Christof Migone

 

Christof Migone, Associate Professor (Visual Arts Studio Sound and Media Studies)
Ph.D., New York University, 2007
M.F.A., Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1996
B.A., Concordia University, 1991

Christof Migone is an artist, curator and writer. His work and research delve into language, voice, bodies, performance, intimacy, complicity and endurance. He co-edited the book and CD Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, 2001), and the book and vinyl Volumes (Blackwood, 2015). His writings have been published in Aural Cultures, S:ON, Experimental Sound & Radio, Musicworks, Radio Rethink, Semiotext(e), Angelaki, Esse, Inter, Performance Research, More Caught in the Act, etc. He obtained an MFA from NSCAD in 1996 and a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University in 2007. He has curated several exhibitions and events: Touch that Dial (1990), Radio Contortions (1991), Rappel (1994), Double Site (1998), stuttermouthface (2002), Disquiet (2005), START (2007), STOP (2008), Should I Stay or Should I Go (Nuit Blanche 2010), and numerous others for the Blackwood Gallery between 2008 and 2013. He has performed at Beyond Music Sound Festival (Los Angeles), kaaistudios (Brussels), Resonance FM (London), Nouvelles Scènes (Dijon), On the Air (Innsbruck), Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Méduse (Québec), Images Festival (Toronto), Send+Receive (Winnipeg), Kill Your Timid Notion (Dundee), Mutek (Montreal), Whitney Biennial (New York), Liquid Architecture (Melbourne), Cave 12 (Geneva), 25fps Festival (Zagreb), etc. His installations have been exhibited at the Banff Center, Rotterdam Film Festival, Gallery 101, eyelevelgallery, Forest City Gallery, Studio 5 Beekman, Mercer Union, CCS Bard, Optica, Zalucky Contemporary, etc. He has collaborated with Lynda Gaudreau, Martin Tétreault, Tammy Forsythe, Alexandre St-Onge, Michel F. Côté, Gregory Whitehead, Set Fire To Flames, Fly Pan Am, etc. A monograph on his work, Sound Voice Perform, was published in 2005. In 2006, the Galerie de l’UQAM in Montreal presented a mid-career survey of his work accompanied by a catalog and a DVD entitled Trou. A book compiling his writings on sound art, Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body was published in 2012 by Errant Bodies Press. He has been the recipient of commissions from the Tate Modern, Dazibao, Kunstradio, Centre for Art Tapes, New Adventures in Sound Art, Radio Canada, New American Radio. He is a founding member of Avatar (Québec City).

Exhibitions (solo or collaborative)

2021 “Record Release”, Oboro Gallery, Montreal (upcoming)
2020 “Swan Song”, Christie Contemporary, Toronto (with Marla Hlady) (upcoming)
2017 "Standing Under Mis", Katzman Contemporary, Toronto (four person collaborative exhibition project)
2016 "Press Play", Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto
2015 "Millefeuille 2", QueenSpecific, Toronto
2015 "Millefeuille" and "Flipper A", The Bookcase, London, Ontario
2015 "Count and Strike and Spin", Errant Bodies Sound Art Space, Berlin (with Marla Hlady)
2010 "Disco Sec", Optica, Montréal
2009 "Fixation", CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College (curator Mireille Bourgeois)
2009 "Disco Sec", Axe-Néo 7, Gatineau
2008 "Disco Sec", Mercer Union, Toronto
2008 "Sale Sono", La Galerie d'art contemporain de Besançon, Besançon, France

Exhibitions (group)

