Janine Marchessault
Janine Marchessault is a Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization at York University (Toronto, Canada). She is the author of Marshall McLuhan: Cosmic Media (Sage 2005) and is the editor of several collections including Mirror Machine: Video and Identity (YYZ Books+CRCCI 1994); and co-editor of Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women’s Cinema (University of Toronto Press 1999); Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media (Routledge 2000) and Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema (University of Toronto Press 2007). She is the Co-Director of the Visible City Project + Archive at York University, which is examining artists’ cultures in the context of globalization in Toronto, Havana and Helsinki. She is a founding member of the Public Access Curatorial Collective and the journal Public: Art/Culture/Ideas.