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Wednesday, 17 October 2007
Curriculum Vitae

1. Name: Myfanwy Ashmore AOCA, MFA

2. Education:

a) Graduate
1998 Master of Fine Arts - Department of Visual Arts, York University, Toronto

b) Undergraduate
1996 Associate of the Ontario College of Art - Ontario College of Art, Toronto - Sculpture Installation Program
1991 Foundation Studies - Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia

c) Academic Awards
1998 Research Costs Award York University, North York
1997 Dunsmoor Award for Sculpture York University, North York
1996 Friends of OCA Scholarship Ontario College of Art, Toronto
1995 Louis Odette Sculpture Award Ontario College of Art, Toronto

3. Honours

a) Awards
2003 Nominated & Short listed for the K.M. Hunter Award Ontario Arts Council
1999 InterAccess Emerging Artist Award InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto

b) Grants
2007 Media Arts - Mid Career, Ontario Arts Council
2007 Interarts collective grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2004 Exhibition Assistance Grant Mercer Union & Ontario Arts Council
2003 Travel Grant for Artists Canada Council for the Arts
2003 Media Arts Grant Emerging Artists, Canada Council for the Arts
2002 Visual Arts - Emerging Artist Grant Ontario Arts Council
2002 Grants to Media Artists, Level 1 Toronto Arts Council
1999 Quest Grant Canada Council for the Arts
1998 Exhibition Assistance Grant YYZ Gallery and Ontario Arts Council

4.Teaching (and related)
2009                MPM27B - Artistic Applications for Interaction Design - Ryerson University, Toronto

2009                FPN545 -Media Studies: Multimedia Workshop, Image Arts - Ryerson University, Toronto

2008                MPM27A - Artistic Applications for Interaction Design - Ryerson University, Toronto

2008         FPN545 -Media Studies: Multimedia Workshop, Image Arts - Ryerson University, Toronto

2007                 FPN545 -Media Studies: Multimedia Workshop, Image Arts - Ryerson University, Toronto
2007                DD123 Digital Illustration- Graphic Design Program, The Art Institute of Toronto
2006                AA111 Drawing and Anatomy, Animation and Game Art Program, The Art Institute of Toronto
2006                 DD123 Digital Illustration (2 sections)- Graphic Design Program, The Art Institute of Toronto
2006                 AA201 Structure and Perspective, Animation and Game Art Program, The Art Institute of Toronto
1999-2006 Academic Computer Centre Technician - Ontario College of Art and Design
1998- 1999       Teaching Assistant- Academic Computer Centre - Ontario College of Art and Design
1998 FA/VISA 3080 6.00 Drawing: Teaching Assistant: FALL & WINTER sessions, CUPE-Tutor 1 York University
1998 FA/VISA 1000 3.0 Critical Issues: Teaching Assistant: FALL & WINTER sessions, CUPE - Tutor 1 - York University
1997 FA/VISA 2033 3.00 3-Dimensional Construction - Graduate Assistant -Fall & Winter, CUPE - Tutor 1, York University
1997 Assistant to Sculpture Technician - Fall & Winter, Graduate Assistantship

5. Invitational Lectures: Artist Lectures, Panels, Workshops, Residencies
2009          Artist talk - University of Toronto - Visual Studies program
2007           Artist Residency - Paved Arts - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CA
2006           Invited guest speaker - The Box - hosted by Louise Bak
2006           Invited Presenter & Speaker- London Games Festival fringe programme - Cybersalon
2006           Invited Presenter: CGSA - Canadian Games Symposium
2006           Invited Presenter: CopyCamp - an unconference
2006           Invited Visiting Artist Lecture & Workshop at Alberta College of Art & Design
2004   Salon discussion on gaming and hacking with Myfanwy Ashmore, (CA) Joe McKay, (NYC) Sandy Plotkinoff (CA) facilitated by Jim Munroe (Eye Magazine) at weewerk gallery 2.01
2003   Invited Juror for 3rd and 4th year Sculpture & Wood Scholarships at OCAD
1998   Panel Discussion - On Interactivity - Invited to participate in a discussion and presentation
                      with Keith Piper (UK) and Doug Back (Canada) and myself at the Ontario College of Art and Design for the Integrated Media and Sculpture/Installation programs.
1998   Radio Discussion on collaborative processes- Interview by Johanna Householder for Art on Air - on CKLN Ryerson radio station
1998   Radio Discussion on the emerging phenomena of DIY storefront galleries, Interview by Chandra Bulucon for Art on Air - on CKLN Ryerson Radio station

