Workshops
Phytogram Animation
In these hands-on workshops I led the exploration of phytograms, an experimental, camera-less animation technique where plantlife is both the subject matter of the image and assists the means of photographic reproduction. Phytograms* are created by the exposure of black-and-white film overlaid with plant material and dried in daylight or under lights.
Phytogram Animation Workshop for Blurring Boundaries class taught by Cristal Buemi, Department of Experimental Animation, OCAD University, 2024
Phytogram Animation Workshop at Centre[3], Factory Media Centre, Dandelion Collective, 2023
Taller Fitogramas, Ficwallmapu, Temuco Chile, Summer 2023
Phytogram Animation Workshop, Analogue Resilience: Film Labs Gathering, Spring 2023
Phytogram Animation Workshop, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers, Summer 2023
Phytogram Animation Workshop, Images Festival, Spring 2023
Phytogram Animation Workshop, Music and Sound in Kensington Market Project, Kensington with University of Toronto Ethnomusicology graduate students, supervisor Farzaneh Hemmasi, Fall 2022
Phytogram Animation Workshop, at the8Fest Film Festival, 2022
Phytogram Animation Workshop, at WNDX Festival, 2021
Phytogram Animation Workshop, La Cinematografica, Vigo Spain, 2019
Phytogram Animation Workshop, Film for Artists: Site and Cycle, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, 2019
Knowledge Exchange Reciprocal Relations: “A touch of before, now and then.”, CFMDC 2022
Presented as part of Reciprocal Relations, CFMDC’s first installation “A touch of before, now and then.” invites you to come, sit, breathe, and listen; at your own pace, on your own time and somewhere between all of us, between the diasporas, the here and the there, the knowing and not knowing, you can create your own sense of process and of the ways in which landscapes are traces. Curated by Franci Duran & Nada El-Omari
Presented works:
Abandoned by soJin Chun
Red Tunnel by Qiuli Wu
Processing…Cleaning…Refreshing… by Mivan Makia
Experimental Filmmaking with Found Footage Workshop, the 8Fest Film Festival, 2023
Participants re-purposed and reworked existing Super8 and 8mm film using a variety of tactile analog techniques including painting, drawing, scratching, tinting and toning, bleaching, collaging, contact printing on 16mm film, and processing using conventional and eco-chemistries. Workshop was team-taught with Phil Hoffman.
Workshop Instructor at LIFT in Rotoscope Animation and Experimental Animation Studio, 2007–2019
A hands-on class where participants learned traditional rotoscoping techniques on LIFT’s 16mm Oxberry Animation Stand and then made a collaborative animation.
Mentorships
•Phytography mentorship for Eva Kolcze (2023)
•Artist mentor analogue film processing traditional & eco-processing for Rolla Tahir, Ontario arts Council (2022)
•Artist mentor phytogramming for Morgan Sears-Williams, Ontario Arts Council (2022)
•Artist mentor Process cinema (analogue filmmaking) for Tram Nghiem, Ontario Arts Council, (2021)
•Artist mentor phytogramming for Elida Shoght, Canada Council for the Arts (2021)
Academic Appointments
2024
•Course Director (team-taught with Phil Hoffman), GS/FILM 5021 Process Cinema, Winter 2024, York U., Keele Campus
2022/23
•Course Director (team-taught with Phil Hoffman), GS/FILM 5021 Process Cinema, Winter 2023, York U., Keele Campus •Course Director, FA/DESN 3009 Motion Graphics, FALL 2022, York U., Keele Campus
2021/22
•Course Director, FA/YSDN 3009 Time-Based Communication 1 FALL, York U., Keele Campus
•Temporary Course Director, FA/FILM 3003/4003 Alternative Project Workshop I and II, WINTER 2022, York U., Keele Campus. (Covering a leave)
2020/21
•Course Director (team-taught), FA/FILM 3003/4003 Alternative Project Workshop I and II FALL/WINTER, York U., Keele Campus
•Course Director, FA/YSDN 3009 Time-Based Communication 1 FALL, York U., Keele Campus
2019
•Course Director, FA/YSDN 3009 Time-Based Communication 1, York U., Keele Campus
2014–2016
•Course Director, FA/YSDN 4002 Type in Motion, York/Sheridan Department of Design (FA/YSDN), Oakville Trafalgar Campus
2013
•Course Director, FA/YSDN 3013 Time-Based Communication 2, Oakville Trafalgar Campus
•Teaching Assistant CUPE Unit 2, FA/FILM 2030 New Neo-Realism, Social Justice Fiction FilmProduction, York University, Department of Film Fine Arts (FA/FILM), Keele Campus
2012
•Teaching Assistant CUPE Unit 2, FA/FILM 1900 Anatomy of the Feature Film, Keele Campus
•Supervisor—Human 4W03/3W03—Applied Humanities Experiential Learning Course, McMaster University, Faculty of Humanities (5-course supervisions)
•Course Director, MM2H03 Advanced Digital Animation, McMaster University Department of Multimedia and Communications, Faculty of Humanities, (McMaster MMCS)
•Course Director, MM1B03 The Digital Image (core course), (McMaster MMCS)
2011–2012
•Supervisor—Undergraduate Independent Study: Time-Based Media (supervisor for 4 students) McMaster University (Faculty of Social Science)
2011
•Course Director, MM2H03 Introduction to Animation (McMaster MMCS) •Course Director, MM4A03 Management of Multimedia (McMaster MMCS)
•Course Director, MM4A03 Management of Multimedia (McMaster MMCS)
•Course Director, FA/YSDN 3013 Time-Based Communication 2, York U. Keele and Sheridan Campuses
2010
•Course Director, Socsci3H03 Inquiries into Digital Media: The Individual, McMaster University Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences
2009–2013
•Course Director, MM2B03 Introduction to Video (core course)
2009–2011
•Course Director, MM2A03 Vector Graphics
2009
•Course Director, MM3I03 Advanced Digital Media, McMaster University Arts and Science Program
2008–2010
•Course Director, FA/YSDN 3009 Time-Based Communication 1, Keele Campus and Oakville Trafalgar Campus
2006–2007
•Course Director at The Art Institute of Toronto (now closed): Typography Traditional, Typography Hierarchy, Typography—Expressive & Experimental, Design Layout, Design Fundamentals