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Associate Professor, Department of Film, York University in Toronto, Canada
Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University
Curriculum vitae website
Janine Marchessault holds a Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization and is the Co-Director of the Visible City Project + Archive which is examining new practices of media art in a variety of urban contexts. She is also a co-investigator on the CFI funded Future Cinema Lab, a state of the art digital media research facility devoted to ‘new stories for new screens.’ She is the author of Marshall McLuhan: Cosmic Media (Sage Publications, 2005), and co-editor of Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 2007); as well as Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media (Routledge, 2000), and Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women’s Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 1999). Dr. Marchessault is a founding editor of the arts journal Public: Art/Ideas/Culture and a past President of the Film Studies Association of Canada.
She is currently researching the cultural and political practices of artists in urban contexts and new forms of translocal citizenship in Toronto, Havana and Helsinki. She has two book projects in progress: Ecstatic Worlds: 20th Century Utopian Film Projects which is examining collective experiments with film and media that have been driven by aspirations for universality. She is co-editing Urban Mediations: Art, Ethnography and Material Culture—an interdisciplinary collection that situates different historical and methodological currents in urban media studies.
Basic Fields of Interest:
- Classical and contemporary film theory
- Old and new media studies
- Urban studies; theories of identity
- Film/emotion/cognition
Current Research Projects:
- Three cities (Toronto, Havana, Helsinki): Notions of democracy and citizenship in the media arts
- The culture and ideologies of suburbs
- Toronto School of Communication 1950s (theories of technology and modernity)
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