6. Professional Activities
2006             Committee for Academic Staff Review Process and Workload - OCAD
2005-2006        OCADFA Board Representative- OCAD Faculty Association elected board member
2005             Toronto Dorkbots: people doing strange things with electricity: member
2005     Member of OCAD PD users group - weekly group meetings to facilitate & participate in using Pure Data - an open source midi programming environment
2004-2007 Juried Artscape Studio Member
2003-2004 Member Mercer Union Artist Run Centre
1999-2005         Member of OCADFA - Ontario College of Art & Design Faculty Association
1999-2004 Member Interaccess Artist Run Centre
1999                 OCAD Web Radio event - organized & facilitated students, faculty web based radio broadcast
1997-1998 Graduate students applications committee - York Universty participated in review of potential graduate student candidates

7. Curatorial Activities & Artist Collectives
2006-2009                  Hermione Presents
2004 - 2006        Bossy Bitches: collective of outspoken female artists
1999                  Collaborative organizer: Sensebus project- Interaccess Media Arts Centre
                     Collaborative project using microcontrollers & network protocols

1998                   Collaborative Organizer: Truck stop 12: Mobile Art in Vans - Collectively Organized group of 12 artists in mobile exhibition traveling in vans to various parking lot locations in Toronto

1997                   Curator's Assistant: The Lomo Project, A-Space Gallery - Assisted in the planning of the display and mounting of 5000 photographs for the exhibition
1996-1998              Co-Founder and Exhibitions Coordinator, .in/attendant.Gallery. Organizing & curated more than 40 artists & 24 exhibitions & two festivals, over a 2 year period to exhibit
                                      in a storefront window space and main gallery space, facilitating opening receptions, writing and distributing press releases, invitation layout, public relations.

8. Exhibitions
a) Solo Exhibitions:
2000 -present         "mario_battle_no.1" Year01.com - www.year01.com/mario - Hacked mario game
2003                 missing machines: missing you Fly Gallery, Toronto - Interactive phone & video installation using ringdown circuit, microcontrollers, video & max/msp
2000                 Soma/Somo The ArtFirm, Toronto - Communication device to interact with "Rotting Grapefruits"
1998                 Pixel Love-IDA Gallery, Toronto, - MFA Thesis exhibition- Interactive electronic artworks-both analogue and digitally controlled
1998                 Webwork:http://www.chewable.com/myfanwy/pixellove.html
1998                 You Suck-.in/attendant. Gallery, Toronto, -Television rabbit and computer animation

b) Group Exhibitions:

Upcoming               ZeroGamer: London Games Fringe Festival, London, UK, curated by HTTP & Furtherfield.org
2007 Sept                LabCab Festival: mellowdrama - video projection and contemporary dance
2007 May               Have We Forgotten? The Hope Project - St. Marys, Ontario - Group project - funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, 7 Artists - performers, dancers, singers.
2006 October             Artful Gaming -London Games Festival/Science Museum Dana Centre- Cybersalon - London UK
2006 September           Perform.Media - Bloomington, Indiana
2006 September           Mawa group exhibition curated by Skawennati Tricia Fragnito, Winnipeg Manitoba
2006                   Mods Vs Rockers at Digifest- Habourfront Gallery Vitrines, Curated by Sally McKay, Toronto
2006                   Mean Mamma - Bossy Bitches Collective exhibition, Lennox Contemporary Gallery, Toronto
2006                   Transmedia 29:59 - Zombienation v1.2, Yonge & Dundas Square Commercial Video Screens, Toronto
2006                   Controller: Artists crack the game code - with Alex Galloway, Tasman Richardson, Yumi & Co, RSG, Interacess Media Arts Centre
2005                    Novel Amusements: - games & shame dvd zine published by Nomediakings, distributed at CANZINE
2005                   "Sweet Shit" exhibition, "Bossy Bitches" collective, Lennox Gallery, Toronto
2005                   911 ? Art Attack: organized by Deborah Wiles, 911 ? Gallery Toronto
2004                   RedHead Gallery Fundraiser: Redhead Gallery, Toronto
2004                   Poster Project: hello! nurse! curated by Elizabeth Fearon, Seoul, Korea
2004                    "Open" with Robert Gober, Paul McCarthy, Micah Lexier, Liam Gillick, Sol Lewitt, Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Ivan Jurakic Myfanwy Ashmore and others.
                                       Co-curated by Sandra Firmin and Richard Torchia Arcadia Art Gallery, Philadelphia, in conjunction with the ICA's "the Big Nothing"
2004                    Play - organized by Heather Corcoran & Germaine Koh, Weewerk Gallery, Toronto
2004                    0.001 Percent Volume- Curated by Dave Dyment Mercer Union, Toronto
2003                    Playboy with Gameboys - Curated by Alex Cechetti, SmartProjectSpace, Amsterdam, Holland
2003 -present              Runme.org: Runme.org is an online software art repository profiled at various festivals including ArsElectronica, Readme Festival - http://www.runme.org/project/+mariobattle/
2002                    Dataland Ed Video Guelph
2002                    Rhizome Remix Event Rhizome.Org + Dataland at iMAGES Festival of Independent Film and Video
2001                    Overtime@Workplace And Other By Products of Employment : Instant Coffee, Toronto
2000                    Endnotes: The Cameron House : Book Launch, Toronto
2000                    Endnotes: Articule : Book Launch - Montreal, Quebec
2000                    Bad Planet- Live electronic music at The Rivoli, Toronto
2000                    Moneyhouse: Show me the green - curated by Jinhan Ko at Moneyhouse, Toronto
2000                   LifeSpan curated by Elizabeth Fearon, Meg Gallery: Toronto
1999                   Norm White and Myfanwy Ashmore Deadtech Gallery: Chicago Illinois
1999                   Tactile Video - Images Festival - Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre - Toronto
1999                   A-space Gallery -, Fundraiser, Toronto
1998                   Samhain in the Wasteland - Cult of the Po-Po & Soundsphere -7a-11d Performance Art Festival - Toronto
1998                   Truck Stop 12 - mobile art in vans, Toronto
1998                   Works for the Ideal Home- curated by Roger Bywater & Luis Jacob, Art Metropole, Toronto
1998                   Cottage Life - Gallery 1313 Toronto
1998                   Loose curated by Judy Marquis & Dana Holst, The Meg Gallery - Toronto
1998                   MFA group exhibition IDA Gallery, Toronto
1997                   PlunderPalooza performances by John Oswald, Mark Hosler from Negativland, Sucking Chest Wound, Lee's Palace, Toronto
1997                   The Lomo Project: Toronto is Neighbourhood - A-Space Gallery, Toronto,
1997                   MFA group exhibition-IDA Gallery, Toronto
1996                   Local 425 - Thesis Exhibition, Toronto
1996                   Victoria's Other Secrets, Gallery 76 - Toronto
1995                   Between 2 Spaces, Nora Vaughn Gallery Toronto
1995                   Some Assembly Required: The Next Frontier, Electronic Art - group exhibition, Toronto
1994                   Some Assembly Required: Electronic Art - group exhibition, Toronto
1994                   Perpetua - Workscene Gallery , Toronto
1994                   The Presidents Ball Symptom Hall -Toronto

c) Collections:
mario trilogy -video - private collection, Brussels, Belgium
gameover zombienation - video - private collection, Brussels, Belgium
hohm - video - private collection, Brussels, Belgium

9. Selected Bibliography

a) Catalogues:
2005 Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myfanwy_Ashmore
2004 "Open" Robert Gober, Paul McCarthy, Micah Lexier, Liam Gillick, Sol Lewitt, Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Ivan Jurakic, Myfanwy Ashmore...Exhibition Catalogue.
2004 0.001 percent volume: curated & essay by Dave Dyment, Mercer Union
2003 Code: The language of our Time - Ars Electronica + Runme.org
2000 Endnotes: Projet d'artiste * Pages: 72 * Cote: 51.22 END Auteurs: Rebecca Anweiler,Myfanwy Ashmore, Sylvette Babin... Artistes sujets: H. Coulis, M. Ashmore, L. Deanne-Smith...
2002 Words are words on the page on the screen- what's the difference? Published Paper by Adam Pawley for MA in Electronic Media at Oxford (Brookes) University, UK
1998 Truck Stop 12 zine: zine style self published catalogue with essay by Gary Michael Dault

b) Newspapers & Magazines:

August 24, 2006        Videogames: The Gaming Arts -Joshua Ostroff, Exclaim Magazine
April 2, 2006                    Myfanwy Ashmore: Interview, Little Mathletics, Adelaide, Australia
March 23, 2006 Ian Daffern,Technology: The fine art of video games -Creative minds put on a show of mashing up game images ,Eye Magazine (CA)
February 25, 2006                Raju Mudhar: Creating a new form of art: Two shows celebrate video game art But some artwork hacks into others, Toronto Star (CA)
April 15, 2004    Jim Munroe: Pleasure Circuit - Read Only Memories Eye Magazine( CA) Review of mario_battle_no.1 at weewerk.
March 06, 2004 Catherine Osborne: The National Post (CA) Review of 0.001 Percent Volume - at Mercer Union
March 09, 2004 Thomas Hirschmann: All and Nothing Now Magazine (CA) Review of 0.001 Percent Volume - Mercer Union
February 28, 2004 Sarah Milroy: Percent Volume Globe and Mail ( CA) Review of 0.001 Percent Volume - Mercer Union
Summer 2000                  Lucia L'amour: soma/somo review - Lola Magazine (CA)
February 27, 2000 Mordecai Richler: Why is earning valued above learning (Montreal) The Montreal Gazette
February 24, 2000                 An art apart: Funds for talking to rotten fruit The Chicago Tribune (US)
February 17, 2000                 David Ljunggren: Des subventions pour Ètudier les culs plats Montreal Alouettes: - Reuters (Montreal)
February 17, 2000                 Arts groups uneasy grants row spotlight Toronto Star (CA)
February 16, 2000                 Minister seeks funds for move to remote location, signed Jane (CA) The National Post
February 15, 2000                 Civil disobediance film, gum and bum win grants The National Post:(CA)
February 15, 2000                 Arts Grants Smell Rotten to Reform Ottawa Citizen (CA)
February 14, 2000                 Arts Grants wasted on the wacky: Reform The National Post (CA)
February 14, 2000 The Seven Sisters Writing Group: Reform takes aim at wacky arts grant(CA)
February 12, 2000 Gary Michael Dault: Lifespan exhibition The Globe and Mail (CA)
Winter 1999                     Mix Magazine - Truck Stop 12, Review & image of Truck Stop 12 show (CA)
Winter 1998                     Lola Magazine - Truck Stop 12, Review, winter issue (CA)
Nov-Jan-1998/99                C Magazine - Works for the Ideal Home Review & image of Art Metropole show (CA)
October 1998                    Works for the Ideal Home at Art Metropole The Globe and Mail - Review of Art Metropole show
October 9, 1998                   Andrew Zealley: Home Alone: Domesticity never looked this fun - X-tra Magazine - Review of Art Metropole show (CA)
October 12, 1998          Miriam Sanati: Artists Take their works to people friendly mall - The Globe and Mail -Truck Stop 12 - Mobile art in vans, Review of show

