2022 | Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Board of Directors |
2021 | Conversations with 7 Real Action Figures: Marjorie Beaucage, Christene Browne, Sylvia Hamilton, Maria Teresa Larrain, Michelle Mohabeer, Leila Sujir, and Zainub Verjee, video interviews for “The Breadth of” series, CFMDC Concordia University, Montreal, Guest Lecturer, History of Toy Cameras, and Artistic Application |
2020 | University of Toronto Scarborough, Guest Lecturer, UTSC Critical Digital Methods Institute KMD 1001 University of Toronto Scarborough, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Arts, Culture, and Media |
2019 | Reel Scarborough jury member, University of Toronto Scarborough & Scarborough Arts Reel Asian Film Festival, Reel Ideas Conference in partnership with VTape, Speculating on Fictions / Dreaming In Colour: A Programme Of Work + Artist Talk |
2018 | Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Advisory Committee Artscape Youngplace Board of Directors |
2017 | University of Toronto, Scarborough, sessional instructor, Department of Arts, Culture, and Media |
2016 | Toronto Arts Council, media arts jury |
2015 | Toronto International Film Festival, panelist for Canadian Feature Film Section, Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival Winnipeg Film Group, Reflecting Light 40 years of Canadian Cinema, panelist: Postmodernists & New Wave Pioneers: 1980s Cinema and In Dialogue: Canadian Women Directors |
2014 | University of Toronto, Guest lecturer, performing for the camera |
2013 | University of Toronto, Artist Talk, presented by Cultural Pluralism in the Arts and the Department of Arts, Culture and Media |
2011 | Concordia University, Communication Studies, “War vs. Art: Embedded in the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force), Artist Talk, Montreal, PQ Concordia University, Communications Studies, Toy Camera Workshop, Montreal, PQ Art Gallery of Hamilton & The Factory Hamilton Media Arts Centre, Hamilton ON, Talk Media presents: Artist talk |
2010 | ON.Fire Independent Media Arts Conference, “New Socialisms: Independence or Co-dependence,” Panelist |
2009 | Canada Council, Bell Award Jury member |
2008 | Meiji Gaukin University, Tokyo Japan, Guest Speaker, Canadian Cinema 23rd Annual Gemini Awards, Jury member |
2007 | Reel Asian Pitch Jury 22nd Annual Gemini Awards, Jury member |
2006 | Reel Asian: The Reel Retrospective 1997-2006, Panelist Asian/Pacific/American Caucus (APAC) of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, honoured guest Gendai Art Gallery, Board of Directors Ontario Arts Council, Chalmers Art Fellowships, Jury member Canada Council, mid-career film & video production Jury member York University, Cineseige Jury member |
2005 | York University, main campus: Women’s Studies Program, Guest Speaker York University, main campus: Film Studies Graduate Program, Guest Speaker |
2004 | York University, main campus: Women’s Studies Program, Guest Speaker |
2003 | Meiji Gaukin University, Tokyo Japan, Guest Speaker, Gender & Sexuality Meiji Gaukin University, Tokyo Japan, Guest Speaker, Japanese Canadian Film & Literature Conference University of Toronto, Cultural Pluralism and the Arts, Guest Speaker York University, main campus: Women’s Studies Program, Guest Speaker |
2002 | Toronto Arts Council, Jury Member Centennial College, Stories & Architecture: Writers and Designers, Guest Speaker York University, main campus: Women’s Studies Program, Guest Speaker Association of Italian-Canadian Writers 9th Biennial Conference, “Creativity In Canada” Panelist York University, Founder’s College, Asian-Canadian Studies, Guest Speaker |
2001 | York University, main campus: Women’s Studies Program, Guest Speaker L.I.F.T, Workshop Instructor: “Grant Writing” |
2000 | York University, main & Glendon campus: Women’s Studies Program, Guest Speaker Ontario Arts Council, Jury Member, Media Arts Program Ontario College of Art, New Media Department, Guest Speaker L.I.F.T., Workshop Instructor: “Hand-made Films” |
1999 | York University, main campus, Glendon campus: Women’s Studies Program, Guest Speaker Canada Council jury, Creative Development |
1998 | York University, main campus: Women’s Studies Program, Guest Speaker Ontario Arts Council: Jury Member, Film & Video Program |
1996 | Sheridan College, 3rd Year Film Production, Instructor Ontario College of Art, New Media Department, Critique Consultant Cinematheque Ontario, Advisory Council (since 1991) L.I.F.T., Workshop Instructor: “Workshop for Writer/Directors” |
1995 | Ann Arbor Film Festival, Festival Juror Ontario College of Art, New Media Department, Guest Speaker Revisions: The Winnipeg Women’s International Film & Video Festival, “Workshop for Writer/Directors” Out On Screen: Vancouver Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, “Fetish, Fantasy and Flesh”, Panelist |
1994 | Telefilm Canada, Outside Reader (since 1989) Metro Cultural Affairs, Media Arts Advisory Committee (since 1993) National Association of Japanese-Canadians, National Gender Sensitivity Conference, Guest Speaker |
1993 | National Film Board of Canada, Studio D: New Initiatives In Film, Advisory Board (since 1991) Canada Council, Explorations Program, Jury Member (since 1992) University of Southern California Davis, Guest Speaker A Space: “Keeping Secrets and Other Perverse Practices”, Panelist Mediawatch: “Politics of Desire: Pornography, Erotica, Freedom of Expression”, Panelist Canadian Advisory Committee On The Status of Women, “Sharing Our Experience”, Editorial Advisory Committee |
1992 | Canada Council, Art Bank Jury for films & videos Gemini Awards – Multicultural Award Jury Member “Asian Sexuality”, Harbourfront, Panelist Ryerson University, “The Politics of Identity”, Guest Speaker |
1991 | Canada Council, Media Arts Advisory Board Ontario Arts Council, Media Organizations, Advisory Panel Canadian Film Centre, Summer Lab Juror Multicultural Dramatic Film Fund, L.I.F.T./O.F.D.C Juror |
1990 | Toronto International Film Festival: National Film Board Award, Jury Member Goethe-Institut, Toronto, “Women, Aesthetics, Theory, Practice”, Film Panelist York University, “Feminisms In The Cinema”, Guest Speaker Canada Council, Film Production Jury Full Screen, Toronto, Panelist, “Shooting The System” |
1989 | Yale University, “Visions Beyond The Screen”, Guest Speaker Ontario College of Art, New Media Department, Guest Speaker Northern Visions, “Images ‘89 Film & Video Festival”, Film & Video Programmer, open call submissions Image & Nation Film & Video Festival, Montreal: “Representation, Responsibility, Movable Margins”, Panelist In Visible Colours Festival, Vancouver: “Structure & Politics of Film & Video Industries”, Panelist York University, MFA Graduate Students, “Marginalization in the Arts”, Guest Lecturer Media & Society: The Rochester Conference, “Lavender Menace: Imaging/Imagining Lesbian Sexualities”, Panelist Ontario Arts Council, Film Production Jury |
1988 | Winnipeg Film Group: “Sexual Representation in the Cinema” & “Funding For Independent Films”, workshops Secretary of State Multiculturalism Jury, Film & Video Projects |
1987 | Canada House, England “Underground Films”, Program Curator |
1986 | “The Process of Identification”, Program Curator, cross-Canada touring show Tyneside International Film Festival, England: Forum Participant “Artists With Their Work Program”, Art Gallery of Ontario Extension Services 1985-1993 |