R. Bruce Elder

For decades now, Elder has been building two formidable bodies of work, as an artist working in the experimental tradition and as the author of critical texts on art and cinema. His earlier writing pioneered inquiry into the relationship of embodiment to cinematic form. In recent years his historical-theoretical studies have assumed the task of charting the influence of the cinema on vanguard art movements in the twentieth century. Elder is also award-winning filmmaker (a Governor-General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, a Canadian Screen Award and a Los Angeles Film Critics Award).

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2020 - Irina Lyubchenko; Dissertation: Kazimir Malevich: Approaching the New System

2016 - Boris Pantev; Dissertation: Communication instinct: Husserl and the embodied temporality of the social

2015 - Stephen Broomer; Dissertation: Codes of the North: difficulty in the origins of the Canadian avant-garde film

2014 - Victor Cirone; Major Research Paper: Reflections on Immediatism and Aesthetics

2013 - Aaron Pingree; Dissertation: Apathy and the Modern Self: The Afflictions of Modernity and Orientation Toward the Good

2012 - Natalya Androsova; Dissertation: The Feminine, the Poetic, and the Sacred in bpNichol's The Martyrology and Journal

2012 - Daniel Browne; Project-Paper: The Fecund Interval: Visualizing acoustic space in Canadian experimental cinema

2012 - Justin Stephenson; Project-Paper: The Complete Works and Digitizing bpNichol: Staging the Written Word in Digital Moving Pictures

2011 - Helmut Klassen; Dissertation: Life as it is: a renovation of the project of the city

2011 - Mark Sedore; Major Research Paper: Issues of Communication in the Work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

2009 - Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof; Dissertation: The art of bodily sensations : artist's nude self-representation and poetics of revolt in the age of technological proliferation

2008 - Kate Cornell; Dissertation: The state of Canadian dance and dancing with the state from 1967-1983

2008 - Tyler Tekatch; Project-Paper: The aesthetics of participation

2006 - Jennifer O'Leary; Project-Paper: Building bridges: exploring gender through photographic practice

2005 - Savi Kash Pannu; Major Research Paper: Mobile technology: private talk, public life and the shrinking commons

2005 - Amanda Coles (co-supervision); Thesis: Acting in the name of culture?: the participation of organized labour in the Canadian broadcasting policy process

2003 - Kirsteen Henderson; Major Research Paper: Leni Riefenstahl simply will not go away: an analysis of the media discourses about Hitler's filmmaker

2003 - Laurie Petrou; Project-Paper: The Gift And The Threat: An Artistic Exploration Into The Machine's Threat Against The Flesh Body

ComCult Teaching Activities

• CC 8921 Visual Culture
• CC 8971 Experimental Media
• CC 8982 The Body and The Culture of Modernity
• CC 8983 The Culture of The Avant-Garde
• CC 9921 Technology Communication and Culture