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Around 1984, I was working at an artist-run center for experimental film in Toronto. I was the equipment coordinator and maintained the equipment and oversaw bookings for our limited editing facilities. We had a large pile of film stock that we used for editing fill and I found myself sorting through the footage and hoarding […]

The most recent issue of the critical media journal, Jump Cut a Review of Contemporary Media, has published my visual and written essay, Movies in Miniature. In it I link to videos from the six, year-long series that I have been building upon since 2006 and elaborate upon the process, politics and theory that has […]

  TUFF (Toronto Urban Film Festival) is currently in their seventh year, and every year my work has been represented. This year my film Grief Without Fantasy will be shown every 10 minutes in all subway platforms, premiering on September 6. Grief Without Fantasy has been added to the Unsolved Mysteries programme along with several other silent one-minute films. […]

Independent curators, Suzanne Carte and Su-Ying Lee have conceived an interesting project that comments on the retail environment and how it connects to the local community. “Under New Management: Video Store” exhibition takes the form of a video rental store that carries artists’ videos. Rather than employing conventional retail methods, “customers” to this unique gallery […]

My eminent colleague, filmmaker, Mike Hoolboom has been hard at work interviewing some past members of the Funnel. The Funnel was an artist-run centre in Toronto that I worked, slept and screened films at back in the 1980s. Ah so long ago. He has posted an excerpt (link) of his interview with me from Practice […]

HASTAC 2013 will bring together 5 keynote speakers, 150 refereed papers, panels and demos, a maker space, curated digital performances and over 200 attendees including established and emerging scholars, artists and authors, tech entrepreneurs and teachers, to explore alternative modes of creating, innovating, and critiquing that better address the interconnected, diverse, interactive global nature of […]

Images Festivalin Toronto is launching “Explosion in the Movie Machine”, a new anthology (Co-published by Images + LIFT, edited by Chris Gehman) of contemporary reflections, critical texts, historical documents and visual documentation that examine the depth, brilliance and contradictions of Toronto’s media arts ecology and history. Included in the book is an essay by Jonathan […]

I am excited to be teaching a one-day workshop on toy cameras and mobile movies at Charles Street Video (CSV) on March 3rd Sunday. We will review the aesthetics and possibilities of small format videos, different shooting and editing techniques, and shoot footage that will be edited and completed in this one-day workshop. “Toy cameras […]

My short video Grief Without Fantasy, based on Ronna Bloom’s poem from the book Cloudy with a Fire in The Basement, is featured on OpenBookToronto.com, a hub for Toronto’s vibrant literary scene, as Video of the Week. Check out the post on Open Book: Toronto, as well as two other videos, On Holiday and Use […]

I’m pleased to be presenting at the University of Toronto Scarborough as the first speaker of the new series of artist talks, “Exploring Interdisciplinarity and Cultural Pluralism in Media Arts”, presented by Cultural Pluralism in the Arts and the Department of Arts, Culture and Media. “Featuring a screening of a variety of video projects produced […]