c.Online newsgroups + Websites + RSS feeds
October 9, 20006                          The Games You Won't Find On Retail Shelves: Fringe Fun, Matt Brown, The Londonist.com
September 28, 2006                 'Artful Gaming' at the London Games Festival Fringe. Selectparks.com
October 11, 2006                           Lisa's report of Artful Gaming, Lisa Devaney, We Make Money not Art.com
April 7, 2006 Gamasutra: Feature: 'Event Wrap Up: Controller: Artists Crack the Game Code', by Matthew Kumar gamasutra.com
April 05, 2006 Torontoist: Damn You Dundas Square, Censorship article about ClearChannel and Transmedia 29:59, Torontoist.com
April 02, 2006 Little Mathletics: Myfanwy Ashmore Interview, in depth interview about various works including censorship of mario works, littlemathletics.com
March 23, 2006 Now Magazine: The fine art of video games - Creative minds put on a show of mashing up game images, by Ian Dafferin
July 31, 2005 Winky Wanker: mario battle no.1:andycjw.blogspot.com - Review of mario_battle_no.1
July 25, 2005                            The Design Weblog: Mario battle no.1 design.weblogsinc.com -Review of mario_battle_no.1
July 25, 2005                            Joystiq.com: Mario for Pacifists - Review of mario_battle_no.1
July 25, 2005                           Playfeed: Myfanwy Ashmore Makes Mario Even More Harmless - Review of mario_battle_no.1
January 2005 Matthew Hawkinson: "dead mario walking" FORT90.com (US)- Review of mario_battle_no.1
July 11, 2004                          Ancil Anne:"a tangent on womyn's ludological work" on Dessgeega.com (US) - Essay relating to mario_battle_no.1
April 23 ,2004 AvantGaming: Challenging the status play - "But what is it???" (US)- Game Theory Discussion of mario_battle_no.1
April 15, 2004                         Jim Munroe: Pleasure Circuit - Read Only Memories Eye Magazine( CA)- Review of mario_battle_no.1 at weewerk.
April 15, 2004 Jim Munroe: Pleasure Circuit - Read Only Memories - republished - NOMEDIAKINGS.ORG( CA)- Review of mario_battle_no.1 at weewerk.
April 02, 2004                         Erin Bell: Ludonauts: Just Go For A Walk: Non-Competitive Gaming (CA) - Review/game theory discussion of mario_battle_no.1 at weewerk
October 09, 2003 Eduardo Navas: on Net Art News (NetArtNews.net): - Review of mario_battle_no.1
July 16, 2003 "The Mario Battle no.1, videogame da passeggio." Neural Magazine- (ITALY)- New media art, Electronic music, Hacktivism: Review of mario_battle_no.1 .
Summer 2002 Echo Magazine: Review of Dataland - (Guelph, CA)
April 19, 2002 "Where memories are data and behaviours are code.." Neural Magazine:New media art, Electronic music, Hacktivism. Dataland review (ITALY)
February 2000 Shirley L. Thomson Director, Canada Council for the Arts (CA) - A nation of artists: Canada Council grants support our artistic dreams
February 15, 2000 "Canadians pissed off about THE ROCK getting artwork"  newsgroup: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
February 15, 2000 Canada Council Arts grants smell rotten to Reform newsgroup:soc.culture.canada
February 2000                           Canada Arts Funding Newsbyte and Challenge newsgroup: soc.hist.what-if
February, 18, 2000                         And you get money for that? The Carneadesian (US)
February 17, 2000 Canad· patrocina obra de arte com chiclete e frutas podres Brazil Online(BR)
d.Television & Radio:

February 22 2006 Cbc Radio One (National) "The Arts Tonight", interview
February 10 2000 Carla Garnet & Elizabeth Fearon: Lifespan exhibition, Art on Air CKLN interview/ review, Toronto (CA)
April 1999               CBC Radio - Tactile Video - press coverage of Tactile Video exhibition (CA)
Summer 1998 CBC Television - Cottage Life, Press coverage of Gallery 1313 show
Fall 1998                 City Tv - Truck Stop 12 - Mobile art in vans
September 24, 1997         Much Music - Plunderpalooza - artists that plunder from culture, event, Press
Spring 1995               Much Music - Some Assembly Required - coverage of group exhibition

10. Professional Development: Courses, workshops
2004 Microsoft Certification Course 2299: New Horizons Computer Learning Centre, Toronto
2004 Linux+ Certification Course: New Horizons Computer Learning Centre, Toronto
2003 Genderchangers: linux chicks hacking skill-share weekend to establish media centre, Kimbercote Farm
2002 Max/Msp + Microcontrollers Workshop with Ken Gregory, Interaccess Media Arts Centre
2002 Max/Msp + Jitter Workshop taught by Nicholas Steadman, Interaccess Media Arts Centre
2002 Dataland: 9 month long bi-weekly workshop for artists interested in using PHP & PostgreSQL taught by Tom Leonhardt, Interaccess
2000 Networking Fundamentals - CDI College of Business and Technology, Toronto
1999 Interactive Video Workshop taught by David Rokeby, Interaccess Media Arts Centre
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