2019 "Swan Song", Glenfiddich Artist in Residence Exhibition, Dufftown, Scotland (with Marla Hlady) (July 26 – August 25)
2019 "Record Release 12-inch" for Feedback 4: Marshall McLuhan and the Arts, The Valade Family Gallery, College for Creative Studies (CCS), Detroit, Michigan (curators Baruch Gottlieb & Marie-José Sondeijker)
2018 "Single" for Record Shop, MKG127, Toronto
2018 "Record Release 12-inch" for Feedback 2: Marshall McLuhan and the Arts, EIGEN+ART LAB, Berlin, Germany (curators Baruch Gottlieb & Marie-José Sondeijker)
2017 "Micro” for Sounds Assembling, Museum London, London, Ontario (curator Cassandra Getty)
2016 "Record Release 7-inch" for Sweet Gongs Vibrating, Artlab, London, Ontario
2016 "Record Release 7-inch" for Sweet Gongs Vibrating, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego (curator Amanda Cachia)
2016 "Nothing Here But Everything" for À la recherche (in search for practice-based research), Open Studio, Toronto (curator Barbara Balfour)
2015 "Millionaire (machine)" with Marla Hlady, for the Exhibiting Sound exhibition, dc3 art projects, Edmonton, Alberta
2015 "Microhole" and "I", for underpressure, Trinity Square Video, Toronto (curator DisplayCult)
2015 "The Release Into Motion", "South Winds", and "Flatus Vocis", for the Symphony of Hunger: Digesting Fluxus in Four Movements exhibition, A Plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy
2015 "Record Release 12-inch", featured as a Walking Proposition on the WalkingLab website
2014 "4 feet and 33 inches (neon)" for 5 over 4, Cambridge Galleries/Idea Exchange, Cambridge, Ontario
2013 "Flipper A" for the echo Art Fair, Central Library, Buffalo, New York
2013 "Flipper A" for the Audio Out Listening Post, Art Gallery of York University (AGYU), Toronto
2013 "Record Release" for The String and the Mirror, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York (curators Lawrence Kumpf and Justin Luke)
2013 "Publick" for Drift, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario (curator Micah Donovan)
2011 "The Rise and Fall of the Sounds and Silences from Mars" for Electric Eclectics, Meaford (curator Gordon Monahan)
2010 "4 feet and 33 inches" for Non-cochlear Sound, Diapason Gallery, Brooklyn (curator Seth Kim-Cohen)
2009 "Disco Fall" for Massive Party, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (curator Ben Portis)
2008 "Crackers" and "South Winds" for C’est arrivé près de chez vous, Musée national des beaux-arts, Québec (curator Nathalie de Blois)
2008 "Auditorium" for Manif d’Art 4, Québec (curator Lisanne Nadeau)

Performances

2019 "Mixer” for Borderline Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
2019 "Mixer " for Apologies in Advance series, South London Gallery, London, UK
2019 "Record Release" for Irtijal Festival, Beirut, Lebanon
2019 "Record Release", De Player, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2018 "Malebouche" for Verbal Matters, PEER Gallery, London, UK 2017 "Hit Parade" for SFX
2017 at ArKO Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2017 "Hit Parade" and "Fingering" at the Lausanne Film & Music Festival (LUFF), Lausanne, Switzterland
2017 "Testing, Testing" (with Megan Arnold) at Museum London, London, Ontario
2017 "Record Release 7-inch" at Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto
2016 "Powerpointless" for UMBRAL festival, Contemporary Art Museum MACO, Oaxaca City, Mexico
2016 "Releasing Record Release" for Sweet Gongs Vibrating, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego
2016 "Mixer" for 21C Festival, Royal Conservatory, co-presented by MOCA, Toronto.
2016 "Mixer" solo version for vs. Interpretation Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
2016 "Fingering" for Cave 12, Geneva, Switzerland
2015 "Hit Parade" for Cagliari Capitale della cultura, Cagliari, Italy
2015 "Record Release 7-inch" for Tuning Speculation III conference, Array Music, Toronto
2015 "Present" for Doing Sounding Exchanging Thinking: The Auditory Experience of the Social, Foundation B.a.d, Rotterdam
2015 "Hit" for Nuit Blanche, Toronto (curator Christine Shaw)
2015 "Hit Parade" for 25fps festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2015 "Record Release 7-inch" for INTERsection, Yonge & Dundas Square, Toronto
2015 "Record Release 7-inch" for null point 7: Decay/Reverberate, Silo City, Buffalo, New York
2015 "Record Release 7-inch" for Suoni Festival, Sala Rossa, Montreal, Quebec
2015 "Mixer" for Ontario Scene, National Arts Center/Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2014 "Hit Parade", "Mixer, "Talk Artist" for Liquid Architecture Festival Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2014 "Hit Parade" for Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
2014 "War Machine" and "Fingering", Manif - Québec City Bienniale, Québec
2013 "Hit (duo)" for AKA Sounds Like Audio Art Festival, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2013 "Hit Parade" for CAFKA Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener
2013 "Mixer" for Zilver Flotations, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
2013 "Hit Parade" for Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam
2012 "4 feet and 33 inches" for The Future of Cage: Credo Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto
2012 "Hit Parade" for 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto
2012 "Hit Parade" for A survey is a process of listening, presented by Arika at the Whitney Biennial, New York
2012 "Hit Maker" for FAAS 3, Sudbury, Ontario
2011 "Hit Maker" for Trama Festival, Porto, Portugal
2011 "Hit Parade" for Trama Festival, Porto, Portugal
2011 "Hit Parade" for Send+Receive, Winnipeg
2011 "Fingering" for Espace [Im]Média at the Centre des arts de la scène Jean Besré, Sherbrooke, Québec
2010 "Fingering" for Electric Eclectics, Funny Farm, Meaford, Ontario
2010 "4 feet and 33 inches", "Evasion", "Snow Storm", "Hit Parade", Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
2009 "4 feet and 33 inches", Music Gallery, Toronto
2009 "4 feet and 33 inches", Sala Rossa, Montréal
2009 "Hit Parade" for Musée national des beaux-arts, Québec (curator Nathalie de Blois)

