Janine Marchessault
{{short description|Canadian professor}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Janine Marchessault
| occupation = Professor of Cinema and Media Studies
| website = janinemarchessault.com
| workplaces = York University
| notable_works = Marshall McLuhan: Cosmic Media (2005)
Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema (2007)
3D Cinema and Beyond (2014)
Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67 (2014)
Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban (2014)
}}
Janine Marchessault {{post-nominals|list=FRSC}} is a professor of Cinema and Media Studies and Canada Research Chair (2003-2013) at York University in Toronto, Canada.
{{cite web
| title = Janine Marchessault : Cinema & Media Arts
| url = http://film.ampd.yorku.ca/profile/janine-marchessault/
| publisher = YorkU, AMPD
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
Her main fields of research are Ecologies of Media and Mediation, (sub)urban cultures, the works of Marshall McLuhan,
{{cite web
| title = McLuhan: The Global Village
| url = https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/innis-mcluhan/030003-2060-e.html#a2
| publisher = Library and Archives Canada
| website = www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
contemporary art exhibitions, Expo 67,
{{cite web
| title = Cinema Expo 67 {{pipe}} an exploration of Expo 67's most ingenious screen experiments
| url = http://cinemaexpo67.ca/
| publisher = Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
| access-date = May 10, 2016}}
artists' cultures, new media technologies, media archives, city and its sustainability issues. She is also a Trudeau Fellow.
{{cite web
| title = Janine Marchessault {{pipe}} Foundation Trudeau
| url = http://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/en/community/janine-marchessault
| publisher = Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation
| access-date = January 4, 2016| date = 2012-09-12
}}
Career
Janine Marchessault received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies in 1982 from Concordia University and a Master of Arts degree in Film Studies in 1987 from York University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought from York University in 1992.
{{cite web
| title = CV {{pipe}} Janine Marchessault
| url = http://janinemarchessault.info.yorku.ca/cv/
| publisher = York University
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
In 1985 she started teaching as a lecturer at Ryerson University. In 1992 she served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at McGill University, where in 1994 she became an assistant professor. In 1998 she joined the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University,
{{cite web|title=Faculty – Graduate – Ryerson University |url=http://www.ryerson.ca/~comrel/graduate/programs/comcult/faculty/MarchessaultJanine.html |publisher=Ryerson University |access-date=January 4, 2016 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306004546/http://www.ryerson.ca/~comrel/graduate/programs/comcult/faculty/MarchessaultJanine.html |archive-date=March 6, 2016 }}
where in 2000 she was appointed an associate professor in the Department of Film. In 2012 she was made full professor of cinema and media studies.
{{cite news
|author =
|title = Four York professors honoured by Faculty of Graduate Studies
|website = YFile
|date = April 18, 2011
|url = http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2011/04/18/four-york-professors-honoured-by-faculty-of-graduate-studies/
|access-date = January 4, 2016
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160512182506/http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2011/04/18/four-york-professors-honoured-by-faculty-of-graduate-studies/
|archive-date = May 12, 2016
}}
Honours
{{cite press release
| title = Canada Research Chair to study artists' role in digital media and globalization
| publisher = York Media Relations
| date = March 17, 2003
| url = http://news.yorku.ca/2003/03/17/canada-research-chair-to-study-artists%E2%80%99-role-in-digital-media-and-globalization/
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
{{cite news
|author =
|title = Janine Marchessault new CRC in Art, Digital Media and Globalization
|website = YFile
|date = March 19, 2003
|url = http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2003/03/19/janine-marchessault-new-crc-in-art-digital-media-and-globalization/
|access-date = January 4, 2016
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100237/http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2003/03/19/janine-marchessault-new-crc-in-art-digital-media-and-globalization/
|archive-date = March 4, 2016
}}
{{cite press release
| title = Four York Canada Research Chairs renewed
| publisher = York Media Relations
| date = October 7, 2008
| url = http://news.yorku.ca/2008/10/07/four-york-canada-research-chairs-renewed/
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
Marchessault was nominated as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization held at York University. In 2012, she received the prestigious Trudeau Fellowship to support her research and curation in the area of public art and urban cultures.
{{cite press release
| title = The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Announces its 2012 Trudeau Fellows
| publisher = Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation
| date = October 2, 2012
| url = http://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/en/activities/publications/2012-trudeau-fellows-announcement-media-release
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
{{cite news
|author =
|title = York professor awarded Trudeau Fellowship prize
|website = YFile
|date = October 2, 2012
|url = http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2012/10/02/york-professor-awarded-trudeau-fellowship-prize/
|access-date = January 4, 2016
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305001316/http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2012/10/02/york-professor-awarded-trudeau-fellowship-prize/
|archive-date = March 5, 2016
{{cite news
| author =
| title = Janine Marchessault Wins $225,000 Trudeau Fellowship, Plans Large 2013 Project
| magazine = Canadian Art
| date = October 3, 2012
| url = https://canadianart.ca/news/janine-marchessault-wins-225000-trudeau-fellowship-plans-large-2013-project/
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
In 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.{{cite web |title=The Royal Society of Canada elects three York University professors and one alumnus to its ranks |url=http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2016/09/14/the-royal-society-of-canada-elects-three-york-university-professors-and-one-alumnus-to-its-ranks/ |website=yfile.news.yorku.ca |access-date=April 23, 2019 |date=September 14, 2016}}
Works and Research
From 1997 to 1999, Marchessault acted as a president of the Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC).
