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The Jury...
Marie-Hélène Cousineau | Lorraine Oades
| Laura McGough
Marie-Hélène
Marie-Hélène Cousineau is a video artist who divides her
time and work between Montreal and Igloolik, a small Inuit community in
the Baffin region. She is a founding member of Arnait Ikajutigiit, a collective
of women video makers in Igloolik. She has taught at Concordia University
in the department of Communication Studies. She is now coordinator of
the www.isuma.ca site
which is about independant video making in Igloolik and is involved at
the Tariakkusuk Video Centre in creating an access center for on-line
technologies.
Laura
Laura McGough is a a curator, critic and media artist. As the video curator
at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY she coordinated the
Thrid Annual Video Witnesses Festival and organized a national tour of
The Visual Politics of Hip Hop. McGough currently works with Washington
Project for the Arts/Corcoran where she has curated ARTSITES 98, a regional
biennial. Her articles on visual art, new media and video art have appeared
in FUSE Magazine (Canada), MESH (Australia), inContext (N. Ireland), New
Arts Examiner, Fiber Arts and Sculpture. She has presented performaative
lectures on new media, cyberfeminism and the Internet throughout the US
and Canada. McGough is currently the co-director of NOMADS located on
the World Wide Web at www.nomadnet.org.
Lorraine
Lorraine Oades is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Montreal. Her
work bridges a range of media which include video, sound, photography,
sculpture, painting, and new media. She graduated from the Interdisciplinary
Programme at Emily Carr College of Art and Design and completed her MFA
at Concordia University. Recent exhibitions include Sur l'experience de
la ville, an exhibition celebrating Galerie Optica's twenty-fifth anniversary,
and Peinture, Peinture. Currently she is teaching in the Studio Art Programme
at Concordia University.
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