Video Screenings

2012 "Hit Maker (Porto)" for the Brick + Mortar International Video Art Festival, (curator Denise Markonish)
2012 "Hit Maker (Porto)" for Pixilerations v8, Providence, Rhode Island (curator Ed Osborn)
2010 "Snow Storm" for ON.Fire Conference at the Art Gallery of Ontario (curator Michelle Jacques)
2009 "Evasion", "Crackers", "South Winds", "Poker" at the TODAYSART 09 Festival, The Hague (curator Jan Rohlf)
2008 "P" and "Surround (360 objects)" for Kill Your Timid Notion, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK

Publications

2020 "Soundfullessness", essay for the Oxford Handbook of Sound Art, eds. Jane Grant, John Matthias and David Prior. (upcoming)
2019 "Canadasonic", essay for Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art, ed. Peter Weibel, MIT Press/ZKM.
2019 "Record Release 12-inch", photo book series, Squint.Press.
2017 "Soundfull (Huronia)" with Marla Hlady, artist pages and audio works, special issue on Huronia, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.
2017 "Questionable – Questioned – Questionnaire", commissioned by the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA).
2017 "Door to Door to Door", essay in Urban Encounters: Art and the Public,, eds. Martha Radice and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, McGill-Queen's Press.
2017 "Hit, Hit Maker, Hit Parade", artist pages in the Performance Art and the Public Sphere anthology, ed. Ana Pais, Lisbon: Orfeu Negro.
2016 "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhe: Silence and Sound in Performance", essay in More Caught in the Act, eds. Johanna Householder and Tanya Mars, YYZ Books.
2016 "With: Alexandre St-Onge's Cosmo-Touch", essay in Semblances catalog, Avatar, Québec City
2015 "Heard and Misheard Notes" for Volumes, eds. Martin Arnold & Christof Migone, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, 2015.
2015 "Gallery Guide: Through and Through", Journal of Curatorial Studies, Volume 4, Issue 2.
2014 "Foursome", in Beckett and Musicality, eds. Sara Jane Bailes and Nicholas Till, Routledge/Ashgate, London, UK.
2014 “Sans Sourdines”, in Home Sweet Home, à propos de l’inquiétude, Montréal: Dazibao, 2014.
2014 "The Micro Series" in the Practices section (guest ed. Risa Horowitz) of RACAR (Revue d’art canadienne/Canadian Art Review).
2012 "Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body", book, Errant Bodies Press (Berlin), 282 pages.
2012 "Boîte de transmission: écrits sur Thorax de Jean-Pierre Gauthier", in Inter No. 110, Langage Plastique, Québec.
2011 "la première phrase et le dernier mot", in Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, eds. Kenneth Goldsmith and Craig Dworkin, Northwestern University Press.
2011 "The Opening (30 days in the life of an exhibition)", essay for WOOD catalog, Blackwood Gallery.
2011 "The Rise and Fall of the Sounds and Silences from Mars", bookwork, Parasitic Ventures Press, Toronto.
2011 "Danger in Paradise", in Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves, ed. Galen Joseph-Hunter, New York: PAJ.
2010 "Auditorium", journal: Performance Research (Taylor & Francis Group, UK), volume 15/3, theme: "On Listening."
2010 "Touch that Dial: Creating Radio Transcending the Regulatory Body", in Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada, edited by Andrea Langlois, et al., Vancouver: New Star Books.
2010 "Auditorium", Performance Research (Taylor & Francis Group, UK), volume 15/3, theme: "On Listening."  
2010 "The Queer Voice Is Is Is Is Is...",  in the catalogue for the Queer Voice exhibition, ed. Ingrid Schaffner, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.
2008 "On Off.", curatorial essay for the START STOP. catalog, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University.
2008 "Bouche… boue… oue : une somaphonie buccale", essay for Inter, No. 98 Espaces Sonores, Québec.