{{cite web
| title = Past Presidents/Anciens Présidents {{pipe}} FSAC-ACÉC
| url = http://www.filmstudies.ca/welcome
| publisher = The Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC)
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
Over the past two decades, she has written articles on Quebec cinema, feminist cinema and Canadian cinema. She is a founding editor of Public, a journal of art, culture and ideas. She published widely on film, video and new media technologies. She is the author of Marshall McLuhan: Cosmic Media (Sage, 2005)
{{cite news
|author =
|title = Marchessault re-examines McLuhan in Cosmic Media
|website = YFile
|date = January 17, 2005
|url = http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2005/01/17/marchessault-re-examines-mcluhan-in-cosmic-media/
|access-date = January 4, 2016
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304230204/http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2005/01/17/marchessault-re-examines-mcluhan-in-cosmic-media/
|archive-date = March 4, 2016
}}
and co-editor of Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema (UTP, 2007), 3D Cinema and Beyond (Intellect, 2014), Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67 (McGill-Queens, 2014), and Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban (McGill-Queens, 2014).
{{cite web
| url = http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Author,a=M/view-Contact-Page,id=33416/
| title = Authors: Janine Marchessault
| publisher = Intellect
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
From 2013 to 2015, she acted as the inaugural director of Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts & Technology that supports cross-disciplinary work and collaborative research at York University.
{{cite news
|last = Wong
|first = Christine
|title = A film prof at York U casts technology in a starring role with Sensorium lab
|website = CommerceLab
|date = April 9, 2014
|url = http://www.commercelab.ca/a-film-prof-at-york-u-casts-technology-in-a-starring-role-with-sensorium-lab/
|access-date = January 4, 2016
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304105202/http://www.commercelab.ca/a-film-prof-at-york-u-casts-technology-in-a-starring-role-with-sensorium-lab/
|archive-date = March 4, 2016
}}
She is also director of Visible City Project + Archive that examines how new media technologies influence artists' cultures in cities of Toronto, Havana and Helsinki.
{{cite web
| title = The Project
| url = http://visiblecity.ca/project/
| publisher = Visible City Project + Archive
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
Curation
As a member of the Public Access Curatorial Collective,
{{cite web
| title = Public Access Collective Members
| url = http://www.publicjournal.ca/about/editorial-collective-members/
| publisher = Public
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
Marchessault co-curated numerous large-scale art exhibitions in Toronto: Being on Time (2000),
{{cite journal
| last1 = Marchessault
| first1 = Janine
| last2 = Sheridan
| first2 = Sarah R.
| title = Afterword
| journal = Public
| volume = 24
| pages = 136–137
| date = 2002
| url = http://public.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/public/article/view/30019/27593
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
The Leona Drive Project (2009),
{{cite news
| last = Rochon
| first = Lisa
| title = Art invasion: the Leona Drive project
| newspaper = The Globe and Mail
| location = Toronto
| date = October 23, 2009
| url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-invasion-the-leona-drive-project/article4290990/
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
Museum for the End of the World (2012)
{{cite news
| last = Adams
| first = James
| title = Who's behind the Nuit Blanche apocalypse at City Hall?
| newspaper = The Globe and Mail
| location = Toronto
| date = September 28, 2012
| url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/whos-behind-the-nuit-blanche-apocalypse-at-city-hall/article4576014/
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
and Land{{pipe}}Slide: Possible Futures (2013).
{{cite news
| last = Deacon
| first = Eleni
| title = Land{{pipe}}Slide Possible Futures Explores a Suburb in Flux
| website = Torontoist
| url = http://torontoist.com/events/event/landslide-possible-futures-explores-a-suburb-in-flux/
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}{{cite news
| last = Cooley
| first = Alison
| title = Land{{pipe}}Slide Transforms Historic Village into New-Art Hub
| magazine = Canadian Art
| date = October 1, 2013
| url = http://canadianart.ca/must-sees/landslide-possible-futures/
| access-date = January 4, 2016
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151213061437/http://canadianart.ca/must-sees/landslide-possible-futures/
| archive-date = December 13, 2015
| url-status = dead
}} The latter was named as one of the Canada's top "10 Shows to See This Fall" by Canadian Art magazine
{{cite news
| author =
| title = 10 Shows to See This Fall
| magazine = Canadian Art
| date = September 23, 2013
| url = http://canadianart.ca/features/10-shows-to-see-this-fall/
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
{{cite news
| last = Aubrey
| first = Jax
| title = 10 must-see art shows in Toronto this fall
| website = blogTO
| date = September 26, 2013
| url = http://www.blogto.com/arts/2013/09/10_must-see_art_shows_in_toronto_this_fall/
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
and was invited to exhibit at the 2013-14 Hong Kong-Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture.
{{cite press release
| title = Praise for Land{{pipe}}Slide by Janine Marchessault
| publisher = Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation
| date = December 7, 2013
| url = http://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/en/activities/news/praise-landslide-janine-marchessault
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
{{cite press release
| title = Digital arts researcher takes Land{{pipe}}Slide exhibit to China
| publisher = YorkU AMPD
| date = January 17, 2014
| url = http://ampd.yorku.ca/news/digital-arts-researcher-takes-her-landslide-exhibit-to-china/
| access-date = January 4, 2016}}
In 2016, she started a new curatorial art project Houses on Pengarth (HOP) in the Toronto's Lawrence Heights housing area. The HOP project involves transforming several row houses at Pengarth Court into a multi-year experimental art space.
{{cite news
| last = Sunshine
| first = Fannie
| title = Art project to see two Pengarth Court homes transformed into art spaces
| website = InsideToronto.com
| date = May 11, 2016
| url = http://www.insidetoronto.com/news-story/6549483-art-project-to-see-two-pengarth-court-homes-transformed-into-art-spaces/
| access-date = July 7, 2016}}
References
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