JENNIFER FISHER
	Positions Held
	2009-Date	Associate Professor of Art History and Curatorial Studies, Department of Visual Arts, York University, Toronto.
	2007-2009	Graduate Program Director, Art History, Department of Visual Arts, York University, Toronto.
	2004-2009	Assistant Professor of Art History and Curatorial Studies, Department of Visual Arts, York University, Toronto.
	1999-2004	Lecturer, Graduate Program, Department of Communication Studies and Art History, McGill University, Montreal.
	1991-2004	Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, MFA Program and Art History, Concordia University, Montreal.
	2001	Lecturer, Department of Art History, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax.
	1997-1999	Post-Doctoral Affiliation/Visiting Scholar, Society for Fellows in the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca.
	1997-1998	Contemporary Art Fellow, Canadian Centre for the Visual Arts, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
	1995-1997	1995-1997 Post-Doctoral Affiliation/Visiting Scholar, Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Performance Studies, New York University, New York.
	1986-1992	Assistant Editor, Parachute Magazine, Montréal.
	Education
	1996	Ph.D., Humanities Doctoral Program, Concordia University, Montreal. Interdisciplinary Research in Cultural Studies. Dissertation: Aesthetic Contingencies: Relational Enactments in Display Culture.
	1988	Master of Arts in Media Studies, Department of Communications, Concordia University, Montreal. Thesis: Museums and Mediation: Locating the Exhibition Experience.
	1977	Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax.
	Books and Catalogues
	2006	Technologies of Intuition, editor, Toronto: YYZBOOKS & Winnipeg: Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA), 270 pages.
	2002	Museopathy, exhibition catalogue, Kingston: The Agnes Etherington Art Centre in association with DisplayCult (co-author).
		CounterPoses, exhibition catalogue, Montreal: éditions Oboro in association with DisplayCult (co-author).
	Selected Publications
	2009	MetroSonics, exhibition brochure, Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 5pp.
	2008	“Odor Limits,” The Senses & Society 3:3, expanded version of the exhibition pamphlet from the Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (co-author), pp. 349-58.
		“HEXhibitionism,” in FASTWÜRMS: Donky@Ninja@Witch, Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery (co-author), pp. 27-42.
		“Tanya Mars: Tyranny of Bliss,” Legends of Performance: Tanya Mars, ed. Paul Couillard, Toronto: FADO.
	2007	“Tangible Acts,” The Senses in Performance, eds. Sally Banes and Andre Lepinki, New York & London: Routledge.
		“The Anthropometry of Barbara,” exhibition catalogue for Barbara Balfour: Selfish, Toronto: The Koffler Gallery.
	2006	“Exhibitionary Affect,” n.paradoxa, special issue “Curatorial Strategies,” 18 (2006): 27-33.
		Reprint of “In the Garden of Nirvana: Noritoshi Hirakawa” (co-author), pp. 320-4, and “Platefuls of Air,” pp. 342-56, in The Smell Culture Reader, Oxford & New York: Berg.
		“Museum Vivants,” exhibition catalogue for Adad Hannah: Video Projects, in Korean and English (coauthor).
		“Do Me!” in 7a11d 6th International Festival of Performance Art, catalogue (co-author), pp. 10-11.
		Reprint and translation of “Museum vivants” in Adad Hannah: Video Projects, Seoul, pp. 9-15 (co-author) (in English and Korean).
	2005	“Oral Logics of the Museum,” Public, special issue “Eating Things,” 30 (2005): 195-207.
		Revised and expanded reprint of “Jayce Salloum: Archive of the Street,” in Image, Index and Inscription: Essays on Contemporary Canadian Photography, ed. Robert Bean, Toronto: Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography and YYZ Books (co-author), pp. 167-79.
		“Out and About: The Performances of Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan,” Caught in the Act, eds. Johanna Householder and Tanya Mars (Toronto: YYZ Books, 2005), 189-197.
	2004	“Speeches of Display, Museum Audio Guides by Artists,” Aural Cultures, ed. Jim Drobnick (Toronto & Banff: YYZ Books & Walter Philipps Gallery Editions, 2004), 48-61.
		Revised version of “Ambient Communities and Association Complexes: Aernout Mik’s Awry Socialities,” in Aernout Mik: Dispersions, ed. Stephanie Rosenthal, Munich: Haus der Kunst/DuMont (co-author), pp. 16-60, 78-80 (in English and German).
	2003	“Tactile Affects,” Tessera, special issue, “The Senses,” 32 (2003): 17-28.
		“Affective Blueprints,” The Culture of Community, ed. Vera Lemecha (Winnipeg: Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, 2003), 35-45.
		“Ready Un-Mades,” catalogue essay for Anne Ramsden, Anastylosis: Inventory, Lethbridge: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 2003.
		“Janet Cardiff’s Audio-Walks,” in Janet Cardiff: A Survey of Works Including Collaborations with George Bures Miller, ed. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (New York: PS1/MOMA).