Published Audio Works

2019 "Record Release 7-inch (Power Plant)", 7-inch vinyl, Squint.Press
2019 "Record Release 7-inch (Fin)", 7-inch vinyl, Squint.Press
2018 "Record Release 7-inch (Huronia)", 7-inch vinyl, Squint.Press
2018 "Record Release 7-inch (Scratch)", 7-inch vinyl, Squint.Press
2017 "Flipper ABC", printed matter and digital audio files, Squint.Press
2016 "Greatest Hits", solo CD, Squint.Press
2016 "Flipper B", Textsound, No.21, issue on Sonic Materialities, online, ed. Michael Nardone
2016 "Record Release 7-inch (Silo City)", vol. 1, 7-inch vinyl, Squint.Press
2016 "Record Release 7-inch (Avatar)", vol. 2, 7-inch vinyl, Squint.Press
2016 "Record Release 7-inch (Kunstradio)", vol. 3, 7-inch vinyl, Squint.Press
2014 "Microfall (ditty)" compilation vinyl LP, Melbourne: Liquid Architecture
2012 "Fingering" 2xLP, Montreal: squintpress
2010 "Auditorium" excerpts for CD accompanying Performance Research (Taylor & Francis Group, UK), volume 15/3, theme: On Listening
2009 "Langue Distance" for Mercersound 09 CD, Mercer Union: Toronto (curator Dave Dyment)
2009 "Disco Sec", monograph with audio CD, Avatar: Québec City
2008 "Hole in the Hole 1" and "Hole in the Hole 2" for Inter No. 98 Espaces Sonores, Québec
2006 "P" and "Crackers" for Music Overheard CD, ICA Boston (curator Kenneth Goldsmith)
2005 "Sound Voice Perform" solo CD, Copenhagen: Ground Fault Recordings/Errant Bodies Press
2005 "Vegass" for Six Silk Purses CD by Fortner Anderson, Montréal: Wired on Words
2004 "I" for noli me legere - to Maurice Blanchot CD, Lisbon: sirr-ecords
2003 "South Winds" solo CD, Montreal: Oral
2002 "Fado", "Life is Long Xavier Leroi" for Syntax Error CD, Cabinet No.7, Brooklyn
2001 "Crackers" solo CD, Chicago: Locust
2001 "Quieting" solo CD, Montréal: Alien 8 Recordings

Commissions

2020 Kunstradio (Vienna) for "Swan Song" with Marla Hlady (upcoming)
2017 Daïmôn (Gatineau) for "Stéréophonie"
2015 Kunstradio (Vienna) for "Record Release"
2015 Avatar (Québec City) for "Record Release"
2015 Null Point (Buffalo) for "Record Release"
2012 New Adventures in Sound Art & SOCAN Foundation (Toronto) for "Radio Naked"
2012 Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax) for "Flipper"
2007 Tate Modern/Resonance FM (London, UK) for "Foursome" a radio program based on Beckett's Quad
2004 Lynda Gaudreau – Compagnie de Brune (Montréal) for "The Digits of Pi" as part of Time Flies, Tanzquartier, Vienna
2001 Kunstradio (Vienna) for "hold, still" a radio program and web project
1995 Radio Canada for "SeptSixUn-QuatreHuitQuatreUn" aired on program Chants Magnétiques
1994 New American Radio and Performing Arts for "The Thing about Bugs" with Gregory Whitehead
1993 New American Radio and Performing Arts for "Hole in the Head" for New American Radio on NPR
1992 ACREQ for "Muscle Soléaire" for the 7e Printemps Electroacoustique

