebook: Celebrating the Antisocial"
Themed research curatorial programming experience

- Gendai Gallery Programming Committee member 2009-2010
Advising curatorial methods, assisting de-installation

- CCIT Student Advisory Committee
Advising and planning development in CCIT program

October 2009

Photographic documentation for ScotiaBank NuitBlanche’s Zone C (curated by Makiko Hara):
Noriko Sunayama’s performance andYoung Hae Chang Heavy Industries screening

February-August 2009

Curatorial Internship, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
Curated 9th Emerging Artists Exhibition "Trivial Pursuits: Mass Distraction"
Participated in Programming Advisory Council for 2009-2010 programming

September 2008 - May 2009

Web design internship, Hunter And Cook quarterly art publication (Hunterandcook.com)

May - June 2009

Volunteer 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

Jurying 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 and artist talk, University of Toronto Mississauga.

May 2008 -Present

Web Design for Toronto Artist Erin Finley (ErinFinley.com)

February-June 2008

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

Fall 2007     

Freelance photojournalism, The Medium, University of Toronto Mississauga.

 


ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Individual research topic: New Media Art Curation, advised by Professor John Ricco, University of Toronto Mississauga

Research Opportunity Program: Digital Media Teaching initiatives, University of Toronto Mississauga
Supervised by Professor Anthony Wensley.

Research Internship, Vtape Centre for Video and New Media
archiving, recovering, and researching video art documents and publications
Participant, UN@UTM McGill Model United Nations Conference

Textbook editing for Professor Joel Moody
Appropriated Canadian content to teaching manual and Study guide of First Canadian Edition “Understanding Human Communication” 2007

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Clay, Chris.
“New Media Exhibit makes a Break from the same old" What's On: Mississauga News, December 17th 2008. p. 7. http://www.mississauga.com/article/22096
­“Arts Elite Party at the MARTYS” Mississauga News, Arts & Entertainment October 21st 2008. http://www.mississauga.com/article/20133
Cullen, Lauren. UTM Women’s Centre Fall Newsletter, December 2007.
Finley, Erin. Gallery 1313 Newsletter, Winter 2008.
Sandals, Leah. Unedit My Heart, August 8 2009.
Shishikura, Reina. “Tying the knot on campus” The Medium. University of Toronto Mississauga. November 2009.
Sing Tao Daily News. October 22nd 2008, Toronto.