		“Althea Thauberger, Songstress,” exhibition review, Parachute 112 (fall 2003): 138.
		Linda M. Montano: 14 Years of Living Art, exhibition brochure, Montreal: The Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, 4 pp.
	2002	“Museal Tropes in Popular Film,” Visual Communication, 1:2 (2003): 197-201.
		“Adad Hannah: Museum vivants,” exhibition brochure, Ottawa: Galerie SAW (co-author), 6 pp. (in English and French).
	2001	Excerpt and French translation of “Ambient Communities and Association Complexes; Aernout Mik’s Awry Socialities,” in Mik’s Biennale de Lyon catalogue, edited by Yvane Chapuis, p. 260.
		“Ambient Communities and Association Complexes; Aernout Mik’s Awry Socialities,” Parachute 101 (winter 2001): 90-98. (coauthor).
		“Blue Mountains: Itinerant Television and Monitored Luggage,” CD-ROM project and catalogue by Berlin-based artist Karen Kipphoff (co-author).
		“Vital Signs, A Curatorial Response” Material History Review 53 (spring-summer 2001): 75-76 (co-author).
		Museopathy, short guide/exhibition brochure, Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre (co-author), 4 pp.
	2000	“The Servant Problem,” in Trespassers & Captives, Jamelie Hassan, ed., London: London Regional Art and Historical Museums (co-author), pp. 49-61.
		“Pipilotti Rist,” exhibition review, Canadian Art 17:2 (summer 2000): 76-77.
		Vital Signs, exhibition brochure, Montreal: Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery (co-author).
	1999	“Performing Taste,” Foodculture, ed. Barbara Fischer (Toronto: YYZ Books), 29-47.
		“Speaking of Display: The Museum Audioguides by Sophie Calle, Andrea Fraser and Janet Cardiff,” Parachute 94 (spring 1999): 25-31.
		“CounterPoses, a Curatorial Pose,” Etc Montreal, March-April (co-author), pp. 17-22.
		Hair Epiphanies,” catalogue essay for Told and Retold: Anne Wilson and A.B. Forster, The Toronto Textile Museum.
		“Archive of the Street,” in Jayce Salloum, Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre (co-author), pp. 19-26.
		“Contact Zones: The Art of CD-ROM,” exhibition review, Parachute 96 (fall 1999): 85-86.
		“Char Davies,” exhibition review, Parachute 94 (spring 1999): 54-5.
	1998	“Bob Ross: The Painting Cure,” Parachute #91, Summer (co-author), p. 51.
		CounterPoses, exhibition brochure, Montreal: Oboro (co-author), 16 pp.
	1997	“In the Garden of Nirvana: Noritoshi Hirakawa,” Parachute #88, Fall (co-author), pp. 31-5.
		“Relational Sense: Towards a Haptic Aesthetics,” Parachute 87 Summer, pp. 4-11.
		“Interperformance: The Live Tableaux of Suzanne Lacy, Janine Antoni and Marina Abramovic,” Art Journal, 56:4, pp. 28-33.
	1996	“Trick or Treat?: Naming A Curatorial Ethics,” in Naming a Practice: Curatorial Strategies for the Future, ed. Peter White (Banff: Banff Center Press, 1996), 207-214.
	1994	“Exhibiting Bodies: Articulating Human Displays,” Border/Lines 31 (1994): 18-23.
	Selected Curating
	2009	NIGHTSENSE, Nuit Blanche, Zone B, Toronto, October 3-4 (DisplayCult).
		MetroSonics, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa, May 6-August 28 (DisplayCult).
	2008	Odor Limits, Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, Monell Science Center, Philadelphia, May 9–June 30 (DisplayCult).
		Two Clouds: Aernout Mik, video screening, Special Projects Gallery, York University, January 14-24, co-curator (DisplayCult).
	2006	Do Me!, instruction performance series, Toronto (DisplayCult, with Dave Dyment and Roula Partheniou).
		7a*11d 6th International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto (co-organizer).
	2003	Linda M. Montano: 14 Years of Living Art, Liane and Danny Taran Gallery at the Saidye Bronfman Art Centre, Montreal.
	2002	Stills: Adad Hannah, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, co-curator (DisplayCult).
	2001	Museopathy, Agnes Etherington Art Centre and local history museums and heritage sites, Kingston, co-curator (DisplayCult).
		Empathology, performance series, local history museums and heritage sites, Kingston, co-curator (DisplayCult).
	2000	Vital Signs, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, co-curator (DisplayCult with Colette Tougas).
		Sentience: Performance Salon, Montreal, in conjunction with the conference Uncommon Senses, co-curator (DisplayCult with Colette Tougas).
	1999	The Servant Problem, performance collaboration with Jennifer Fisher, in Trespassers & Captives, organized by Jamelie Hassan, Eldon House, London (DisplayCult).
		Room 208, site-specific installation, in 48 Hours/48 Rooms, organized by Ingrid Bachmann, Montreal (DisplayCult).