Residencies

2019 Residency, Glenfiddich Artist-in-Residence (with Marla Hlady), Dufftown, Scotland
2015 Residency, Avatar, Quebec City, Quebec
2007 Residency, Peer Advisor, Almost Perfect Residency, Banff Center
2001 Artist-in-Residence, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
1996 Residency, Media Arts, Western Front, Vancouver
1994 Residency, Audio, Banff Center for the Arts
1992 Residency, "Technology, Rhetoric & Utopia", Banff Center for the Arts

Curatorial Projects

2016 "Mixer" for 21C Festival, The Royal Conservatory, co-presentation with MOCA, Toronto.
2015 "Ditto" for Cross Waves Series, New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), Toronto.
2013 "Door to Door (6th edition)" exhibition for Blackwood. Featuring Nathalie Quagliotto and Sandy Plotnikoff.
2013 "Volume: Hear Here" exhibition for Blackwood and Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. Group exhibition, 19 artists.
2012 "Door to Door (5th edition)" exhibition for Blackwood. Featuring Adam David Brown and Nancy Nowacek.
2012 "Door to Door (4th edition)" exhibition for Blackwood. Featuring Gina Badger and Tazeen Qayyum.
2012 "Landscapes Events Reproducted" exhibition for Blackwood. Featuring Seripop (Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum). 2011 "Door to Door (3rd edition)" exhibition for Blackwood. Featuring Karen Kraven and John Marriott.
2011 "Door to Door (2nd edition)" exhibition for Blackwood. Featuring Alexander Irving and Micah Lexier.
2011 "Door to Door (1st edition)" exhibition for Blackwood. Featuring Camilla Singh and Germaine Koh & Gordon Hicks.
2011 "Following Following Piece" for the Blackwood Gallery. Featuring Thérèse Mastroiacovo.
2010 "Should I Stay or Should I Go" for Nuit Blanche (Zone C), Toronto.
2010 "No Images" event co-presented by the Blackwood Gallery and the Images Festival.
2010 "Location!Location!Location!" exhibition for Blackwood Gallery.
2009 "Fall In" exhibition for the Blackwood Gallery.
2009 "Drop Out" event for Nuit Blanche presented by the Blackwood Gallery at Hart House, University of Toronto. 2009 "Fall Out" exhibition for the Blackwood Gallery.
2009 "The Seven Inch Fall" the
2009 Bernie Miller Lightbox Commission.
2009 "The Projects: Port Credit" exhibition for the Blackwood Gallery presented off-site in Port Credit.
2009 "awashawave" exhibition for the Blackwood Gallery.
2008 "STOP." exhibition for the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal. Guest curator.
2007 "START" exhibition for the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal. Guest curator.
2005 "Disquiet" exhibition for Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston, Ontario. Guest curator.
2004 "lucky bastard" for Île Danse 03, Ajaccio, Corsica. Co-artistic coordinator with Lynda Gaudreau.
2003 "lucky bastard" for the Festival International de Nouvelle Danse, Montréal. Co-artistic coordinator with Lynda Gaudreau.
2002 "stuttermouthface" for kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium. Performance event.
1998 "Double Site: La danse des exceptions" telematic interactive internet performance between Avatar and the Goethe Institute in Lisbon, Portugal.
1994 "Rappel". Part of the inaugural activities of the Association de création et diffusion sonores AVATAR.
1993 "Journées ELECTRO-RADIO Days." Co-artistic director of the Montréal events with Claude Schryer.
1992 "Neighborhood Sounds" and other CKUT-FM activities during the 7e Printemps Electroacoustique, Montréal. Co-curated with Claude Schryer.
1991 "Radio Contortions, an international festival of radio art and theory." Co-curated with Julia Loktev, and Bryan Zuraw, CKUT-FM.
1990 "Touch that Dial, creating radio transcending the regulatory body." Co-curated with Jean-François Renaud, SAW Gallery.

