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I was born on a farm in rural Nova Scotia. I studied Life Drawing and Anatomy at the Art Students' League of New York, and Studio Art with a concentration in Fibres and Sculpture at Concordia University in Montréal. In 1993 I got a Unix shell account. In 1995 I stumbled across the Web at the Banff Centre for the Arts Thematic Residency, "Telling Stories, Telling Tales." I made my first web art project for Netscape 1.1. It still works. Since that time I have continued to explore and exploit the web as a writer, artist, programmer, teacher, lecturer and member the new media art community. I have served as the President of OBORO, a gallery and new media lab in Montreal, since 2006. My web-based projects have been exhibited internationally in lots of places I hope to visit one day, and they're all online here. ELECTRONIC LITERATURE Most of my web projects are based on a piece of my own writing. I also publish in print, even though it takes much longer and there are usually no pictures allowed. I'm the inaugural winner of the QWF Carte Blanche Quebec Prize and a two-time winner of the CBC Quebec Short Story Competition and a fellow of Yaddo, Ucross, The Banff Centre and The Vermont Studio Center. I write slowly. On paper mostly. With a fountain pen. My first novel, Words the Dog Knows, was published by Conundrum Press (Montreal) in 2008. Many of my short stories, poems, essays, articles and reviews that have been published in anthologies and journals are also available online here. PUBLICATIONS Over the years I have encountered many amazing individuals, organizations and institutions that have aided and influenced me in all aspects of life. In recent years I have received invaluable support from numerous residency programs and funding agencies. A spotty list of these resources is available here ... For more links and reading lists, visit: lapsus linguae (a blog of sorts) |
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