	1998	CounterPoses: Reimagining Tableaux Vivants, Galerie Oboro, Montreal, co-curator (DisplayCult).
	Selected Speaking Engagements
	2009	Invited Moderator for Chantal Mouffe, PREFIX: Urban Field Speakers Series, Toronto.
		DisplayCult Curators Talk, Ryerson University, Toronto.
	2008	Session Co-chair, Neuroaesthetics, Universities Art Association of Canada, Toronto.
		“The Volitional Breath: Haptic Aesthetics in the Navigation of Char Davies Immersive Art.”
		Session Co-chair, Cultures of Display I and II, Universities Art Association of Canada, Toronto.
		Curatorial workshop for the Curatorial Incubator: The Dark Arts: Magic and Intuition, Vtape, Toronto.
		Invited Panel Moderator, The Flipside: Allyson Mitchell, and Shawna Dempsey & Lori Millan, Vtape and Inside Out Festival, Toronto.
	2007	Invited speaker, Auto-Emotion Exhibition: Art as Ontological Event, The Power Plant, Toronto.
		Session Co-chair, Issues in Contemporary Curatorial Practice, Universities Art Association of Canada, Toronto.
		Invited speaker, On Intuition in Art Practice, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit.
		Invited speaker, On the Production of Technologies of Intuition, MFA Program in Visual Studies, University of Toronto.
		Invited speaker, Intuition as an Artistic Methodology, Faculty of Fine Arts Faculty Hour, York University.
	2006	Session Co-Chair, “Art Contexts, The Senses & Space, Part 1 and 2, Universities Art Association of Canada, Halifax.
		“Relational Aesthetics of Display,” Challenge to Ocularcentrism: Contemporary Art and the Art Gallery, 32nd Association of Art Historians Conference, University of Leeds, UK.
	2005	Invited speaker, Istvan Kantor Machinery Execution Panel, Art Gallery of York University.
		Invited speaker, Sensory Cultures and Display Conference, Concordia University.
	2004	Invited speaker, Visual Culture Colloquium, University of Toronto.
		Invited speaker, Rethinking Exhibitions: Mendel Art Gallery Lecture Series, Saskatoon.
		Invited lecturer, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University.
	2003	Invited speaker, University of Ottawa, sponsored by Artengine.
		Invited Lecturer, Visual Studies in a State of Emergency, Visual Studies Program, Cornell University, Ithaca.
	2002	Invited Lecturer, Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series, Critical Curatorial Studies Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
		Invited Lecturer, Museums After Modernism: Strategies of Engagement, Toronto.
		Invited presenter, Curatorial Think Tank, The Banff Centre.
		Invited think-tank participant for proposed exhibition on the senses at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
		Residency at Oboro’s New Media Lab, research on haptic art, Montreal.
	2001	Session Co-Chair, “Popular Art Histories: Presenting and Consuming Interpretations of Art in Media Culture,” Universities Art Association of Canada conference, Montreal.
		Session Co-Chair, Popular Art Histories: Presenting and Consuming Interpretations of Art in Media Culture, College Art Association, Chicago.
		Mentor in Residence, Mentoring Artists For Women’s Art, Winnipeg.
	1999	Session Chair, In the Belly of the Beast: Museum Intervention as Artistic Practice, Universities Art Association of Canada, Toronto, ON.
		Session Chair, “Living Display,” Panel for the 5th Performance Studies Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales.
		Invited Presenter, Research Fellowship Program presentation, Performing Taste, National Gallery of Canada.
	1998	Invited Presenter, “L’artiste et/ou le comisaire,” Galerie Vox, Montreal.
		Conference Presenter, Performance in Canada, The University Art Association of Canada, London.
		Invited Presenter, Performing Interdisciplinarity,” conference for the 25th anniversary of the Humanities Doctoral Program, Concordia University, Montreal.
		Conference Presenter, Come To Your Senses!, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation, Amsterdam.
		Conference Presenter, Beyond Vision: Art, Aesthetics and the “Other” Senses, College Art Association, Toronto.
	1997	Invited Presenter, Cultural Studies and Art Criticism, for Parachute’s 20th anniversary conference, Montreal.
		Conference Presenter, Cultural Studies and the Question of Aesthetics, International Communication Association, Montréal.
		Conference Presenter, “The Interoceptive Turn in Recent Video Installations by Mona Hatoum and Martin Kersels,” Console-ing Passions, Montréal.
		Conference Panel Chair, Rethinking Human Display: Tableaux Vivants, Performance Art and Living Exhibitions, College Art Association, New York .
		Panel Organizer, Embodying Quebec, Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Performance Studies, New York University, New York.
	1996	Conference Presenter, Beyond Vision: Aesthetics and the Other Senses, Universities Art Association of Canada, Montreal.
		Conference presenter, Capitalism, Consumption, and Technologies of Discipline, International Communication Association, Chicago.
		Conference presenter, Aesthetic, Political and Ethical Issues in Cross-Cultural Art, Centre for Cultures, Technologies and the Environment, Mysore, India.

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