Geoffrey Shea - site map: unscrambled.com, art, design, research, music

My professional practice consists of multiple levels of social engagement, including art production, writing and curating, commissioning, political involvement, teaching and community activism.

I began commissioning works by media artists when I helped found United Media Arts Studies in 1985. I was later the editor for four editions of Diderot, in which many of these commissioned works were published. Most recently I worked with four well-known experimental film and video makers to produce visual works to accompany four songs performed by my musical ensemble, Gigi Minor.

I have regularly curated and written about other artists’ works, most recently for the Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film. My programs there have included Rhythm and Rhyme (2003), Darlene Naponse (2003), The Determined Image (2004), Frail (2005), Scenarios From Africa: Dealing with HIV/AIDS (2005).

I have organized numerous critical art dialogues including: the Artists.Television.Symposium (1984), Les Lieux de Video (1993), and the Jerk & Jounce Symposium at OCAD (2004). I have helped build a relationship between OCAD and Bravo!FACT, facilitating funding, production and broadcasting opportunities for our students. Our first two applications have been submitted and are awaiting approval.

As an elected municipal councillor I recently addressed the Community Arts Ontario Conference on Municipal Support for Culture. I also serve on the regional Accessibility Advisory Committee, the Chamber of Commerce, the BIA and the Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority.

I am currently doing research with the Mobile Digital Commons Network, a collaboration between artists, designers and technologists at OCAD, Concordia and the Banff Centre. I am leading a team that is creating collaborative music experiences enabled through cell phones and other wireless devices. We will be presenting interim results at the CCA Annual Conference in June, 2006.

2006
Performance: Optic Nerve 2006 Film Festival, Peterborough (upcoming)
Research: Mobile Digital Commons Network
Community: Artist-in-Residence Program, UMAS (1993-present; with Ilse Gassinger)
Design: Annex Publishing – multiple magazine websites (2003-present)
Teaching: Ontario College of Art & Design (1984-present)

2005
Exhibition: Netart Community Congress, Graz, Austria
Curation: FRAIL.ca – an ongoing, online, international exhibition of media art
Exhibition: Six Days of Resistance – touring group show, Modern Fuel
Curation: Scenarios From Africa: Dealing with HIV/AIDS – 4th Festival of Fringe Film
Design: Design process consulting for Cambridge Libraries and Galleries
Presentation: Municipal Support for Culture – Community Arts Ontario Conference
Performance: Gigi Minor – original, live music in collaboration with four experimental filmmakers
Community: Appointed to Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority
Design: Durham Art Gallery Website

2004
Curation: The Determined Image (video) – 3rd Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film
Performance: Spoken Word Poetry Festival, original music as Hinterland
Teaching: Jerk & Jounce Symposium at OCAD (directed with Caroline Secks Langill)
Design: John Bruce Memorial Poetry website
Design: Exhibition Catalogue – Peter MacCallum: Larus Delawarnsis

2003
Curation: Rhythm & Rhyme (video) – 2nd Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film
Curation: Darlene Naponse – 2nd Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film
Community: Durham Art Gallery – President (1999-2003)
Community: Elected to West Grey Municipal Council

2002
Exhibit: Art Gallery of Calgary – 5 Degrees (Calgary)
Exhibit: Ed Video – Perimeter (Guelph)
Writing: “Identifying a Shared Terrain for Art and Design” OCAD Discussion Paper

2001
Lecture: Interactive Design – Ryerson University
Workshop: Interactive Multimedia – InterAccess
Web Art: United Store (with Rodney Werden)

2000
Design: London Regional Art Gallery, website
Design: St. Michael’s Hospital, website
Presentation: Interactive Artwork – MultiMedia, Sheridan University
Presentation: Interactive Artwork – Convergence TV, Playback Magazine
Web Art: Great War Online (with Rodney Werden)
Design: Bactech Enviromet, website

1999
Writing: “The Work of Gerda Lampalzer and Manfred Opperman” – Catalogue Essay, United Media Arts (OCAD Outreach Gallery)
Presentation: Compelling or Compulsive, Entertainment in the Information Age, Imagina, Monaco
Exhibit: Mainfestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique – Champ Libre (Montreal)
Design: St. Michael’s Hospital, intranet project

1998
Design: NCG Publishing – multiple magazine websites (1998-2003)
Presentation: Online Entertainment – Atlantic Film Festival
Web Art: Monster Home (with Rodney Werden)
Web Art: Talk With An Angel
Design: Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, website

1996
Web Art: Pilgrim's Progress
Exhibit: Garnet Press Gallery (Toronto)
Design: BMTS / BMI Internet, corporate identity / website

1995
Exhibit: ISEA '95 (Montreal)

1994
Exhibit: Woodstock Art Gallery (Catalogue essay by James Gillespie, “Morphological Frontiers: Postmodernity and the Art of Geoffrey Shea”)
Exhibit: Vidéo Forme (France)

