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Crossing Boundaries Speaker Series
– Amanda Dawn Christie
Thursday, March 31, 2016
7 pm, Dr. Foster James Penny Building
PB210, 324 – 5 Street South
FREE Admission, Everyone welcome
Q+A and Reception to follow

Digging Wider: Expanding Research Methods through Multidisciplinary Art Practice

A look at the practice of exploring a single subject through various media and disciplines in order to gain new perspectives, understanding, and insights that might not have been discovered through traditional research methods.  Examples of disciplines discussed include: sound recording, film, video, performance, installation, photography, text, radio broadcasts, interviews, work with archival materials, and the creation of fictitious materials.  Works explored in this talk include: Spectres of Shortwave, Radio Towers Like Windchimes, Sine Waves and Snow Falls, Requiem for Radio, Laundry Line Antenna, and The Marshland Radio Plumbing Project.

Amanda Dawn Christie is an interdisciplinary artist working in film, video, performance, photography, and electroacoustic sound design. She has exhibited and performed in art galleries across Canada, and her films have screened internationally from Cannes to Korea to San Francisco and beyond. She was the 2014 Atlantic finalist for the National Media Art prize, and recently had a 10 year retrospective exhibition of her work curated by Mireille Bourgeois, at the Galerie d’art Louise et Reuben Cohen, and was also included in the Marion McCain Biennale of Atlantic Contemporary Art, curated by Corinna Ghaznavi. Since 1997, she has been actively involved with artist run centres, in both volunteer and staff positions: serving on various boards, working as both a technician and later as a director, teaching workshops, publishing articles, and serving on juries across Canada. She completed her MFA at the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts in Vancouver, before moving to Amsterdam. Upon her return to Canada she worked at the Faucet Media Arts Centre & Struts Gallery. She later worked as the director of the Galerie Sans Nom and the RE:FLUX festival of music. She now works full time as an artist with the support of a new media creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and Arts NB. Concepts and themes explored in her work focus primarily on the relationship between the human body and analogue technology in a digital age.

For more information on this fascinating artist, visit Amanda Dawn Christie’s website.