Awards

2013 Exhibition Award (as curator) for "Volume: Hear Here", Ontario Association of Art Galleries (O.A.A.G.)
2012 Exhibition Award (as curator) for "Seripop: Landscapes Events Reproducted", Ontario Association of Art Galleries (O.A.A.G.)
2007 Michael Kirby Memorial Prize for Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Performance Studies, NYU

Presentations/Panels

2019 Presentation, "Soundfullessness", International Conference on Artistic Research, Society for Artistic Research (SAR), Zurich, Switzerland.
2017 Presentation, "Shut Up (Preambles and Postfaces)", Never the Same: what (else) can art writing do? forum, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. Invited
2016 Chair, "Deadpanel", Universities Art Association of Canada Conference (UAAC), UQAM, Montreal.
2016 Panelist, Artist Panel, "Sweet Gong Vibrating" exhibition, Chaired by curator Amanda Cachia, San Diego Art Institute.
2016 Presentation, "Je ne Je: Evasions somatiques et sonores", La fabrique des arts sonores – Labex Arts H2H/Université Paris 8, at the galerie Salle Principale, Paris, France.
2016 Presentation, "HITS: Punctuation with Microphones", Writing as Practice/Practice as Writing - International Conference on Artistic Research, Society for Artistic Research, The Hague, Holland.
2016 Presentation, "Si Su", Colloque L'imprévu: de l'erreur à l'errance, Laboratoire de recherche-création, Université de Montréal, March 19-20.
2015 Presentation, "Impro Kino" (with Marla Hlady), Universities Art Association of Canada Conference (UAAC), NSCADU, Halifax.
2015 Chair, "Talk Artists", Universities Art Association of Canada Conference (UAAC), NSCADU, Halifax.
2015 Panelist, "Resonance of John Cage's Museumcircle", part of Image Coming Soon #1 curated by Liora Belford, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto.
2015 Chair, Professional Panel, Boredom conference, Department of Visual Arts, Western University, London.
2015 Panelist, "banal. Breathing", Re: Mediation - A Dialogue on Immersive and Interactive Art, Department of Visual Arts, Western.
2014 Presentation, "The First Sentence and the Last Word", selected by Daniella Cascella for Writing Sound 2, Lydgallerie, Bergen, Norway.
2014 Presentation, "Hit Parade", Bruits conference, Institut ACTE & Sorbonne 1 & CNRS, Paris, France.
2014 Presentation, "Sound Holes in the Gallery", Universities Art Association of Canada Conference (UAAC), Toronto.
2014 Presentation, "Talk Artist", Art Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
2014 Presentation, "Sonic Somatic Curating", Sound Art Curating conference, Goldsmiths and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
2014 Presentation, "How To Not Do Dot No To How", La Recherche-Création: Territoire d’Innovation Méthodologique, UQAM.
2013 Presentation, "Door to Door to Door", The Ecology of an Art Scene Symposium, Canadian Art, City of Toronto Council Chambers
2013 Presentation, "Turn, turn, turn: undo's dizzy tactics" with Alexandre St-Onge, Tuning Speculation, York University
2013 Presentation, "Door to Door to Door", Tracing the City and Urban Encounters conference, NSCAD University
2013 Presentation, "Vox Unpopuli", Resonant Bodies: Landscapes of Acoustic Tension, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
2013 Presentation, "Sonic Somatic", Errant Bodies Project Space, Berlin, Germany
2013 Presentation, "Mouth Pores", Sarma - Laboratory for criticism, dramaturgy, research and creation, Brussels, Belgium
2013 Presentation, "Utter the Stutter", Museum Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
2013 Presentation, "Hearing Notes: Volume" and "Door to Door to Door", Harley Parker and the Challenge to Curatorial Authority Symposium, RMG, Oshawa
2013 Presentation, "Hearing Notes: Volume", Sound by Artists: book launch and panel talks, JMB, Toronto
2012 Presentation, "Contemporary Art Practices", Mississauga Central Library
2012 Presentation, "Unteachable: Provisos for a Para-Pedagogy", Universities Art Association of Canada Conference
2012 Presentation, "Door to Door to Door", Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal
2012 Presentation, "Radio Naked", New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto
2012 Presentation, "Pneumatics: from formless to form and back again" for The Shifting Plane of Performance Symposium, Hart House
2011 Presentation, "Taciturntablism" for the Sound Art Theories Symposium at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011 Presentation (keynote), "Unteachable: Provisos for a Para-Pedagogy" for the Out of Joint: Voices on Mentoring conference, Blackwood Gallery
2010 Presentation, "I Think, Therefore I Follow: The Sequitur Principle in Contemporary Conceptual Practices", for Traffic Conference, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
2010 Presentation, "Dynamic Curating in the Age of Anxiety", Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Oakville Galleries
2010 Moderator, "The Long Division – Discipline, Punishment and the Place in Between", Independent Media Arts Alliance, Toronto