EDUCATION/
2010 PhD Contemporary Art & Graphic Design, Leeds Metropolitan University
“Claiming the Portable Home: Creative Acts of Identity Placemaking within the Networked Digital Domain.”
2004 MA Sculpture, Winchester School of Art – Southampton University, UK
2001 BFA Honours, York University, Canada
FE/HE TEACHING EXPERIENCE/
2013 University of Ottawa ʻArt & New Technologiesʼ ART3116
2009 – 2011 Associate Lecturer, Leeds College of Art, Graphics, Illustration & Digital Media, Foundation Diploma in Art & Design
2010 Visiting Lecturer, Leeds Metropolitan University’s School of Architecture, Landscape & Design
2009 – 2010 Teaching Assistant, 3rd Year BA Graphic Design (New Media) – Leeds Metropolitan University – part of PhD work experience.
2004 – 2006 Principal Learning Officer 3D Fine Art with occasional teaching in Mould-Making and Health & Safety, School of Contemporary Art & Graphic Design
CURATING & RESIDENCIES/
2013 Creative Director and Curator, Nuit Blanche Ottawa+Gatineau
2012 – 2013 Critical Blogging Resident, Artengine & Apt 613, Ottawa
2012 Curator, Nuit Blanche Ottawa ʻLife is Beautifulʼ, Bravo-Est.
EXHIBITIONS/
2013
Electric Fields – We Make the City, ʻLandingʼ, Artengine, Ottawa, September
Conversations Electriques, Centre de Culture Contemporaine La Panacée, Montpellier, June-December.
Loco Moo Cow, Browns Cows Arts, Mangrove Mountain, Australia, April 2013. (remote project exchange)
2012
7 th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, April 27- July 1.
2010
Bring the Happy, Invisible Flock – The Light, Leeds, 15/10 – 22/11.
Sanctioned Array – Specify Others – 100, White Gallery, New York, November.
Leeds Digital Festival, Leeds Digital Festival The Mint, November.
Over Yonder, ‘Open Window in City’ networked real-time video installation between Westfalische Rundschau Lesershop, Dortmund, Germany and ESA Leeds, UK, 8-12 November.
Short Listed for: NorthernNet Creative Commissions, August.
Invasion of Privacy, Notfamousyet, Oxford, UK, 22-31 October.
Unleashed Devices, Watermans Art Centre, London, 01/09 – 22/10
Twitter/Art+Social Media, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, 01/04 – 01/05
Arts Birthday, ESA, Leeds, running live stream Cyber Party with venues around the world. 17/01
2009
Amsterdam Biennale 2009, Mediamatic, Leeds Pavilion,16/10/09-3/01/10
United, East Street Arts, Leeds, June 26-27
Our City, Our Music – Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan University, June.
Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York, 16/10/2008 – 30/01/2009
2008
REBRANDING ACTS TINA B. – Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Czech Republic, November
The Mirror Stage – NeMe International Video Exhibition, Lanitis Foundation & IMCA, Cyprus, October
Departure Lounge, East Street Arts, May 8-10
The Sandwich Box, ICA Overgaden, Copenhagen, June
The Sandwich Box, WOOLOO New Life Berlin, June
2007
Odoo/Current, Genghis Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Leeds Artists Show, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK.
Situation Leeds, The DoGoSee.com Project, Leeds Met Gallery, UK
2006
Testbed 4, Leeds Met University Gallery, UK
The DoGoSee.com Project – Highbury, Hope Gallery, London, UK
The DoGoSee.com Project – Berlin, Germany
2005
SightSonic 05 Festival, York City Centre, UK
From the Ordinary, Leeds Met University Gallery, UK
Immediate 3, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Testbed 3, Leeds Met University Gallery, UK
2004
Winchester School of Arts MA Degree Show, UK
Pink Elephants!, Hampshire Sculpture Trust, UK
Sculpt MA Mid-Year Show, The Winchester Gallery, UK
2003
Culture Dish, Wednesday’s Space, Taiwan
2001
CONTACT 01,Toronto Photographic Festival, Wallace Studios, Canada
transformers, York University BFA Honours Degree Show, Toronto, Canada
Thump, Akasa Gallery, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Poesis, Arthur Haberman Gallery, York University, Toronto, Canada
Bodies of Resistance-Toronto Eco-Art and Media Festival, Toronto, Canada.
2000
Sculpture, The Gallery, York University, Toronto, Canada
Kife, The Akasa Gallery, York University, Toronto, Canada.
PUBLISHED/
2011
A-N Interface review by M. Smith: “Ellie Harrison: Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector”
http://www.a-n.co.uk:81/interface/reviews/single/1217118
2008
COLAKIDES, Yiannis: The Mirror Stage – NeMe International Video Art Exhibition,
NeMe, Cyprus.
2007
A-N, “Artists’ initiatives in action”, May.
Guardian Guide “Pick of the Week” by, Robert Clark – Black Dogs, Ben Halsall and Megan Smith, May Danielle Child, www.DoGoSee.com, Leeds Met Gallery, April Odoo/current – Cross Currents Catalogue, by Jill Morgan, Leeds Met University, April
2005
A-N, Reviews – Immediate 3, by Bianca Winter, October
Immediate 3 – New Art from the North, by Tom Morton, Site Gallery, Cornerhouse Publications.
2004
Guardian Guide “Pick of the Week” by, Jessica Lack – Pink Elephants!, May
Guardian Guide “Pick of the Week” by, Jessica Lack – WSA – MA Degree Show, September
Speaking at CONFERENCES
2011
4X4 Making Places – Royal Institute of British Architects Locating Narrative, Leeds Metropolitan University, 10 March
2010
TEDxLeeds 2010 Embedding Narrative/Extending Social Space: Our City, Our Music, The Mint, Leeds, 10 November
Place, Space & Identity, Faculty of Arts & Society, Leeds Metropolitan University, 22 June
O’Reilly’s Ignite Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan University Rose Bowl, 19 May
2009
B.TWEEN09, FACT, Liverpool, June
BarCamp Leeds, May
2008
Hewlett Packard mscapeFest08, 02-03/12 Belfast, UK
Our City, Our Music: Case study
Handheld Learning 2008,13-15/10
Our City, Our Music: using mScapes to map new narratives
http://www.handheldlearning2008.com/home
EVA London – Electronic Information, the Visual Arts and Beyond, London, July