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Janine Marchessault

Janine Marchessault

Media & Culture, Technology in Practice
DepartmentCinema & Media Arts (York)
Areas of Expertisecities and cinema; stereoscopic 3D cinema; future cinema architectures; feminist/post-colonial media; social media and activism; Marshall McLuhan and the Explorations Group; World Fairs; film festivals and utopias; micro-cinemas; curatorial studies; process philosophy; theories of spectatorship; phenomenology and affect; experimental cinema
https://ampd.yorku.ca/profile/janine-marchessault/ (external link) 

Dr. Marchessault is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University, where she held the Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization (2003-2013). She was the co-founder of Future Cinema Lab and the inaugural Director of Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology Research at York University. In 2012, Professor Marchessault was awarded a prestigious Trudeau Fellowship to pursue her ground breaking curatorial and public art research around the problem of sustainable development. She has (co)curated numerous large-scale public art exhibitions in Toronto and beyond—Being on Time (2001), The Leona Drive Project (2009), Museum for the End of the World (2012) and Land|Slide, Possible Futures (2013) which are all site specific exhibitions. Land|Slide was named one of the best exhibitions in Canada in 2013 by Canadian Art Magazine, and was invited to be part of the Shenzhen/Hong-Kong Architectural Biennale (2013-2014).

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2015 - Lynn Chalmers; Dissertation: Personalia and women’s spatial practices in the routine office

2015 - David Colangelo; Dissertation: Massive media: theories and practices of large-scale projections and public data visualizations

2013 - Eva Nesselroth-Woyzbun; Dissertation: Dematerializing Digital Objects: Denial, Decay, Detritus and Other Matters of Fact

2013 - Aleksandra Kaminska; Dissertation: Mediating Poles: Media art and critical experiments of the Polish site, 2004–2009

2012 - Ian Robinson; Dissertation: Cartographic projections: world cinema and the production of place

2010 - Scott  Preston; Dissertation: Horror and re-enchantment: A supernatural genre in a secular age

2009 - Roberta Buiani; Dissertation: Viral culture(s): An investigation into the cultural lives of computer viruses

2009 - Dana Iliescu; Major Research Paper: Post-Communist Romanian Cinema: Context And The Turn To Realism

2009 - Andrew Bieler; Thesis: Rhythmanalysis of Critical Mass: A meeting place

2006 - Jennifer VanderBurgh; Dissertation: Televising urbanity: Narratives of “nation” and city life

2006 - Susan Bigelow; Thesis: Technologies of Perception: Miyazaki in Theory and Practice