1993
Publish: Diderot #4 – Les Lieux de Video, exhibition catalogue / video
Curation: Les Lieux de Vidéo – International Video Exhibition, United Media Arts
Curation: Asalte Mortale – The Paintings of Dimitrije Martinovic – Durham Art Gallery
Exhibit: Garnet Press Gallery (Toronto)
Exhibit: YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto)
Exhibit: United Media Arts (Durham)

1992
Community: YYZ Artists’ Outlet – Board Member, 1988 – 1992
Exhibit: Art Metropole (Toronto) - Solo
Exhibit: Local Colour (Flesherton)

1991
Residency: Medienwerkstatt Wien
Curation: International Video Group Show – YYZ
Curation: Stefaan DeCostere: Works for Television – YYZ
Curation: Canadian Video: Hot & Cold – Touring Exhibition, Austria (with Ilse Gassinger)
Writing: Columnist for Cinema Canada, 1985-1987
Review: Anna Steininger, "Die Utopie des Privaten," in Montage (Vienna)
Exhibit: Medienwerkstatt Wien (Austria) - Solo
Exhibit: Ed Video (Guelph)
Exhibit: Landesmuseum Innsbruck (Austria)

1990
Publish: Diderot #3 – TV Blong Vanuatu by John Watt
Exhibit: Querspur Video Festival (Austria)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art (New York)
Collection: Art Metropole
Collection: National Gallery of Canada
Collection: Trinity Square Video

1989
Exhibit: YYZ Artists' Outlet (Toronto)
Exhibit: Galerie 101 Gallery (Ottawa)
Exhibit: Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax)
Exhibit: Toreano Meeting Club (England)
Exhibit: Artspace (Peterborough)
Exhibit: Long Beach Museum of Art (California)
Exhibit: Art Metropole (Toronto)
Exhibit: SCAN – Japan Video Television Festival
Exhibit: Glenbow Museum (Calgary)
Exhibit: 15 Years – Videographe (Montreal)

1988
Publish: Diderot #2 – Television and the Channels of Culture, commissioned video art
Exhibit: Humbolt Film Festival – Video Prize, 1988
Commission: C.B.C. Television
Exhibit: New Langton Arts (San Francisco)
Exhibit: Bonn Videonale Festival – (Germany)
Exhibit: Artists' Space – (New York)
Exhibit: Honolulu Academy of Art – (Hawaii)
Exhibit: Moving Images Program – TVOntario
Exhibit: Humboldt Festival (California)
Review: Jeanne Finley, "Private Interventions" catalogue essay
Review: Andrew Paterson, Vanguard
Review: S. Adelman and B. Gee, "Despair," in Fuse #48
Community: Board of Directors – YYZ Artists’ Outlet

1987
Residency: Canada Council – Paris Studio
Review: John B. Mays, "On Show" in Globe & Mail
Commission: Lunatic of One Idea – Public Access
Exhibit: Video Culture International (Toronto)
Exhibit: YYZ Artists' Outlet (Toronto)

1986
Publish: Diderot #1 – The Emperor’s New Clothes, commissioned video art
Exhibit: Kijkhuis Video Festival (Holland)
Exhibit: INFERMENTAL IV – Dutch Edition (Holland/Germany)

1985
Exhibit: Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax)
Exhibit: United Media Arts Studies (Toronto)
Exhibit: National Arts Centre (Ottawa)
Exhibit: Canadian Video – SAW Gallery (Ottawa)
Exhibit: Cache du Cinema – Funnel (Toronto)
Exhibit: VOX POP – Video Cabaret (Toronto)
Exhibit: Six Days of Resistance (Toronto)

1984
Review: John B. Mays, "The Truth About the U.S.S.R.," in Vanguard
Exhibit: SAW Gallery (Ottawa)
Exhibit: Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff)
Exhibit: Plug-In (Winnipeg)
Exhibit: EM Media (Calgary)
Exhibit: Neutral Ground (Regina)
Exhibit: Latitude 53 (Edmonton)
Exhibit: Sao Paolo Bienel (Brazil)
Exhibit: Kijkhuis Video Festival (Holland) - Group Show
Exhibit: International Festival du Cinema & Video (Montreal)
Exhibit: Chromaliving (Toronto)
Curation: Artists & Television – United Media Arts and Trinity Square Video (with S. Rynard)

1983
Community: Founding Director of T.C.V (later renamed InterAccess)
Exhibit: Hallwalls (Buffalo)
Presentation: Digicon '83 (Vancouver)
Exhibit: Forest City Gallery (London)

1982
Exhibit: Video Roma (Italy)
Exhibit: Festival of Festivals (Toronto)